If the evil eye is real, why doesn't the Quran mention it?

you he says that the arabs would say that oh he looked at me in such a way boy he almost you know knocked me out like like he's staring at me with such kind of uh spitefulness and he also quotes the same poem um where it mentions that some people they look at you in such ways that it almost uh trips the steps of people but it's nothing to do with the evil eye

now this is quoted from his father um and he mentions that how does he's trying to highlight how does the evil eye work and he mentions that look this is something that has been massively problematic for many people and he goes into explaining that people differ it might be by uh means summing a kind of poison that is sent from the eye and it goes from the ainul a in as you can see there the anal atin in

the third line it goes through the air illa to the body of the person that is being looked at and then he says so that's the one he's kind of going with and some people are giving some other interpretation saying maybe um he says uh he says that what what you see is when you see something you get you get envious so within your body you have these humors the old greek you know the old greek methods of how they understood the temperaments so there's a kind of boiling that takes place the boiling leads to this kind of almost like heat

that then emanates out the eyes uh it is then fired towards the other person and that's how you afflict them now when i'm saying these things by the way there's a reason i'm i'm showing all of these and i'm going to go into it more as well is because when we say the evil eye we have to understand what did people think was happening what is the evil eye so there's obviously a mechanism to what is they believe is happening now first of all the evil eye

is from the ribe okay so it's something which uh is unseen like it's not um you know it's happening without us being able to detect it okay this is for those who believe it happens secondly as i'm going to show as well some research on the evil eye you'll you'll find that people believe that this could afflict even their own loved ones it doesn't have to even be coming from a very evil place as sheikh hassan ali was saying and all these people are teaching and spreading this kind of superstition nonsense

really but anyway uh this is uh this belief that you could afflict your own loved ones and you'll see soon that some of the uh what it can do is it can cause disease it can cause cancer it can cause death and i'll show this research shortly where i mean ethnographic research about the beliefs around the evil eye what it does it can cause famine it can cause the infant uh in infant more mortality can cause infants to die it can cause strokes it can cause a loss of beauty it can cause sexual impotence

all of a sudden a man can't get an erection because uh or you know somebody looked at him with the evil eye these are the kind of things and i'll bring this in shortly now the fact that this is so ubiquitous and often a key victim was the infant child this was seen as often a key victim and also beautiful women as well but mainly infant children so as even in hassan ali's story you saw him um pushing that belief about his own child gets the evil eye from his own parents the grandparents give him

so this was the common belief now if something is so widespread in arabic in usual they will call this balwa that it is [Applause] so the this is so ubiquitous it's everywhere like it's inescapable in that case i ask you since it's from the unseen how can it be that god forgot to mention this there is no mention of this in the quran not one mention of the evil eye now you might say well oh

this verse is kind of talking about the evil life we twist it and we take this meaning and in this story of jacob why did he say this no look in the old bible as you'll see shortly it's very clear people are being told off the deuteron deuteronomy kind of uh books you will see that people are being told to beware of the evil eye to not cast the evil eye they're being told very clearly in ancient other scriptures in other things stories aside it's being very clear

it's not like because this is something from the unseen so god obviously being from the unseen needs to warn you about this because how the hell are you supposed to cope with something that you could give to your own child and it's not even from the scene so in it so obviously if god isn't going to take care of it for you what what what on earth are you supposed to do so allah never mentions in the quran even once the evil eye not even once so that is something

always remember that if this was so important allah says we did not fall short in this book so if this was so sound this belief is it why did god forget it did he choose not to i mean that if you say he just chose not to tell me that's a bit wrong isn't it you know just think about it this is something that you can never perceptibly see so it's from the unseen and who else can help you with it god but he

chooses to stay silent on that but oh by the way he mentions tons of stories about the israelites who you know and other things which okay find their stories but it repeats the stories but why can't god mention this you know this is after all gonna help me so now let me bring in here you can see this uh the belief in the evil eye is one of the things that historically if you looked at different civilizations it is one of the most

shared historical beliefs to ever have been found i mean as in that is cross like so widespread through so many cultures and civilizations and peoples and all these kind of it is so widespread there's so many different names for it you'll get all of these um you know you'll you've got obviously a line you've got evil in these different languages here you can see uh they've got an ethiopian you've got in in spanish you've got it

in all these so many different cultures you will find this now you might ask well okay mufti you know if all these cultures have had it which they have very clearly i want to give straight away a bit of an understanding to why did this develop because one question could be if so many different cultures had this belief uh then you know mufti how do we know that that's not authentic because they're not sharing a similar source they're all arriving at this belief so it's important to kind of get to the

the source with it and that is that you see in the past people saw the eye as an active agent now the eyes have always been incredibly profound they've been described as the windows to the soul they have you know symbolically if you if you want to go into other kind of uh psychoanalytic um frameworks and symbolism you will see whether you know the two eyes what these things are also found to be very almost a symbol of life in many ways