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The Evil Eye has no reality in Islam - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

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1 · 0:00Is the evil eye real in Islam?Magic, the evil eye and superstition · Tawhid and shirkmachine 6 min 50 s0:00on YouTube
2 · 6:50Did someone really do magic on the Prophet?Magic, the evil eye and superstition · Reports that disrespect the Prophet · Reflections on short surahsmachine 3 min 44 s6:50on YouTube

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we had an interesting discussion on the evil eye and I said look I said the evil eye is not established by the Quran or some nanny seems to contradict the teachings of the Quran and Sunnah all right so right okay anybody just chatting nonsense he gonna get blocked right so

0:33

now all right so the interesting point is that right so coming back to the evil eye we had this discussion on the evil eye and I said look that the belief in the evil eye seems to go against the Quran was Sunnah now I'm not saying it goes against the Quran hadith but goes against the Quran or Sunnah because as Imam Malik said not every hadith is the

1:07

Sunnah so now when we look at this it was an interesting discussion and I think it's worth sharing there's a hadith aligned ohok but first of all right first of all this hadith is speaking about the eye nobody takes this hadith literally because the hadith simply means the eye but Muslims understand the eye to hear be referring to the evil eye so everybody is interpreting and I said the evil eye

1:45

which is synonymous with the term envy has a reality to it in terms of its consequences so how you act out on your Envy has a concern to it so that's what the hadith is talking about right so now what is interesting is I said look you tell me if some part of this discussion the other person had

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said well look God allows people to afflict cause affliction using this evil eye I said okay let's just look at this for a moment let's just look at this we are saying that you can do things like cause cancer cause bankruptcy cause somebody to break a leg caused a car accident cause mechanical default in a car you can cause a building to dilapidate and collapse by simply looking at it and even unintentionally I

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said that is this what we are is this right what we are talking about because that is absurd because you are speaking about alright you are speaking about you are speaking about cause and effect we know how cancer comes about we know how buildings collapse this is not because

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somebody looked at somebody so I asked that how can this happen how can this happen how can they be cause and effect how can you call cellular mal reproduction how can you cause somebody to go into bankruptcy how can you cause a car accident by just looking at them so they said well look [Music] so they said that well yeah no you can because Allah enables this Allah enables this so I said well okay right so he overrides the laws of nature and the laws of physics to help you cause some

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harm I said can I ask does he also enable you to do good things like does he also enable the the helpful I like so if you look at somebody and you cure them from cancer you look at somebody's car and it gets fixed you look at somebody and he becomes a millionaire and and and the words that no that's that's dumb okay so the person said no right he doesn't do that so I said oh so let me get this right god only facilitates evil things he doesn't facilitate any helpful things I

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mean what kind what kind of a god is that that only facilitates evil like if I'm to say well you know God he allows the evil eye but he doesn't allow a good eye what what kind or an angel I read one I like the sound of that angel eye he doesn't allow an angel eye let's say so that's absurd so that's just an evil God it's not the God that I know al Rahman al Raheem so believing in these kind of superstitions contradicts

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the towhead of Allah it contradicts the Sunnah of the messenger of allah sallallahu alayhi wasallam it contradicts with the overall message of Islam okay so it is so evil I is our English for what we call what they call not do measure or in Arabic align these words are synonymous with the term Envy that's all it is black magic as well it's only simply mind control hypnosis thinks there's no such thing as actually

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impacting and causing harm through black magic now about that I've got a very lengthy video on YouTube that I'd code deliver with Chef Akram Nedley and you can watch that it's on Facebook okay now right now can someone do it stay hard on behalf of someone else's on someone else's behalf how do self-proclaimed Islamic scholars do it live on shows this is Tijara is absurd okay it's okay before let me come to a stakeout I'll just finish up on the three codes look the three codes

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like cool Aloha had or Klaus available fill up or pull out a bit up in ass do not mention anything about the evil eye in them they've got no such thing to do with evil eye and they're simply just seeking refuge in God from harmful things you one could use them about the magic but the truth is that that they were revealed in Makkah long before the incident of Medina this a falsely attributed incident that the Prophet had magic turn onto him this is not only a blast blasphemous it is dishonorable it is an affront it is offensive to the honor of the beloved beloved Messenger of God

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Muhammad sallallaahu alayhi assalam to say he became clumsy and and and forgetful and don't know what he was doing and made-up statements and forged memories and according to certain narrations became sexually impotent these kind of things are an affront they are in soul I find them immensely derogatory to the honor of the prophet muhammad salallahu alaihe salam and they they are they are narrations that have been either misunderstood or manufactured by people who wanted to attack the honour of the

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Prophet or they've been innocently kind of relayed by others so that is so that's as far as them so to say the Prophet in Medina had magic done on him and the angels came and told him about cool available falak which by the way the Prophet himself knew because it was revealed so many years ago almost 10 years ago in Makkah but and he knew these verses all the time because he used to read them all the time but he forgot about them and the angels came and reminded him and he was so he was so forgetful and this lasted for half a year the Prophet was so forgetful I find

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that so offensive as a Muslim I I find it shocking that Muslims pride themselves on these beliefs that is disappointing people disappointing but anyway coming back to the blowing or knots that is mentioned I do explain that mean share enough authority filler cut is to do with other things that are associated with that so all the things in so allowed bearable Falak or to do with generally associations like Allah says I mean surely a second in our cup I seek refuge from nightfall as it descends but nightfall is an evil why

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are you seeking refuge in nightfall because it's associated with other harms I seek refuge Manhasset in audacity from the envious person as he has NV y NV is an emotion that doesn't harm you but what's associated with the envy in terms of actions I seek refuge from the women glowing or not why the women drawing or not doesn't make but from the social ramifications of superstitious beliefs and losing faith in tawheed in the true oneness of God I seek refuge in that so this was to do with associations and

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consequences right so somebody says you are not a Salafi scholar people if you want to be safe right so listen those of you asking about Haru and Maru nah not Harun Hal Ruth and model please watch my lengthy lecture I've gone into much detail it is on Facebook you can search it it's on magic it's called debunking myths okay so if you look that up

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