1 00:00:00,740 --> 00:00:01,740 Hey everyone. 2 00:00:01,740 --> 00:00:05,180 I've decided to make my second video on the topic of magic. 3 00:00:05,180 --> 00:00:08,430 Magic, evil eye, and jinns. 4 00:00:08,430 --> 00:00:12,410 So Islam overall is not a superstitious religion. 5 00:00:12,410 --> 00:00:18,869 In fact, it prides itself on being a, you know, very rational, very logical religion. 6 00:00:18,869 --> 00:00:25,580 However, it does have some major problems - major superstitions in it - which I think 7 00:00:25,580 --> 00:00:31,650 are very big ... and this would be the idea of evil eye, the idea of magic, and the idea 8 00:00:31,650 --> 00:00:33,300 of jinns. 9 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:34,800 Starting off with evil eye. 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:36,250 This is the most simple one. 11 00:00:36,250 --> 00:00:42,010 The idea is that by desiring someone else - what they have - you know, something else 12 00:00:42,010 --> 00:00:47,600 they have ... by wanting, by being jealous, by having envy about someone else ... you 13 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:52,970 can harm them, you can cause them some sort of, you know, loss. 14 00:00:52,970 --> 00:00:57,690 And I'm going to read a hadith just to explain this idea best. 15 00:00:57,690 --> 00:01:03,210 The idea comes, you know, it's in the Quran, it's in the hadith, and I wanted to just 16 00:01:03,210 --> 00:01:04,600 read it to you. 17 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,299 And I'm reading from my blog here, I've quoted all of this on my blog. 18 00:01:08,299 --> 00:01:12,840 So in case you don't understand what I'm saying, head on down to my blog and you'll be able 19 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,620 to understand exactly what I'm saying. 20 00:01:15,620 --> 00:01:18,880 You can read it. 21 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,679 So, it says a messenger of Allah (Sallahu alaiyhi wa salam), used to seek protection against the 22 00:01:23,679 --> 00:01:30,179 evil of jinn and evil eye, until Surah Falaq and Surah Naas were revealed. 23 00:01:30,179 --> 00:01:34,679 After they were revealed, he took to them for seeking Allah's protection and left everything 24 00:01:34,679 --> 00:01:35,770 besides them. 25 00:01:35,770 --> 00:01:40,109 So before those verses were revealed, he used to seek protection from evil eye and jinns. 26 00:01:40,109 --> 00:01:43,939 So these are something that he used to worry about, you know, that used to bother him. 27 00:01:43,939 --> 00:01:48,409 Evil eye used to bother him, jinns used to bother him, and he wanted to seek protection 28 00:01:48,409 --> 00:01:49,969 so he used to make dua (supplication) for that. 29 00:01:49,969 --> 00:01:54,930 Until, you know, Surah Falaq and Surah Naas "Qul Audhu birabil Falaq" and "Qul audhu birabin naas" were 30 00:01:54,930 --> 00:01:57,980 revealed, and then he used to read those constantly. 31 00:01:58,060 --> 00:02:03,720 There's a hadith where there was a companion, and this hadith is the Muwatta of Imam Malik, but 32 00:02:03,729 --> 00:02:12,000 you can find many hadith like this, where the companions were traveling and they did 33 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,620 Ghusl (Ritual Bath) at a place called Harrar, and what happened was while this was happening 34 00:02:17,620 --> 00:02:24,230 one of the companions removed his jubbah and then Sahil was a man with beautiful white 35 00:02:24,230 --> 00:02:25,230 skin. 36 00:02:25,230 --> 00:02:28,990 Ahmed said to him, "I've never seen anything like I have seen today, not even the skin 37 00:02:28,990 --> 00:02:30,070 of a virgin". 38 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,360 After he said that, he fell ill. 39 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,190 Somebody went to the messenger of Allah, and they told him what happened, that this man 40 00:02:38,190 --> 00:02:43,560 had said "wow this man has beautiful skin like a virgin" and then he fell sick, so Prophet 41 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,340 Muhammad got really angry and said, "Why does one of you kill his brother. 42 00:02:47,340 --> 00:02:50,390 Why didn't you say TabarakAllah (Allah bless him)". 43 00:02:50,390 --> 00:02:52,930 The evil eye is truth. 44 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,280 It's Haqq. 45 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:02,370 Then he said, "Do Wudu" and he did wudu (ritual washing) and then, finally, he was better. 46 00:03:02,370 --> 00:03:05,620 This was the reported in Imam Malik. 47 00:03:05,620 --> 00:03:07,040 So that's an example of evil eye. 48 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:08,910 You know, it's very common in Muslim cultures. 49 00:03:08,910 --> 00:03:13,220 You have this idea that if someone's jealous of you, they can harm you. 50 00:03:13,220 --> 00:03:15,430 They can make your kids sick. 51 00:03:15,430 --> 00:03:17,280 They can make you lose your job and your career. 52 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,390 To break up with your wife. 53 00:03:19,390 --> 00:03:25,540 This idea is actually coming from seventh century superstitious knowledge and from Islam. 54 00:03:25,540 --> 00:03:30,650 Many people would never believe in this except for the fact that it's part of Islam now, 55 00:03:30,650 --> 00:03:33,810 and Islam says evil eye is true. 56 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,240 The other thing is the idea of black magic and jinn. 57 00:03:37,270 --> 00:03:38,760 These two go together. 58 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,850 Black magic involves blowing on knots. 59 00:03:40,850 --> 00:03:42,970 You know, tying knots and blowing them. 60 00:03:42,970 --> 00:03:46,560 It involves taking dolls and putting needles in them. 61 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,140 You know, voodoo. 62 00:03:48,140 --> 00:03:53,330 It involves all sorts of these creepy things. 63 00:03:53,330 --> 00:03:54,520 None of this stuff is real. 64 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,040 None of this stuff has any effect. 65 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,190 There's a famous magician. 66 00:03:58,190 --> 00:04:00,050 His name is James Randi. 67 00:04:00,050 --> 00:04:01,710 He had a one million dollar challenge. 68 00:04:01,710 --> 00:04:09,550 He said, "If anyone can prove to me any sort of paranormal activity, either speak to jinns, 69 00:04:09,550 --> 00:04:13,800 ask anything you like, you just have to prove to me something that we would not be able 70 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:14,800 to explain". 71 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:19,370 So you have a jinn tell you something outside the room and someone is inside the room, 72 00:04:19,370 --> 00:04:20,370 whatever you like. 73 00:04:20,370 --> 00:04:23,610 Not one single person could win the million dollars. 74 00:04:23,610 --> 00:04:24,610 Nobody could do it. 75 00:04:24,610 --> 00:04:28,759 In fact, there's actually a joke if you go online and you look up "James Randy One Million 76 00:04:28,759 --> 00:04:32,370 Challenge", there's a video on YouTube where someone pretends to do it and it was actually 77 00:04:32,370 --> 00:04:34,189 an April Fool's joke. 78 00:04:34,189 --> 00:04:36,650 So, nobody was able to prove it. 79 00:04:36,650 --> 00:04:41,509 Nobody was able to demonstrate any sort of paranormal or supernatural activity. 80 00:04:41,509 --> 00:04:44,069 It's interesting, I mean, one million dollars is a lot of money. 81 00:04:44,069 --> 00:04:49,539 If someone wants to use some jinns and do this, well, you know the challenge is there. 82 00:04:49,539 --> 00:04:53,560 Let's look at what the Quran says about magic. 83 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:59,340 The Quran says that magic was taught by two angels - Harut and Marut. 84 00:04:59,340 --> 00:05:04,150 So, Allah gave the two angels the concept of magic. 85 00:05:04,150 --> 00:05:09,250 He told them, "Do not teach people, except you have to warn them that it's a Fitna (trial)". 86 00:05:09,250 --> 00:05:12,120 Allah taught the angels magic to teach people. 87 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:14,770 It's almost like.. it's a very strange story. 88 00:05:14,770 --> 00:05:18,560 So I can just imagine the companions of Prophet Muhammad asking him, "Where did magic come 89 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,560 from?". 90 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:23,620 You know, they thought this was a real thing, and he said, "Well, I'll tell you guys.. Harut 91 00:05:23,620 --> 00:05:27,860 and Marut, the angels, they came at the time of Solomon, Sulaiman alaihis salam, and 92 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:29,770 they taught magic to the people". 93 00:05:29,770 --> 00:05:34,180 So now, you know, these companions are like, "Ohh that's where magic came from, okay, so 94 00:05:34,180 --> 00:05:35,460 what should we do?". 95 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:38,249 And of course he said, "Okay, well, read the Quran. 96 00:05:38,249 --> 00:05:39,430 This will protect you from magic. 97 00:05:39,430 --> 00:05:42,009 This will protect you from the evil eye." 98 00:05:42,009 --> 00:05:46,050 And this type of concept became part of Islam unfortunately. 99 00:05:46,050 --> 00:05:53,889 The blowing on knots. Surah Falaq says... It's part of Surah Falaq that you seek refuge from Allah in the blowing 100 00:05:53,889 --> 00:05:58,139 on knots - from the magic, from the envy of the one who envies. 101 00:05:58,139 --> 00:06:02,259 From, you know, "Hasidin idha hasad" said from the person that envies. 102 00:06:02,259 --> 00:06:05,340 These things are just, honestly, they're not real. 103 00:06:05,340 --> 00:06:07,190 There's no such thing. 104 00:06:07,190 --> 00:06:09,780 There's no such thing as magic. 105 00:06:09,780 --> 00:06:13,150 If you believe magic tricks, you just have to do a little bit of research. 106 00:06:13,150 --> 00:06:15,610 You'll find that these are just tricks. 107 00:06:15,610 --> 00:06:17,449 These are just optical illusions. 108 00:06:17,449 --> 00:06:18,849 There's nothing to it. 109 00:06:18,849 --> 00:06:23,509 There's no devils. There's no jinns helping them. 110 00:06:23,509 --> 00:06:27,419 It's just silly. 111 00:06:27,419 --> 00:06:32,409 Even some of the hadith goes and says that Prophet Muhammad himself was afflicted by magic. 112 00:06:32,409 --> 00:06:38,770 He used to forget things and maybe he had some sort of dementia later in his life, or 113 00:06:38,770 --> 00:06:42,470 maybe he had some other ... maybe he just had old age and he was forgetting things. 114 00:06:42,470 --> 00:06:48,389 I mean, I can just imagine someone thinking there's a magic spell on me and it's just 115 00:06:48,389 --> 00:06:54,080 the strangest story where he asks Aisha (his wife), "Do you know what happened to me?" and she 116 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,080 says, "No." 117 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:59,900 Then he said, "Gabriel told me that somebody threw something in a well that had my hair 118 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:02,680 on it and date pollen." 119 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:04,749 Then she said, "Okay, did you take it out of the well?" 120 00:07:04,749 --> 00:07:10,490 And he says, "No, I sealed it up because it would be a big fitna (tribulation) for the people." 121 00:07:10,490 --> 00:07:14,060 It's just such a strange idea. 122 00:07:14,060 --> 00:07:18,360 You know, maybe in the seventh century, thousands of years ago, or fourteen hundred years ago 123 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:19,430 people would believe in this stuff. 124 00:07:19,430 --> 00:07:22,699 But I mean today we know there's no such thing as magic. 125 00:07:22,699 --> 00:07:27,879 We know there's no such thing as jinns, magical creatures made of fire, and you know what 126 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:30,100 did Prophet Mohammed say about jinns. 127 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:31,349 There's a lot of stories about jinns. 128 00:07:31,349 --> 00:07:37,599 He has one story where he's praying and then he reaches out and he grabs this thing, and 129 00:07:37,599 --> 00:07:40,849 then after the prayer he asks - people ask him, "What were you doing? 130 00:07:40,849 --> 00:07:42,629 What were you doing in the prayer?". 131 00:07:42,629 --> 00:07:47,199 He said, "Oh, I saw a jinn, and I choked him, and I grabbed him, and you know I felt his 132 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:48,440 spit on my hand. 133 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:54,490 If it wasn't for the Dua of Sulaiman he would become master of all things". 134 00:07:54,490 --> 00:07:56,740 Or was it Dawud or Sulaiman, I don't remember. 135 00:07:56,740 --> 00:08:00,330 "I would have left the jinn tied up to the pole of the masjid (mosque) and you guys would 136 00:08:00,330 --> 00:08:03,650 have seen him, and he would have been there until the day of judgement." 137 00:08:03,650 --> 00:08:05,900 These ideas ... these stories... 138 00:08:05,900 --> 00:08:10,449 There's another story in the Quran where he met some jinns, you know, basically what happened 139 00:08:10,449 --> 00:08:13,119 is that he dissappeared and the companions got scared. 140 00:08:13,119 --> 00:08:16,669 They said, "What happened to you?" when he came back. 141 00:08:16,669 --> 00:08:20,569 He said, "Oh I went to meet some jinns. 142 00:08:20,569 --> 00:08:21,569 Do you want me to show you?" 143 00:08:21,569 --> 00:08:27,689 And he ran out and he showed some fire and some leftovers of a campsite and he said, 144 00:08:27,689 --> 00:08:28,939 "Yeah, the jinns were here. 145 00:08:28,939 --> 00:08:33,310 I met them and they believed in me, and they accepted Islam and they said that I am the 146 00:08:33,310 --> 00:08:34,310 messenger." 147 00:08:34,310 --> 00:08:37,060 So he told them about these magical creatures made of fire. 148 00:08:37,060 --> 00:08:38,800 That they have their own religion. 149 00:08:38,800 --> 00:08:40,229 They have their own animals. 150 00:08:40,229 --> 00:08:43,899 They eat dung, like they eat poop, and they eat bones. 151 00:08:43,899 --> 00:08:49,990 So, you know, he said you have to say, "Bismillah" before you eat otherwise the jinns will eat 152 00:08:49,990 --> 00:08:50,990 from you. 153 00:08:50,990 --> 00:08:53,990 And when you say Bismillah, Allah will leave a piece of food for these (Muslim) jinns, for them 154 00:08:53,990 --> 00:08:55,070 to eat. 155 00:08:55,070 --> 00:08:59,480 It's just really strange things to believe in. 156 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:04,000 Nobody would believe in these things except for Islam, and except for superstition. 157 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,070 I feel sad that the smartest people believe in these things now. 158 00:09:08,070 --> 00:09:12,560 They belive in these things because Islam made them official and made them part of the 159 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:13,779 religion. 160 00:09:13,779 --> 00:09:18,620 My hope is that by making these videos people will really think about these things and realise 161 00:09:18,620 --> 00:09:21,000 that it's not real. 162 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:25,350 That, you know what, just think for yourself. 163 00:09:25,350 --> 00:09:26,519 Ponder. 164 00:09:26,519 --> 00:09:28,279 Is there such a thing as magic? 165 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:32,040 Is there such a thing as invisible creatures called devils and jinns? 166 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:33,970 Is there such a thing as evil eye? 167 00:09:33,970 --> 00:09:35,529 There's no such thing. 168 00:09:35,529 --> 00:09:41,240 I hope that you will have some benefit from this video. 169 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:41,740 Thank you.