and this hadith brings a lot of  issues and problems but there's also  

obviously benefits for us but people are confused  by it to the extent many people deny this but  

this hadith is [ __ ] buhari and muslim and that  is that our prophet himself was the subject of  

and that's something that ah sunnah by and large  believes and other groups deny the more tesla  

deny this and the progressives denied this and  many people in our times deny this but we are a  

people of tradition and we believe if the textbook  say it and the islam is authentic we believe it  

so there are numerous narrations in sahih bukhari  and sahih muslim that our prophet muhammad was  

done against him and aisha narrates that was  done on the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam  

and he began to imagine that he had  done something when he hadn't done it  

now this is aisha being very diplomatic and  appropriate and etiquette and we learned from  

other books what was the issue and the issue was  that the processor would wake up in the morning  

believing that he needed to do a rusul means  he was intimate but he had not been intimate  

so shayateen especially loved to  play with this area of sexuality  

and by the way there's a side point as a tangent  here that's why uh dreams of a sexual nature  

whether a man or a woman sees and what we call  wet dreams whether ejaculation occurs or not but  

all dreams of a sexual nature all of them emanate  from shaytan and that is why the prophets none of  

them can have these types of dreams the prophets  cannot have these dreams so dreams of that nature  

they come from shaytan shaitaan plays with our  minds men and women plays with our minds now of  

course it's not sinful we are not held accountable  for what we dream and what happens in our sleep  

but this is shaitaan playing with our minds so in  this case our prophet salam didn't have a dream  

but he thought that he had done something  natural and allowed between a husband and wife  

and i shall tell them no there's no need for  you and so this was the maximum effect of the  

saheb the sahara did not go beyond this it did not  affect the wahi it did not affect his religion it  

did not affect the channels of communication  between him and allah all that it could affect  

and it was the most powerful sachet alive at the  time his name is we'll come to it that the max  

he could do was to make the process and assume  he had done something halal and he hadn't done  

that halal thing right now had that had been done  against another human it might have killed him  

but our prophet the effect was so minimal that  he assumed he had done something that was halal  

and he hadn't done something that was halal  even if he did it right you understand  

that was the max effect of so even the effects  of were not haram the imagination that he had  

was halal and that's the key point here  that the people say how could the process  

uh be masculine well read and understand that  subhanallah the max impact that he had was that  

he imagined or he thought he had done something  and that's halal for a man and a wife to do so  

aisha says that he made dua to allah  and he made dua and he made dua to allah  

then he said to me he's speaking to aisha that  i feel that allah has inspired me how to cure  

myself because i saw a dream that two angels came  two people or two angels came and one of them sat  

at my head and the other sat at my feet and the  two began having a conversation so the first said  

what is the problem of this man the second  resp responded he has been masur has been  

done on him the first said who has done this the  second said ibn al-assam pause here the bible  

was the sahih of medina he was the most powerful  sahir that everybody would come to and he was  

one of the hudi tribes of medina and he was well  known for his so the first one said how did he do  

it what material did he use the other one replied  he used a comb and the hair that had been gathered  

on the comb and the outer skin of the pollen of  the male date palm this is one word in arabic but  

we don't have an english equivalent so there's a  male organ of the date palm there's a shell and so  

he put some type of inside this shell the first  one said where is the seche and the second one  

said it is in the well of the it is in the well of  the one so the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam  

went to the place of darwan and he returned and  he said to aisha the date palms of this well

they look like the heads of devils and the water  of the well is dark bloody it's not a water if you  

look at it you'll be disgusted reddish and and  dark water and uh aisha said that did you take  

out that magic with which the seher was done and  the prophet sasson responded in one narration no  

for Allah has cured me of that and i am afraid  that if i take it out it might cause more harm  

if the people see it and what not and so the  well was ordered to be destroyed and covered up  

so we learned many things from this narration  first and foremost that iman and taqwa in and  

of itself does not necessarily 100 protect you  from sihir rather it can minimize the effects of

so someone like the prophet sasam how can we  possibly and he is the symbol of iman nobody can  

even come close to him and yet for a wisdom that  allah knows he allowed our procession to feel the  

effects of so this shows us that iman and taqwa  in and of themselves might not be a 100 effective  

mechanism to protect you from syria however they  definitely minimize the impact of the ser so the  

general rule the more iman you have the less the  impact of the sahara on you your iman acts like a  

barrier between you and the sir and the stronger  your iman the less the impact of the sahel and in  

the case of our prophet sam we clearly see this  what was the impact of seer the max was that he  

woke up thinking something had happened right  how is that in and of itself problem it's just  

bothersome at the most trivial level  isn't it right there's no physical pain  

there's no ailment there's no haram imagination  for our process and it's literally just like the  

most trivial irritation that i have to take aisha  says no we don't have to say why are you thinking  

this and that was because of the uh we also  learned from this narration that most magic occurs  

by using some type of body parts of the  one upon whom the magic is done and of  

course to use a body part you're not going to cut  something off so the most common things used are  

hair and nails this is the most common thing  hair and nails and also clothing items these are  

typically news but not necessarily you can do  sugar without them but typically these things are  

used we also learn that one of  the main ways to combat sihir  

is through dua to allah because aisha says  he kept on making dua he kept on making dua

so one of the main ways to combat is through  dua we also learn from this that it is very  

helpful to know where the item is because  the angel told him the item is in the well  

and aisha said why didn't you get the well out and  destroy it which means for most of us it would be  

very beneficial to get to the item and destroy it  and we also learned it's not necessary to destroy  

to eliminate the sahara because a process  did not according to one narration eliminated  

rather he said Allah has cured me from it and he  covered up the well and uh basically uh made it to  

be the the whole area was demolished according  to another hadith the angels recited surah  

and according to another narration surah falah  and surahs were revealed because of this occasion  

so we learn therefore that surat al-falaq  and surah nas are of the most powerful  

cures for and both basically  directly or indirectly talk about it

refuge in Allah from the evil of  those women who are blowing on knots

is the females that are blowing and is not and  this is what they would do one of the types of is  

to take some hair to take some item and tie some  knots and then do your incantations do your you  

know i mean similar to voodoo dolls in our times  right you throw a pin in and you do this so all of  

this is types of and Allah says i seek refuge  in you from the evil of those that are doing

us general seeking refuge in Allah from  the jinn and the jinn are the cause of  

so we talked about three stories musa  sulaiman and the prophet sallam from  

this we learn that sehar is a reality you cannot  deny it it's very clear in the Quran and sunnah  

explicit and therefore the  question arises what exactly is

all of this was somewhat of an introduction  because i wanted to prove to you that nobody  

can deny sir if you believe in the quran sunnah  what exactly is well before we get to what is  

let us say what is not when i say magic when  i say we are not talking about the tricks  

that entertainers do of our times the types of  trickery that entertainers do on the street or  

on television and they call themselves magicians  this is not the sehar that we are talking about  

that entertainment deals with illusions  optical illusions sleight of hand that  

he'll convince you that a ball is in his hand  in reality he's already put in the other hand  

and he does this and that and you think it's  in this hand lo and behold he pulls it out of  

the other one right basically the type of magic  that we see on television which is entertainment  

pulling rabbits out of hats and sawing people  in half and what not this has nothing to do with  

actual a real sahih is not an entertainer on  television even if he wants to appear like  

this a real saher is not somebody that's going  to be doing these tricks of trades and magic  

cars and whatnot this is not by allah this is  nothing to do this is illusion sleight of hand  

misdirection modern technology a lot of these  magicians are using state-of-the-art technology  

even nowadays and even for example harry houdini  of the 100 years ago was using technology of  

his era that we now think is pretty backward  but for his era he's using state of the art  

stuff right similarly the magicians of our times  are using steady art you know technology to make  

it appear something that you do not understand and  also i mean a lot of them are mass deception i.e  

you know you see things on television and the  reality is this is well known the audience is  

staged they're paid or they're volunteers or  whatever and you know the plane disappears and  

the audience is gasping oh wow well the audience  is in on the act basically and it's entertainment  

for us watching on abc nbc this is not real real  saha does not occur as entertainment so that  

has nothing to do with firaoun and the story of  musa and that's not what we're talking about now  

some of our scholars are very strict and they  say all of that is haram and i understand and  

definitely it's you know not something that  we want to encourage but at the same time  

i don't think that that is haram and our children  like to see these acts and they know our children  

even at a young age know when the rabbit is pulled  out of the hat there's some type of illusion i  

don't understand how it's just cute to look at  right in my humble opinion and i know a lot of  

greater ulama far more knowledgeable than may  have said it is haram but you know realistically  

living in the society we're surrounded by  these magicians that is not haram that is  

just entertainment whether it's encouraged no  it's not encouraged and i wouldn't encourage our  

young men and women to get involved but it's not a  stepping stone to devil worship let's be real here  

right if you get a magic set on amazon.com and  you you know it gives you these tricks and whatnot  

it doesn't tell you how to worship the devil you  have trick cubes and trick boxes and you know  

what i'm talking about here right that is simple  child's play and no doubt our children should be  

interested in more serious things but that's not  haram it's just entertainment and and whatnot  

um so then what type of sehar are we talking about  we are talking about that is in our vernacular  

called black magic or the dark arts that in our  vernacular is called this is the dark arts and  

the type of siha that the quran talks about is  the sehar that deals with the jinn that is the  

type of sihar that of course has been prohibited  so for those who came late uh i said that we had  

already talked about the reality of the jinn  i'm not going to go over all of the details of  

that but just a quick refresher if we understand  the reality of the jinn we will understand the  

reality of magic so when i say magic from now on  we're not talking about the fake magic i call that  

you know entertainment magic that's not what  we're talking about we're talking about actual  

so if we understand the reality of the jinn we  will understand the reality of sihir because  

you cannot have seher without the jinn the jinn  intrinsically go with there's no such thing as  

without jinn clear every sahara has to have jin  involved because in the end of the day how does  

something happen the magician has no power  that's why musa accused them you're frauds  

you don't have any power and you know that you're  lying the magician pretends that he has power in  

reality the power of the magician is nothing other  than the physical natural services of the jinn  

so if we understand what the jinn are naturally  capable of and we understand that the jinn have  

for some reason what that reason is we'll  talk about now agreed to help the magician  

we will understand that magic is nothing other  than what the jinns are naturally capable of doing  

there's no supernatural there's no mystical  there's no semi-divine the jinns are not  

all-powerful rather allah has given them strengths  that he has not given us and he has given us  

strengths that he has not given them so when  the magician utilizes the strengths of the jinn  

we don't have to be astonished and amazed and  saying oh my god how did he do that rather just  

like we can see a man galloping on a horse at  masha'allah how fast is a horse gallop i have no  

idea 40 miles an hour i don't know 40 50 miles an  hour right now imagine if we saw the man galloping  

on a horse right would we say masha'allah how did  he do we know a horse goes 50 miles an hour what's  

the big deal correct now imagine if we couldn't  see the horse and we saw the man going that fast

we would be pretty freaked out right but once  we understand that it's just the gin doing it  

nothing supernatural now when i say nothing  supernatural for the jinn it's not superna  

for us from our world it's super enough for  our world but not for the jinn for the jinn  

it's totally natural and so if we understand the  physical and psychological nature of the jinn  

we will understand magic completely and wallahi we  will not fear it anymore because it is ignorance  

that causes us to fear this we will not fear it  at all any more than we fear a predator yes if we  

see a snake i will be scared but that's a natural  fear okay so if we discover magic we should also  

some of us might feel a natural fear but there  should not be a fear of the unknown or no it's  

just that it's bewildering for us because we  cannot see the jinn we cannot see it that's  

why it throws everything into confusion if  we could see the jinn we would fear it like  

we fear a beast like we fear a a predator like  we fear but because we cannot our fear becomes  

mystical and sometimes even borders on shirk or  beyond what it should be and that's a problem