Is Learning or Teaching Magic Kufr? | Shaykh Salih al-Fawzan

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📌 A clear explanation of an important matter concerning sihr, kufr, and the nullifiers of Islam from Shaykh Salih al Fawzan, in which he explains the ruling on teaching and learning magic based on the statement of Allah: “But the devils disbelieved, teaching people magic.” [Al Baqarah 2:102] ⚠️ The Shaykh explains that this verse proves that teaching magic is kufr and that the one who teaches it becomes a kafir. Likewise, the one who learns magic becomes a kafir. He states clearly that both the teacher and the student of magic fall into kufr. He also explains the meaning of: “We are only a trial, so do not disbelieve.” Meaning: Do not learn magic. This warning demonstrates that learning magic is itself kufr and causes the one who learns it to fall into kufr. A clear explanation of an important matter concerning sihr, kufr, and the nullifiers of Islam from Shaykh Salih al Fawzan. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 Fatwa Source: [218] كفر من علّم السحر وتعلمه - #العلامة_صالح_الفوزان https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zHGCdYfwU0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ The Murjiah confuse the outward ruling with the inward ruling. - The outward ruling is the worldly judgment based solely on a person’s outward statements and actions. It does not depend on what is in the heart. - The inward ruling concerns the hidden reality of the heart, which cannot be known. It is only considered in matters of punishment and the ruling of the Hereafter. Ignorance, coercion, mistake, and denial are considered here, not in the outward ruling. ✍ The Permanent Committee for Islamic Research and Fatwas in Saudi Arabia. Fatwah no. 4400: 👉 (❗) "So clarifying the matter and establishing the proof (Iqāmat al-hujjah) is for the purpose of removing any excuse before carrying out the PUNISHMENT upon him, NOT in order for him to be called a kafir only after the clarification. 👉 (❗) Rather, he IS CALLED a kafir based on the outward act he committed. Such as prostrating to other than Allah, vowing as an act of worship to other than Him, or slaughtering an animal, like a sheep, for other than Allah.” 📚 Source:Kitāb Fatāwā al-Lajnah al-Dāʾimah – First Collection, vol. 1, p. 220 https://shamela.ws/book/8381/396#p1 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ The methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamaah: The outward ruling is based exclusively on statements and actions. Matters of the heart are only considered in punishment and the final judgment, in this world by the judge and in the Hereafter by Allah. ✍️ Al-Hafidh Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (d. 852H) in Fath al-Bari (12/272), transmitting consensus: وكلهم أجمعوا على أن أحكام الدنيا على الظاهر، والله يتولى السرائر “THEY ALL UNANIMOUSLY AGREED that worldly rulings are based upon what is outwardly apparent, while Allah alone takes charge of what lies within.” End Quote ✍️ Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728H) said in As-Sarim al-Maslul (2/339): فمن قال أو فعل ما هو كفر, كفر بذلك، وإن لم يقصد أن يكون كافرًا، إذ لا بقصد الكفر أحدّ إلًّا ما شاء الله. “Whoever says or does that which is kufr, then he becomes a kafir by that itself, even if he did not intend to become a disbeliever, for no one intends kufr except whom Allah wills.” End Quote ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ Authentic and True — From the Scholars to You ✦ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #Islam #Quran #Sunnah #Aqeedah #Salafi #salafiyyah #Bidah #IslamicAdvice #IslamicReminders #SeekingKnowledge #Tawheed #Muslim #Fiqh #scholarsofsunnah #AhlusSunnah #IslamicClips #IslamicShorts #Creed #IslamicEducation #IslamicLecture #MuslimYouth #Knowledge #IslamicGuidance #Shariah #Reminder #ShirkAkbar #ExcuseOfIgnorance #Takfir #Iman #Kufr #SalafiDawah #AhlusSunnahWalJamaah #ManhajSalaf #IslamicCreed #ScholarsOfIslam #IbnBaz #IbnUthaymeen #SeekKnowledge #Ilm #Dawah #Truth #Guidance #SunnahWay #IslamicReminder #Sacrifice #Sunnah #Tawhid #Salafi #fawzan #ibnbaz #magic #circus #witch #witchcraft