Re: Black magic
Spare us the anecdotes, please. And read carefully, cuz you don’t. Nobody is denying the “magic” of hard work, a great attitude, planning and strategy. I believe in those things too. However, at the same time I also believe in the unseen. The sun, the moon, many of the naturally occurring phenomena that are a part of our daily lives are not being controlled by us human beings no matter how far we have come in terms of advancements in science and technology. There’s a saying that the greatest trick played by the devil was in convincing people that he doesn’t exist. It seemed to have worked on many people and unfortunately it’s gone to the point that people don’t believe in the existence of God or if they do believe in Allah, they make “light” of things that He has revealed.
Hard work, planning, and goal setting are all important. Using your aqal is essential too. But aqal and iman go hand in hand. Relying on just aqal and effort will only go so far. Respect toward Allah entails believing in what He has revealed in His book. Again spare me the anecdotes of how you, and some woman/man/your wife, your kids/ your client/neighbor/kutta/billi/chooha/choonti/alien you knew made it to the pinnacle of whatever through their hard work or conversely reaped their destruction because of some deficiency in attitude and effort. It has to be a combination of aqal and iman and iman has a lot to do with belief in the unseen. There has to be a balance. If a person has no faith in the unseen, or is very skeptical of it, then they’ll never get it. They’ll continue to mock and point at the other person for not believing in practical efforts and no matter how many times you explain it to them, their needle will be stuck on the same accusation/assumption, lol.