Jadu and its cure

[lethal_kamikaze]

Re: Jadu and its cure

@kchughtai

^ Peace LKK,

You again mentioned 2:102. in another thread, you said that Haroot and maroot were good men of knowledge. pls let me understand this. They were good but they taught something that is inherently bad as implied by your above statement. so why this apparent paradox?

Peace kchughtai,

Reason for referring to that particular verse is that many scholar said that one who learn magic or believe in foreteller (soothsayer) he disbelieved what Almighty Allah revealed to Prophet Muhammad Both angels warned peoples that we are only trial so don’t fall in disbelief.

The Holy Qur’an says that they didn’t taught magic but they said we are trial for you. Abu Jafar Ar-Razi narrates from Ar-Rabi bin Ansa who narrated from Qays bin Abbad who said that Ibn Abbas said: ‘When someone came to the angels (Haroon & Maroot) to learn magic, they would discourage him and say to him, we are only a test so do not fall into disbelief’.
They had knowledge of what is good and evil and what constitutes belief or disbelief, and they thus knew that magic is a form of disbelief.
When the person who come to learn magic still insisted on learing it, they commanded him to go to such and such place, where if he went, Satan would meet him and teach him magic.

When this man learn magic, the light (of faith) would depart him, and he would see it shining (and flying away) in the sky. He would then proclaim, 'O my sorrow! Woe unto me! What should I do."

(Reference: Tafsir Ibn Katheer)