Magic and Islam
Practice and learning magic is forbidden in Islam. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) said: “The punishment of the magician is to strike him with the sword (i.e, execute him)” When Hafsah Umm al-Mu’mineen found out that a slave woman of hers was dealing with sihr, she killed her. Islam says, Sihr is a serious crime and is one of the kinds of kufr. The word “sihr” has been mentioned almost 60 times in the Quran, explaining how the non-believers attributed the miracles of Allah’s prophets with black magic. These verses have been stated to clear that Allah’s messengers can never be like the worldly magicians. The existence of magic can not be denied and even Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) was affected in a way that often thoughts turned up that I have done this work etc though it was not. A Jew by the name of Labid ibn Asim who outwardly posed to be a believer (munafiq) carried out black magic on the Messenger of Allah (pbuh). He took the hair of the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) and made eleve...