I am asking whether it is true that someone can make what we call (Hojob) in Arabic to make other people fail in their lives.
I don’t know if you understand what I mean or not. I will give you an example, I was told that some people don’t like others, so what they do is, they go to specialized people and ask them to do something by the help of the (jinn) or whatever and make the life of that person a misery, like make him fail in his life or ……. I don’t know whether this is available truly or not.
Please give me an answer.
Praise be to Allah
The correct view
according to the majority of Ahl al-Sunnah (mainstream Muslims) is that
witchcraft or magic is real and that it can have an effect – if Allah wills
and decrees it – on the body of the one against whom it is directed, and it
can even kill him.
Imam al-Qurafi
said: “Witchcraft is real and the person against whom it is directed could
die, or his mood and habits could be changed … This was also the view of
al-Shafi’i and Ibn Hanbal…”
The Mu’tazilah and
Qadariyyah (two deviant sects) did not agree with this… but that is of no
significance. Al-Qurafi and others mentioned that the sahabah (companions)
agreed that it (witchcraft) is real, before there emerged anybody who denied
this.
Among the evidence
of Ahl al-Sunnah is:
The ayah/verse
(interpretation of the meaning):
“… but the
shayateen (devils) disbelieved, teaching men magic and such things that came
down at Babylon to the two angels, Harut and Marut, but neither of these two
(angels) taught anyone (such things) till they had said, “We are for trial,
so disbelieve not (by learning this magic from us).” And from these (angels)
people learn that by which they cause separation between man and his wife,
but they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah’s leave. And they learn
that which harms them and profits them not.” [2:102]
This ayah clearly
indicates what is being asked about here, which is that witchcraft is real
and that the practitioner of witchcraft can cause separation between a man
and his wife and that he can cause harm to people by his witchcraft – if
that is decreed by the universal will of Allah.
The ayah
(interpretation of the meaning):
“And from the evil
of the witchrafts when they blow in the knots.” [113:4]
‘… the witchcrafts
when they blow in the knots,’ refers to witches or female practitioners of
witchcraft who tie knots as part of their magic and blow on them. If
witchcraft were not real, Allah would not have commanded us to seek refuge
from it.
Further proof is
to be seen in the fact that witchcraft was directed against the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) by the Jew Labeed ibn al-A’asam.
This is a saheeh hadeeth (authentic narration) which was narrated by
al-Bukhari and Muslim.
Further evidence
is to be seen in the real-life experiences of many people, which cannot be
overlooked.
Ibn al-Qayyim
said: the witchcraft which causes people to be sick or to feel depressed, or
which makes them love or hate, exists and is well known to all people. Many
people have experienced what it can do to them.” Ibn Qudamah said: “It is
well known among people that a man can be separated from his wife (by
witchcraft) when he gets married, so that he is unable to have intercourse
with her, but when the spell is lifted, then he is able to have intercourse
with her. This is so commonly known that it cannot be denied. There are so
many reports of witchcraft that it is inconceivable that so many people
would agree on a lie.”
There are many
ways of protecting oneself against witchcraft:
The best way is to
fear Allah, obey His commands, put one’s trust in Him, seek refuge with
Allah, and start each morning by eating seven dates. All of these were
narrated in saheeh ahadeeth (authentic reports).
There are many
ways of removing the effects of witchcraft, including:
1) Ruqyah
[prayers, supplications], the best of which is supplications from the Quran,
then du’as (supplications) narrated in saheeh ahadeeth.
2) Finding the
objects used for witchcraft purposes and doing something to neutralize them.
Ibn al-Qayyim (may
Allah have mercy on him) said: the sunnah (prophetic teaching) for treating
this sickness – two kinds were transmitted from him:
One of them –
which is the best – is to locate and neutralize the object, as it was
reported in a saheeh hadeeth that he (peace and blessings of Allah be upon
him) asked his Lord about this, and He directed him to a well where he found
a comb, some hairs that had fallen when he combed his hair … . When he
removed these things from the well, he felt better, as if he had recovered
from an illness. This is the best way of dealing with this problem, and is
like removing something bad from the body by expelling it.
3) Cupping,
induced vomiting and surgery.
Ibn al-Qayyim said
– continuing what he said in the words quoted above: “The second kind is by
physically removing the place affected by the witchcraft, because witchcraft
has an effect on human nature and the bodily humours, and can affect moods.
If its effects are noted in any part of the body and it is possible to
remove the bad material, this will be very beneficial.”
And Allah knows
best.
