Cannot cast our burdens unto others. Could you imagine if it were the consequences of Magic, Sorcery and Witchcraft?

Bismillahi Al Rahmani Al Raheemi

ASA WR WB to believing Muslim friends

There is an unfortunate belief among some people that Al Masihu Isa ibn Maryam (epbut) died for their sins. But look at something. Can you imagine from this the type of person that gets behind Nabi Isa (as) and then turns to magic, sorcery, witchcraft, etc. and then wants Nabi Isa (as) to bear the costs for that particular sin of Suhr or Jibt or Taghut. This is not someone that sounds like a friend to the man. Does a friend do that to another friend?

Some have the mentality that anything goes on Earth and so they can do whatever they can imagine. And it is simply not true...it is simply not true. We must exercise restraint. Once we get tied to and associated with Faith we have to align ourselves in a moderate and natural pace to the Laws of the Covenant with God. We cannot do just whatever can be done. Just because something can be done doesn't mean that it is right or that it should be done. It was because of appetites unchecked by restraint that the "Fall" from the Garden of Eden happened in the beginning.

Examine the costs of making Nabi Isa (as) or another person of Faith in Allah (swt) the scapegoat or sacrifice for the use of Suhr, Jibt or Taghut in the Ayat of Holy Quran Surahtul Baqarah Ayat 102-103. Is that a kind thing to do? First of all if you just look at the consequence of "they shall have no share in the Akhira amongst Khalaq". That is saying that the buyers and sellers of magic, sorcery and witchcraft will not be allowed to progress, grow, or evolve into the future amongst creation. They will be denied progress and growth into the future. That is a terrible fate. But also when we examine the consequence, "the buyers and sellers sowed (marred) the seeds of division between man and woman" that right there is a terrible terrible fate. It is saying that the very sacred nature between a man and woman (that are buyer and seller) would be overturned, altered and ruined. Who wants that? I don't think any person of Faith wants that type of fate.

Now imagine the type of person that wants to make Al Masihu Isa ibn Maryam (as) suffer for that choice that they or someone else has made in Suhr, Jibt or Taghut. Horrendous thought as a gift to him. It is a very veiled and complex wickedness to do that to a Prophet or another person of Faith that is a follower of the Prophets. May Allah (swt) be refuge. Amin. I have included four graphics of Ayats to consider with this post.

Our Rights in Al-Islam against Voodoo and the like. Reflection upon the Implications of Surahtul Masada or Abu Lahab.

Bismi Allahi Al Rahmani Al Raheemi
ASA WR WB to believing Muslim friends

In Surahtul Masada or Abu Lahab we get a picture of something that happened to the Holy Prophet Muhammed (saws). We see that Abu Lahab and his wife in combination practiced a cursing (or spell) combined with craft and cruel wrongdoing upon the Nabi (saws).

A couple of the things that was frightening about Voodoo, depicted in movies when I was growing up, was that it was a secret art (Al Au'qadi - Surahtul Falaq), and that it would be practiced on someone without them knowing about it (Najwa - Surahtul Mujadilah) which means they were not intending to use in their life practice or purchase the sorcery.

So with the terms "Cursed" and "craft and cruel wrongdoing" in the Tafsir this Surah opens up those 2 transgressions that merited the Judgment in Surahtul Masada to be in the categories of: Voodoo, Secret Arts, Witchcraft, Sorcery, Spells, those types of things that are annoyances and frustrations. I will include the Tafsirs from the late Hafizul Quran Abdullah Yusuf Ali (may upon him be Allah's peace and blessings). Check out those tafsirs, and the Surah is below them.

The Blessings are that Allah (swt) has considered these types of occurrences and has rendered it against the Laws of God to practice these forms of Secret Arts on believing Muslims. This is a beautiful “right” that Allah (swt) has afforded us in Al-Islam. If anyone amongst the believing Muslims feels that they have been worked upon by a Secret Art, then those Surahs in bold above are a good place to start in your petitions to Allah (swt) to reclaim your rights against your life being made more difficult, frustrated and annoyed by those practices.

* v.1 : Abu Lahab, "Father of Flame", was the nick-name of an uncle of the holy Prophet, from his fiery hot temper and his ruddy complexion. He was one of the most inveterate enemies of early Islam. When the holy Prophet called together the Quraish and his own kith and kin to come and listen to his preaching and his warning against the sins of his people, the "Father of Flame" flared up and cursed the holy Prophet, saying "Perdition to thee!" According to the English saying, "the causeless curse will not come". His words were futile, but his power and strength were equally futile. The star of Islam rose higher and higher every day, and its persecuters dwindled in strength and power. Many of the leaders of persecution perished at Badr, and Abu Lahab himself perished a week after Badr, consumed with grief and his own fiery passions. Verse 3 was prophetic of his end in this very life, though it also refers to the Hereafter.

* v.4 : Abu Lahab’s wife was a woman of equally passionate spite and cruelty against the sacred person of the holy Prophet. She used to tie bundles of thorns with ropes of twisted palm-leaf fibre and carry them and strew them about on dark nights in the paths which the Prophet was expected to take, in order to cause him bodily injury. "To carry firewood" may also be symbolical for carrying tales between people to embroil them. This was also one of her vices. But she was laying up for herself another kind of Fire and another kind of Rope, the Fire of Punishment, and the Rope of Slavery to Evil. Thus does Evil prepare its own fate. This is the general lesson of sustained craft and cruel wrong-doing recoiling on the wrong-doer’s head. See also Introduction to this Surah in the Yusuf Ali Translation.

Surahtul Masada
In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
[111:1]
Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he!

[111:2]
No profit to him from all his wealth, and all his gains!

[111:3]
Burnt soon will he be in a Fire of Blazing Flame!

[111:4]
His wife shall carry the (crackling) wood - As fuel!-

[111:5]
A twisted rope of palm-leaf fibre round her (own) neck!