Praise be to God. There is no other god except God. Today I want to talk about the end of witchcraft practice. I think one of the people wanted to know more about it. It’s usually a topic I’m not really interested to talk about but it’s probably important that we cover it so that we kind of put it behind our backs and we don’t really have to discuss it too much. In this sermon, God willing, what I’m going to prove is that witchcraft practice doesn’t exist anymore. Please pay attention to my words. I’m not saying that witchcraft doesn’t exist. What I’m saying is that witchcraft practice does not exist. What this means is that no one in the world today knows how to do witchcraft. No one does witchcraft. It does exist. People might try it. It existed in the past. But no one actually knows how to do it. It’s like saying, “Oh, heart surgery exists, but there’s no surgeon in the world.” If heart surgery exists, but there’s no surgeon in the world who can do heart surgery, what’s the point? In the same way, witchcraft does exist. It did exist in the past where there were people who knew how to do it. It’s not that they actually did it, but I’ll explain how it works. But today there’s no one who knows how to do it. No, actually by explaining it, I’ll tell everyone how it works. The issue is that I’ll also explain why it never has the effect or the intended effect.

We cannot deny that witchcraft exists because it’s mentioned in the Quran and by the way, the word in the Quran which includes witchcraft is the word ‘sah’ which means covered, something hidden, something sort of done underneath like let’s say underneath the table, something which is some action it is misleading. And that word by the way includes lots of more than witchcraft in the Quran. So God willing I’ll mention the other meanings of that word some other day because we have technological witchcraft. We have scientific witchcraft like magicians doing tricks with magnets like there’s a magnet and we pretend to levitate stuff or David Copperfield stuff and those are different what they call ‘mad’ tricks, illusions, magic that’s also included in the Arabic word which the Quran mentions and that’s not necessarily all evil because it ends and people know that it’s actually a trick.

So if I explain, if I use the same verses to explain something else in the future, don’t get confused. I know it has several meanings. But in this sermon, I want to focus on the meaning of that word in Arabic, which can be translated as witchcraft in English. Basically, the stuff which they also call magic, sorcery, stuff which is done through jinns, through demons. Let me sort of first define some words because here in the explanation I use the word ‘demon’ instead of ‘jinn’ because in the western world sometimes they misunderstand they think that jinns are just some kind of creatures which exist in the Islamic interpretation but they don’t exist really. The Christians do have demons in the bible and while the Muslims talk about jinns, the difference is that demons are simply bad jinns. And witchcraft only happens through the bad jinns. All jinns are bad by the way. All jinns are bad. But once you dominate them, they are not as bad anymore. It’s kind of like saying all wolves are dangerous, but if you dominate them, if you make them dogs, then they are not as dangerous.

So it’s kind of like that. There’s no such thing as a good jinn but there’s such a thing as a dominated jinn. If you dominate the jinn by good deeds, let’s say if the jinn is stronger than you it’s a bad jinn; if you are stronger than the jinn, we can say it’s a good jinn. It’s going to go to heaven because it was dominated, not because it wanted to. No jinn ever wants to do good. So they are technically all potential demons. If they are allowed to dominate, they are demons. Because the dominating ones are the ones which are used for witchcraft, I’m just going to use the word ‘demon’.

First of all, I want to lay down how witchcraft works even though it today doesn’t really practically work. For those who are more versed in science, we know that we can reduce all the forces in this universe into four forces: gravity, the electromagnetic force, the strong force, and the weak force. In another video clarification, God willing, someday I’ll explain why these are not forces at all. These are just descriptions of how things work. Everything is controlled by God. But for the purposes of this sermon, I’m going to call them physical laws or forces. Physicists reduce all the forces of the universe into four forces and they have never been able to find another one. So basically any effect on anything should be able to be reduced into these four forces. If it’s not one of these four, it’s fake. Witchcraft has no place in it, meaning there’s no way you can describe witchcraft.

You cannot tell, for example, how Santa Claus flies with a sled because it’s not real. So witchcraft cannot be reduced. The effects, like if someone tries to explain, “I’m going to take this hair of this person and I’m going to blow into it and say abracadabra,” there’s no way you can describe this effect through these four forces, which means it’s fake. It’s not happening. So there’s no cause and effect. I’m not causing it by doing that witchcraft thing. Then what’s happening? What is actually happening? It’s just a pre-arranged agreement. Let’s say I’m on one side of a hill and I tell a friend on the other side to raise their hand whenever I raise my eyebrows. There’s no force. It’s just that we have pre-arranged an agreement to trick a third person. As we can see, if there’s no way to explain witchcraft through forces because it doesn’t exist as a cause, it must be a pre-arranged agreement.

What happens there is that the sorcerer talks to his demon and he might have unnecessary symbolism. That ritual actually does nothing; it never did anything. The ritual is there so that he can serve the demon so that the demon can agree to serve him. It’s demon worship. And the Quran says that the demons have no power over human beings. They cannot move the table, they cannot move anything. The only power they have is to suggest ideas. You are absolutely free to choose whether you want to listen to the demon or not. In a society where people are 90% bad, they will listen to the demon’s ideas 90% of the time. The demon will have to think of a scheme or a coordinated set of ideas to give to all these demons so that they can coordinate in a way that causes, for example, a divorce. The demon has to create a situation where the son is not home, the wife gets fired, the ex calls her, and the husband hears it. The demon cannot do it; all he can do is give ideas to the son, the manager, the ex, and the husband.

So it was done through social means rather than physical force. It’s just pre-arranged ideas. If people are on average 90% evil, there’s an 18% chance that witchcraft works. It works about one in five times. But in today’s world, the maximum that someone can potentially be bad is 70% because it’s controlled by governments and civilized systems. So in a society where people are on average 60% evil, the probability that witchcraft will work is one in 5,000. That scientifically cannot even be proven because the chances that the husband and wife would divorce anyway are higher than the increase caused by the witchcraft. It just didn’t work. The effect of witchcraft is less than the significance levels we ignore. It’s probably one in a million. No demon would agree to waste his time one million times for one thing. Witchcraft doesn’t work today.

The Quranic way would be to say that just like there are no saints anymore because the last miracle is the mathematical miracle, there are no anti-saints, or sorcerers, today. Because miracles don’t exist, witchcraft does not exist. Everyone is doing it a tiny bit, but no one is really doing it. It’s just shooting in the dark. In the future, the chance will be almost zero. The witchcraft is as effective as smoking a cigarette in your home and hoping your neighbor who moved to another town gets lung cancer from it. In theory, it exists, but what are the chances that you caused it? Zero.

In reality, it’s the person, the sorcerer, who is working for the demon. They are selling their soul for a promise from a demon and the demon cannot even do it. So they get nothing in this world, nothing in the next world. The people in the past who did witchcraft were smart sociopaths, and the people who do witchcraft today are dumb sociopaths. The smart sociopaths today have moved into other fields like the CIA or KGB, where they influence people through coordinated ideas that actually work partly. The type of person who would have done witchcraft in the past now uses fake accounts. That’s why when people contact me with fake accounts, I call them their jinn names. It’s a way to put them down because they deserve it. But fake accounts are a modern way of executing these ideas, not through demons, but through technology. Witchcraft in practice doesn’t exist today. If anything, the smart people have moved to the CIA and stuff like that, and it’s only the dumb people who are doing it which doesn’t even work. God willing, we’ll talk again during the next Friday.

Those who have to do the contact prayer, do the contact prayer. And the rest of you, Peace be upon you.

Friday Sermon by: Alban Fejza, Online Congregation Director