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The End of Witchcraft Practice

Posted on by Jad Abou Karroum

 

Sermon Introduction

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 we can put it behind our backs and we don’t really have to discuss it too much.

So in this sermon, God willing, what I’m going to prove is that witchcraft practice doesn’t exist anymore. And 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 does this mean? What it means is that no one in the world today knows how to do witchcraft. No one, or 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.” Well, yeah, 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. 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.

The Semantic Meaning of Witchcraft (Sihr) in the Final Testament

First of all, we cannot deny that witchcraft exists because it is mentioned in the Quran. The word in the Quran which included witchcraft is «Sihr», which means something covered, hidden, or sort of done “underneath the table”—misleading stuff.

And that word in the Quran includes more than witchcraft. So, God willing, I’ll explain the other meanings of that word some other day;

Because we have Technological or Scientific Witchcraft: Like magicians doing tricks with magnets, like pretending to levitate stuff with a magnet for example, and stuff like that; For example like David Copperfield stuff. And these are different, these are what they call : «Tricks», «Illusions» or «Magic». That is also included in the Arabic word which the Quran mentions, and that is not necessarily all evil because it ends and people know that it is actually a trick.

So, if I use these same verses to explain other concepts in the future – which God willing I will do because those are more important and more relevant for our times – If I use the same verses do not get confused by saying : «But this word is about witchcraft»;

The word 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, or sorcery, stuff which is done through Jinns, through demons.

Defining the Spiritual Entities: Jinn vs. Demon

Now, before I explain this, 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 kind of 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 sometimes—well, Christians do have demons in the Bible; you can read about 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 yeah, it’s kind of like that. It’s like having a word for a wolf, but you don’t have a word for dog.

In the Christian tradition, they have separate words. In the Islamic tradition, they use the same word jinn. In the Christian tradition, they use the word demon for the bad jinn, and I don’t think they have a word for the, let’s say, the “good jinn”. 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, but it went to heaven because it was dominated, not because it wanted to. And then eventually, of course, that jinn is going to enjoy heaven; later on, it’s going to realize that being dominated was a good thing. But for now, he doesn’t understand it. No jinn ever wants to do good, so they are technically all potential demons. If they are allowed to dominate, they are demons; if they are not allowed to dominate, we can just call them jinns. So, because the dominating ones—the dominating jinns—are the ones which are used for witchcraft, then I’m just going to use the word the demon. Let’s try to clarify that; I’m just going to use the word demon so that even the Christians can understand stuff about witchcraft.

Analyzing the Four Physical Forces of the Universe

So that’s one thing. The other thing is, first of all, I want to lay down how witchcraft works, even though it today doesn’t really practically work, but how it would work in theory. And first, let’s explore the possibilities first. For those who are, let’s say, more versed in science, a lot of people like scientists—definitely like the physicists—but a lot of people have enough knowledge in science. We know that we can reduce all the forces in this universe into four forces, which are:

  1. Force of Gravity

  2. The Electromagnetic Force

  3. The Strong Force

  4. The Weak Force

So these are the four forces in physics. And by the way, 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; they are not forces because everything is controlled by God. But for the purposes of this Friday sermon, I’m going to call them forces, sort of going along with how the physicists call them, or laws, let’s say physical laws. Let’s call them physical laws or forces; that’s how they call them. I don’t believe they should be called like that, but for the purposes of this, let’s call them like that just so we can understand this better.

So, physicists reduce all the forces of the universe into four forces, and they have never been able to find another one. So basically, anything, any effect on anything which you want to describe, should be able to be reduced into these four forces: either gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force, or the weak force. If it’s not one of these four, basically it’s fake. Any force you can reduce into these—like how the plants grow, if you simplify it, it comes down to these four forces. How the earth moves around the sun, or the sun around the earth, depending on how you want to see it, you can reduce it to these four forces. How the TV works, you can reduce it to these four forces. How the computer works, you can reduce it. Anything on this earth, it boils down to these four forces.

The Scientific Impossibility of Direct Witchcraft Causation

And with these four forces, if we accept that these are the four forces which work in this world, witchcraft has no place in it. Meaning that there’s no way you can describe witchcraft. You can describe how the sun moves, you can describe how the computer works, you can describe how the phone works, you can describe anything in this world if it’s true, if it’s real. If it’s fake, you cannot describe it. You cannot tell, for example, how Santa Claus flies with a sled; you cannot describe it with these four forces because it’s fake, it’s not real.

So witchcraft cannot be reduced—the effects—like if someone tries to explain, “Okay, so I’m going to move…” Let me just give an example of witchcraft: “Oh, I’m going to take the hair of this person, and I’m going to blow into it, and I’m going to do this, I’m going to say abracadabra,” or whatever they say, “and this will have an effect; basically, it will cause that person to have an accident.” 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, basically. I’m not causing it by doing that witchcraft thing; I’m not causing it.

Then what’s happening? What is actually happening? And by the way, let me just give some examples of what I mean when I talk about witchcraft. I mean, like for example, taking a thread and tying a knot and blowing into it and saying, “Oh, I wish this person divorces.” Or kind of like—I don’t know what they typically do—or the voodoo, like taking a doll, putting a needle into it and saying, “Oh, I wish this person—let’s say in his head or in his stomach—I wish that person gets stomach pain or stomach cancer or something.” Basically the idea of causing something out there through some sort of witchcraft practice. And as I just showed, there’s no such thing as that causation. It cannot happen, because if it did, it should have been explainable by those four forces or physical forces. We can explain everything else; why not this? It should have been explainable.

Explaining Witchcraft as a Pre-Arranged Agreement (The Hill Analogy)

Then what’s happening in witchcraft? What’s happening when people do witchcraft? Let me explain it with another example so that we can understand why it looks like a force, it looks like a causation when it’s not causation.

Let’s say I use a magnet—and now I’m describing a real thing—let’s say I use a magnet, and whenever I move that magnet underneath the table, the metal coin will move. So we’re sort of causing it; according to physicists, we’re causing the coin to move if we move the magnet underneath the table and the coin is on top of the table. We cause it. No one is seeing what we’re doing; we’re sort of tricking them, but there is a cause. At the end of the day, I don’t believe in that cause, as I’m going to explain in that video, but at least according to physicists, we can say that there’s a cause; it’s described by the electromagnetic force, and there’s an explanation for it.

However, there’s another way to make it look like a cause, but it’s not. Let’s say, for example, I’m on one side of the hill, and I tell another friend on the other side of the hill—let’s say we want to play a prank, we want to trick a third friend. And I tell this friend, let’s say we have a walkie-talkie or some kind of phone, or we’re messaging—maybe I’m messaging with my phone—and I tell him, “Whenever I write, raise your hand.” Basically, there’s no force; it’s just that we have agreed, we have pre-arranged an agreement of what we are going to do. And that friend can actually sort of show if he wants to not go along with that—he might not go along with that—but let’s say we pre-agree to that, and we have an arranged agreement to trick the third friend. So with my phone, I tell him, “Every time I tell you ‘raise your arm’ with my phone, you raise your arm.” So I tell this third friend, “Look, whenever I raise my eyebrows, that friend over there is going to raise his arm.” As I raise my eyebrows, I write “raise your arm,” and the friend is going to raise his arm on another hill somewhere where he cannot hear us. And the third friend will be like, “Wait a minute, is there some kind of force which is causing it?” No, it’s just the pre-arranged agreement.

Coordinated Demonic Ideas: A Theoretical Case Study

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, by necessity, a pre-arranged agreement. So how can it happen? How can a pre-arranged agreement happen? I’ll show an example of how that pre-arranged agreement happens, or let’s call it coordinated ideas. We are coordinating some idea, and we’re kind of going to make it look like a force, like something is being caused. Let me take sort of an example of how witchcraft would have happened in practice in the past, or how in theory it can happen today—but then I’m going to show why it doesn’t happen actually.

Before I actually go to this example, let me explain, because I don’t want you guys to look at the graph before I sort of give the example. Let’s take an example: let’s say that a wife and a husband marry, and they both have an ex-boyfriend and an ex-girlfriend from the past. Now, let’s say the husband has married, and his ex-girlfriend—and by the way, I’m not sort of justifying any of these; all I’m saying is it can happen, it’s a thing which happens in practice—the ex-girlfriend of the husband cannot accept the fact that he got married. She hates him, or maybe she doesn’t hate him, maybe she’s still in love with him and she thinks she’s going to be in love with him, and she actually doesn’t want him to get married to someone else. So she goes to a sorcerer, to a person who practices witchcraft. In today’s world, I’m saying “practices” because it really is not real practice, but let’s say in the past—let’s say if we took an example of the past and put it today where witchcraft would really exist—and sort of see how it would work.

Let’s say in the past it would probably be an ex-wife instead of an ex-girlfriend. So let’s say the previous wife, she’s not happy that he got married again with someone better maybe, maybe her best friend or whatever—there’s something she doesn’t like about it. She goes to a sorcerer and she says, “I want you to cause my ex-husband to divorce. He has gotten married now; I don’t want that, I don’t like that marriage, I want them to divorce.” So the sorcerer, the person who practices witchcraft, says, “Oh, for this service, you’re going to have to pay, let’s say, $500.” Okay, she goes, gets the money, pays the dollars.

The Mechanism of Demon Worship and the Limits of Satan’s Power

Then how does it happen? How is it, quote-unquote, “caused”? It’s not really caused; it’s just a pre-arranged agreement. What happens there is that person, because he is a bad person—let me go to the graph now—that person talks to his demon.

And he might have unnecessary symbolism, like looking in the mirror, burning some coal, whatever they do—I don’t know what witchcraft practices typically are or how they are attempted to be done. But yeah, let’s say he has some kind of ritual. 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. So the practice doesn’t do anything; it’s sort of demon worship. It’s not that it’s causing the witchcraft; it’s demon worship. So the person is agreeing to sell his soul to worship the demon with that practice so that the demon can sort of do something, can pay him back.

And by the way, none of this is automatically executed, because the Quran says that the demons have no power over human beings, so they cannot sort of cause things. No demon can ever cause anything. They cannot move this table, they cannot move something. Some of those things happened during Solomon’s times, but those are miracles; we’re talking outside of miracles. And by the way, we know that the last miracle was the mathematical miracle, so therefore we’re not talking about miracles here. Here we’re talking about real life without miracles, which is today.

Demons cannot do any of that; they cannot move the table, they cannot move the home, they cannot do anything. The Quran says they have no power, absolutely no power over you. The only power they have is to suggest ideas, give you ideas. Like for example, when I’m just walking down the street and I’m like, “Oh, maybe I should push this person so he will fall.” That’s an idea from a demon. Or maybe, “Oh, maybe I should skip the prayer today.” I think it is my idea, but the idea comes from the demon. So the only thing, the only power—it’s not even a power that the demons have—is to suggest, to give you an idea. But they are going to make it look like a force—I’ll explain how. And you are absolutely free to choose whether you want to listen to the demon or not. So the demons are not causing anything. The demon is just giving you an idea, and then you choose whether you want to listen to the demon or not.

Probability of Evil Actions in a Depraved Society

Now, in this example here, as you can see, I put 0.9 in all the arrows. What does this 0.9 represent? I’m assuming here that all these people and these demons and the probability of these actions is 0.9. Basically, I’m assuming that this example is in a society where people are 90% bad. Every time a demon gives you an idea, nine times out of ten you listen, you like the idea, so you do it. The demon doesn’t force you to do anything bad; the demon gives you the idea only. But if you’re a bad person in a bad society in the past where people on average are 90% bad—let’s say Sodom and Gomorrah, or Babylon, or whatever—if the people are on average 90% bad, there’s a 90% chance that they will listen to the demon. So technically, whatever—let’s say the demon gives ten ideas, nine of those ideas on average you will listen to, and in one of them you will not listen to because you just don’t like it. Maybe the idea is too extreme, too evil, or maybe the idea is not extreme enough, it’s not evil enough. So whatever it is, if the person is 90% bad, he’s going to listen to the demon 90% of the time; he’s going to like the demon’s idea 90% of the time. So this is that example of everyone listening to one another 90% of the time for a bad idea, if there’s a bad idea.

The Coordinated Chain of Suggestions

Let’s now explain how witchcraft would work. The ex-wife for example would go to the sorcerer. The sorcerer would tell the demon (he is technically worshiping him) : « I’m sort of doing this, I’m now your best friend, Can you please separate the husband and the wife? Can you please do that for me? » .He does not have to listen because he is also independent, but even the demon is 90% bad. So there’s a 90% chance that the demon will listen.

Now, this demon has to think : “How do I do this? How do I cause a wife and a husband to separate?” And he has an idea, which I call coordinated ideas. He says, “What if I go to the demon of the wife, basically the jinn of the wife? What if I go to the demon of the wife and tell him…”

Basically, this demon knows from these other demons what the weakness of the wife is, or what the weakness of the son of the wife is. Here, let’s imagine we have a family, we have :

  • The wife.
  • The son of the wife and the husband. 
  • The manager. (let’s say the wife works somewhere)
  • The ex of the wife. (though not the ex of the husband who ordered the sorcerer. She us not in this graph, she ordered the witchcraft, she is paying for the witchcraft)
  • The husband. 

Technically, this demon -Demon 1- will have to think of a pre-arranged giving of ideas to all these demons so that they can all coordinate in a way where they will cause the separation of the husband and the wife.

 So the demon will be saying : “Wait a minute, how can I separate this wife and this husband? Okay, I know that a month ago the husband told her not to talk to her ex, and that was the last time she spoke to her ex. Fine. So if her ex calls her on the phone, she is not going to answer because she agreed to that.”

Demon 6 (Demon of the husband) told Demon 1 that the husband also told his friend that : « If she ever answers the phone call of the ex-husband again, I’m going to divorce her». Or maybe it’s just in his mind; the husband has decided in his mind, in his heart, that if she ever talks again to her ex, he is going to divorce her. It has come down to that.

Now, Demon 1, all he has to do is convince the wife to answer and talk to her ex when he calls her on the phone. So the demon is saying : “Wait a minute, under what condition would she answer her ex? Not in a normal condition. Maybe she should get fired; she will be desperate, and maybe because her ex has another business, she will think that maybe he will find another job for her, or maybe something like that.”

The Division of Roles Among the Jinn

Demon 1 thinks, “I’m quite sure if her son is around, the son of the husband and the wife, if her son is around, she’s not going to answer because she doesn’t want the son to hear the conversation. So I have to create a situation where the son is not home, the manager fires her, the ex calls her, and the husband hears that.” Kind of like the demon has to create that situation. He cannot do it physically; all he can do is give ideas.

So Demon 1 will tell Demon 3, which is the demon of the son, “Today, go and watch…” I don’t know, anime, whatever the teenagers do today. By the way, none of the demons can execute this through suggesting good ideas. Let’s say if Demon 3 wants to separate the son from his mom, he’s not going to say to “Oh, go do the prayer.” Because demon 3 is not going to agree to that, he is bad as well. The demon of the son (Demon 3) will say : «Wait a minute, why should the part which I suggest be the good part ? My mission in this life is to actually make the son bad. I do not care what you other duties are. You guys are trying to execute this coordinated scheme but why would I be part of it by suggesting something good ?»

Scriptural Context: The Kingdom of Satan

And There is a verse in the Bible about this where Jesus says Satan would never work against his kingdom, meaning that all the demons have to suggest something bad; they cannot suggest anything good. (Matthew 12:26 / Mark 3:26 / Luke 11:18)

So if Demon 3 wants to separate the son from his mom temporarily to go into another room or in a friend’s home or whatever, he cannot say : “Oh, why don’t you go do the prayer in this way your mom can be alone .” No, it doesn’t work like that. Demons never suggest anything good.

And this is very important, because some people think that we can use jinns for good things. Never. It’s always for bad things. So Demon 1 will tell Demon 3 : “Go tell the son some idea which separates him from his mom.”

So Demon 3 says : “Oh, wait a minute, I’ll tell him to go to his room, lock his room, and go on his phone to watch something bad.” If he’s a teenager, you can think of what it could be. So then the son says, “Oh, I have an idea, I’m going to go watch (whatever)” . Maybe he starts watching something violent, and then from that it turns into something else. And so the son has an idea: “I’m going to go into my room and I’m going to lock the door, I don’t want my mom to see.” So he goes there. Now the wife is alone.

Now Demon 1 tells Demon 4 (Demon of the manager of the women) : “Write an email to her telling her that she’s gotten fired.” So she had just received an email that she’s gotten fired. The manager probably hated her all along, but today he decided (Demon 4 told him the idea) : ”What if I fire her? Let me fire her.” So the manager fires her. Now the wife has no job and the son is not around.

Then Demon 1 tells Demon 5 (Demon of her ex-husband who has a business now) : “Go and drink in a bar” , because he knows every time he drinks,  he calls his ex-wife, who is now the wife of another husband. And what are the chances that he will listen? 90%, because he’s 90% evil. So this guy goes into a bar and drinks.

So :

  • The son is not with his mom.
  • The manager informed her that she lost her job.
  • The ex who drank all night long in a bar calls her.

And then Demon 1 tells Demon 6 (Demon of the husband) who tells the husband : “When you go back home from your work to the husband, don’t inform her. Don’t knock on the door, try to surprise her. Go there without being noticed and see what she’s doing.” That’s also a bad idea; spying is a bad idea. A good husband will not try to catch his wife; he will try to kind of find solutions for his wife. But anyway, so Demon 1 tells Demon 6 : “When you go home, go in sneakily.”

The Illusion of Sorcery vs. The Reality of Social Pressure

And all of these criteria are now met. The husband catches his wife talking to her ex, and then he says : “No, I want a divorce.” And this now looks like this sorcerer had some kind of power. All it was was pre-arranged ideas. So it was done through social means rather than some kind of physical force. It is just pre-arranged ideas.

And by the way, there’s only a 90% chance in a society where people are on average 90% evil that they will actually be able to execute it. Because let’s say the manager might actually want to write the email, but the human resources do not allow him or something like that. So even sometimes when they agree to do it, when they think it’s a good idea, they might not be able to execute it. Or let’s say you want to go and steal; most of the time you will be afraid because there might be a police presence, you might get caught. So there’s also a chance that they might want to do whatever the demon suggest. Or they might not be able to because of social pressure or they are too afraid. Maybe someone is seeing him at that time. Maybe the son wants to go into his room and separate from his mom, but they don’t have a key, so he cannot lock the door. Maybe they don’t have a big home where they have separate rooms.

These are all on average. So assuming that on average these entities : (the demons, the wife, the son, the manager, the ex, the husband) are 90% evil in a society where 90% of the time evil is allowed, we can calculate what are the chances that witchcraft will work. Before we calculate it, let’s repent. Toubou ila Allah.

Statistical Probability of Witchcraft Success

Praise be to God, there is no other god except God. Now let’s calculate what are the chances that this sorcerer—the witchcraft worked, in practice it worked. Let’s calculate it.

So we have a 0.9 chance that the demon will listen to the sorcerer; we have a 0.9 chance that Demon 2 will listen to Demon 1; 0.9 chance that Demon 3 will listen to Demon 1, and so on; 0.9 chance that the wife will listen to Demon 2; 0.9 chance that the wife will be able to execute it. And so all of these, we’re average—this is average in a society where people are on average 90% bad. So how do we calculate what are the chances that all of these will be successful, all of these suggestions will be executed? And then we calculate—whoever knows statistics, this is how we calculate it. So basically, we multiply this:

0.9 × 0.9 × 0.9 × 0.9…

We’ll multiply all of these and you get the probability of how successful this whole thing can be as a total. And let’s see how many of these we have—how many arrows basically: one, two, three, four, five, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. So basically, 0.9 times 0.9, 16 times, which is:

0.916 ≈ 0.18

So there’s an 18% chance that the witchcraft works in this scenario. So in a society where people are on average 90% evil, there’s an 18% chance that witchcraft works. Basically, when someone goes and pays for the witchcraft, it works one in five times—about one in five times.

The Impact of Civilized Systems and Global Force Behavior

Now, I’ve shown in the video, The Global Forced Behaviour, that people today (the good and the bad people) are less extreme, meaning that the bad people are not 90%-100% bad, but at most 75% bad, it’s going to reach 70% bad. So 30% is forced, meaning that it’s controlled totally by governments and it’s within a civilized system that allows people to be only 70% bad in maximum. Here in this example, the maximum is 100%, but they are on average being 90% bad. But in today’s world (in reality like the actual world today) the maximum that a person can potentially be bad is 70%, not 100%. Because 30% is forced. (meaning that 30% is shared between good people and bad people)

So basically, bad people (criminals) cannot go and just steal and kill because the police will catch them, and good people cannot go and do extremely good deeds because again the police will catch them (the police catch both the good guys and the bad guys sometimes), or whatever the reason is. So what I’m saying is that today people are forced, and there’s no escape from it. The world has reached a level where people can be at a maximum 70% bad, not 100%, and no one reaches the maximum.

Let’s assume that we reach close to the maximum; instead of 70%, 60%. Let’s say that we live in a society where people are on average 60% bad. Let’s take this same example and see what would be the chance of witchcraft working today in the actual world, not in theory, because whatever I told so far is in theory. In theory, this witchcraft (because people are 90% bad) had an 18% chance that it would work.

However, let’s see in practice today :

So on average in this same example, we are assuming that people and the demons and everything in today’s world are 60% bad. So the society, which sort of determines the actions, will allow people to be 60% evil. These people are on average 60% evil, and these jinns (demons) are also about 60% evil because they have been forced by these people to be 60% evil because otherwise they cannot sort of have a coordination. And because all the averages are all about 60%, we have the chance that Demon 1 will listen to the sorcerer is 60%.

So now we have the same example, the only difference is that all these entities in this graph are 60% evil instead of 90%.

So let’s calculate that again. How did we calculate it? We multiplied all of these, which means that it is the same as saying 0.6 to the power of 16. Let’s calculate it again.

0.616 ≈ 0.0002

Let’s go to the calculator, and remember last time it was an 18% chance. Let’s see now: 0.6 to the power of 16 is 0.0002. A 0.0002 chance, meaning less—that means one in 5,000.

The Statistical Insignificance of Modern Sorcery

So basically, the probability that witchcraft will work in a society where people are on average 60% evil is one in 5,000. That scientifically cannot even be proven, because the chances that the wife and the husband would divorce without witchcraft are even higher. Basically, the wife and the husband probably have a 10% divorce rate anyway within that year, and you went to the sorcerer, you paid for it, now it’s 10.0002%. How did that change anything? So basically, it just did not work.

Do you see what I mean? It’s like saying : “Oh, I’m going to eat in my whole life one spoon of sugar less, and I hope I lose weight.” How are you going to lose weight if you just remove one spoon of sugar in your whole life and never again? How is that going to cause you to lose weight? So even though in theory witchcraft exists. And I’m being generous here, I’m assuming that the people are 60% evil, which is almost the maximum, on average it is much less than that because there is good in that society. There’s good people; maybe this son is a believer, so that would be not a 60% chance, that will be a 10% chance or maybe a 30% chance that he will listen to the demon. And most of today’s societies are mixed : good people and bad people; there is good people in some families, bad people, stuff like that. So it’s mixed at work, in family, etc.

So this is the best-case scenario for the demons if they get lucky with this scenario, they will still not be able to execute this coordinated scheme; they will only be able to execute it one in 5,000 times. And who tries 5,000 times just for this? For that, they are not going to even try it because it’s easier to just let them be, and there’s a 10% chance of divorce anyway. And you cannot prove scientifically that witchcraft exists today because of something which we call the statistical significance levels, and basically we ignore that last 5%, and there is no way to prove it because it’s less than that; it is 0.0002 today in the best-case scenario.

But in a real scenario, it’s probably like one in a million. So if anyone pays for witchcraft, they have to try one million times for it to work, and no demon would agree to waste his time one million times for one thing when he can go on and do other things. Basically, even the demons will give up; they’ll just kind of try to do other, different things. Basically, witchcraft does not work today. It just does not work.

Projections for the Next Century

Let’s take something in the future.

Because the global force behavior will force people not to be as evil, but also the good people will not be as good. So let’s say take the best-case scenario for demons—by best-case scenario I mean like the worst-case scenario for humanity, the best-case scenario for the demons—let’s say 100 years from now when, let’s say, people will be 30% good or 30% bad, sorry. In this scenario, let’s calculate, let’s go to the calculator again:

0.316 ≈ 0.000000004

0.3 to the power of 16, that’s 0.0000… I don’t know how many zeros, but it’s probably almost like four in a billion, if not more.

So basically, a demon would not even agree to this because it’s a waste of time. Why would the demon waste his time with this sort of pre-arranged idea when he has better things to do? Demons cannot cause anything, but they can just shoot bad ideas in the dark. Instead of coordinating it, the demon (Demon 3) can say : “Oh, I’m just going to tell the son to do something bad. I don’t have to arrange it with Demon 1. Why should I even arrange it? It’s not even going to work, it’s one in a billion. Why should I even try?”  If I told you that there’s a one in a billion chance that you’ll catch a fish if you fish, will you even try, or will you just say : “Actually, I’m just going to go to the market and buy fish” ? That’s much easier, much better for you.

So because people today are not bad enough to have a relationship with the demons, witchcraft does not exist. Anyone who says that they know how to do witchcraft or whatever, it just doesn’t work; It is fake witchcraft; it does not exist in practice. In theory it does, but in practice it does not.

The Quranic Proof: The End of Saints and Anti-Saints

And by the way, this is just a statistical way of proving why it does not exist in practice, why no one practices witchcraft for real. The Quranic way would be to say that just like there are very good people which we call saints and they are supported with miracles, there are bad people who worship jinns and they could have coordinated ideas to hurt people. And there are no saints anymore today. Why? There are no saints because the last miracle is the mathematical miracle. No more miracles means no more saints.

Dispensational Context: The Mathematical Miracle

Since the time of Rashad Khalifa, there were no more saints which means no more miracles, and on the other side of the spectrum that means no more anti-saints (if we can call them that). We can think of the sorcerers as anti-saints, people who are the opposite of saints. And because miracles do not exist, witchcraft also does not exist.

Basically, to simplify it, because miracles don’t exist, witchcraft does not exist. I mean, the mathematical miracle does exist, but it’s spread all over. Just like witchcraft does exist, but it’s spread in every person a little bit, so everyone is doing it a tiny bit, but no one is really doing it. So there’s no witchcraft practice; there’s no person who can say, “Oh, this person knows how to do witchcraft,” or “I know how to do witchcraft.” They’re all lying; they don’t know how to do it. But everyone is doing it a little bit unintentionally because, by chance, some demons sometimes will listen to you and you might listen to the demons; it’s just pure chance. There’s no way it’s any more significant—statistically significant—than random chance. Husbands will separate from their wives, people will get cancer, all of that, but it’s just shooting in the dark.

Practical Analogies: The Changing Impact of Sorcery

And the best way, probably, to explain for people who don’t know statistics is to give examples. But before I give examples, let me summarize it. So, the chances of witchcraft working before the Industrial Revolution—and why the Industrial Revolution? Because that’s when the Industrial Revolution led to bigger governments, and bigger governments forced people to do things like they can force people to have a certain lifestyle that brings the bad people and good people, makes them more similar. So before the Industrial Revolution, which was in the 1800s, the chances of witchcraft working were 18% (0.18). In our times, it’s about 0.0002%, which is much less than anything else, than things happening by chance. Basically, if a husband and a wife—I’m repeating myself—if a husband and a wife have a 10% chance of divorcing in the first year, increasing that by 0.0002%, so now it’s 10.0002%, it’s not going to change anything. That’s for today. And in about 100 years from now, it’s going to be a 0.000004% chance, whatever—it doesn’t even matter, it’s just zero, almost zero percent chance that witchcraft will work in the future.

Now, some people don’t know what these numbers mean much, so let me give you an example to show you why witchcraft doesn’t work—just examples.

The Historical Analogy (Before the 1800s)

Let’s say the example of the likelihood that the witchcraft will work through the sorcerer before the Industrial Revolution: Let’s say you have a neighbor and there is a wall separating you, you don’t see them. Like in many traditional cultures, they have walls which separate one neighbor from another neighbor’s yard. So they don’t see each other but they can hear him and say: “Oh, the neighbor went out of his home because I can hear him coughing” or “I can hear whatever.”

So let’s say you’re waiting for the neighbor to be on the other side of the wall, and throwing a few arrows towards his yard and hoping that they will fall on your neighbor, that they will kill him. The chances of witchcraft in the past were like that, just throwing arrows and hoping that your neighbor will die from those arrows. It was small, but at least it can work by chance.

We concluded that it was about 18% in very bad societies, which is not low actually. If you try it five times, it might work. By “work” ,it’s a bad thing. God will punish you in the end for doing it. But at least we could say that there was witchcraft practice.

The Modern Analogy (Today)

Now in today’s world, the example is like this: it’s like smoking a cigarette in your home and hoping that your neighbor who lives in another home across the street will get lung cancer from it. What are the chances? (So this is people who engage in witchcraft, or even witchcraft defense-there’s no such thing-). Just being a good person, not being in that diagram in a bad society is good enough. And worshiping God of course is good enough to protect us from witchcraft.

It’s so hopeless today that witchcraft will work. The people who think that they are doing witchcraft are like someone who smokes a cigarette and hopes that his neighbor will get lung cancer. How is he going to get lung cancer? The smoke has to go through the windows of the neighbor. What are the chances then that it’s going to go exactly into that cell which will cause the cancer? People smoke all their life and sometimes they don’t get cancer (20-30 cigarettes a day or 100. I don’t know how many they smoke). They do all of that, and still maybe or maybe not that they will get cancer. It’s still a bad thing, but it’s not going to work if you just smoke yourself and hope that your neighbor will get cancer.

The Future Analogy (100 Years from Now)

And a hundred years from now, the third example is like this: witchcraft is as effective as smoking a cigarette in your home and hoping that your neighbor who is not even in his home, will get lung cancer from it. So let’s say the neighbor moved out of town and you’re like : “Oh, I’m going to smoke a cigarette because I want to hurt my neighbor, so I have a strategy: I’m going to smoke a cigarette and hopefully the secondhand smoke will go through the window. It doesn’t matter, I’m going to open the window. Hopefully a tiny bit of that smoke will go to his home, and hopefully he’s going to inhale it, and then it’s going to cause him cancer.”

He’s not even home! So maybe some of that smoke will go up in the clouds and come down to him in another town and cause cancer to him. It’s very unlikely. It exists in theory; we can say : “Oh, that smoke can go in the clouds, through the rain it will come down, some of those chemicals can go to him, he might drink it.” In theory it does exist, but what are the chances that you caused it? Almost zero. What are the chances that the sorcerer caused it? Zero. So the conclusion is witchcraft today in practice does not exist.

Smart Sociopaths vs. Dumb Sociopaths

Let me now analyze what type of people do witchcraft today, because we can see it doesn’t work : It’s dumb disbelievers. In the past, it was at least high-IQ disbelievers (people who are evil, but they knew that they were evil). Today, people who try witchcraft, they are just dumb.

Misattributed Adage: The Definition of Insanity

There’s a saying, I think, which is attributed to Einstein, but I don’t think Einstein said it. It goes something like: “Crazy people or idiots are those who do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result.”

So these people who engage in witchcraft (usually religious people in different countries) all they are is dumb. They don’t even do it; they think they are doing it. They are just repeating the same thing, it doesn’t even work. And there’s a verse in the Quran for such people, it says : they lose both this life and the next life, meaning that it didn’t even work in this life and it’s bad in the next life.

And why is it bad? Because as that person thinks that he is going to get the jinn (the demon) to work for him, it’s actually that the demon would have done that bad deed anyway (maybe not at that exact time or in the exact way, but he would love to do it anyway). All that this person is doing is serving the demon, to think that he’s going to get some favors. So in reality, it is the sorcerer who is working for the demon. So basically, they are selling their soul for a promise from a demon, and the demon cannot even do it because we just proved that the chances are so low. So they get nothing in this world out of it, plus in the next world God will tell them : “Oh, you worshiped the demon.” So they get nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, because they are dumb and evil.

At least the people in the past (I’m not saying they were better, they were actually worse) they were smart and evil. The witchcraft actually worked, so it was the smart people who did it. So basically, the difference between people who do witchcraft today and people who did witchcraft in the past is that the people in the past who did witchcraft were smart sociopaths, and generally, people who do witchcraft today are dumb sociopaths. It doesn’t even work; they just think it works. Both smart sociopaths and dumb sociopaths are evil, but one of them at least knows what he’s doing, the other doesn’t even know what he’s doing. So it doesn’t work and it’s totally dumb to do witchcraft.

The Modern Alternative: Technology and Espionage

The question is: what would smart sociopaths do today? Because they are not doing witchcraft; they’ve left the witchcraft behind. It doesn’t work. They’ve tried it, it doesn’t work. They’ve tried, “Oh, let me ask the jinn…” It doesn’t work. The husband and the wife would divorce anyway; “I didn’t increase the chances, it was 10% then, now it’s 10% again, so what’s the point?” The smart sociopaths go into some other field because they realize witchcraft doesn’t work. The dumbo sociopaths basically have inherited a tradition which doesn’t work anymore.

The smart sociopaths have moved into other fields. So basically, someone who would have done witchcraft in the past, if you take that same type of person and put him today, he would probably be in the CIA, KGB, whatever MI—whatever the UK version is, or the Korean version of the CIA is. So what they do today is they influence people and situations through coordinated ideas, but actually at least they work, sort of, partly.

So basically, smart sociopaths have given up on witchcraft because it doesn’t work. They do other stuff today; they are in the CIA, spies behind the wall, kind of like influencers in the social media things like that. By the way, the reason why witchcraft is totally dumb today is because you can do—not only doesn’t it work, but you can have better effects, if there’s any such—if it worked, better effects with just a fake account. Basically, everything I showed here, you can do with a fake account without using demons.

So instead of using Demon 1, you create a fake account, and then you tell the manager to—but oh, by the way, it might not work because they will not listen, but it’s the same as with the jinn, they don’t have to listen. So let’s say if there’s a 60% chance that the manager will listen to the demon, you can create a fake account and tell the manager, “I saw this employee kiss an employer.” And then you can create—with another fake account, you can contact the son pretending to be his friend and tell him that his mom is cheating or whatever, or you can create a fake account.

So basically, the type of person who would have done witchcraft in the past, that sort of impulse today is done through fake accounts, and that’s why when people contact me with fake accounts, I call them the jinn names, like with fake names. Let’s say they create another account with a different name and they want to know something from me, sometimes people will contact me like that with fake accounts. I tell them, “Is this your jinn name?” It’s partly true, partly a joke, partly a way to sort of put them down because they deserve it. But yeah, fake accounts are a modern way of executing these ideas—not through jinns, but through technology—because basically, you can do a lot of this through technology.

And by the way, it’s not as bad, actually; a fake account is not as bad because the likelihood that a fake account will convince the wife or the son or the manager to do that thing is very low, while the likelihood that the demon will convince them is much higher because they don’t know where it comes from. Plus, the likelihood that you’ll get caught by the police if it’s a bad, really bad thing, a bad crime—the likelihood that you get caught is really high. So it’s not worth it. If it’s a small crime, should you even do it? It doesn’t have any effect.

So what I’m saying is basically the way witchcraft worked in the past is as if though you had a fake account, fake names, and tried to influence, to give ideas to different groups, or try to convince people of some things—like create a fake photo. So that does happen today a lot, by the way, and those people, I can say that they are like—it’s their jinn version which is doing that.

Closing Remarks

So yeah, that’s pretty much it. Let me summarize: witchcraft in practice doesn’t exist today. If anything, the people who would have done witchcraft in the past now have moved to the CIA, KGB, and stuff like that, and it’s only the dumb people who are doing it, which doesn’t even work because dumb people do things which don’t work. And that’s it, yeah.

And unfortunately, this time I cannot engage with chats because my phone is not connected to the chats to the website. It’s a long story because I’m in my sister’s home, actually. Okay, so that’s it. 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