Hadith 1

te between the man and his wife – either when he believes that the sorcery is true, so he has committed Kufr, thus his wife is irrevocably divorced from him, or because he separates between the two by camouflage (deception) and the trickery like the blowing into the knot, and like that, from what Allah-azwj Brings about with Him-azwj. The discord and the disharmony is a Trial from Him-azwj because the sorcery, there are impacts for it regarding Himself-azwj by the evidence of His-azwj Words: And they were not intending (harm for) anyone with it except by the Permission of Allah [2: 102] – i. e. , by His‑azwj Will and His-azwj Power, because if He-azwj so Desires, He-azwj can Bring about something from His-azwj Deeds during that, and He-azwj so Desires, it does not occur. And that which they were learning from the two did not happen to be limited upon this image, but the silence of the man and his inclining towards his wife when it was difficult, is specialised with the Mention in order to point with that upon that rest of the images are foremost with the effect of the sorcery during it’ – end. And it has passed in Tafseer of the Imam (Hassan Al-Askari-asws): ‘So they were learning – meaning seekers of the sorcery – from them – meaning from what the Satans-la had writing in the era of Suleyman-as from the incantations, and from what had been Revealed unto the two Angels at Babel, Harut and Marut. They were learning from these two types – what they could be causing separation with between the man and his wife. [2: 102]. This is the one who learnt to harm the people, leaning the striking with the tricks, and the gossiping, and the delusions, ‘Such and such has been buried in a place’, and, ‘Do this in order to pull the woman to the man and the man to the woman’, or leading to the separation between the two. And they were not harming with it – i. e. , what they were learning for that, (not) harming by it – anyone except by the Permission of Allah [2: 102] – meaning by the Letting it happen by Allah-azwj and His-azwj Knowledge, for if He-azwj so Desires, He-azwj can Prevent them by the Force and the Subduance. And Al-Tabarsee, may Allah-azwj have Mercy on him, said regarding Words of the Exalted: So when they cast, [7: 116] – i. e. , when the magicians cast whatever from the sorcery was with them, they tricked by moving the stick and the robes with whatever they had made to be in these from the liquid mercury, until these moved by the heat of the sun, and other than that from the trick and types of camouflaging and the trickery, and it was imagined to the people that these were moving based upon the movement of the snake. And rather, they had bewitched the eyes of the people because they were showing them something whose reality they did not know, and that was hidden unto them to it being distant from them, because they did not give away the sorcery to the people. There was no reality for it, because if these (sticks) had become snakes in reality, Allah-azwj the Glorious would not has Said: they bewitched the eyes of the people [7: 116]. But He-azwj would have Said, ‘When they cast, these became snakes’’ – end. And Al-Razi said, ‘The speakers have argued with that the sorcery is pure trickery, due to this Verse’. And Al-Qazi said, ‘If the sorcery was real, they would have bewitched their hearts, not their eyes. Thus it proves that the intent is they had tricked by making them imagine astonishing situations along with that the matter in the reality was not in accordance with what they had imagined’. Al-Wahidy said, ‘But the intent is, they bewitched eyes of the people, i. e. , they diverted these away from the correct perception by the cause of those camouflages. And Al-Tabarsee said, ‘And the sorcerers will not succeed [10: 77] – i. e. , they will not be victorious by any argument, nor would they be coming upon with any proof of what they are claiming, and rather it’s camouflage is based upon the weakness. ‘What you have come with is the sorcery [10: 81] – i. e. , that which you have come with, from the ropes and the stick of the sorcery, not what I-as have come with – surely Allah would be Invalidating it – this sorcery which you are magnifying it – surely Allah does not Rectify the deeds of the mischief makers [10: 81]. Surely Allah-azwj will not Beautify any work of the one who aims to corrupt the religion, nor Let it be accomplished, and He-azwj will Invalidate it until the truth is manifest from the falsehood. And he said regarding His-azwj Words: Do not be entering from one door, [12: 67] – ‘He (Yaqoub-as) feared up