Hadith 14

(The book) ‘Al Ihtijaj’ –
‘The Atheist asked Abu Abdullah-asws among what he asked him-asws. He said, ‘Inform me about the sorcery. What is its origin and how is the sorcerer able upon what he describes from his wonders, and what he does? ’
He-asws said: ‘The sorcery is based upon various aspects. An aspect from is at the status of the medicine, like what the doctors are placing a medication for each illness, so like that is knowledge of the sorcerers. They are deceiving that there is an illness for every healthy person, and there is a defect for every well-being, and there is a means for every meaning, and another type from it is impulse, and quickness, and extraordinary, and lightness (sleight of hand), and a type from it is what the friends of Satan-la take from them’. He said, ‘From where did the Satans-la learn the sorcery? ’
He-asws said: ‘From where the doctors learnt the medicine, and some of it is experience, and some of it is treatment’. He said, ‘So what are you-asws saying regarding the two Angels, Harut and Marut, and what the people are saying that they both taught sorcery to the people? ’
He-asws said: ‘They were both a place of Trial and a Fitna. Their phrases today, if the human being were to do such and such, such would happen, and if one were to treat with such and such, such would happen, types of sorcery. So they were learning from them what came out from them. They (Angels) were saying to them, ‘But rather, we are a Trial, so do not take from us what would harm you and will not benefit you’. He said, ‘Is the sorcerer able to make by his sorcery, the human being to be in an image of the dog, or the donkey, or other than that? ’
He-asws said: ‘He is frustrated from that and weaker from deceiving the creatures of Allah-azwj. One who nullifies what Allah-azwj has Installed and had Imaged something else, then he would be an associate of Allah-azwj in His-azwj creation. He-azwj is more Exalted than that, Loftier, Great! If the sorcerer was able upon what you have described, he would have repelled from himself the old age, and the disabilities, and the sicknesses, and would have negated the whiteness from his head, and the poverty from his courtyard (life). And from the greatest of the sorceries is the gossiping, separating by it between the loving ones and pulling the enmity upon the sincere ones, and shedding the blood by it, and demolish the houses (family life) by it, and uncover the veils by it, and the gossiper is the evilest of the ones to tread a foot upon the earth! The nearest of the correct words of the sorcery is that it is at the status of the medicine. The sorcerer treats the man, so he is prevented from copulating with the woman. So, the doctor comes and treats him with other than that treatment, and he is cured’’. [19]