Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

opposite of each other; when sorcery is practised îmân is gone.
[Imâm-i Nawawî ‘rahmatullâhi ’alaih’ said: “If a statement or
action causing disbelief takes place when practising sorcery, it is
disbelief. If there is no such statement or action it is a grave sin.”
Sorcery makes people ill. It causes discord and hatred. That is, it
affects both the body and the soul. Sorcery affects women and
children more. The effect of sorcery is not for certain. Like the
effect of medicine, Allâhu ta’âlâ creates its effect if He wills. But
if He does not will, He does not make it effective. A spell that is
cast by disbelievers who have subjected themselves to hunger and
other inconveniences and thus mortified their nafs to a state of
unwillingness to commit harâm are effective. Therefore, priests in
this group have been successful in removing spells, too. Today’s
priests, being fond of worldly pleasures and their nafses being
unbridled, cannot cast or remove spells.
He who says and believes that a sorcerer does whatever he
likes by sorcery and that sorcery is certainly effective becomes a
disbeliever. We must say that sorcery can take effect if Allâhu
ta’âlâ has predestined it. If a spell-bound person recites after the
morning and late afternoon prayers for seven days and hangs and
carries on his neck the âyats and the prayers on the hundred and
eighty-seventh page of the second volume of Mawâhib-i
ladunniyya, and also the Âyat-i-hirz, which is written at the end of
the Arabic book Tes-hîl-ul-manâfi’, he will recover health. We
must say the Âyat-al-kursî, the Ikhlâs and the Mu’awwizatayn and
breathe onto some water. Then the spell-bound person must have
three gulps from it and perform a ghusl with the remainder. He
will recover health. The book Ibni ’Âbidîn in the section dealing
with divorce because of illness, the book Zarkânî on its pages
number 7-104, and (a passage) in the translation of Mawâhib-i
ladunniyya say as follows: “Pulverize seven green leaves of the
tree named sidr between two stones. Mix it with water. Recite the
Âyat-al-kursî, the Ikhlâs and the sûras (beginning with the
phrase) Qul-a’ûdhu, then breathe onto that water. Drink three
mouthfuls of it. Then, make a ghusl (have a bath) with that
water,” Sidr is the name of a wild cherry called lotus. In the letter
number 96 of the book entitled Makâtîb-i-sherîfa, it is said: “In
order to attain what you need, perform two rak’ats of salât, and
give its thawâb as a gift to the souls of those scholars in the line
called Silsile-i ’aliyya, and then invoke Allâhu ta’âlâ to give what
you need for the sake of them.”
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