 و أقولوا في القرآن ما جاءت به آياته فهو الكريم المنزل و أقولوا قال الله جل جلاله والمصطف الهدي ولا أتأوله لقد كنت أردت عن إسلام لقد كنت أردت عن إسلام هل يمكنك أن أساعدني نشى هذا؟ ورسوله نبينا محمل وعلى آله وصحبه يجمعين. There is no doubt that seher in general, the general understanding of seher is that seher is disbelief. الله عز وجل told us in the Quran إنما نحن فيتنة فلا تكفر. We are only a trial, either two angels, so do not disbelief. And Allah عز وجل said ولقد علموا لما نشتراه ما له في الآخرة من خلاق. And they certainly know that the one who purchased this magic will not have any share in the Quran. However, there are a hadith in which seher is mentioned or there are circumstances in which the word seher could be used. And we have an evidence that this is not disbelief. For example, the hadith of Abdullah ibn Umar, the hadith narrated by Abu Khadi رحمه الله تعالى. The hadith of Abdullah ibn Umar, رضي الله عنهما. That the Prophet ﷺ said إنما من البياني لسحراء. Indeed, in some types of eloquence or some types of speech, there is magic. And likewise, if you were to give an example in English where a person would say it was a magical moment that happened like magic and so on. So there are some situations or some things that people might term magic linguistically, but they don't come under the seher, which is شرعاً, considered to be كفر, considered to be disbelief. So that could contain things like potions that are effectively drugs that could be called magic. Likewise, certain eloquence and speech and the ability to kind of captivate the people could also be called magic like the Prophet ﷺ called it. And there could be other things. And these are the types of seher which do not take a person outside of the religion of Islam. And the ruling of each one is dependent upon the evidences that Islam provides. So, for example, إنما من البياني لسحراء, the scholars say that the speech which people use to captivate people, if it is speech for good, then it's good. And if it is speech for bad, then it is bad. And that is when people captivate others with their powerful and sort of mesmerizing speech. And that can be called seher because of linguistically the effect that it has on people and the way that it captures people like the way that seher captures people إنما من البياني لسحراء. So that is the kind which doesn't take a person outside of Islam. It's not seher in the real sense of the word because it doesn't involve worshipping the shaitan. It doesn't involve disbelieving in الرحمن. It doesn't involve means of seeking nearness to other than Allah. However, it could still be termed magic in the language or it could still be considered to be something akin to magic or resembling magic. And that is the one which is not which is not كفر. As for the ruling of it, it takes each one has to be looked at individually and each one has to be looked at with its own evidences and given a ruling based on that. And the example is the statement of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم إنما من البياني لسحراء indeed in some forms of speech. There is magic and Allah knows best. If you have any questions you'd like to see answered as part of this series and you can email us at questions at amau.org.