Is every practitioner of magic or witchcraft a kaafir?
Praise be to Allaah.
The practitioner of magic is the person who uses the shayaateen
(devils) and gets close to the jinn by doing the things they like –
such assacrificing to them instead of to Allaah, calling upon them
alongside Allaah, obeying them by disobeying Allaah by committing
zinaa, drinking wine, eating haraam things, neglecting prayer,
covering himself with najaasaat (impure things) and staying in dirty
places – until the shayaateen respond to what he asks them, with a
gentle and kind approach, to do, such as harming the people against
whom he uses his magic, causing division between a man and his wife,
telling him some unseen things, andtelling him about stolen items and
where lost things are. Such a person is a mushrik and a kaafir,
because he worships both Allaah and the Shaytaan, whichis major shirk
(al-shirk al-akbar). So he is a kaafir, because Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning);
"Sulaymaan did not disbelieve, but the Shayaateen (devils)
disbelieved, teaching men magic" [al-Baqarah 2:102]
"but neither of these two (angels) taught anyone (such things) till
they had said, 'We are for trial, so disbelieve not (by learning this
magic from us).'" [al-Baqarah 2:102]
It was also commanded that the practitioner of magic should be
executed, because of thehadeeth: "The hadd (prescribed punishment)for
the practitioner of magic is a blow with the sword (i.e., execution)."
(Narrated by al-Tirmidhi,1460; al-Daaraqutni, 3/114; al-Haakim, 4/360;
al-Bayhaqi, 8/136; see al-Silsilah al-Da'eefah, 3/641, no. 1446)
On this basis, he is a kaafir even if he prays, fasts, reads Qur'aan
and makes du'aa', because shirk cancels out all good deeds. And Allaah
knows best.
Al-Lu'lu al-Makeen min Fataawa Ibn Jibreen, p. 11.
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