Magic and Islam

 Magic has many degrees, connotations. I when I started thinking about this subject was thinking about magic as in the "alchemical transactions" cultures of people make with spirits, nature, deities in order to gain/appease them. It can range from the offering of coconuts to Ganapati to Spells to invoke spirits or so called deities. I was wondering, if Adam AS were sent to be Calipha on Earth, did that include him understanding the alchemical secrets of nature spirits and other beings that inhabit this realm or did Allah want us to totally not speak to Nature that way through alchemical transactions.

I found the answer two ways. One through deduction and the other through an enlightening video. 

What I deduced is nothing new. I was just chancing upon insight most Muslims already have through their faithful thinking. Allah SWT wants us to approach Him and Only Him for help. If we are appeasing river and forest spirits and asking for interpretation from supernatural beings what does that mean? It means we are searching the healing, the illumination, the help from sources other than Allah Himself. To creations of His. And this goes against the very concept of Tawheed. So what I thought was "poetic alchemical transactions" with nature can be nothing but deviation from the path of sole reliance on Allah. 

What I found in a video by Merciful Servant (https://youtu.be/-xKgwwAcYyk)  was very informative. It takes one through the ayats of Surah Al Baqarah and talks about Magic as was revealed in Babylon as a test for mankind. The video throws light on how the so called 'left hand path' of Magic is positioned in direct opposition to what the proponents portray as a wimpish submission to God- which for them is the contrasting 'Right Hand Path'. The left hand path as it searches for personal power- ends up with the person deifying himself/herself- finding God in him/herself. And it drills in relativity and thereby irrelevance of morality and moral boundaries inviting people to see what that is impure, evil and dark as pure, good and light. 

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