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| Fatwa By : |
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid |
| Language |
English |
| Reference By |
Islam Q&A |
| Addition Date |
07/09/2013 |
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How was the
Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) bewitched?
How was the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)
bewitched, when Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Allah will protect you from mankind” [Al-Ma’idah 5:67]?
How could he have been bewitched when he was receiving Revelation from His Lord
and conveying that to the Muslims? How could he convey it if he was bewitched,
and the kafirs and mushrikin said:
“You follow none but a man bewitched”[Al-Furqan 25:8 – interpretation of the
meaning]
We hope that you could explain this and clear up these doubts.
Praise be to Allah.
It was proven in a sahih hadith that this witchcraft took place in Madinah,
when the Revelation and the Message had become well-established and clear, and
after the evidence of Prophet hood and the truthfulness of the Message had been
confirmed, and after Allah had supported His Prophet against the mushrikin
and humiliated them. Then a Jewish person called Labid ibn al-A’sam came to
him and did some kind of witchcraft against him, using a comb and the hairs
stuck to it and the skin of pollen of a male date palm. He – the Prophet (peace
and blessings of Allah be upon him) – started to imagine that he had done
something with his wife when he had not done it, but his reason, feelings and
ability to distinguish matters remained with him with regard to the things he
was telling the people, praise be to Allah. So he continued to speak to the
people of the truth which Allah had revealed to Him. But he felt that
something was affecting him with regard to his wives, as ‘Aaishah (may Allah
be pleased with her) said: “He used to imagine that he had done something in
the house with his wife when he had not done it. So Revelation came to him from
his Lord via Jibril (peace be upon him), telling him what had happened. So he
sent someone to take that thing [the material used for witchcraft purposes] out
of the well of one of the Ansar, and he destroyed it.” Then the effects of
that left him, praise be to Allah, and Allah revealed to him the two soorahs
of seeking refuge with Allah (al-Mi’wadhatayn, the last two soorahs of the
Quran). He recited them and all harm left him. The Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Those who seek refuge can never seek
refuge with anything like them.” Nothing resulted from this witchcraft that
could have harmed the people or undermined the Message or Revelation. Allah
protected him from the people with regard to the matter of receiving and
conveying the Message.
But with regard to the kinds of harm that befell the Messengers, he (S.A.W) was not protected from them, rather some such
things befell him too. He was wounded on the day of Uhud, and his helmet was
smashed on his head and his cheek was cut, some of the rings from his chain
mail pierced his cheeks, he fell in one of the holes that were there, and they
subjected him to intense persecution in Makkah. He suffered some of the things
that the Messengers before him had suffered, and that were decreed for him, by
means of which Allah raised him in status and multiplied his hasanat (reward
for good deeds). But Allah protected him from them, so that they were not able
to kill him or to prevent him from conveying the Message; they were not able to
prevent him from fulfilling his obligation to convey the Message, so he
conveyed it and fulfilled the mission with which he had been entrusted. May the
peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and praise be to Allah, the Lord of
the Worlds.
See Majmoo’ Fatawa wa Maqalat Mutanawwi’ah li Samahat ash-Shaykh Ibn Baz,
may Allah have mercy on him, 8/149.
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