Asorcererspeaks:whataninterviewwithapractisingsorcererreveals

Why publish a sorcerer's words at all?

The source explains why this material was shared at all: sihr is a hidden world, the sorcerer draws near to Shaytan with what he loves, and the clear texts establish the disbelief of the sorcerer and of the one who goes to him. Letting people hear a sorcerer describe his own trade — from a published interview in the book al-Sihr wa al-Sahara (pp. 52–56) — shows the reality of this affliction and its destructive effect on the person, the family and the community. It is published to warn, never to teach.

What the sorcerer admitted

• Sihr is real — and he knows it is haram. Asked whether sihr exists, he answered: "Of course; Allah mentioned it in many verses." Asked how he allows himself to practise what he knows is forbidden, he admitted a guilty conscience and constant inner conflict, and excused himself with poverty: "Where would I go? What would I eat?" The interviewer notes the trade has become "a refuge for every unemployed man".
• His customers are the fearful and the impatient. People come to him frightened of each other and of the future, "looking for the shortest path" — to know what is hidden, to find out who is with them and who is against them.
• He divides sihr into "types". "White" for love and binding couples; "red", based on blood, for destruction and tearing families apart; "black", using tar and hair, worked on Saturdays, for separating spouses and ruining a person's health, wealth and work. He claims to avoid the harmful kinds himself.
• Personal traces are his raw material. Undergarments, photographs, hair, and the dust of a person's footsteps. Amulets are written with blood and with symbols "from the books of sihr". Items are buried in graveyards, dry watercourses and abandoned places — locations, he says, that the devils themselves prescribe. The article's author adds: probably also because such places are remote, so the buried sihr is hard to find and destroy.
• The most dangerous form is the one that is drunk — writing dissolved into a drink, which he says can strike the nervous system, cause paralysis or loss of consciousness.
• Who is most affected? He names children, women, and the ignorant. And who buys? Men and women alike — he estimates that since the mid-eighties, 60–70% of his customers have been men, including merchants and businessmen, "some of whom deny sihr publicly and practise it in secret".
• Why do they come? His own diagnosis is blunt: weak, unsuccessful people who lack the patience to reach their ambitions by work, so they take what they think is a shortcut.
• Sorcery does not always work. Asked why not, he answered: "Because there are counters to sihr — people of knowledge who undo what we make."
• The devils do the work. "In reality it is the devils of the jinn who carry out the sihr, and every sorcerer has a pact with Iblis."

Reading the interview honestly

There is no such thing as "white magic". The sorcerer's own three-colour scheme is part of the deception. Binding two hearts by sorcery is done through the same pact with the devils as the sorcery of separation; the Quran describes those who learn "that by which they cause separation between a man and his wife" (al-Baqarah 2:102) in one breath with all of it, and it is disbelief. A love-charm is not a gentler sihr — it is the same crime wearing a kinder name.

His confession that scholars "undo" his work points to the truth. The article's author underlines it with the verse:

Allah alone annuls sihr. Those who fight it own nothing but recourse to Allah, then ruqyah as established in the Book and the Sunnah, and lawful worldly means of treatment. That is a sorcerer conceding, from inside the trade, that his whole world stands or falls at Allah's command.

And note what he never claims: he never claims to bring happiness. His customers come afraid and leave dependent — on him, on his fees, and on the devils he serves. The believer's protection costs nothing: sound tawhīd, the daily adhkār, and never opening the door to these people in the first place.