![]() Once type envies and dislikes in his heart the favors of Allah upon someone else. You find such a person that he cannot stand it if Allah were to bless someone else with His favors of wealth, position, knowledge, or any other bounty. Haasidin is one who dislikes that another person should have any favors or blessings from Allah. In this way, it could refer to both men and women. It is also acceptable that an-Naffaathaat could be referring to the souls of such magicians, which are described with the feminine form of the word in Arabic. ![]() While doing so, she intends a particular person, thus affecting that person with magic.Īllah mentions the female practitioners of magic rather than the males because it is most often women that use this specific type of magic, so He says, They tie a knot, then blow, then tie a knot, then blow and carry on likewise. They tie ropes, strings, and other things then blow and spit on them while reciting indecipherable incantations sometimes mentioning the names of devils. They are the female practitioners of black magic. When the night comes with its darkness, it is then gassiq, just as when the moon is illuminated with its light, it is then referred to as Ghaasiq. The verse, “And from the evil of (the darkness of) night when it settles,” is connected to the previous verse”, from the evil of what He created,” from the point of mentioning descriptive details after a general statement because the Ghaasiq is indeed one of the creations of Allah. It is used to refer to the moon because the moons presence is mostly at night. The most correct saying is that it is general to mean both.Īs for the meaning of night, this is due to Allah’s saying:Įstablish prayer at midday until the darkness (Ghasaq) of the night.Īs for the night, many creatures are active at that time so refuge should be sought from the evil of the Ghaasiq – the darkness of night.Īs for the word meaning of the moon, there has come in a Hadeeth that the Prophet SAW once showed Aisha the moon and said: (Ghassiq) “night.” It is said that Ghaasiq (and other words derived from the same Arabic root word) means the darkness of night and its meaning has also been given as the moon. The verse, “from the evil of what He created,” includes the evils ones (Shayaateen) from among mankind, jins (other coexisting creatures unseen by mankind), and other creatures. We seek refuge with Allah from the evils of our own selves. Similarly, this has come in Khutbatul Haajah in which the Prophet SAW said: ![]() ![]() So when you say, “from the evil of what He created,” then the first thing that enters among this is your own self. From the evil of all types of creations, even the evil of one’s own self as the soul is often inclined to evil. ![]()
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