Where the Magic Came From

Now, there is some truth that there is magic that goes back in lineage to some very early Jews — but it does not go back to Sulaymān (peace be upon him). It all goes back to where? Where did the Jews learn this magic, some of which still exists until now? And it is very powerful magic.

We are not talking about tricks, where you hide a coin and you bring it out from somewhere, or you bring something out of a hat; we are not talking about those tricks which they fool the kids with. We are talking about some serious magic that could do some serious harm.

Where was that learned from? We know that in the time of Firʿawn there was some magic — but Allah knows best; even though it was very powerful magic, it was limited to the field of optical illusion, because Allah (swt) says: wa saḥarū aʿyuna al-nās — they worked magic on the eyes of the people. But we are talking about some other magic that could do some serious harm; it would influence the psychology and the spirit of people.

Where was that learned? In Babel. And how did they get it from Babel? We know from history that the kingdom of the Jews was destroyed by whom? By Nebuchadnezzar. The Babylonian kingdom defeated the Jews in the Holy Land and broke up their kingdom. Not only that: they took them as slaves back to Iraq, to Babel, to Babylon. They took them back to Babel.

And the Jews were cut off from the true religion of Allah (swt); they were cut off from the scripture for quite a while, and they were under the influence, and the dictatorship, and the oppression, and the tyranny of the Babylonians. And that is where a lot of the distortion that happened to the religion of Judaism occurred — it occurred in Babel. Where was the Talmud written, and who wrote it? It was written by the seventy rabbis who were in Babylon.

And now that is the central focus — that is the law and the central focus of the Jews now. They have left the Torah, and they are following a Talmud; and the Talmud was written by the rabbis who were influenced by the regime and the environment in Babylon. So if you read about this history, you find that Babylon is associated with it all; there is a lot of association with Babylon. The Talmud came out of there, and magic, and these secret orders — they came from Babylon, rather than from Sulaymān, even though they are attributed to Sulaymān.