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At a Glance
📖 Quranic Context
Highlights the Quranic theme of accountability and the severe consequences of choosing disbelief and harmful practices over divine guidance.
Signifies a transaction that incurs Allah's wrath and results in the loss of any share in the Hereafter.
💭 Theological Perspective
Represents the human capacity to make a catastrophic spiritual choice, trading eternal good for fleeting, harmful worldly gain.
Illustrates a state of spiritual blindness where one knowingly chooses self-destructive paths.
Serves as a severe warning against abandoning revelation (the Book of Allah) in favor of forbidden and deceptive practices taught by devils.
Understanding this concept is crucial for recognizing major sins (kaba'ir) and the nature of disbelief (kufr).
📜 Hadith Perspective
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) warned against the seven destructive sins, with magic being one of them, reinforcing its status as an 'evil trade'.
- Prohibition of magic
- The gravity of shirk (polytheism)
- The consequences of abandoning Allah's book
There is a universal consensus (ijma) among Muslim scholars on the prohibition and evil nature of magic.
💎 Deeper Insights
The Quran's use of commercial language ('sold themselves', 'purchased it', 'no share') transforms the sin of magic from a mere act of disobedience into a vivid metaphor for spiritual bankruptcy. It frames the choice not just as wrong, but as a foolish and self-destructive business deal where the asset (the soul) is traded for a liability (harmful magic).
— Al-Tabari, Ibn Kathir
The verse contains a profound psychological insight: 'if they only knew' (law kanu ya'lamun). The scholars explain this doesn't negate their prior knowledge ('wa laqad 'alimu'), but rather points to a lack of beneficial knowledge. They knew the facts of the sin, but they lacked the wisdom to act upon that knowledge, highlighting the difference between mere information and transformative understanding.
— Al-Tabari, Al-Sha'rawi