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329 لا يحل السحر إلا ساحر
No one can undo the magic except a magician

ورُوي عن الحسن أنه قال: "لا يحل السحر إلا ساحر".

It was narrated that Al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: "No one can undo the magic except a magician."

حسن - ( رواه بنحوه ابن أبي شيبة والخطابي ). Hasan/Sound. [Ibn Abi Shaybah]

النشرة حل السحر، وظاهر كلام الحسن منعه مطلقا؛ لأنه لا يقدر على حل السحر إلا من له معرفةٌ بالسحر، وهذا محمولٌ على حل السحر بسحرٍ مثله، وهو من عمل الشيطان، وقد فصل ابن القيم ما حاصله: أن علاج المسحور بأدوية مباحة وقراءة قرآن أمر جائز - وعلاجه بسحر مثله محرم.
"Nushrah" means undoing magic, and the apparent meaning of Al-Hasan's statement is that it is absolutely prohibited, because no one can undo magic except someone who has knowledge of magic. His words, thus, refer to undoing magic with magic, which is a practice of the devil. Ibn Al-Qayyim spoke in detail about this issue, and the summary of what he said is that treating the enchanted person with permissible medicine and recitation of the Qur'an is something permissible; but treating him with similar magic is unlawful.

السحر حق وله حقيقة خلافا لأهل البدع. الساحر يملك حل السحر بمعاونة الشياطين. حرمة حل السحر بالسحر.

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