Good documentary of europeans traveling to lands they had never visited, seeing so called metaphysical ''miracles'' and attempting to put them into practice via technological understanding. Note also what the two scientists in the second video studied ''aside'' from their scientific interests.




Peace
B.L

Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim. As salaamu alaikum. The magician will not prosper, will not be successful. Be careful!


I Seek the protection of Allah, The Only GOD, from the Satan, the rejected one.

002.101 وَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ رَسُولٌ مِنْ عِنْدِ اللَّهِ مُصَدِّقٌ لِمَا مَعَهُمْ نَبَذَ فَرِيقٌ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَرَاءَ ظُهُورِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ لا يَعْلَمُونَ

002.101 And when there came to them a messenger from Allah, confirming what was with them, a party of the people of the Book threw away the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if (it had been something) they did not know!



002.102 وَاتَّبَعُوا مَا تَتْلُو الشَّيَاطِينُ عَلَى مُلْكِ سُلَيْمَانَ وَمَا كَفَرَ سُلَيْمَانُ وَلَكِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ كَفَرُوا يُعَلِّمُونَ النَّاسَ السِّحْرَ وَمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَى الْمَلَكَيْنِ بِبَابِلَ هَارُوتَ وَمَارُوتَ وَمَا يُعَلِّمَانِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ حَتَّى يَقُولا إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَةٌ فَلا تَكْفُرْ فَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مِنْهُمَا مَا يُفَرِّقُونَ بِهِ بَيْنَ الْمَرْءِ وَزَوْجِهِ وَمَا هُمْ بِضَارِّينَ بِهِ مِنْ أَحَدٍ إِلا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ وَيَتَعَلَّمُونَ مَا يَضُرُّهُمْ وَلا يَنْفَعُهُمْ وَلَقَدْ عَلِمُوا لَمَنِ اشْتَرَاهُ مَا لَهُ فِي الآخِرَةِ مِنْ خَلاقٍ وَلَبِئْسَ مَا شَرَوْا بِهِ أَنْفُسَهُمْ لَوْ كَانُوا يَعْلَمُونَ

002.102 They followed what the evil ones gave out (falsely) against the power of Solomon: the blasphemers Were, not Solomon, but the evil ones, teaching men Magic, and such things as came down at Babylon to the angels Harut and Marut. But neither of these taught anyone (Such things) without saying: "We are only for trial; so do not blaspheme." They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's permission. And they learned what harmed them, not what profited them. And they knew that the buyers of (magic) would have no share in the happiness of the Hereafter. And vile was the price for which they did sell their souls, if they but knew! Al-Qur'an, 002.101-102 (Al-Baqara [The Cow])


Wassalaam. OriginalBM

Not Solomon?

The King who built his temple with magic summoning demons to do his bidding? .lol. Not that this thread is about that, I'm sure your Sufis have their own interpretation of things. Levitation (apparently) occurs when a person has transcended certain things through meditation etc. The video skips out the Greeks study of such concepts and the Muslim (Moors) introducing so the called metaphysical knowledge to europe, leading up to the discovery of the technological advances shown in the last few videos.

Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim. Salaam/Peace, Black Lion. It is true that Prophet Solomon, PBUH, had control over the jinns, of His, PBUH, time but He PBUH, used no evil in the service of / building The Temple of The Only GOD.


2.102:
C103. This is a continuation of the argument in ii. 101. The People of the Book, instead of sticking to the plain Books of Revelations, and seeking to do the will of God ran after all sorts of occult knowledge, most of which was false and evil. Many wonderful tales of occult power attributed the power of Solomon to magic. But Solomon dealt in not arts of evil. It was the powers of evil that pretended to force the laws of nature and the will of God; such a pretense is plainly blasphemy.

C104. This verse has been interpreted variously. Who were Harut and Marut? What did they teach? Why did they teach it? The view which commends itself to me is that of the Tafsir Haqqani following Baidhawi and the Tafsir Kabir. The word "angels" as applied to Harut and Marut is figurative. It means "good men, of knowledge, science (or wisdom) and power." In modern language the word "angel" is applied to a good and beautiful woman. The earlier tradition made angles masculine, and applied to them the attributes which I have mentioned, along with the attribute of beauty, which was implied in goodness, knowledge, wisdom, and power.

C105. What the evil ones learnt from Harut and Marut (see last note) they turned to evil. When mixed with fraud and deception, it appeared as charms and spells of love potions. They did nothing but cause discord between the sexes. But of course their power was limited to the extent to which God permitted the evil to work, for His grace protected all who sought His guidance and repented and returned to Him. But apart from the harm that these false pretenders might do to others, the chief harm which they did was to their own souls. They sold themselves into slavery to the Evil One, as is shown in the allegory of Goethe's Faust. That allegory dealt with the individual soul. Here the tragedy is shown to occur not only to individuals but to whole groups of people, for example, the People of the Book. Indeed the story might be extended indefinitely. Yusuf Ali's Commentary from Quran Trans


If you like you can read more of Yusuf Ali's Commentaries concerning magic, in the following verses: 20:58 - 20:74 [re: Moses]

Yusuf Ali's Qur'an Translation/Commentary is included in the following download:
Home page of ShaPlus Software (re: Qur'an, downloadable, three translations, combined.)


Wassalaam. OriginalBM

I'm not interested in what you call, ''magic'' and you're always going to bump into contradictions when it comes to King Solomon, theres no way around that one. As said, this thread was simply highlighting the metaphysical - physics cross over, to keep it on topic, the fact that we, as human beings, have an elecro magnetic field surrounding us would be common knowledge to the yogis of india.

What does --your school of-- Islam think of the Sufis and the Muslem prophets in that version of your religion?

Bismillaah ir Rahmaan ir Rahiim. Salaam/Peace. The psychic body carries that elecro magnetic field.

I'm not certain of what you mean but, I find sufism enlightening. The Prophets, PBUT, sacrifice in order to save humanity. They are our guides in this world.

Wassalaam. OriginalBM

Yogis are the, ''sufis'' of the Hindu religion. African priests are the, ''sufis'' of African religions. They're no diffrent from one another and each can decide to use what they know for either good or bad. Live and let live as the saying goes.

Sufism is interesting, was surprised to read that there are female sufi prophets as well as male ones, not common in Islam.