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Exceeding the proper limits regarding the Messenger

The Prophet is a light in terms of the light of his message and guidance

The presence of the Prophet or any other dead person at the deathbed of another

Claiming the Messenger is not human like us and that he knows the Ghayb and is omnipotent

Allah is the only Self-Existing Being

Allah showing in the Qur'an that Muhammad is human

Claiming the Prophet is unified with Allah

The one who approached and came closer was Jibril until the Prophet saw him

The first human being Allah created was Adam

The Prophet as a light that provides the right guidance

The Prophet is human and has a shadow like all humans

The Hadith "Had it not been for you, the orbit of celestial bodies would not have been created"

The claim that the Prophet is created from the Light of Allah

The Messenger is born to a human father and mother

The claim that the Messenger is created from the Light of Allah

The heavens and the earth were not created for his sake (peace be upon him)

Our Prophet is alive in his grave in the sense of the life of Al-Barzakh

The dead do not hear the calls or supplications of living people

Invoking the Prophet after his death to fulfill needs or seeking his help in removing distress

The formula of sending blessings on the Messenger when visiting his grave

Allah is over His Throne

The heaven and earth were not created for the sake of Muhammad

Allah revealed to the Prophet what He revealed to no other

The dead hearing the Prophet's call

The Prophet is alive in his grave in the sense of the life of Al-Barzakh

Tawassul

The guidance of the Messenger in visiting the graves

Tawassul through the Awliya'

Tawassul to Allah by the honor, sanctity or blessings of the Prophet or another

Tawassul through prophets and the Awliya'

Visiting the graves to supplicate to the dead or ask for their help or intercession

Believing the Awliya' as means of healing from illnesses and holding annual Mawlids for them

Tawassul through the entities, honor, or right of creatures

Calling on "the Prophet's honor" or "being dutiful to parents" upon leaving a gathering

Tawassul by the Messenger and Awliya'

Tawassul through creatures

Tawassul through the Qur'an and certain days

Tawassul by the honor, person or status of the Messenger

Tawassul through the blessing of the Qur'an or some creatures

Reading a book that includes Tawassul through the Prophet and asking for his intercession

Tawassul through prophets and righteous men

Swearing by other than Allah

Tawassul by the rights of prophets and Awliya' and through their honor

Tawassul through the Prophet as in the weak Hadith

Magic

Definition and meaning of magic

The difference between magic and evil eye

Death and life are predestined by Allah

Learning magic

The fabricated Hadith of "Learn magic, but do not practice it"

A sorcerer using something against Islam

A woman going to see a male doctor

Causing harm to others

Visiting a sorcerer to break a spell

"Whoever goes to a soothsayer and believes what he says, has disbelieved"

The Shari`ah allowed treatment for a spell

Seeking treatment in unlawful means and consulting sorcerers and soothsayers

Visiting sorcerers and enchanters to treat diseases

Treating magic with Ruqyah and Shari`ah supplications

Breaking the spell of a sorcerer by using a counter spell

Breaking a spell by a counter spell

Believing that knot tying cures diseases

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) was afflicted with Sihr

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood

Miracles of the Prophets

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Karamat-ul- Awliya'

The truth of Karamat-ul-Awliya'

The Awliya' are faithful and pious people

Allah has created the people with different minds and knowledge

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Soothsaying

Praying behind an Imam who denies the Sunnah and commits Bid`ahs

Going to soothsayers to be pregnant

Claiming knowledge of the Ghayb by drawing lines on the sand or the like is an act of soothsaying

"Whoever visits a diviner and asks them about anything, their Salah will not be accepted for forty nights"

Consulting a practitioner of Arab medicine is soothsaying

Fortunetelling

Seeking help from the jinn to know the Ghayb and the ruling on hypnosis

Dealing with soothsayers and diviners

Offering Salah behind an immoral soothsayer who claims knowledge of Ghayb

Funeral Prayer offered for soothsayers

Seeking the help of jinn and turning to them to fulfill one's needs

Going to those who seek the help of jinn to cure diseases

Going to soothsayers, diviners, and the like, and seeking their help

Going to soothsayers, diviners, and sorcerers, and asking them about the Ghayb

Going to soothsayers to soothsayers to know the thief

Going to someone who claims to know where lost items are just by reading the Qur’an and Hadith

Seeking healing from soothsayers

Going to soothsayers for the sake of treatment and the like

Going to soothsayers and believing them

No one can harm or benefit anybody except by the Will of Allah

Giving soothsayers money to avoid their harm

Consulting diviners and soothsayers and wearing amulets

Breaks spells using the method of numbers

Consulting those who claim knowledge of the Ghayb

Consulting a doctor who treats patients with Arabic medicines

Going to a person who claims knowledge of the book

Reconciling between the two Hadiths of "Whoever visits a diviner and asks them..." and "Whoever visits a soothsayer and believes them..."

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Astrology

Prediction of natural occurrences according to the positions of celestial bodies

Astrologers do not know the Ghayb

Speaking, supplicating, or whispering to a stone is an act of Shirk

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  >The science of arithmetic and astronomy

Reconciling between science and religion in issues that appear to be contradictory

Relying on calendar to determine the beginning of Ramadan

Knowing the time of solar and lunar eclipses through calculation of planets movements

Predicting the weather conditions is based on awareness of the universal laws of Allah

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Charlatanry

The Awliya' of Allah and the Awliya' of Satan

Consulting charlatans and wearing amulets

Sufi Tariqahs and charlatanism

Going to charlatans for treatment

Using Jinn and conjuring them by means of supplications and charms

Talking to the dead

Supernatural Matters: the Truth and the Falsehood  > Modern inventions

Testing the earth with modern equipment and instruments to discover what is inside it

Chemistry taught to students in schools is different from alchemy regarded as unlawful by scholar