Assalam oalaikum,
Before I discuss about hallucinations
from the Islamic perspective let us first see what the western psychologists
have to say about it.
According to
them, hallucinations refer to seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting or feeling
things which do not actually exist. They occur commonly in schizophrenia. Hearing voices
is considered to be a common type of hallucination. The people who experience such
voices have a feeling that someone is talking to them when there is no one
around them. Hearing voices is considered to be a common symptom of a severe
mental disorder. However, not everyone who experiences such voices may be
mentally ill.
By not accepting the truth
that intrusive thoughts are supernatural in nature and Satan induced, we find
that the western psychology has coined another term, ‘hallucination’ so that
they can further impress people with their mental health jargon and lead to
even more confusion.
Intrusive thoughts have
been described as unwelcome thoughts, unpleasant images or ideas that may
become obsessions. They can be difficult to eliminate and are annoying and
distressing. What is basically happening here is that the Satanic whispers or
the whispering of the black magic jinnat, which is obviously distressing and
annoying, is being camouflaged by various fancy names such as intrusive
thoughts, hallucinations, delusions etc. As I have discussed in my previous
post, the cunning Satanic whispers are heard by us as our own thoughts, and
they are obviously intrusive by nature, because no one wishes to entertain such
obscene thoughts.
At this point I would like
to mention a hadith which is related to Satanic whispers. Narrated Abu Hurairah,
‘Some of the Prophet’s (pbuh) Companions came to him and said, ‘We find in
ourselves thoughts that are too terrible to speak of’. Prophet Mohammad (pbuh)
asked, ‘Are you really suffering from that’? They replied, ‘Yes’. Prophet
Mohammad (pbuh) said,
That is a clear sign of
faith’. (Muslim)
Prophet Mohammad (pbuh)
later also advised the people suffering from Satanic whispers or the intrusive
thoughts, as the western psychology prefers to call it, that they are not meant
to be repeated as this can lead to their reinforcement and neither are they
meant to be acted upon. By handling these uninvited thoughts in this way a
Muslim can be rest assured that they will not be counted as a sin. To further
elaborate this point I am mentioning another pertinent hadith.
It was narrated by Abu
Hurairah (ra) that Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) said, ‘Allah Ta’ala has forgiven my
Ummah regarding those waswasas (whispering of Shaitan) that creep into their
hearts so long they do not act upon them or bring them onto their tongues’.
So we find that the Satanic whispers have been
conveniently named as intrusive thoughts, whereas all the black magic jinnat
activity has been termed as hallucinations. The jinnat can make the victim see
or feel things which do not actually exist. This happens because the jinnat are
armed only with this tool of treachery. So they try to scare the victim through
intrusive thoughts or depress him to the point that they can begin to control
him.
A lot
of hullabaloo is made over the concept of hearing voices too in psychology
although it is a purely paranormal phenomenon. It occurs when the black magic
jinnat try to captivate the victim’s mind. So the victim may feel as if someone
has called out his name whereas no one has done it in reality.
So though the victim is suffering from black
magic, western psychology labels the victim as being mentally ill. Being
considered as mentally ill is a kind of a stigma in the society. The victim,
without any fault of his loses self-esteem and starts withdrawing from the
society. He or she may get stuck in a vicious circle of
stigma-discrimination-withdrawal and hiding-avoiding treatment. Psychological
disorder is one the major reason why many people commit suicide every year. Unfortunately,
the victim suffers so much at the hands of the society which does not identify
his actual problem and instead labels him as insane.
Coming back to the main
topic of this post, I can elucidate with the help of a few examples how the
paranormal phenomenon of black magic has been typecast as hallucination by the
western psychiatry.
·
One of the symptoms of black magic is a sensation
of insects crawling beneath one’s skin. This happens due to the jinnat who
enter the victim’s body in order to harm him. This phenomenon has been highlighted
as a sub-type of tactile hallucination, known as formication and it has been
associated with hordes of problems such as cocaine use, menopause lyme, skins
cancer etc. Now to prove this wrong I can give the example of many victims who
have been experiencing such crawling sensations but they were absolutely
healthy, in the physical sense. So where were the weird sensations coming from
if not from the jinnaat assaults??
·
If the jinnat, at the behest of the black magician, want the
victim to commit an offense or a sin so they simply plant thoughts in the
victim’s mind. Consequently, the victim may experience thoughts which command
him to do certain negative things. Again this supernatural phenomenon of
commanding thoughts has been presented before the world as a type of
hallucination known as Commanding hallucination.
There are any more
examples wherein clear cut cases of black magic have been camouflaged as mental
illness thereby leading to utter confusion, complications and irreversible loss
to the victim due to lack of timely spiritual treatment. Therefore, instead of
considering whatever the western psychiatrists have to say as Gospel truth it
is better to believe in Islamic psychology and consider a spiritual treatment.
In cases where a person suffers from a physical problem rather than a spiritual
one, the genuine spiritual healers themselves advise the patient to seek
medical help. However, it would be quite tragic if the problem of black magic
jinnat is given a cure of anti-psychotic medication and talk therapies.
Keep Me In Your Prayers,
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