Is this in harmony with Muslim theology?

[Abba]

Hello everyone,

Recently I participated on a thread regarding a discussion about a Muslim’s experience. In his story the Muslim man says that he read the Koran every day and at some point would reach the state of repeating certain words in the Koran which are believed to give ‘power’ to the person. He said that he was gaining more and more ‘power’ by doing this and people would go to him and ask for his assistance. An example he mentioned is that a person could be having a problem with another person and he would do something and the person would have an accident.

This seems to me a little like witchcraft or satanism. I don’t think that God would give power to someone to go and hurt someone else or to get vengeance. In the comments to the video Muslims have wish he die etc…but no one has objected to his claim. It sounds like santeria, vodoo or witchcraft.

Is this in harmony with Muslim theology?

Pt. 1
youtube.com/watch?v=UkJfetnUbE4

Pt. 2
youtube.com/watch?v=rPfIMHxP9LQ

 

[Kadaveri]

No it isn’t, such superstitions are forbidden in Islam. I’ve never heard of any Muslim believing in this.

 

[Abba]

Hello Kadaveri,

Thank you for responding to my question. He says it so nonchanlantly that it just made me wonder if this practice was accepted within the theology/doctrine of the religion. He presents this practice as a culmination of his training in Islam from a very young age and serving as a soldier for the cause.

I once read a post of a poster from Africa who wrote that vodoo is widely practiced and I got the impression that a good amount of the population of the region she was referring to are Muslims. She did not write that the people that were practicing vodoo were Muslims but, after watching the video linked to above, I wonder if that was the situation in Africa.

I suppose even though Muslims may be practicing some form of satanism as the young man in the video it is not as part of the theology of Islam. Well, thank you for clearing that up for me.

Peace,

Abba
p.s. Just to clarify my original post, the Muslim person who made a comment on the video is not wishing the man well because he converted to Christianity not because of the ‘power’ situation.