السحر والشياطين في قصص الأطفال

A greeting of peace to you and Allah's mercy
Now, I'm at a kids' library.

It occurred to me to have a look at the books, stories, and novels,

that talk about things relative to the unseen world.

It is the world about which we've talked often, on this channel.

I claim, it's directly related to the world of magic, jinn, and demons, even if presented otherwise.

Sometimes, they talk about it frankly, saying: "magic",

"witches", or something else.
Yet, elsewhere, or in other details,

—we'll talk about some examples —
there are other symbolic or indirect contexts.

That's what to talk about now, directly and quickly.
To your surprise, these stories I just collected now,

took me only just 3 or 4 minutes, to get what proves my point.

Sure, there are so many, more examples that I'm going to tell you about.

Talking about these things is a phenomenon, all over the world!

Unfortunately, we translate all that, passing it on, to our children!

For example, this is a children's book.
It's all stories, with a CD.

The witch on the cover caught my eye.
Once I opened it, I found a story about an ogre-like creature, and

a song about it, "the Gruffalo".
If you go back to all the legends of the peoples,

you'll find the same models:
A creature like this, looking like a bear,

or gorilla, but it has fangs,
horns, claws, and so on.

Of course, it's evil, and only in the woods, and isolated places, far from humans.

Sometimes, it abducts children,
eat travelers, etc.

If you go back to the stories -even of the Arabs- in the Pre-Islamic Age,

you will find the same: Ogres and monsters appearing only in the wilderness,

to travelers, and caravans. Here, I ask this question, again and again:

Is it just 'a coincidence'?! That repetition of these same stories of same beings, in all times, and places!

Or are they real, existing creatures that appear to people?!

Either for a purpose, when there's a demon-possession, or magic,

Or to scare people off, as what the people of the Pre-Islamic Times did:

[And there were men from mankind who sought refuge in men from the jinn..] (Quran 72:6).

When they get to some valley, they say: "We seek refuge in the lord of this valley,"

even until recently, in some Arab countries;

they used to say: "Don't harm us, and we don't harm you," passing through an empty place, as desert,

or even, in farms and orchards, far away from the inhabited places,

which are always inhabited by jinn.

The jinn always tend to live in places that are out of human reach.

So, these ogres' existence is certain; some humans see them, till today, in isolated places,

not out of illusion, nor imagination, but it's really demons and jinn taking shapes.

Here is another story, or song for a witch.

Also, this is always normalized, in this world: A witch flying on a broomstick, and reciting some incantations,

to transform beings into other beings. This is the dragon carrying her.

In all stories and cartoons you see,
it's the same, with normalization.

Sometimes, the magician appears as a villain, and sometimes,

the magician appear as 'the cute, loving,

good magician', distinguishing between White Magic and Black Magic.

The famous model you all know is Harry Potter.

J.K. Rowling, the author of this series,
became one of the richest women in Britain.

She was an ordinary, working-woman. She started writing her first novel in a cafe,

with her child, in the stroller. She didn't even have income. She was trying her luck

in writing novels. She wrote the first, and the second novel; I'm not sure exactly how she struck fame.

Yet this novel succeeded! It has become one of the symbols of the British culture, now.

If you go to London Heathrow Airport,

besides the shops that sell souvenirs that represent

the British Culture for those travelling from Britain, taking souvenirs about this country,

there's a small shop, at the airport, just for Harry Potter, as it represents the British culture.

This is just an example:

One novel of dozens. I don't know how many series of the Harry Potter; check this novel!

The number of its pages is now up to...
-just one part of the novel, as we say-

450 pages!

So luxurious printing, coated paper, colors! Really tempting, of course.

It's heavy, so it's hard for me to carry it for you.

This is a creature coming out of a grave in a cemetery.

This is the form that represents the jinn, usually as a monster.

Bottom line: It's like Harry Potter; we all know what Harry Potter is!

He's a kid, or a teenager, learning magic at a magic school.

Yet, he represents white magic, as if
we have to differentiate between two magics:

Nice and good magic that is represented by this cute one, and black magic for evil!

We know, in Islam, which is the religion of all the prophets,

that there's only one magic; it is dealing with demons.

Any other dealings with demons- away of magic- is through satan-worshiping acts,

which we've talked about repeatedly: The New Age Movement, meditation, yoga, etc,

It's a deal beyond the known scope of magic.

I mean, not by the incantations we know about, but it leads to the same result.

It is dealing with the same world; that's also forbidden.

Another story is also addressed to teenagers.

"Scored to Death". Notice here the incantations on the cover!

As I told you, I was just skimming;

it caught my eye here this witch
resurrecting a dead from his grave!

Look here, for example, she says, "What is this?"

"A protective circle."

In the magic world, when drawing a circle in a certain range, with certain conditions, and

incantations on it, it protects you from demons.

Some of them draw it on their hands, and others, in an amulet, in pockets to protect them.

Sure, those are not 'superstitions', as commonly believed among many.

No! These are facts. those may be protected by demons, but for a price!

The price is shirk, associating demons with Allah!

So, these are not superstitions. Here, the witch is reciting some incantations.

Notice here, the incantations are in another language. She resurrects this dead man.

I mean, the story author gave the
witches the ability to raise the dead.

Many other stories... all from series; I won't go into details

Now, the library behind me has countless number of these novels and books.

This is part of the "Circle of Magic" series, sure, as it seems, the bestsellers:

"Titans"

Titans are the giants mentioned in the Greek and other European legends.

Those are beings representing a type of
demons, whom are considered demigods.

They have superpowers; they conflict with humans. 'Gods' want to limit their powers.

You can return to the Legends in
Greek mythology.

"Vampires" is the same: Everything about zombies, vampires, dead creatures

that get resurrected, ogres, monsters,
phoenix, and dragons...etc.

Anyone in the magic world sees these beings, or hear stories about them.

One of the brothers was in this field -not of witchcraft and demons,

but the field of energy therapy.

All I'm talking about in the episodes- after contacting me, he said: “I saw them all!

When I meditate, close my eyes, and start practicing the rituals the coach instructs me,

-while being awake, not in a dream- I (he) see dragons, and the phoenix flying."

He sometimes also feels wings coming out of his back, flying,

in a state between sleep and wakefulness, but he's conscious; he still remembers.

This person felt all these changes and then, a creature appeared to him:

as a wise man wearing white clothes,
with a white beard, and aura around him,

telling him that he is one of the wise and a spirit of 'the Masters', who were humans

who died, and moved to another world, and now they're back to give us wisdom.

Is this all a coincidence?! When all the guises of these are the same

as you see in these stories! In "Harry Potter" novel, for instance,

this is the same famous personas.
In Harry Potter, and in Lord of the Rings.

This famous series was a novel, and then was made into films.

There is the famous character: The old, white-bearded, wise man, with

this cone-hat on his head. This is the same as seen by more than one person,

during meditation, as well. They also see the same characters you see here.

Someone also said to me: "Everything
I was seeing in anime appeared to me".

Of course, when he goes and asks his coach,

telling him "I see such and such", what does He say to him?

The known answer is those demons; of course, not that term, frankly;

the terms "jinn" and "demons" are rarely spoken openly.

They say those are either spirits, masters or entities, etc,.

They even, sometimes, say those are angels, gods, or Titans, anything...

The words "demons" and "jinn" are completely omitted from their dictionary.

Someone told me when he had asked the coach, as he started to see that,

or he may even ask some other students, straightly, the answer is known.

It's already written in their books that these are 'fantasies' coming out of you,

which you need to get rid of. It's your delusions, bad memories, etc, embodied,

in your imagination, as monsters; they get you into a higher level of consciousness,

not the natural consciousness, as you started to see your obsessions, bad memories, etc.

Now, you have to get rid of all this, to see the other entities.. which ones?!

Those creatures in the guise of a white man -as we've said- and others.

All of these, from beginning to end, are demons, not illusions!

If I told you, now, "imagine this", will this comes to your mind?!

In the psychiatric clinic, does anything of this appear to anyone?!

Entities appearing and talking to them about past things?!

I mean, imagination doesn't make this up, except in dreams only.

Yet, while (he) is conscious and awake, some appear and speak to him in standard Arabic,

or in the language he speaks,
giving him information, instructions,

orders, advice, etc..

The point is to never underestimate this culture presented to kids in anime series,

Hollywood movies, novels, etc. I mean, this is not a kid's novel; it is adults'.

In the library where I am, if I wanted, I would fill this table with countless books

for this kind of literature. Unfortunately, it is usually presented for teenagers and older,

claiming to upgrade the level of language, imagination, and creativity, etc.

I say, yes, somehow, that's right. I also say it's not just a Western phenomenon!

We also have "Kalila and Dimna" in our history, and in the Chinese and Japanese history, too,

there is literature- and of all peoples- specially for this kind of superstitions, and

for what is not superstition,

but rather, a try to expand the imagination of these worlds; I'm not saying that whoever writes

these books is involved in such practices. Rowling, I don't claim that she's a witch!

But she evokes what is already in literature for thousands of years, and

this sneaking into these forbidden worlds which are mainly based on evil,

as it's not just the world of jinn, and demons, but rather of their disbeliever ones!

Communication with the world of demons, particularly, is often through magic,

if not through magic, as I said,
then in other forbidden ways.

We need to warn our kids, to try our best not to open these doors for them.

If there is no escape, as we can't control them, due to TV, and

these stories' being in school libraries,
then let's make them aware that all these are

either forbidden or spoiling the creativity. We can find in the world of imagination,

what is safer, without getting our faith in trouble.

Normalizing these things eventually leads to normalize the world of jinn,

of demons and of disbelief! As magic is nothing, but disbelief, not a mystery,

to be eager to discover it; it is a world of seeking the demons' help, offering them sacrifices, and

-somehow- worshiping them. So, mainly, it has some sort of polytheism.

I hope we always pay attention, and not to be lenient with these matters,

even if they were just stories and we are conscious adults; still, it's a fantasy

that may get into our hearts, captivating us- without recognizing so- to the worse!

Thank you for listening; Allah's peace and blessings be upon you.