Hi! I am not saying this to be rude, but to inform you. You can't be muslim and a witch, it's a HUGE sin it's actually considered shirk. Shirk makes your prayers invalid for awhile and is an unforgivable sin unless you repent before death. Please reconsider your path. ❤
Hello and salaams! First off, I’d like to say thank you for the thoughtful intent of keeping me on the path of Allah. Secondly, I think there is a misunderstanding with the term ‘witch.’ Witch in a historically broader sense of the meaning is more used as an umbrella term for the spiritual practices of many indiginous, Celtic, pagan, African, and other cultural forms of healing and spiritual art. And most of it’s connotation now as well as some of it’s history is related to paganism and Wicca, so I can see where you’d think that’s what I meant.
However, I do not follow Wicca or paganism. I don’t believe in darker spiritual or “magic” practices, ie things that would relate to djinn or the dangerous part of the unseen realm or shaiytan. Far from it actually! Also I do not believe in multiple deities or worship nature as many wiccans do. I believe in la illaha illa la, and I always will. However, I am and have always been fascinated by other spiritual practices as well. I appreciate aspects of Buddhism and meditation, I admire the channeling of energies through crystals and chants, recognizing certain cosmic patterns and signs, as well as intent through certain ritualistic actions such as salat and herbalism. Essentially that is what witchcraft entails in the broad sense.
THAT is what I mean when i consider myself a witch as well as a Muslim. Because to me, those things such as making herbal teas and crystal healing and shielding, etc. are all just tools and conduits for manifesting and channeling energy from The Divine aka Allah. To me, it all comes from the One source, it’s just about intent. Which, to me, is very in line with how I grew up learning about Islam. In fact, much of my craft draws influence from Sufi mysticism, which I got interested in during my teen years. Even as a little kid when my dad taught me zthikr prayers, he’d use little melodies and tajweed to help me memorize them, and as a little kid i thought they were like magic spells. Of course now i know they aren’t, bit still. And in a way, isn’t ‘magic’ just another name for the wonders of Allah manifested? I have always loved and thought of Allah as my friend, and I feel grateful that He blessed me with a desire to know Him more by widening my perspectives and imbuing in me a draw to the spiritual from many different walks of life. It makes my world feel a little bit bigger and helps me see Allah’s figurative hand in all things, even outside of Islam.
Of course I understand your concerns with my chosen semantics, and I do recognize that there are easy ways of slipping into mistaking the unseen and darker elements of that with Allah, which I never want to do. So I am always careful of where I direct my energies as well as the tools i use. For instance, I don’t use pentagrams, I replace more pagan or god/goddess terms in chants with Allah or one of His other 99 names (depending on the attribute i’m trying to channel), and I stay FAR FAR away from stuff like ouiji or occult type iconography. (Seriously, i don’t fucks with that stuff, it is baaaad juju!) For example, whenever i do a bit of kitchen magic, like making bone broth, I always stir in the same direction that Muslims do when we walk around the Ka’aba, and I recite bishmillah three times.
Also I don’t use tarot cards because the pentagrams and major archaea imagery disagree with me. (Divination’s not really my strength anyhow) However I do use Oracle cards, and whenever I give or receive a reading I make sure to recite al-Fatiha and Surah al-Nas first. But such cards aren’t even originally rooted in paganism necessarily. Actually no one quite knows the root origins of tarot, which i find fascinating. They were used in all cultures, including ancient Persia if memory serves, and they can’t really predict the future, just give some channeled guidance. They’re just another tool. Sort of like a mix of spirituality and psychology.
At the end of the day, these things are ultimately just tools and little rituals that helps me to be more mindful of God, just as making Salat on my prayer rug and using my zthikr beads does. But again, I always use them with intent of channeling Allah first, because as the Qur’an teaches us, we should treat everything as an act of worship. I take it the same way as one might take an attitude towards listening to certain rap or hip-hop artists, for example. That as long as you listen to the lyrics and history critically and choose your role models carefully, than it’s okay. Ultimately for me, it’s all just tools for being mindful of Allah, not idolatry or satanism or the like. (Cuz again, yikes!)
So anywho, I hope that sets your mind at ease and clarifies things a bit. Although I didn’t need to explain myself and I certainly don’t owe a stranger any justification for my beliefs and how I show my love for The Divine. However, it is good to remind myself of these, and maybe seeing this will help some other Muslims finding their own unique path to Allah in the way that feels truest to them, and without being shamed for it. Just as I pray that you have also found the path to Allah that feels truest to you. Respectfully ☺️💜
