THE MARABOUTS (spiritual doctors)

The marabout world
The work of majority of our marabouts, seriegns, moro’s and chernos. the majority of the holy men or spiritual doctors are involving the contact of the jinn world.
The work they do is described in the Quran as SIHR. Sihr is describe by many scholars of the past as “uqad ( blowing on knots), Ruqha (incantations), and words uttered or written, or carried out in such a way as to affect the body of the target. To affect his heart or mind without him even coming into contact with the practitioner, here the moro, cherno,or sereign.
this marabouts are host to many gullible senegambians who take them as problem solvers. you find people who careless about their prayers and sexual behaviours frequenting this marabouts for solutions, yet the solver of all problems is avoided. how strange.
The practice is an art which has it own methodology and ways. It has nothing to do with the Islamic creed or system.
The reality of sihr according some scholars is that it can cause one to die, cause people to fall ill or acts as obstacle against a man having sexual relation with his wife. Other types can separate husband from wife that is divorce
Ibn Al-qayyim state that the effect of marabout work or sihr “consist of the effect of evil souls and the reaction of the resultant forces.’’. From our senegambia experience, many of us have seen this men, we held them highly and accord them respect because we tend to believe that they are Godly men but on the contrary. These men are mostly greedy men who mortgage their life for easy life and fame. Traditionally they have an understanding of the Islamic knowledge and aura. But they know, they cannot use the Quran to get money of people by doing the acts they do. Yes, God conscious people can pray for others but they don’t have any extra-ordinary powers to do things out of the ordinary.

How do the marabouts have the knowledge or power to do things they do? The man who sacrifices is life to the Satan, use the name of a certain jinn that are with people in that line of business. If you have the names of a jinn, you call upon them for several days or weeks and you do things that will please that particular jinni. The marabout and the jinn or satan form an agreement. The jinn or Satan command the marabout to do certain acts to proof himself. This may involve sacrifices and other acts against God. To an outsider, the marabout is on the path of God but to himself he knows what he is doing.
It is claim that some of this people do filthy things like, writing anagrammatized (writing in reverse) the Quran. Some perform salat without wudu, they tell their clients to sacrifice animals on certain days. This animal is to please the jinn. The greater the power of the Jinn, the higher the demand for sacrifice. The marabout also use the stars as a guide in their work.
Some big marabouts who obey the commands of jinn get their own family affected by the jinn. the following Quranic passages talks about the existence of jinns. Surah 36:29,6:130,62:1,45:33,62:6,5:91,24:21 .
There are many hadith that confirm the existence of jinns.
Satan can transform into many things. We cannot see them.

People from our region go to this people to solve their problems and difficulties for them. But our people don’t examine the method this men use to do things that seems like solving peoples worries. They pass themselves off as great Muslims that are their outward persona. If say a certain person go them to make a certain individual lose his job, do you think this grand marabout will open the Quran and copy a verse to make that person lose his Job? No. this is where their double life comes into play. Anything to do with causing harm and instability, their jinn is invoke and he carries out the duty diligently. They prey on people’s weak beliefs and lack of knowledge about their evil actions. This is why they are relevant and respect still today. Some grand marabouts even make their students beg in the streets. Some exceed the sharia even in marriage. They don’t attend jamat community prayer in the mosque yet this men show their Islamic side to trap customers.
How holy is a marabout who hardly go to mosque were the prayer perform is of higher grade than that perform at home?

The specialist marabout or serign can send his jinn on missions to cause harm. The jinn can cause someone to get mental illness.
The methods of getting a jinn are in many categories. One of them is swearing by and seeking refuge in the master of the jinn’s. This is usually done with the method referred to as thoo batooo ( calling on a name) this practice is done in a dark room, smoke incense. the marabouts who practice this evil, do acts that pleases the jinn. If the jinn is satisfy with the marabout, it will undertake task assign to it. If it is steering up hatred, that is the mission.
Another common method of getting the jinn’s attention is slaughtering an animal. The blood that is what the jinn needs. All sacrifice under taken by muslims should be for the sake of God only not any other beings.
Another method is anagrammatizing words of the Quran. This is locally refer to as katim. Katim is very dangerous method of harming people. It involves the connection of evil forces. Many are making lots of money by using this method of deceiving people. Other methods include using star signs to do incantations and other evils.

Before the marabout or moro under take a task for people, they ask for peoples mothers name, some ask for animals with certain specifications, white lamb, spotted sheep etc. they also give clients item to burry in the ground,
This men can surprise people. They can tell you your name even without you telling them, they narrate thing that happen to you in the past etc. this information is given to them by jinns.

I stated earlier that, some of the marabouts are only taken to be spiritual by people but they don’t invite or call people to themselves, they work hard and attend jamat prayers. They eat from halal or legal acceptable earnings. They don’t cause any harm between people. They don’t deceive using katim or korteh. They pray to God for that person’s well being. We need to stop making this people carry on this profession. They are all over the place. Banjul , Dakar ,Serrekunda, Bansang, Basse, everywhere. Some of them are very powerful and dangerous. To proof their power they can do wick things.
Next I will write about the Quranic verses to prevent you and me from their magic and demonic tools. Many know this topic more than myself but they are quiet with their knowledge. We need to explain the implications regarding going to this people. It make us fall into shirk or associating partners with God. That is an unforgivable sin. May God strengthen our imaan.