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Question No. 2953 31 August 2022 Official answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat) verified Content level: Intermediate

How Does a Person Develop the Ability to Cast the Evil Eye?

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Dear questioner, Master Ali Saei
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How does someone who casts the evil eye develop this ability? Does committing a particular sin cause a person to project an inner force into the world in the form of the evil eye?

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The evil eye results from waves emanating from the body and soul, mingled with spite and envy and reflected through the eyes. The more diseased the heart, the more harmful the evil eye. Through remembrance of God and recitation of such verses and chapters as al-Nās, al-Falaq, Āyat al-Kursī, and al-Tawḥīd, believers ward off the effects of admiring glances.

Answer by Master Ali Saei (Abdullah Meshkat)

Teacher and researcher in the intellectual tradition of wisdom and the Ahl al-Bayt | Soroush Bamdadān Cultural Center

The emanation of waves from body and soul, mingling with different qualities and faculties as they issue through various channels, can—astonishingly—strike their target and sometimes cause harm and hardship.

The most destructive state is when these waves are infused with malice and envy. They may be called the most destructive bomb of the spirit and psyche.

One channel through which these waves emerge is the human eye; their source is the heart. The sicker the heart, the more destructive the evil eye. If these waves combine with envy and “ignorance and its legions,” they create the most dangerous state of all.

Believers devoted to remembrance of God neutralize these astonishing waves. Among the most beautiful invocations for restraining them are:

الله اکبر

بارک الله

فتبارک الله

ما شاء الله لا قوه إلا بالله‏ العلی العظیم(سه مرتبه)

اللهم رب مطر حابس و حجر یابس و لیل دامس و رطب و یابس رد عین العین علیه فی کیده و نحره و ماله فارجع البصر هل ترى‏ من فطور ثم ارجع البصر کرتین ینقلب إلیک البصر خاسئا و هو حسیر

Surahs al-Nās and al-Falaq, Āyat al-Kursī, and Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ.

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