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What should we say in response to people who attend classes on mysticism and have been brainwashed into claiming that reciting Ziyarat Ashura generates negative energy because it contains curses?
The curses in Ziyarat Ashura declare disavowal of those who failed to observe God’s limits and thus incurred His curse. This is like removing impurities: it allows us to be imbued with divine fragrance and positive energy to well up within us. Devils obstruct positive energy, and cursing them clears the way. To feel compassion for devils is to draw near to impurity.
Loving those whom God loves and disavowing those whom He rejects are among the obligations of religion. To invoke a curse is to declare one’s disavowal of someone who has disregarded the limits set by the Almighty Lord, acted against the will of the Creator of all worlds, and become so vile in conduct that he has forfeited the right to divine mercy and become deserving of a curse.
Cursing the wicked is like removing filth, grime, impurity and defilement. Whoever casts wickedness away from himself is perfumed with divine fragrance, stirring a surge of profoundly positive energy within his soul.
Jinn and human devils obstruct the flow of positive energy in the world; invoking a curse upon them clears its path. To show compassion to devils is to draw close to impurity and negative energies; declaring one’s abhorrence of them, distancing oneself from them, and drawing near to goodness and pure, positive energies are one and the same.
Cursing the unbelievers is an expression of obedience to God, His messengers, and His angels.
Al-Baqarah 2:161: إن الذین کفروا و ماتوا و هم کفار أولئک علیهم لعنه الله و الملائکه و الناس أجمعین
As for those who disbelieve and die in disbelief, upon them will be the curse of God, the angels, and all people.