and sin, unjust aggression, and that you associate with Allah that for which He has sent down no authority, and that you say about Allah what you do not know.’

Thus, speaking about Allah without knowledge, idolatry, wrongdoing, and indecencies have all been declared unlawful by Allah and His Messenger. They can never be a cause for divine honor in the form of miracles. Whenever such phenomena do not arise from prayer, remembrance, and recitation of the Quran, but instead from practices beloved to Satan—acts containing shirk, such as appealing for help to created beings—or whenever they serve as tools to oppress people or commit indecencies,

[Other satanic states]

they are satanic states, not mercifully bestowed miracles.

Among these people is one who, when he attends gatherings of whistling and hand-clapping, his devil descends upon him, lifts him into the air, and carries him out of the house. Yet when a man who is a friend of Allah enters, the devil is driven away and the man comes crashing down; this has happened to more than one person.

Another of them will call upon a created being—whether living or dead, Muslim, Christian, or idol-worshipper—for deliverance. The devil then appears in the likeness of the figure invoked and fulfills part of his request. The supplicant supposes it really is that person, or perhaps an angel in his shape, but in fact it is only a devil who has misled him because of his act of associating partners with Allah.