The biggest myth about magic needs to be destroyed: the idea that magicians control jinn. The truth is the exact opposite - magicians are slaves to the jinn they serve.

What Magic Really Is

Magic (sihr) is the intersection of two worlds that were never meant to meet: the world of humans and the world of jinn. It's not about supernatural powers or mystical control. It's a transaction - a deeply unequal one.

Think of it like feeding a horse to make it gallop for you. Except you're not feeding a horse. You're feeding a demon. And what you're feeding it isn't hay or oats - it's your dignity, your soul, and your humanity.

The Jinn's Ancient Inferiority Complex

To understand this relationship, you need to understand what jinn have always wanted: superiority.

From the very beginning, jinn have suffered from what modern psychology calls an inferiority complex. When Allah created Adam and commanded the jinn and angels to prostrate to him, Iblis (a jinn) refused. His response revealed everything: "I am better than him. You created me from fire and created him from clay."

The jinn have always believed they should be number one. They're faster, stronger, and can do things humans cannot. Yet Allah elevated humans above them - specifically because of human intellect and the capacity for higher understanding that jinn lack.

This has eaten away at jinn for millennia. They've never gotten over it.

What Does a Jinn Want From You?

So when a human approaches a jinn through magic, what does the jinn want in return? Your credit card? Cash?

Jinn don't have currency. They don't shop at supernatural Walmart. Money means nothing to them.

What they want is the one thing they've craved since the beginning: to see a human lower themselves and become their slave.

The Humiliation Ritual

This is why magical practices involve such degrading acts:

1. Going to graveyards at 3 AM
2. Performing tawaf (circling) around graves
3. Collecting bizarre items: blood of a donkey, eye of a newt, parts of dead animals
4. Performing sacrilegious acts that violate every moral boundary

None of this has inherent "magical power." The jinn demands these acts for one reason: to watch the human humiliate themselves.

The magician crawls to the graveyard in the dead of night, performs disgusting rituals, and degrades themselves utterly. The jinn watches and feels superior. "Look what I can make this human do. I control him completely."

The False Exchange

Here's the transaction:

The magician gives: Their dignity, their faith, their humanity, their soul

The jinn gives: Trivial tricks that are easy for it to perform

The magician thinks they're getting power. In reality, they're getting scraps while giving up everything.

How Can a Human Control a Jinn?

Think about it logically: How would a human control a jinn? With whips? Chains? Physical force?

Jinn pass through walls. They move at the speed of light. They're physically stronger than humans. They're invisible.

There is nothing a human possesses that can physically control a jinn.

Only Prophet Sulaiman was given that unique power by Allah - and no one else has it.

The Real Power Dynamic

The jinn controls the magician emotionally and psychologically. It tells the human: "Do this. Do that. Perform this ritual. Degrade yourself further."

The human obeys, hoping for power.

In return, the jinn performs some trivial service:

1. Possess someone
2. Break up a marriage
3. Plant harmful objects in a house
4. Cause physical disturbances

These acts are easy for a jinn. They're not difficult or costly in the jinn's world. But to the human magician, they seem like power.

The Mafia Structure

Magicians don't even deal with just one jinn. They approach a "godfather" jinn - a powerful leader with thousands of jinn under its command. This godfather sends worker jinn to do the actual tasks.

These worker jinn are terrified of their boss. During one exorcism, a jinn was asked: "Why don't you just leave?"

The jinn replied: "I can't. If I go, he will kill me."

"Who will kill you?"

"The one who sent me here. I'm scared of him."

Even the jinn doing the magic are slaves - slaves to more powerful jinn above them.

Why Does the Magician Do It?

If the magician is really a slave, why do they do it?

Simple: money.

The magician lives in our world. When you go to a magician and say "break up this marriage" or "make this person love me," the magician charges you cash. American Express. Visa. A hundred dollars. A thousand dollars.

The magician takes your money, performs the degrading rituals the jinn demands, and the jinn performs the service. The magician profits financially while enslaving themselves spiritually.

The Bottom Line

Magic is not power. It's prostitution of the soul.

The magician sells their humanity to demonic entities in exchange for the ability to perform parlor tricks. They worship the jinn while pretending to command them. They degrade themselves while thinking they're gaining power.

And the jinn? The jinn finally gets what it's always wanted: a human bowing down, acknowledging jinn superiority, becoming a servant.

The magician is not a master. The magician is the most pathetic kind of slave - one who thinks they're free.