Ouija is a board game that has the alphabet spelled out with yes or no. Two people usually sit facing each other on opposite sides and place fingertips on the oracle: made of plastic or wood and a glass with a needle in the middle. The people ask the board a series of questions, the board will respond yes or no, or spell it out. Beware: this game eventually leads to possession.

The board puts one in contact with the spirit world and as a result it should be considered anything but a game. It continues to be marketed as as game, no doubt because of the almighty dollar. Many famous mediums began their trade by experimentation with the Ouija board and what they came in contact with are demons. Some even advise against using it.

Participants believe they are contacting a departed loved one or some one from the past, who has information. It usually starts out as innocent fun and then can lead to addiction. The force behind the board is demonic. Satan deceiving the one who is desperately asking questions. I should come as no surprise that nine out of ten times the answer just happens to be what the person wants to hear. I could be a family member or someone talking for them saying they are ok in the here after. Once contact is established, Satan lures the victim in to other occult activity.  Most will indulge in Psychic’s, and fortune tellers to get answers to many questions, instead of asking Allah.

Some people think of the Ouija board as nothing more than a party game. Others believe that using it can reveal hidden things in the subconscious. Still others believe that while the communications are produced supernaturally, the supernatural source is demonic rather than from beyond the grave. Using Ouija Board is sure way to Depression and Demonic Possession.

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New Age (Apperarance of Good but Reality of Evil): another name for things occultic in nature.

New Age is an old adage -- False Religion. Like medieval metaphysicians and ancient Eastern mystics, the cult of New Age hails man and his paramount powers as the center of the spiritual universe. For centuries, people have endeavored to consecrate themselves and evoke the mysteries of spirituality.

As we all know Reincarnation, Eastern Mysticism, Channeling, Psychic Phenomena, the Occult and other aspects of the New Age Movement are sweeping the world.  Nevertheless, we should be aware of what is going on, without dwelling on evil. We need to have enough knowledge to be aware of Satan’s devices, but not live with him!

The new age movement is the most deceptive and damaging philosophy around today. It is entwined not only in witchcraft and Satanism.  The belief system is deeply rooted in Eastern Mysticism, and the Occult, with ancient pagan backgrounds. Followers are told to awaken their God consciousness thru Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, Hypnosis, visualization etc.. What most do not understand is, this is the same thing Satan said in the Garden of Eden to Eve in the Bible: “You will be as Gods” (Genesis 3:4,5). No one is a god. To think so puts you on the list of those going to hell.

Satan, as well as the other evil spirits, are fallen Jinn who turned away from Allah. Yet they have the power to appear to people as benevolent. What appears to some New Agers to be a “Divine Light” is, in reality, the “Shining Darkness” of Satan. Despite the attractiveness, and apparent concern shown by these ”Spirit Guides”, these spirits will ultimately lead to spiritual oppression and other forms of spiritual destruction here on Earth, and possibly serious consequences in the life to come.

The New Age Movement is riddled with occult and other forbidden practices which make up the ”ancient wisdom”, including mediumship, channeling, divination, astrology, consulting spirits of the dead, tarot cards, crystals, palm reading, ouija boards, psychic powers, Yoga, transcendental meditation, rose poetry, past-life regression, etc.

Despite the clear implications of such practices, an increasing number of people are abandoning their true faith to follow some or many aspects of the New Age Movement. People today are replacing God with evil spirits and pagan gods, just as the ancient Israelites and Egyptians did during the time of Moses. The seductions are subtle, but at its core is Satan himself. He is promising, just as he did in the Garden of Eden, that the forbidden fruit will make us gods.

The New Age Movement, on the surface, appears to be a good thing. It promises global peace, health, personal and spiritual growth, and environmental stability. However, the methods it promotes to achieve these goals are cleverly hidden beneath a benevolent surface appearance. A closer scrutiny reveals a dark, sinister methodology for drawing people away from Allah and towards individualism, and the religious practices of pagans, belief in reincarnation, and the power of the “Self”.

Nevertheless, the New Age Movement, on the surface, does not deny the existence of Allah -- to do so would scare off most Believers in an instant. Instead, clever syntax is applied, while traditional aspects of our faith are redefined. Allah becomes less than what He is, Allah, and instead is relegated to becoming one of a number of “Spiritual Guides” who were mere humans who “evolved” into higher beings after discovering and using “ancient wisdom.” Indeed, the New Age Movement promises that any individual can attain this status through “Self Realization” or “Higher Consciousness” of the fact of one’s own “Higher Self”, “God-Self”, or “Divinity”.
Essentially, each individual can become God.

Douglas R. Groothuis, research associate with Probe Ministries (Seattle, Wash.), identifies six distinctives of New Age thinking:
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  All is One

  All is God

  Humanity is God

  A change in consciousness

  All religions are one

  Cosmic evolutionary optimism

  Norman L. Geisler focuses on 14 doctrines typical of New Age religions: 

  1) an impersonal god (force)

  2) an eternal universe

  3) an illusory nature of matter

  4) a cyclical nature of life

  5) the necessity of reincarnations

  6) the evolution of man into godhood

  7) continuing revelations from beings beyond the world

  8) the identity of man with God

  9) the need for meditation (or other consciousness-changing  techniques)

 10) occult practices (astrology, mediums and so forth)

 11) vegetarianism and holistic health

 12) pacifism (or anti-war activities)

 13) one world (global) order

 14) syncretism (unity of all religions)

The New Age endouver is really a very old examination of occultism’s principles and practices. Reincarnation, astrology, astral projection, soul travel, shamanism, goddess worship, visualization and affirmations of inner deity are not new modes of spirituality. They are ancient ways of claiming to reveal the link between man and God. The term New Age represents this consciousness, as well as the astrological prediction of the end-of-the-century arrival of an era called Aquarian Age.

New Age cultists and Mystics seek a divine being within the self and strive to be an integral, conscious element of the universe. God becomes the self and the self becomes God. New Agers have their own buzzword known as it-autarchy. Basically, it asserts government by self. Hence, the political agenda of the New Age movement ranges from abortion rights to gay rights, even animal rights. For some, it includes polygamous privileges, prostitution, gambling, and for the most extreme drugs.

The New Age rage is intended to become a new world order in which, all becomes one. Remember, all is one, one is God, you are one, and you are, that’s right, God. And since the God in you makes all the decisions, then whatever you decide is right.

The marvelous insights and fascinating knowledge New Agers acquire are the “signs and lying wonders” of Satan and his Antichrist. Symbols of the New Age are the rainbow, globe, lotus flower, mandala and dove.

Spirit “entities” contacted by New Agers in their spiritual encounters endlessly repeat the three-fold lie of Satan: There is no death; man is God, knowledge of the self leads to one’s own divinity, transformation, salvation and power.

There is nothing “new” about New Age ideas. The movement is merely a re- hash of Satan’s twisted concepts. Individually we must fight back and win our personal battles against the devil.

If you, or someone you know, are involved with any of the above practices get out immediately.  Repent and turn to Allah, and ask for forgiveness.  He loves you and wants what’s best for you.  No sin is too great for him; he knows everything you’ve done any way.  He is willing to forgive you and take away your sins, if you ask Him.  But He will never force you.  He wants you to make the choice.  He’s ready anytime you are.

by Quranichealing.com Team

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Out of body experiences is an occult practice and an out of body experience produced through meditation or witchcraft which is traveling outside one’s body in spirit form to another destination. But when you are gone, who’s minding your body?

Demons can move in and take possession. Out of body travel opens up a gateway for demonic spirits. It is an occult practice and powered by evil spirits. Once a person takes this soulish control over his/her spirit, they can enter the spirit realm any time and talk to demons.

We are to be under the guidance and control of Allah (swt).

This practice is often used in occultism and shamanism. %10 of world population can do that but they should never attempt to do that. If you are not under guidance, it is very dangerous and to be avoided at all costs by the believers.

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Among the most important matters of the belief (Iman) is to believe in the angels, i.e., to believe, although we don’t usually see them, that angels exist and they are one of the kinds of creations Allah created. Allah created the angels from light. They are neither males nor females. They all worship Allah and obey His orders; they do not sin.

The Holy Qur’an strictly prohibits worship of any other than Allah.

Allah created the angels as they are now. They do not grow or develop or age. In their original shape, they are gentle bodies; gentle bodies meaning they can’t be grasped or held by the hand. Although they are gentle bodies, they do not have internal cavities--unlike humans and jinn--and they do not eat or drink. This is why when Prophet Ibrahim gave food to the angels who were visiting him (in the shape of men), they did not eat. The angels have different body parts: feet, shoulders, ears, hands, and wings. Some angels have two (2) wings, some have three (3), others have four (4). Some, like Angel Jibril, have up to six hundred (600) wings. If just one of his wings was spread open, it would cover what is between east and west.

Allah gave the angels the power to change their shapes, and it is permissible that they would take the shape of a man, however, without the male genital organ. Often Angel Jibril would appear to the Prophet in the shape of a man to teach him the Revelation. Angels do not take the form of the woman. The one who believes that the angels are female is blasphemous, as Allah said in The Holy Qur’an Surat an-Najm, Ayah 27

It is common knowledge that having idols of religious significance would eventually lead to the practice of idol worshipping that is including angels, saints, Virgin Mary, Jesus, Buddha or any others in the form of statues or images.

Even idols without any religious importance, with the passage of time, have proven to be becoming objects of worship.
In Christianity belief, Satan is a Fallen angel. No where in Christian Scripture does it directly say that Satan was once an Angel. He was high ranked Jinn as Qur’an writes. No textual evidence (that is text from the The Noble Qur’an or the Sunnah) can confirm that Satan was the origin of all the jinn; he was simply one of them as stated in the The Noble Qur’an: “except Iblees (Satan).He was one of the jinn” [The Holy Qur'an l8:50].

Satan (Lucifer) is a Fallen Jinn not Fallen Angels. He had choices and he had chosen the wrong ones. After being cast out, Lucifer became Satan, and the fallen Jinns became Demons. Lucifer was created perfect in all his ways, but iniquity was found in him. It was not put there by God. Lucifer created it. (Bible -- Ezekiel 28:15 )

Like man, the Jinns were created perfect, and with a free will. the angels does not have free will. Allah created obedience inherent in the angels. They do not disobey Allah. All of them are obedient slaves to Allah, as Allah described them in Surat at-Tahrim, Ayah 6

Satan was lifted up because of his beauty, he corrupted the wisdom by reason of his brightness (Bible -- Ezekiel 28:17)

Does this worship and veneration of idols, created by humans, conform to human intellect and reasoning?
Even though we live in the 21st century of knowledge and science, the phenomenon of idol worshipping still persist in many of the nations of the world. The Holy Qur’an, the book of Islam, revealed in 620 CE alerts us to the fallacy involved in worshipping idols and in the story of Prophet Abraham (pbuh) trying to show his people how illogical is such an act of ignorance.
And recite to them the story of Abraham (pbuh). When he said to his father and his people “What do you worship?” They said: “We worship idols and to them we are ever devoted” He said: ” Do they hear you, when you call on (them)? Or do they benefit you or do they harm (you)?” They said: “(Nay) But we found our fathers doing so” (Holy Qur’an 26:69-74)

In the other hand Islam is so pure, Qur’an’s message is so fresh and strong that is guiding all humankind today.

“And thou wilt see the Angels surrounding the Throne (Divine) on all sides, singing Glory and Praise to their Lord. The Decision between them (at Judgement) will be in (perfect) justice, and the cry (on all sides) will be, “Praise beto Allah, the Lord of the Worlds!” (The Holy Qur’an 39:75)

Angels are truly wondrous creations of Allah. If one thinks about this creation of Allah, it will strengthen, with assurity, his belief in the One Who created the angels--the One Who Created Everything.

About their obedience and dutifulness, the Holy Qur’an says:

“They speak not before He speaks, and they act (in all things) by His command. He knows what is before them, and what is behind them, and they offer no intercession except for those with whom He is well pleased and they stand in awe and reverence of His (Glory).

The Angels are creation of Allah Almighty and are, therefore, His servants. Just as we are -- with the difference that their obedience is perfect, unquestioning, and without intermission, because of the nature Allah has given them. They never say anything before they receive Allah’s command to say it, and their acts are similarly conditioned. This is also the teaching of Jesus as reported in the Gospel of St. John (xii. 49-50): “For I have not spoken of myself: but the” Father” which sent me, He gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. And I know that His commandment is life-everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the “Father” said unto me, so I speak”. If rightly understood, “Father” has the same meaning as our Rabb, Sustainer and Cherisher, not Begetter or Progenitor.

by Adam Asar and QuranicHealing.com Team

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