The history and origins of black magic...

Black Magic, according to many authentic scholors of today and classical scholors, namely Anwar al-awlaki and Shaykh Ibn Taymiyyah say that the black magic which exists today originates from Babil, or babylon (the hanging gardens of babylon, one of the 7 wonders of the world) which is in modern day Iraq.

It spread when the babylonions went to war with the early jews, and then took many jews as slaves to babylon. they started teaching the jews black magic slowly, then the jews went round teaching evryone n it spread.

People learn black magic either from a person who know it, or from a jinn. If the person learns from a jinn, the jinn, before teaching the person makes them do certain things, commit certain haraam and certain things like drinking a certain type of blood and other disgusting things.

The person who learns direct from a jinn would hav a lot more powerful form of magic than a human who learns from a human.

The magic which exists today is strong enough to break up happy marriages, or to make people go crazy even.

Yes, we have free will, but when a person is possessed by a different being, then the being is in control of the human. So for example, if a muslim is possessed, and wants to go and read namaaz, when he is in a state of possession, then the person would hav a lot of trouble to actually get up to read namaaz.

The above informations comes from a book written by Ibn Taymiyyah.