What explains mankind’s rush to extinction and to destruction of the biosphere if not hypnotic trance? Allah, exalted is He, says in Surat al-A’raf about the magicians of Pharaoh:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
\t<\/span>“And when they threw,\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t<\/span>they cast a spell on the people’s eyes<\/p>\n \t\t\t<\/span>and caused them to feel great fear of them.<\/p>\n \t\t<\/span>They produced an extremely powerful magic.” (Surat al-A’raf: 115)<\/span><\/p>\n They \u00e2\u20ac\u0153magicked their eyes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d literally.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What explains mankind’s rush to extinction and to destruction of the biosphere if not hypnotic trance? Allah, exalted is He, says in Surat al-A’raf about the magicians of Pharaoh:\u00c2\u00a0 “And when they threw,\u00c2\u00a0 they cast a spell on the people’s eyes and caused them to feel great fear of them. They produced an extremely powerful … <\/p>\n