First, why does this Sahr / Magic keep going, why is it continued? Because it is one of the tools of the shaitan, that is satanic work. So it is part of the tools. We have to know that the shaitan has some tools. He has been given to do his job in misleading people, in twisting the straight path for the people to push the people to disobey Allah SWT, to change the normality to abnormality, and the abnormality to normality. That is a function of the shaitan in a brief account.
How does he do that? He does that through certain tools. Imagine the shaitan coming at a toolbox. In this box, he has many tools. Some of these tools, he has from the beginning, he is authorized by Allah to use. These include:
Whispering (waswas)
Satanic ideas which he puts in your mind e.g. encouraging you to disobey Allah SWT
Making people forget like the story mentioned in Surah Al-Kahf and in many other places
Planting doubts in your heart or in your mind
Negative thoughts about others
Anger
Frightening people e.g. omens
Attribute bounties to somebody else other than Allah SWTThese are some of the regular tools of Satan. There are about 25 different tools of Satan, which Allah gave him to use against humans. But these are the regular tools. For regular tools, he doesn’t need any permission, as he received it from the beginning.
In addition to these, the shaitan has some other advanced tools, not the regular ones. These advanced tools, he can use only with the permission of Allah SWT. Without Allah’s permission, these advanced tools will not be working.
Why does he need these advanced tools? Because some people are resilient to follow him, or the regular tool will not work with them. So he needs to use these advanced tools with them. That advanced tool he uses against the true Mu’min, the Prophets, the Sadiqeen, the Shu'ada, the Ulema, the Maraja, people who have higher degrees of iman. He needs this advanced tool to try to misguide them.