THE MAGIC OF MODERN TIMES: PERCEPTION, IMAGE, MEDIA
🧠 THE MAGIC OF MODERN TIMES: PERCEPTION, IMAGE, MEDIA 🔍 Magic ≠ Supernatural Power ✨ Magic = The Art of Shaping Perception In the Qur’an, magic refers to making people see what is not there, deceiving minds, and distorting reality. Today, the tools are more technological, but their function remains the same: 🧰 Tools of Modern Magic: 🎥 Television & Cinema → Reality and fiction intertwined. Perception management! 📱 Social Media → Filtered lives, fake happiness, the illusion of appearances. 📰 News Language & Propaganda → What is shown becomes “reality.” 🔠 Labeling & Word Games → “Fundamentalist,” “anti-vaxxer,” “terrorist”... the magic of labels. 🎮 Virtual Reality & Metaverse → Digital colonization of perception. 🎭 Deepfakes → Lies disguised as truth. Visual sorcery. 💰 Financial Magic → Hypnosis through consumption! Needs replaced by imposed desires. 📖 “The magicians bewitched people’s eyes and struck them with awe…” (Al-A‘rāf 7:116) ➡️ The same to...