UAE: Woman seeks help from 'sorcerer' for marital issues; gets robbed

Dubai - Witchcraft and sorcery are forbidden under the Sharia (Islamic) law, the public prosecution stressed.

Authorities in the UAE have highlighted the dangers of dealing with people who claim to have special powers to solve marital disputes or other family problems.

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The UAE Public Prosecution said witchcraft and sorcery are forbidden as they leave people vulnerable to fraud.

The authority highlighted a case in which a woman’s house was robbed by the very man who claimed he had the power to solve her marital issues.

The prosecution said a woman, Salma (name changed), began to see changes in her husband’s behaviour three years into their marriage.

He apparently did not care about her and began spending most days outside the home.

An aggrieved Salma confided in her neighbour that she suspected her husband was having an affair.

The neighbour, in turn, told her she had heard about people who had ‘supernatural’ powers. Salma immediately began to look for someone like this on social media.

She finally met a man on social media. He told her he could “reveal what was hidden” and restore love between spouses.

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Every time she visited the man, he would ask her to leave her bag and personal belongings in the waiting room.