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This lesson reminds me of the time I was watching this magic show on TV and the magician got close to the screen and told the viewers to pick a card. I chose a card in my mind and wallahi, the magician revealed the very same card that I picked. I have gone over this spectacle several times in my head and have concluded that this was made possible by one of a few ways.

1. Assuming that each viewer chose a different card, the magician would have had to display only 1 universal card which appeared to each separate viewer as their own card. In this case, the Qareen of each of us had to have interjected the image of our own choosing onto the television screen, thereby making it appear to us that the card held up to the screen was the one we had chosen.

2. The Qareen of the magician and the Qareen of the viewers were in collaboration - each Qareen had to have influenced us to choose the same card - meaning, every single viewer had secretly chosen the exact same card and this is the card the magician chose to use.

There are a few more scenarios but this comment could get verry long! The point is, there is no doubt that the magician revealed my card, and there is no way he could have done so without collaboration from our special invisible friends. This is what you call "real" magic.

The ball under the cup is just a trick!

Fascinating story Aliyah. Thanks for sharing. My take on how it worked is that the magician held the cards in such a way that influenced most viewers to pick the same card, the one card that he wanted to reveal at the end.

But hey, that's just my guess, the invisible friends might have had something to do with it

الله أعلم - Allah a3lam - God knows

Your hypothesis is also possible Mohamed.. But that raises a question: Since perhaps millions of people tuned in, how could all of us have chosen the exact same card?

I suspect foul play lol

Really though, however it was done, I can't deny that it was an amazing spectacle and I'm sure I'll never truly know the secret!

welcome back

انتم لا تخدعني. انا فهمت

I guess something is wrong in the first sentence...I wanted to say "you (guys) don't trick me Thanks for the correction!

Berry, I am back too... How's tricks?

glad toc your pixels.....im enjoying life, and rather busy ,summer is such a fun time in europe.

@na7la your sentence is correct but it is singular.

wow very nice

By the way, there's a name for this "trick"... it's called the "Monte", and here's a good display of the trick in action from the show "the real hustle":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbE-3Yo-hgs

I have a couple of questions. You said ھؤلاء is the ism ul ishara for male plural, is it not also for female plural? if it is not then what is the ism ul ishara for female plural.
Second in the last sentence the sentence finishes لا تدعيھم يخدعوك should it not have been يخدعونك?

Ism alishaara (ھؤلاء ) is used in masculine and feminine cases.
As for ya7'da3ooki, yes it is (لا تدعيھم يخدعوك) without noon (ن). Hope that helps.