Warning for anyone getting into the Shams Al Ma'arrif, this is what happened to me.
I don't really know how to explain, but I wanted to share my experience here.
A while back I was extremely broken and sad and was basically ready to try anything. During that same time I came across a book named The Sun of Knowledge. I started reading the verses and the supposed effects mentioned in it. Along with that, I also started reading other books about astrology, magic and occult practices.
At one point I was extremely depressed so I started thinking about making a magic square. I found three different magic squares and wrote them down on paper, while also adding a few things of my own, mixing all the things i've learned.
That same day, a few things I said spontaneously actually happened. And It happened multiple times, to the point where I became genuinely terrified. I burned the paper.
But despite that experience, I was still fascinated by the whole thing. Some time later I made the squares again, but nothing happened.
Then this year I was going through another really bad phase in my life and, for some reason, I made the squares again.
At first I didn't notice anything. In fact, things actually seemed to be going pretty well afterwards. A few things happened which I initially thought were bad luck, but later they somehow turned out to be really good for me.
A few days later, I met one of my friend. I was angry due to some argument. And holding the paper with me. I took it out and, in anger, told my friend that I would never meet her again.
Everything went downhill incredibly fast after that.
We had been friends for almost five years, and since that day I haven't met her again. I eventually burned the paper again.
Since then, I've also started seeing tall black figures/people in my room sometimes. I don't know whether any of this is connected to the book or the magic squares, but the whole experience has made me extremely uncomfortable.
The strangest part is that now whenever I try to go back to this book or read about these things, something extremely bad seems to happen afterwards. Because of that I've completely stopped experimenting with it.
I'm just sharing what happened to me because I genuinely wanted to warn you before getting into this stuff is: please be careful. Don't experiment with things you don't understand.
TLDR: I got into occult books while going through a very bad phase, experimented with magic squares, had some extremely strange coincidences, and later lost a close five-year friendship after an angry incident involving the paper. I've also started seeing black figures in my room. I don't know if there's any actual connection, but I'm scared and want to know how to get away from this experience.