What The Hell, uncle broke glass with magic Options

Ok guys.so a while back my uncle new a bit of magic. Parents told me he learned it from either Punjab, or Bangladesh. So basically what he did was set a glass in front of him, read some stuff, and in a few minutes the glass crumbled into pieces!!! I have no clue what he read unfortunately.
And another thing he did was get my moms brother to hold a plate. And within a minute it just started heating up really HOT while he was reading a spell of some sort.
He wasn’t wiccan or anything. He only did this a few time. He was muslim.
Can anyone explain to me what he did? What type of magic is this? How he did this?
Thanks.!

Sounds to me that he is friends with a djinn. He was probably able to summon the djinn and force it to obey his command. They are powerful spirits, that can do essentially anything. Obtaining authority over a djinn can yield powerful results.

Sounds unlikely to be a Djinn, much less a friend. Suppose it was a Djinn. Do friends open up a book of incantations, and speak them aloud to puppet their friends into their bidding?

What's more, obtaining authority over any spirit seems to be more of a contractual agreement in which there is some sort of exchange. The idea, however, of a human obtaining authority over any entity, in the context of "I hold absolute power over you" is truly ludicrous. Before you deconstruct the former sentence, take the following into account: If such an entity has control over such powers, then what's to stop this man from controlling people, who have no such power at their ready disposal? The other point is that in any conjuration, the only real authority is the authority of the contractual agreement, to which the wizard binds the said spirit to, and upon ratification, has the ability to enforce the contract. The only real entity a human could ever have control over are his or her own thought-forms emanating from his or her own self.

The differentiation in power potential rules out the possibility of it being a Djinn. I will repeat what you said:

They are powerful spirits, that can do essentially anything.

Like break bonds at will, and create/destroy at a flicker of thought without words? But lo, behold!

Obtaining authority over a djinn can yield powerful results.

So, it seems as if there is a discrepancy here. If the Djinn can do anything, and becomes controlled by the wizard, this means that the wizard was more powerful. But, if the wizard was more powerful in the first place, why use a Djinn anyway? That's my main point.

I don't mean to be stand-offish about it, but everytime someone references a Djinn, I keep getting this feeling of, "Oh gods, are they just being superstitious?" But, instead of me simply spouting out baseless objections, I am going to reason my way through instead, as I did above. Please consider the above points before ruling out that it is absolutely Djinn.

Thank you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bye.gif)