Techniques include evocation, casting lots, the production of amulets and other magical equipment. These include protection from black magic, the evil eye, demons, and evil jinn, which are thought to bring "illness, poverty, and everyday misfortunes" or alternately practices seeking to bring "good fortune, health, increased status, honor, and power". Magic or sorcery (which seeks to alter the course of events usually by calling on a supernatural force) and divination (attempts "to predict future events or gain information about things unseen"), or occultism, encompass a wide range of practices. In Islamic culture and Muslim communities throughout the world, magic is "widespread and pervasive". Divination, magic, and occultism in Islam
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