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To: alt.magick.tyagi From: catherine yronwodeSubject: Divination in Islam Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 21:14:57 GMT ~Subject: Divination in Islam ~From: eoghanballard@sas.upenn.edu From the Hadith (the collected sayings of the Prophet Muhammed) ------ Chapter 1481: Geomancy By Drawing Lines and Augury from the flight of birds ------ Book 23, Number 3898: Narrated Qabisah: I heard the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) say: Augury from the flight of birds, taking evil omens, and the practice of pressomancy pertain to divination. Tarq: It is used in the sense of divination in which women threw stones [at birds, to make them fly - cat]. Iyafah: It means geomancy by drawing lines. ------ Book 23, Number 3899: Muhammad b. Ja'far said on the authority of 'Awf: 'Tarq means to make the birds fly by threatening them. Iyafah means lines drawn on the earth.' ------ Book 23, Number 3900: Narrated Mu'awiyah b. al-Hakam al-Sulamy : I said: Apostle of Allah - among us there are men who practise divination by drawing lines. He said: There was a Prophet who drew lines, so if anyone does it as he drew lines, that is right. ------
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