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Is it permissible to use a lizard by burning it, without eating it, as a cure for sorcery?

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Using chameleons to treat sihr (sorcery/black magic) is impermissible and an act of sorcerers. It is not permissible to believe them or go to them. Burning it is absolutely impermissible, let alone for such a purpose.

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