Is it obligatory for someone who opens a shop for livelihood to slaughter a sheep to ward off the evil eye and increase sustenance?
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Slaughtering to increase provision and protect against the evil eye is a forbidden innovation (bid'ah), and it is a form of ornithomancy (tiyarah) that is prohibited by Islamic law, and it may lead to polytheism ().
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