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What is the ruling on wearing clothes inside out due to fear of sorcery and envy?

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If turning clothes inside out is for the purpose of concealing adornments out of fear of the evil eye, then there is no harm in it. This has been mentioned as permissible by Ibn al-Qayyim and Ibn Uthaymeen. However, if a person believes that turning clothes inside out repels harm, then this is not permissible, because it is an attribution of benefit to something whose benefit has not been proven neither religiously nor experientially. Therefore, anything that is believed to be a cause for repelling the evil eye, but is not a religiously prescribed or divinely ordained cause, is not permissible to adopt.

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