—both verses.

And He says:

“Among them are those who say, ‘Our Lord, grant us good in this world and good in the Hereafter, and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.’”

“Those will have a share of what they have earned.”

There are very many hadiths concerning the rewards Allah grants His believing servant for righteous deeds, both in this world and in the Hereafter. A servant may not ward off every harm by whatever means he pleases, nor secure every benefit by whatever means he pleases. Rather, he must seek benefit and avert harm only through means consistent with mindfulness of Allah. If the incantations, adjurations, supplications, seclusion, keeping vigil, and similar practices he engages in are among those Allah and His Messenger have permitted, there is nothing wrong with them. But if they are among those Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, he must not engage in them.

Whoever denies the reality of jinn, devils, magic, and the various things they accomplish—such as invoking the heavenly bodies, drawing forth active celestial forces through receptive terrestrial forces, and the descent of devils upon every sinful liar, for what they call the spirits of the heavenly bodies are the devils that descend upon them—and denies that jinn enter human bodies or appear when summoned through incantations, adjurations, and similar means, as actually occurs, has denied what he does not fully comprehend.

Whoever holds that a person may employ whichever of these practices he considers effective without weighing them against the law of Islam—doing what Allah has permitted and refraining from