Black Magic

Moreover, the famous Tibi'i Ka'b al-Ahbar (Allah be pleased with him) states: "Had it not been for the phrases that I recite regularly, the Jews would have turned me into a donkey (m: out of black magic). It was said to him: "What are these phrases?" He replied:

(Transliteration): "A'uzu bi wajhillah al-Adhim alladhi laysa shay'un a'dhamu minhu wa bi kalimatillah at-tammati allati la yujawizuhunna barrun wa la fajir wa bi asmaillah al-husna kulliha ma alimtu minha wa ma lam a'lam min sharri ma khalaqa wa bara'a wa zara'a."

Translation: "I seek the protection of Allah the Great; He, than whom there is nothing greater. And I seek the protection of the perfect words of Allah which no man, virtuous or evil, can even transcend; and I seek the protection of all the beautiful names of Allah, those of them which I know and those which I do not know, from the evil of everything He (Allah) created, to which He has given existence, and which He has spread (over the earth or universe)."

(Recorded by Imam Malik in his al-Muwatta, 2/541, no. 2737)