The coming of sorcery is often announced in a dream. Below is a list of common signs one should look for and try to identify.
Pursuit, Being Chased = blockage on one's life
Dog, Soldiers or Police = jinns
Bull, Being Attacked or Assaulted by Humans or Animals = magicians
Snake = jinn, magician or sorcery made with knots
Water = sorcery made with water or put in water
Going up, Going down, Seeing yourself high up or Falling = sorcery put in a high place
Death, Graves, Funerals = sorcery put in a cemetery
Cars, Mode of Transport or Traveling = sorcery made with footprint
Fire or Braising = sorcery made with fire or put in fire
Fish = sorcery made with fish or put on a hook until eaten by a fish
Children, Babies (for woman) = sorcery using underwear
Blood (for woman) = sorcery with menses blood
Frequent or Unusual Sexual Relations = jinn sent to block marriage, block marital life or giving birth.
Locks - S 21 v 30: Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not believe?
Knots - S 20 v 26 to 28: Ease my task for me; And remove the impediment from my speech, So they may understand what I say.
River - S 26 v 63: Then We told Moses by inspiration: “Strike the sea with thy rod.” So it divided, and each separate part became like the huge, firm mass of a mountain.
Tree - S 6 v 59 until yaclamuha: With Him are the keys of the unseen, the treasures that none knoweth but He. He knoweth whatever is on the earth and in the sea. Not a leaf doth fall but with His knowledge.
Hole, bridge or well - S 22 v 31 from waman yoshrik: If anyone assigns partners to Allah, is as if he had fallen from heaven and been snatched up by birds, or the wind had swooped (like a bird on its prey) and thrown him into a far-distant place.
Cemetery - S 6 v 122 until bikharijin minha: Can he who was dead, to whom We gave life, and a light whereby he can walk amongst men, be like him who is in the depths of darkness, from which he can never come out?
Shoes, footsteps - S 38 v 42 twice: Strike with thy foot: here is (water) wherein to wash, cool and refreshing, and (water) to drink.
Clothes - S 7 v 26 until khayr: O ye Children of Adam! We have bestowed upon you to cover your shame, as well as to be an adornment to you. But the raiment of righteousness, - that is the best.
Picture - S 7 v 11 until fasajadou: It is We Who created you and gave you shape; then We bade the angels prostrate to Adam
Hair - S 19 v 4 from inni wahana: Infirm indeed are my bones, and the hair of my head doth glisten with grey: but never am I unblest, O my Lord, in my prayer to Thee!
Writings - S 2 v 102 from ayata allamoona to bi’izni llah: They learned from them the means to sow discord between man and wife. But they could not thus harm anyone except by Allah's permission
Charcoal - S 3 v 106 until imanikom: On the Day when some faces will be (lit up with) white, and some faces will be (in the gloom of ) black: To those whose faces will be black, (will be said): “Did ye reject Faith after accepting it?”
Fire - S 5 v 64 from kollama awqadu: Every time they kindle the fire for war, Allah doth extinguish it; but they (ever) strive to do mischief on earth. And Allah loveth not those who do mischief.
Star - S 5 v 89 until alayman: Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for you deliberate oath.
Canary - S 25 v 23: And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life), and We shall make such deeds as floating dust scattered about.
Cola nut - S 6 v 95 until alhayy: It is Allah Who caused the seed-grain and the date-stone to split and sprout. He cause the living to issue from the dead.
Stung doll or cola nut - S 33 v 10 and 11: Behold! They came on you from above you and from below you, and behold, they eyes became dim and the hearts gaped up to the throats, and ye imagined various (vain) thoughts about Allah. In that situation were the Believers tried: they were shaken by a tremendous shaking.
Anger - S 42 v 37 from wa’idha three times: And, when they are angry even then forgive.
Blood - S 5 v 3 until lighayri llah bihi: Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah.
Period/hayd blood - S 2 v 222 from de fa’iza tatahharna: But when they have purified themselves, ye may approach them in any manner, time or place ordained for you by Allah. For Allah loves those who turn to Him constantly and He loves those who keep themselves pure and clean.
Animal carcass - S 5 v 3 until fisq: Forbidden to you (for food) are: dead meat, blood, the flesh of swine, and that on which hath been invoked the name of other than Allah; that which hath been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by being gored to death; that which hath been (partly) eaten by a wild animal; unless ye are able to slaughter it (in due form); that which is sacrificed on stone (altars); (forbidden) also the division (of meat) by raffling with arrows: that is impiety.
Dog hair - S 5 v 4 from wa ma callamtom to callamakum Allah: And what ye have taught your trained hunting animals (to catch) in the manner directed to you by Allah
Fish - S 37 v 142 to 144: Then the big Fish did swallow him, and he had done acts worthy of blame. Had it not been that he (repented and) glorified Allah, He would certainly remained inside the Fish till the Day of resurrection.
Bones - S 36 v 78 and 79: And he makes comparisons for Us, and forgets his own (origin and) Creation: He says, “Who can give life to (dry) bones and decomposed ones (at that)?” Say, “He will give them life Who created them for the first time! For He is Well-versed in every kind of creation!”
Excrement - S 74 v 3 to 5: And thy Lord do thou magnify! And thy garments keep from stain! And all abomination shun!
Skin - S 16 v 80 from wa min: And out of their wool, and their soft fibers (between wool and hair) and their hair, rich stuff and articles of convenience (to serve you) for a time.
Donkey - S 62 v 5 until asfaara: The similitude of those who were charged with the (obligations of the) Mosaic Law, but who subsequently failed in those (obligations), is a donkey which carries huge tomes (but understand them not).
Underwear - S 7 v 22 from badat to janna: Their shame became manifest to them, and they began to sew together the leaves of the garden over their bodies.
Pubis hair - S 86 v 5 and 6: Now let man but think from what he is created! He is created from a drop emitted
Pimento - S 56 v 52 to 54: Ye will surely taste of the Tree of Zaqqum. Then will ye fill your insides therewith. And drink Boiling Water on top of it.
Madness - S 2 v 275 until almass: Those who devour usury will not stand except as stand one whom the Evil one by his touch Hath driven to madness.
Sacrifice - S 6 v 162 and 163: Say: «Truly, my prayer and my service of sacrifice, my life and my death, are (all) for Allah, the Cherisher of the Worlds: No partner hath He: this am I commanded, and I am the first of those who bow to His will.
Forgetting - S 12 v 42 from fa’ansahu: But Satan made him forget to mention him to his lord: and (Joseph) lingered in prison a few (more) years. And S 18 v 24 from wazkor: And call thy Lord to mind when thou forget test, and say, “I hope that my Lord will guide me ever closer (even) than this to the right road.”
Restoration of Life - S 30 v 17-19: So (give) glory to Allah, when ye reach eventide and when ye rise in the morning. Yea, to Him be praise, in the heavens and on earth; and in the late afternoon and when the day begins to decline. It is He who brings out the living from the dead, and brings out the dead from the living, and Who gives life to the earth after it is dead: and thus shall ye be brought out (from dead).
Loss of money - S 18 v 42 from fa’asbaha: And he remained twisting and turning his hands over what he had spent on his property, which had (now) tumbled to pieces to its very foundations, and he could only say, “Woe is me! Would I had never ascribed partners to my Lord and Cherisher!”
Statue - S 21 v 98: Verily ye, (unbelievers), and the (false) gods that ye worship besides Allah, are (but) fuel for Hell! To it will ye (surely) come!
Noises, voices or buzzing - S 20 v 108 from wakhashacati: All sounds shall humble themselves in the Presence of (Allah) Most Gracious: nothing shalt thou hear but the tramp of their feet (as they march).
Presence in the house - S 27 v 52 until zalamoo three times: Now such were their houses, -in utter ruin, - because they practiced wrong-doing.
Passions - S 34 v 54: And between them and their desires, is placed a barrier, as was done in the past with their partisans: for they were indeed in suspicious (disquieting) doubt.
Mental weakness - S 38 v 20: We strengthened his kingdom, and gave him wisdom and sound judgment in speech and decision.
Eye disease - S 50 v 22 from fakashafna: Now have We removed thy veil, and sharp is thy this Day!
Sterility and sexual weakness - S 51 v 47 to 49: With power and skill did We construct the Firmament: for it is We Who create the vastness of Space. And we have spread out the (spacious) earth: How excellently We do spread out! And of every thing We have created pairs: That ye may receive instruction.
Cold - S 76 v 13 from la yarawna: They will see there neither the sun's (excessive heat) nor (the moon's) excessive cold.
Termite - S 34 v 14 until minsatah: Then we decreed (Solomon's) death, nothing showed them his death except a little worm of the earth, which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his staff.
Fear - S 106 v 4 from wa amanahum: And with security against fear (of danger)
Strong djinns and sorcerers - S 55 v 33-35: O ye assembly of Jinns and men! If it be ye can pass beyond the zones of the heavens and the earth, pass ye! Not without authority shall ye able to pass! Then which of the favors of your Lord will ye deny? On you will be sent (O ye evil ones twain!) a flame of fire (to burn) and a smoke (to choke): no defense will ye have.