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Islam pays much attention to the learning and application of technology and science. However, Muslims are forbidden to learn and apply some skills like magic, traditional divination, and soothsaying. According to some traditions, astrology has been forbidden as well, although a deeper study of the meaning of astrology in these traditions makes it clear that the forbidden astrology is that kind which resembles magic and divination. Modern astrology which is based on observation and calculation is therefore applied in legal issues such as recongnizing legal times and finding the direction of the qibla.