المعنى الاصطلاحي :

Seeking foreknowledge of one's fate and luck by using divining arrows and the like.

الشرح المختصر :

"Istiqsaam" (divination) is a kind of drawing lots using "azlaam" (divining arrows). "Azlaam" are tablets used instead of paper for writing. The Arabs, before Islam, would write 'Do it' on one of these tablets and 'Do not do it' on another, and they would leave the third one blank. They would then put these tablets in a container. When someone wished to travel, trade, propose to a woman for marriage, or embark on any important endeavor, he would shake that container. If the tablet that said 'Do it' came out, he would do what he intended; if the arrow that said 'Do not do it' came out, he would refrain from it; and if the blank arrow came out, he would repeat the procedure again, and so on. Islam abolished this practice and replaced it with the "Istikhaarah" (guidance-seeking) prayer.

التعريف اللغوي المختصر :

"Istiqsaam": seeking to divide something. Other meanings: seeking to know one's share of good and evil by using pre-Islamic ways, such as divining arrows in cups and similar ways.