Re: Nazar?
Let me address the "dua for food" argument.....
We are expected to work to feed ourselves as long as we do not break any of His rules.
If going to a "buzurg" to seek remedy means using the same means or methods that the perpetrator used, then this is against His rules.
I can't put it in simpler terms.
Now...let me make one other point clear....there are folks in the world that have been deprived of an education. They simply do not know the appropriate surahs to recite....or do not know how to read/recite arabic.....or worse still, do not know how to read at all.
Alims, imams and maulanas are necessary to service these types of communities and pockets of ignorance.
If an illiterate person goes to an imaam or alim and asks for such a remedy....and the person of authority tells them to recite certain surahs or have someone recite for them....then THAT is not shirk.
Allah knows best.