What type of shirk (associating partners with Allah) is wearing amulets and the like considered?

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh Salih, we may ask about wearing these mentioned items: what type of shirk is it?

The Shaykh:
It is a type of minor shirk. Yes, all of it is minor shirk. One should not be lenient with it, because it is shirk. If a person dies upon it, it is not forgiven; rather, he will be punished, even if it is minor. Also, because leniency with minor shirk leads to major shirk. Yes.

The questioner:
Okay, Shaykh, if a person believes that they have an effect in themselves, apart from Allah, what is the ruling, Shaykh Salih?

The Shaykh:
If he believes that they have an effect in themselves, apart from Allah, then it is major shirk. But if he believes that they are a cause, that they are one of the causes, then it is minor shirk. This is because Allah did not make them a cause. Nothing is a cause except what Allah made a cause, or what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) permitted, especially in matters of creed. Yes.