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Believing Fortunetellers and Astrologers


Allah, Most High says, {And pursue not that of which thou hast no knowledge, for surely the hearing, the sight, the learnt all of those shall be questioned of.} (AI-Isra': 36)

Elaborating on the above Ayah AI-Wahidi reported AI-Kalbi's commentary that idle curiosity and undocumented reports are condemned. AI-Wahidi said, we should be called to accounted for the exercise of every faculty that has been given to us.

{He (alone) knows the Unseen, nor does He make anyone acquainted with his secrets. Except a Messenger whom he has chosen.} (AI-Jin: 26)

Thus, whoever believes that we can disclose the unseen guided by stars is an unbeliever.

The Prophet (pbuh) said, "Whoever goes to a psychic (`Arraf) or a fortuneteller and believes what he says disbelieves in what has been revealed to Muhammad.”1

The Prophet (pbuh) said, "Allah, Most High says, "One of my servants reaches daybreak a believer, another an unbeliever. He who says," we have received rain by Allah's grace" is a believer in me and a disbeliever in planets. But he who says," we have received rain by the effects of such and such a mansion of the moon" is an unbeliever in me and a believer in planets.” 2

Scholars said, if someone thinks planets have an influence independent of the will of Allah, he is an unbeliever. But there is no harm to think that some is a sign of rain.

"Whoever goes to a psychic, asks him about something, and believes him, will not have his prayer accepted for forty days.” 3

'Aishah related that some people solicited from the holy Prophet (pbuh) in formation about soothsayers.

He said, 'They are a humbug and nonsense. The companions asked, "O Messenger of Allah! Sometimes they foretell something which comes true." The Prophet (pbuh) explained, "This is something which Satan hears, by chance from the angels, and conveys to his colleagues. They mix a hundred falsehoods with it and tell it to people.”4

`Aishah said that she heard the holy Prophet (pbuh) say, "The angels descend into the atmosphere with heavenly orders, talking about something that has been decreed in heaven, and Satan over-hears this and thereafter communicates it to the soothsayers, who add a hundred falsehoods with it themselves (to convey to their clients).” 1

Qubaisa Ibn Al-Mukhariq said that he heard the Holy Prophet (pbuh) saying, "Fortune telling, drawing lots or lives and flying birds to find good or bad omens from the direction of their flight, are all devilish practices.” 2

Ibn 'Abbas relates that the holy Prophet (pbuh) said, “A person who learns about astrology, it is as if he learns magic, and the more he learns this, the more he learns about magic.” 3

May Allah save us from this in this world and the next.

1 Reported by Ahamd and AI-Hakim.

2 Reported by AI-Bukhari and Muslim.

3 Reported by Muslim and Ahmad.

4 Reported by AI-Bukhari, Muslim and Ahmad.

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1 Reported by A1-Bukhari.

2 Reported by Abu Dawud.

3 Reported by Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah and Ahmad.

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Chapters (74)
  1. 1Acknowledgment
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Imam Dhahabi
  4. 4Definition:
  5. 5Ascribing Associates To Allah, the Most High (Shirk)
  6. 6Killing A Human Being
  7. 7Sorcery
  8. 8Not Performing the Prayer
  9. 9Not Paying Zakat
  10. 10Breaking One's Fast During Ramadan Without An Excuse
  11. 11Not Performing The Hajj When Able To
  12. 12Showing Disrespect To One's Parents
  13. 13Severing the Ties of One's Relatives
  14. 14Adultery
  15. 15Sodomy
  16. 16Accepting Usurious Gain
  17. 17Wrong Consuming an Orphan's Property
  18. 18Lying About The Prophet (pbuh)
  19. 19Fleeing From The Battlefield
  20. 20The Leader Who Misleads His Followers, The Tyrant And The Oppressor
  21. 21Arrogance, Pride, Conceit, Vanity And Haughtiness
  22. 22Bearing False Witness
  23. 23Drinking Alcohol
  24. 24Gambling (Qimar)
  25. 25Accusing A Woman Of Adultery
  26. 26Misappropriating Spoils of War, Muslim Funds or Zakat
  27. 27Theft
  28. 28Highwaymen Who Menace the Road
  29. 29The Engulfing Oath
  30. 30Taking People's Property Through Falsehood
  31. 31Collecting Taxes
  32. 32The Consumption Of Haram
  33. 33Suicide
  34. 34Telling Lies
  35. 35The Dishonest Judge
  36. 36Bribery
  37. 37Women Imitating Men and Vice Versa
  38. 38The Pimp And The One Who Permits His Wife To Fornicate
  39. 39Marrying Solely to Return to the Previous Husband
  40. 40Not Freeing Oneself of All Traces of Urine
  41. 41Showing off in Good Work
  42. 42Learning Sacred Knowledge for the Sake of This World, or Concealing It
  43. 43Breach of Faith
  44. 44Reminding Recipients of one's charity to them
  45. 45Disbelieving in Destiny (Qadar)
  46. 46Listening to People's Private Conversations
  47. 47The Talebearer Who Stirs up Enmity between People
  48. 48Cursing Others
  49. 49Breaking One's Promise Or Pledge
  50. 50Believing Fortunetellers and Astrologers
  51. 51A Wife's Rebellion Against Her Husband
  52. 52Picture-making
  53. 53Loudly Lamenting For The Dead Or When Afflicted With An Adversity
  54. 54Excess Against Others
  55. 55Overburdening And Arrogance Against Others
  56. 56Hurting One's Neighbor
  57. 57Hurting or Reviling Muslims
  58. 58Harming the Servants of Allah
  59. 59Dragging the Hem Of One's Garment Out of Conceit
  60. 60Men Wearing Silk or Gold
  61. 61Fleeing of the Slave
  62. 62Slaughtering in Other Than Allah's Name
  63. 63Falsely claiming someone is One's Father
  64. 64Arguing, Picking Apart Another's Words, and Quarreling
  65. 65Withholding Excess Water From Others
  66. 66Stinting When Weighing or Measuring Out Goods and Similar Merchandise
  67. 67Feeling Secure from Allah's Devising
  68. 68Despairing of the Mercy of Allah and Losing of Hope
  69. 69Forgoing the Congregational Prayer to Pray Alone Without a Legal Excuse
  70. 70Constantly Missing the Friday and Congregational Prayer Without a Valid Excuse
  71. 71Bringing Loss to the Bequest
  72. 72Deception and Evil Schemes
  73. 73Spying on the Muslims and Revealing their Weaknesses
  74. 74Disparaging the Companions of the Prophet