The Ruling on Watching Magic, Sorcery, and Palm-Reading Channels
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Question:
Our honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: He says: In recent times, channels have spread that broadcast magic, sorcery, palm reading, and coffee cup reading. What is the ruling on watching them, asking the people in them, and believing them? And what is your advice to Muslims on how to confront their evil?
Answer:
This is one of the great trials (fitan) from which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned, saying: “Trials like the dark patches of the night.” The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned of trials, and the greatest of them is this trial, refuge with Allah, which enters people’s homes. So what we advise Muslims to do is to fear Allah and not to bring this channel into their homes, not to bring it into their homes, because it spreads shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief) in Allah, it corrupts the creed, and it puts people in doubt about their religion and their creed. Indeed, it deludes them about their bodies, making them think they are sick, that they are such and such, and that they are such and such. So it is a channel of evil and a great trial. Therefore, the Muslim must prevent it from his home and prevent anyone he is able to prevent from it, other than in his own home.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Our honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: He says: In recent times, channels have spread that broadcast magic, sorcery, palm reading, and coffee cup reading. What is the ruling on watching them, asking the people in them, and believing them? And what is your advice to Muslims on how to confront their evil?
Answer:
This is one of the great trials (fitan) from which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned, saying: “Trials like the dark patches of the night.” The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned of trials, and the greatest of them is this trial, refuge with Allah, which enters people’s homes. So what we advise Muslims to do is to fear Allah and not to bring this channel into their homes, not to bring it into their homes, because it spreads shirk (associating partners with Allah) and kufr (disbelief) in Allah, it corrupts the creed, and it puts people in doubt about their religion and their creed. Indeed, it deludes them about their bodies, making them think they are sick, that they are such and such, and that they are such and such. So it is a channel of evil and a great trial. Therefore, the Muslim must prevent it from his home and prevent anyone he is able to prevent from it, other than in his own home.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، محاضرات في العقيدة والدعوة-018-التحذير من البدع والمنكرات في الحج|صالح الفوزان|كبار العلماء — youtube.com (1:00:58)
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