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The ruling on taking a fee for interpreting dreams

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Question:
May Allah reward you. We will take a call from our brother Sabir from Madinah. My brother Sabir, please go ahead. Peace be upon you. And upon you be peace. And if you please, may Allah preserve you and keep you well, and we would like to ask about the ruling on taking, meaning receiving or something like that, for the interpretation of a fatwa. I mean, a person, may Allah be Glorified and Exalted, has visions. A person, may Allah be Glorified and Exalted, has bestowed upon him the ability to interpret visions, so he is asked, and some people insist, meaning they say to him, you must take a gift for the interpretation of this. So we would like your ruling on taking this gift for the interpretation. May Allah preserve you and keep you well.

Answer:
Making a profession of interpreting dreams to gather money is not something that should be done. But if he has insight in this matter, he should attend to the needs of his brothers without taking anything from them. And if they insist on him and he takes a small amount, there is no harm in that, but he should not make this a profession and look forward to it as some people do. This is from one aspect. The second aspect is that it is not appropriate for people to always be concerned with visions, and for a person to be burdened with visions and wanting them interpreted; he should not pay any attention to them at all.
The vision that he dislikes, he should keep it secret and not interpret it, and he should seek refuge in Allah from its evil, and it will not harm him, by the permission of Allah. And there is no harm in interpreting a pleasant vision and giving good news to his brothers with it. But as we mentioned, he should not make this a profession or a means of earning, or make visions the concern of a person, and what he saw?
Because this leads to the whispers of Satan entering him, because most of what is seen in a dream is mostly talk of the self or false dreams from Satan. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، حكم أخذ الأجرة على تفسير الأحلام - الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com

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