What is the ruling on learning the signs of the stars and their positions?
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The questioner:
What is the ruling on learning the signs of the stars and their positions?
The Shaykh:
Learning the calculation of the stars for the sake of calculation only is permissible. Knowing the seasons, the times of planting, the times of sowing seeds, the times of heat, and the times of cold is permissible. This calculation to learn the number of years is[Al-Isra 17:12]. This is permissible. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says:
The Shaykh:
It is called the science of navigation. Learning the calculation of the sun, the moon, the seasons, and the stars is the science of navigation, and it is permissible. As for the science of influence, that is the forbidden one; the idea that the stars influence, and that the sun and moon influence the universe, is the science of influence, and that is shirk (associating partners with Allah). Yes.
What is the ruling on learning the signs of the stars and their positions?
The Shaykh:
Learning the calculation of the stars for the sake of calculation only is permissible. Knowing the seasons, the times of planting, the times of sowing seeds, the times of heat, and the times of cold is permissible. This calculation to learn the number of years is
and the account [of time]. And everything We have set out in detail.
وَالْحِسَابَ وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ فَصَّلْنَاهُ تَفْصِيلًاThe presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says:
The Shaykh:
It is called the science of navigation. Learning the calculation of the sun, the moon, the seasons, and the stars is the science of navigation, and it is permissible. As for the science of influence, that is the forbidden one; the idea that the stars influence, and that the sun and moon influence the universe, is the science of influence, and that is shirk (associating partners with Allah). Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم تعلّم علامات النجوم ومحلّاتها؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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