The Ruling on Following Weather Forecasts and Knowing the Weather
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Question:
Is it forbidden to follow weather forecasts? Is knowing the weather from the stars of the same kind as the forbidden sorcery and astrology?
Answer:
This is from the permissible calculation. Knowing the weather conditions, this is from the permissible calculation, and Allah made the sun, the moon, and the stars for calculation, and people guided themselves by them in matters of calculation, yes.
Is it forbidden to follow weather forecasts? Is knowing the weather from the stars of the same kind as the forbidden sorcery and astrology?
Answer:
This is from the permissible calculation. Knowing the weather conditions, this is from the permissible calculation, and Allah made the sun, the moon, and the stars for calculation, and people guided themselves by them in matters of calculation, yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما حكم متابعة نشرات الأحوال الجوية؟ وما حكم معرفة الطقس من النجوم؟ لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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