What is the difference between sorcery and fortune-telling?
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Question:
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the difference between sorcery and fortune-telling?
Answer:
Sorcery is not the same as fortune-telling. Fortune-telling is reporting hidden matters through the jinn. This is done through the fortune-tellers; the jinn descend upon them and inform them of some hidden things. As for sorcery, it involves working with plants, strange things, or tying knots in threads and blowing on them with the breath of the blowers. This is real sorcery. There is also imaginary sorcery that has no reality, which is called al-qamrah. Yes. May Allah reward you. Honorable. The scholars say that sorcery consists of incantations, knots, and fumes, and medicines that they combine to produce sorcery. Yes.
May Allah reward you. Honorable Shaykh, the questioner asks: What is the difference between sorcery and fortune-telling?
Answer:
Sorcery is not the same as fortune-telling. Fortune-telling is reporting hidden matters through the jinn. This is done through the fortune-tellers; the jinn descend upon them and inform them of some hidden things. As for sorcery, it involves working with plants, strange things, or tying knots in threads and blowing on them with the breath of the blowers. This is real sorcery. There is also imaginary sorcery that has no reality, which is called al-qamrah. Yes. May Allah reward you. Honorable. The scholars say that sorcery consists of incantations, knots, and fumes, and medicines that they combine to produce sorcery. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [235 -939] ما الفرق بين السحر والكهانة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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