Is it permissible to visit an uncle who works in sorcery and fortune-telling?
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The questioner:
He says: My uncle, my father's brother, works in sorcery and fortune-telling. Is it permissible for me to visit him?
The Shaykh:
Do not visit him except for the sake of giving advice and forbidding evil. If he accepts your advice and your forbidding of evil, then visit him in order to advise him and forbid him from it, perhaps Allah will accept his repentance and he will leave this disbelief, this shirk (associating partners with Allah), and this serious trial. If he does not accept, then leave him. Because if he practices sorcery, he is a disbeliever, and it is obligatory to disavow him[Al-Mumtahanah 60:4] [Az-Zukhruf 43:26]. Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Should he be reported to the authorities?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is obligatory that you report him to the authorities. You report him to the Committee if he is here in the Kingdom; you report him to the Committee's center so that they can investigate him, verify the matter, and take the necessary action against him.
He says: My uncle, my father's brother, works in sorcery and fortune-telling. Is it permissible for me to visit him?
The Shaykh:
Do not visit him except for the sake of giving advice and forbidding evil. If he accepts your advice and your forbidding of evil, then visit him in order to advise him and forbid him from it, perhaps Allah will accept his repentance and he will leave this disbelief, this shirk (associating partners with Allah), and this serious trial. If he does not accept, then leave him. Because if he practices sorcery, he is a disbeliever, and it is obligatory to disavow him
There has already been for you an excellent pattern in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people, "Indeed, we are disassociated from you
قَدْ كَانَتْ لَكُمْ أُسْوَةٌ حَسَنَةٌ فِي إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَالَّذِينَ مَعَهُ إِذْ قَالُوا لِقَوْمِهِمْ إِنَّا بُرَآءُ مِنكُمْAnd [mention, O Muhammad], when Abraham said to his father and his people, "Indeed, I am disassociated from that which you worship
وَإِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوْمِهِ إِنَّنِي بَرَاءٌ مِّمَّا تَعْبُدُونَThe questioner:
He says: Should he be reported to the authorities?
The Shaykh:
Yes, it is obligatory that you report him to the authorities. You report him to the Committee if he is here in the Kingdom; you report him to the Committee's center so that they can investigate him, verify the matter, and take the necessary action against him.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، هل تجوز زيارة العم الذي يعمل في السحر والكهانة؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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