The ruling on visiting a sorcerer, eating with him, and sitting with him
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Question:
This questioner sent a number of questions without mentioning his name or using a code. He says: What is the ruling on visiting one of the neighbors after we learned that he is a man who practices sorcery? Is eating at his place forbidden, and is visiting him forbidden, considering that he may become angry and threaten my children with jinn if he learns that I have stopped visiting him? What is your guidance for us? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions.
Sorcery is a form of sihr (sorcery) practiced by a sorcerer, and the sorcerer is a disbeliever. Allah the Exalted said: The sorcerer is greater than the fortune-teller, or it is said that fortune-telling is a general term that includes the sorcerer. In any case, it is not permissible to go to him or sit with him, except for the purpose of denouncing him and establishing the proof against him, in order to report him to the authorities so that they can take action against him, carry out the necessary measures, and apply the Shari'ah ruling against him. Yes.
This questioner sent a number of questions without mentioning his name or using a code. He says: What is the ruling on visiting one of the neighbors after we learned that he is a man who practices sorcery? Is eating at his place forbidden, and is visiting him forbidden, considering that he may become angry and threaten my children with jinn if he learns that I have stopped visiting him? What is your guidance for us? May Allah reward you with good.
Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and his Companions.
Sorcery is a form of sihr (sorcery) practiced by a sorcerer, and the sorcerer is a disbeliever. Allah the Exalted said:
Whoever visits a fortune-teller, his prayers will not be accepted for forty days, and he said: Whoever visits
من أتى كاهنا لم تقبل له صلاة أربعين يوما، وقال من أتىa fortune-teller or a diviner and asks him about something and believes him, he has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad.
كاهنا أو عرافا فسأله عن شيء فصدقه فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد،
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 5770- حكم الذهاب إلى الساحر والأكل معه ومجالسته - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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