Praying behind an imam who claims knowledge of the unseen by striking the sand
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: In our country in Africa, some of the imams of the mosques claim to know the conditions of people and to know the unseen by striking the sand, and that this is a cause for knowledge. He says: Is it permissible for us to pray behind these people?
Answer:
No, this is shirk (associating partners with Allah), and I seek refuge in Allah. Claiming knowledge of the unseen is shirk.[Al-Jinn 72:26-27] Allah. As for the one who claims knowledge of the unseen, he is declared a disbeliever on account of it. This is among the nullifiers of Islam. Claiming knowledge of the unseen is among the nullifiers of Islam that you read and study. It is not permissible to make these people imams, nor to pray behind them.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: In our country in Africa, some of the imams of the mosques claim to know the conditions of people and to know the unseen by striking the sand, and that this is a cause for knowledge. He says: Is it permissible for us to pray behind these people?
Answer:
No, this is shirk (associating partners with Allah), and I seek refuge in Allah. Claiming knowledge of the unseen is shirk.
(26) [He is] Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His [knowledge of the] unseen to anyone (27) Except whom He has approved of messengers
عَالِمُ الْغَيْبِ فَلَا يُظْهِرُ عَلَىٰ غَيْبِهِ أَحَدًا إِلَّا مَنِ ارْتَضَىٰ مِن رَّسُولٍ
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شرح العقيدة الواسطية، العقيدة الواسطية 18-07-1437هـ — alfawzan.live (1:02:14)
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