The Ruling on Watching the Programs of Sorcerers and Fortune-Tellers
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says that some satellite channels broadcast interviews with sorcerers, fortune-tellers, and magicians, and some Muslims, may Allah guide them, watch these segments for the sake of entertainment and to know their methods and ways. The question is: What is the ruling on these viewers? Is it difficult for them to go to fortune-tellers, and is it true that their prayers are not accepted for forty days?
Answer:
The scholars continue to warn against these channels and repeat the warning, so it is obligatory for the Muslim to avoid them and not be lax in this matter, nor bring them into his home or his place. It is obligatory for Muslims to be extremely cautious of them. There is no doubt that if he opens them and looks at them, he sins by doing so, because he has not boycotted them and kept his distance from them. He is to be feared that this warning will befall him, and that his prayers will not be accepted for forty days, because he is in the ruling of the one who went to the Qur'an [meaning: the one who went to the sorcerers]. If he opens the channel to them intending to look into what they know, he is in the ruling of the one who went to them.
However, in some cases, if the scholars and those with zeal for the religion look at it to refute the evil in it, so that they can warn against it, and so that it can be prevented if it is possible to prevent it for this purpose, there is no harm. But as for a person who must be in it, or who must look into it, and he has no role in the action that protects from it, it is not permissible for him.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says that some satellite channels broadcast interviews with sorcerers, fortune-tellers, and magicians, and some Muslims, may Allah guide them, watch these segments for the sake of entertainment and to know their methods and ways. The question is: What is the ruling on these viewers? Is it difficult for them to go to fortune-tellers, and is it true that their prayers are not accepted for forty days?
Answer:
The scholars continue to warn against these channels and repeat the warning, so it is obligatory for the Muslim to avoid them and not be lax in this matter, nor bring them into his home or his place. It is obligatory for Muslims to be extremely cautious of them. There is no doubt that if he opens them and looks at them, he sins by doing so, because he has not boycotted them and kept his distance from them. He is to be feared that this warning will befall him, and that his prayers will not be accepted for forty days, because he is in the ruling of the one who went to the Qur'an [meaning: the one who went to the sorcerers]. If he opens the channel to them intending to look into what they know, he is in the ruling of the one who went to them.
However, in some cases, if the scholars and those with zeal for the religion look at it to refute the evil in it, so that they can warn against it, and so that it can be prevented if it is possible to prevent it for this purpose, there is no harm. But as for a person who must be in it, or who must look into it, and he has no role in the action that protects from it, it is not permissible for him.
Source
حكم مشاهدة السحرة والكهان عبر التلفاز — alfawzan.live
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