The Ruling on Following the Weather Forecast
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is looking at what is called the weather forecast, following it, and acting on it or not, considered to be divination?
Answer:
No, it is not divination. They base it on signs in the atmosphere. They have observatories where they observe the sky and its conditions, and they say that winds may blow, clouds may come, or such things may happen. This is a prediction, not a certainty; it is a prediction based on the signs in the atmosphere that they perceive through their observatories. If they were to say that such and such will definitely happen, that would undoubtedly be forbidden and not permissible. But when they say that such and such may happen, or that they predict it will happen, there is nothing wrong with that.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, is looking at what is called the weather forecast, following it, and acting on it or not, considered to be divination?
Answer:
No, it is not divination. They base it on signs in the atmosphere. They have observatories where they observe the sky and its conditions, and they say that winds may blow, clouds may come, or such things may happen. This is a prediction, not a certainty; it is a prediction based on the signs in the atmosphere that they perceive through their observatories. If they were to say that such and such will definitely happen, that would undoubtedly be forbidden and not permissible. But when they say that such and such may happen, or that they predict it will happen, there is nothing wrong with that.
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين [33] — alfawzan.live (59:55)
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