The Ruling on Going to Fortune-Tellers and Diviners

Question:
Some people suffering from mental illnesses go to fortune-tellers and diviners?

Answer:
It is not permissible to go to diviners or fortune-tellers, nor to ask them about an illness, nor about anything else. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever goes to a diviner and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights." And when he was asked about fortune-tellers, he said: "Do not go to them; they are nothing." He forbade believing in them, and said: "Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and believes in what he says has disbelieved in what was sent to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him)."
And whoever divines, or has divination done for him, or practices sorcery, or throws arrows, or performs divination by lots, or engages in fortune-telling, is not one of us. This is the warning. So do not go to them, and do not ask them. These are the ones who say: "Give us the woman's condition, give us her room, give us her weakness, give us your mother's name and your father's name." These are fortune-tellers, or liars, or sorcerers who consume wealth unjustly. Either they are servants of the jinn and write for people, or they want to deceive people so that they take out their money without right. Medicine and treatment should be with known doctors, or with people known for goodness, or with Arabs who treat with cauterization, with charms, or with other known medicines, and they are not accused of speaking to the jinn, or obeying the jinn, or being equal to the jinn. This is permissible. Perfume is in a state of being known among people; perfume is known among people, and the man