The ruling on one who claims to know the names of children by guessing
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The questioner:
And this one says: We have an employee who says, "I can tell you the names of your children in order, whether they are male or female, by using a knife,"
The Shaykh:
What? What do we have?
The questioner:
We have an employee who says he can tell you the names of your children by composition, whether they are male or female, by using good, then rejecting it in the statement, then making it pass over the palm of the hand as well, and then I can know the person who spoke in this cup from among you, even if I did not see him speaking. Is this a type of sorcery or magic, or is it a karamah (a miracle granted to a righteous person)? May Allah the Exalted answer you with good?
The Shaykh:
All of this is a lie. All of this is from the sorcery of the jinn. This is from those who use the jinn or lie to people.
The point is that this is what most of those who use the jinn do; the jinn inform them about the location of the person whose children they know, and they use them to learn what they do not know. This is how the jinn operate in every place; they are used to mislead people. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned against this and said, "Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and asks him about something…"Sahih Muslim 2230. And whoever thinks that someone knows the unseen, or believes that he knows the unseen, has committed disbelief. Allah the Exalted says: [An-Naml 27:65]. He does not know the names of your sons, or the names of your daughters, or the names of your sisters; these are not things he knows, except through people who inform him, or through the jinn who know it from the residents of the house and those who contact them. This is a sorcerer who wants to mislead people. It is obligatory to remove him by reporting him to the authority, if there is an authority, or to the court, so that the punishment for misguidance is carried out against him.
And this one says: We have an employee who says, "I can tell you the names of your children in order, whether they are male or female, by using a knife,"
The Shaykh:
What? What do we have?
The questioner:
We have an employee who says he can tell you the names of your children by composition, whether they are male or female, by using good, then rejecting it in the statement, then making it pass over the palm of the hand as well, and then I can know the person who spoke in this cup from among you, even if I did not see him speaking. Is this a type of sorcery or magic, or is it a karamah (a miracle granted to a righteous person)? May Allah the Exalted answer you with good?
The Shaykh:
All of this is a lie. All of this is from the sorcery of the jinn. This is from those who use the jinn or lie to people.
The point is that this is what most of those who use the jinn do; the jinn inform them about the location of the person whose children they know, and they use them to learn what they do not know. This is how the jinn operate in every place; they are used to mislead people. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned against this and said, "Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and asks him about something…"
his prayers extending to forty nights will not be accepted
لم تقبل له صلاة أربعين ليلةSay, "None in the heavens and earth knows the unseen except Allah
قُل لَّا يَعْلَمُ مَن فِي السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ الْغَيْبَ إِلَّا اللَّهُ
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لقاءات لابن باز - لقاء مفتوح - ابن باز - ٢٩-٧-١٤١٧ هـ — archive.org (19:25)
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