The Ruling on Contacting a Sorcerer or Fortune-Teller and Asking Them

Question:
Honorable Shaykh. A questioner says: Regarding the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), “Whoever goes to a sorcerer ” or as he (peace and blessings be upon him) said. The question is: What is the ruling on contacting a sorcerer via the phone to perform sorcery on a person, or asking him about sorcery, because this exists in this source?

Answer:
If he contacts him by phone and asks him, he has gone to him. “Going to him” includes going to his location or contacting him by phone; this is going to him. So this action is not permissible. It is not permissible to go to him, nor to contact him, nor to write him a message asking the sorcerer. It is not permissible for a Muslim to ask the fortune-teller in any way, not by phone, not by letter, and not by going to him. Yes, because when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the fortune-tellers, he said, “They have no business [with the truth].” Do not cut off relations with them; rather, do not contact them or ask them.