The Ruling on Predicting Weather Conditions
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, news about the weather has become widespread, and everyone specifies a day and says, "Today it will rain, today it will be cloudy,"
Answer:
If this is stated with certainty, it is not permissible, because no one knows the unseen except Allah. But if it is merely an expectation, that it may happen or may not, there is nothing wrong with it as an expectation, not as a certainty. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, news about the weather has become widespread, and everyone specifies a day and says, "Today it will rain, today it will be cloudy,"
Answer:
If this is stated with certainty, it is not permissible, because no one knows the unseen except Allah. But if it is merely an expectation, that it may happen or may not, there is nothing wrong with it as an expectation, not as a certainty. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/062 — archive.org (2:51)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.