Reading horoscopes in newspapers and watching sorcery on television
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In these days, the distribution of one of the daily newspapers has spread, and inside this newspaper are the horoscopes that inform about future happiness, joy, and delight, and in them is fortune-telling. What is the ruling on reading them? And watching them? And what is the ruling on watching sorcery on television as well?
Answer:
It is not permissible to do any of this, and it is obligatory to denounce it. It is obligatory for whoever finds something in some newspapers or some magazines, or on television, to write about it for a fatwa, or to write about it to the head of the committees, the committees for enjoining good and forbidding evil, so that they may strive to remove it.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. In these days, the distribution of one of the daily newspapers has spread, and inside this newspaper are the horoscopes that inform about future happiness, joy, and delight, and in them is fortune-telling. What is the ruling on reading them? And watching them? And what is the ruling on watching sorcery on television as well?
Answer:
It is not permissible to do any of this, and it is obligatory to denounce it. It is obligatory for whoever finds something in some newspapers or some magazines, or on television, to write about it for a fatwa, or to write about it to the head of the committees, the committees for enjoining good and forbidding evil, so that they may strive to remove it.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 141/134 شرح زاد المستقنع/ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com (1:18:08)
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