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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The Ruling on Taking an Omen from a Wife, a Mount, or a House

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Question:
And she. Are there cases where it is permissible to spread a rumor about a daughter, a rumor about a wife, or a neighbor, or or or or or or or

Answer:
This is mentioned in the hadith
If there is an omen, it is in three things: the wife, the mount, and the house,إن كان الشؤم ففي ثلاث الزوج والدابة والدار،
Imam Ibn al-Qayyim said that the meaning of this is that Allah may create things among the created beings that contain evil, and there is no doubt about that. For this reason, He the Exalted and Majestic says in the surah
of daybreak (2) From the evil of that which He createdالْفَلَقِ مِن شَرِّ مَا خَلَقَ
[Al-Falaq 113:1-2]
So there are evil created beings; they may be in the mount, they may be in the house, they may be in the wife—evil creations. So if a person finds something of that...
...that he does not approve of in dealing with these things, he avoids them. This does not mean having a bad belief or taking an omen. No, taking an omen is not permissible. But if he knows from these three things something he dislikes and is certain of it, then these are among the things that contain evil, so he avoids them. Yes, just as a person avoids the wicked and the gatherings of the wicked in order to be safe from their evil. Yes.
Source شرح مسائل الجاهلية [ صالح الفوزان ]، بداية من المسألة السادسة عشرة بعد المائة : التناقض الواضح لما كذبوا بالحق — islamhouse.com (1:09:35)

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