The Ruling on Going to Fortune-Tellers and Sorcerers for Treatment
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Question:
This questioner says: I have been afflicted with a mental illness. Is it permissible for me to go to those known as fortune-tellers or sorcerers, knowing that I went to one of the shaykhs and he recited over me, but it did not benefit me?
Answer:
It is not permissible to go to a fortune-teller or a sorcerer. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and asks him…”Sunan al-Bayhaqi 15:741 Is it not permissible to go to fortune-tellers? Is it not permissible to believe them? Is it not permissible to leave them in the town? Is it not permissible to go to sorcerers or to leave them in the town? Rather, it is obligatory to take the necessary measures against them, for these people corrupt the town if they are left there. So it is not permissible to leave them in the town, nor to refrain from declaring their evil. Yes.
The presenter:
Yes, may Allah bless you.
This questioner says: I have been afflicted with a mental illness. Is it permissible for me to go to those known as fortune-tellers or sorcerers, knowing that I went to one of the shaykhs and he recited over me, but it did not benefit me?
Answer:
It is not permissible to go to a fortune-teller or a sorcerer. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and asks him…”
If he believes him in what he says, he has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him).
فصدقه بما يقول فقد كفر بما أنزل على محمد صلى الله عليه وسلمThe presenter:
Yes, may Allah bless you.
Source
قناة «السعودية»، برنامج فتاوى — youtube.com (37:59)
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