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If a fortune-teller predicts something that will happen in the future and it does happen, what is the guidance regarding that?

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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. Some fortune-tellers predicted things a while ago regarding what would happen in these days concerning the state of the Ummah, and it happened. How do we deal with the common people regarding their belief in that? The fortune-teller is truthful in some things.

Answer:
Such as what the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned, that Satan snatches the word before the shooting star and throws it to the fortune-teller. The fortune-teller catches it and lies with it a hundred lies, and he is truthful with this lie because of the word he heard from the sky. Perhaps the fortune-teller is truthful because of what was mixed with the lie, which is eavesdropping that the jinn brought to him. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [815 -858] إذا تكهن الكاهن بشيء سيقع في المستقبل ثم وقع، ما التوجيه في ذلك؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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