Some young men live with me and they always joke with some spontaneous words, in their view, saying for example to one another that all the businesses today are

The questioner : This questioner, O honorable Shaykh, says: Some young men live with me and they always joke with some spontaneous words, in their view. One of them says to the other, for example, that all the businesses today are closed in such-and-such a place because you were present there, and this is due to the bad luck of your face. They laugh at such matters until it has become their habit in all their speech. They even say that so-and-so died because you went to visit him, so he died from the bad luck of your face. These are the words they say. I ask the honorable Shaykh to answer regarding the ruling on this. May you be rewarded?

The Shaykh : This speech is forbidden because it is lying and speculation about the unknown. Furthermore, it may create a defective belief in taking an omen from this man. It may also create enmity in the future, because excessive joking in such matters affects the heart and the soul until there is enmity and hatred. My advice to these people is to avoid such words that are based on lying and cause what should not be. Yes.

The questioner : May Allah bless you.