Remainder of the answer to: What is the ruling on one who says upon defeat in football, "This is due to bad luck"?

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The Shaykh : Yes, this is said by one who does not know the Shari'ah. He says to a person when he succeeds, "This is due to the rising of the stars," and when he is delayed, "This is due to the bad luck of the stars." This is part of astrology, which is a type of shirk (associating partners with Allah), because the rising and setting of the stars have no part in the matter. The matter is in the hand of Allah, whether a person is born under this star, that star, or at any other time. The matter is in the hand of Allah (Mighty and Majestic). In the authentic hadith from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), narrated by Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani, he said:

Zaid b. Khalid al-Juhani said: God’s messenger led us in the morning prayer at al-Hudaibiya after rain which had fallen during the night, and when he finished he turned to the people and said, “Do you know what your Lord has said?” On their replying that God and His messsenger knew best he told them that He had said, “This morning there were among my servants one who believes in me and one who disbelieves. The one who said, ‘We have been given rain by God’s grace and mercy' is the one who believes in me and disbelieves in the star, but the one who said, ‘We have been given rain by such and such a rainy star’ is the one who disbelieves in me and believes in the star.” (Bukhari and Muslim.)

صلى لنا رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم ذات يوم صلاة الصبح، وهم في الحديبية على إثر سماء كانت من الليل -يعني: على أثر مطر- فقال: هل تدرون ماذا قال ربكم؟ قالوا: الله ورسوله أعلم قال: قال أصبح من عبادي مؤمن بي وكافر، فأما من قال: مطرنا بفضل الله ورحمته فذلك مؤمن بي كافر بالكوكب، وأما من قال: مطرنا بنوء كذا وكذا، فذلك كافر بي مؤمن بالكوكب

Mishkat al-Masabih 4596

And the one who claims that a man's victory or failure is due to good luck or bad luck is of this type, this type, of this type about which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said that he is a disbeliever in Allah. It is obligatory for the one who said it to repent to Allah from that, and it is obligatory for the one who heard it to denounce it and to clarify that in public gatherings and private gatherings among the youth, because some people do not know the meaning of this word and do not know what it is based on.

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