The Ruling on Divination, Drawing Lines, and Drawing Patterns on the Ground

Question:
In her final question, the questioner Umm 'Abd al-Rahman says: My grandmother is an elderly woman who has nothing to occupy her time when she is free, and she amuses herself with what is called drawing lines. We have advised her many times to stay away from this drawing, but she says: I take that as a form of amusement, and I do not believe in what comes of it. She also says that Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her) used to amuse herself with it. Is this true, and what is obligatory for her? We notice that there are things she says that then happen in reality, so what is the explanation for that? May you be rewarded.

Answer:
This requires a detailed explanation: If drawing lines means doing so with the belief that something will happen, that is what the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) condemned and named as part of sorcery. He said: .
The point is: Drawing lines on the ground, if the intention is to inquire about matters of the unseen, and if she wants this to benefit her with something from the unseen, this is invalid, and this is from the practices of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So it is obligatory for the believer to leave that.
As for if the lines are drawn for the sake of play... for the sake of amusement, drawing lines on the ground for amusement and play, and not with any belief in anything; then this does no harm. Her amusing herself with lines, or with stones she arranges, or plays with, or a hair tie, or something similar; all of this is permissible if it is for the sake of amusement and play, not with any belief in anything.
As for drawing, or working with pebbles, or with beads, or otherwise, believing that something results from it, this is not permissible; because this is from the work of sorcerers, and from the work of diviners, and from the work of the pre-Islamic age of ignorance, and it is not permissible. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) named it drawing lines, and said: 'Umar said: "Al-Jibt is sorcery, and al-Taghut is Satan." And some said: Al-Jibt means: the thing in which there is no good, the evil in which there is no good. If she does what the ignorant Arabs do, which is divination, when a bird passes by them, or they see an animal that is not beautiful, or has a cut tail; they take it as a bad omen, and turn back from their needs, this is taking an omen, this is the divination that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) condemned. It is said: 'Afa ya'ifu if he drives away the bird, and says: Good, O bird, or turns back from his intention, or pauses from his intention, all of this is from divination.. from the condemned taking of bad omens.
And likewise drawing lines, meaning: drawing on the ground, if it is for the purpose of learning the sciences of the unseen, or if he thinks that this gives him something of the knowledge of the unseen, this is from al-Jibt.. from the thing in which there is no good, and from the condemned practices of sorcery, so it is not permissible, as mentioned before. Yes.
As for what she says about Fatimah; I do not know of any basis for it. What she mentions about Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her), I do not know of any basis for it. Yes.

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