Praise be to Allaah.

Astrology, horoscopes, superstition and fortune-telling are all actions of jaahiliyyah (ignorance) which Islam came to show as false and to explain that they are shirk, because they involve depending on something other than Allaah and believing that benefit and harm come from something other than Him, and believing the words of fortune-tellers and soothsayers who falsely claim to have knowledge of the unseen in order to cheat people of their money and change their beliefs.

The evidence (daleel) for that is the hadeeth narrated by Abu Dawood in his Sunan with a saheeh isnaad from Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever learns anything of astrology has learned a branch of witchcraft (al-sihr)…” And al-Bazzaar narrated with a jayyid isnaad from ‘Imraan ibn Husayn that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “He is not one of us who practises augury or has it done for him, who tells fortunes or has his fortune told, or who practises witchcraft or has that done for him.” Whoever claims to know some matter of the unseen either is a fortune-teller or is acting like a fortune-teller in some sense, because Allaah is the only One Who has knowledge of the unseen.

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning);

“Say: ‘None in the heavens and the earth knows the Ghayb (Unseen) except Allaah…’”
[al-Naml 27:65]

My advice to everyone who has anything to do with these matters is to repent to Allaah and ask for His forgiveness, and to depend only on Allaah and to put their trust in Him in all their affairs, whilst following the practical means that are prescribed or permitted in sharee’ah. They should give up these matters of jaahiliyyah, keep away from them and avoid asking the people who practise them or believe what they say, out of obedience to Allaah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), and in order to protect his commitment to Islam and his ‘aqeedah (religious belief).

https://islamqa.info/en/2538

Whoever goes to a fortune teller, his salah will go unrewarded for 40 days, now this is something serious, its better to leave the desire of wanting to know the future, ofcourse this doesnt mean, "I don't need to pray since i won't be rewarded in the first place" because two things happen when you pray,

1.) You remove the obligation off your neck.

2.) You get rewarded

So going to a fortune teller removes the rewarding part of the prayer, i see no reason why one should even go to a fortune teller when the prophet emphatically stated that, a fortune teller receiving information from his accomplice (the jinn) will get little, very little truth accompanied with hundreds of lies, so why waste your time and reward? I dont think it worth it.

And Allaah knows best

lexiconkabir:
Whoever goes to a fortune teller, his salah will go unrewarded for 40 days, now this is something serious, its better to leave the desire of wanting to know the future, ofcourse this doesnt mean, "I don't need to pray since i won't be rewarded in the first place" because two things happen when you pray,

1.) You remove the obligation off your neck.

2.) You get rewarded

So going to a fortune teller removes the rewarding part of the prayer, i see no reason why one should even go to a fortune teller when the prophet emphatically stated that, a fortune teller receiving information from his accomplice (the jinn) will get little, very little truth accompanied with hundreds of lies, so why waste your time and reward? I dont think it worth it.

And Allaah knows best

Does the person who believes the fortune teller have to go ghusul when re-entering Islam? I would appreciate links to fatwahs

Contact17:


Does the person who believes the fortune teller have to go ghusul when re-entering Islam? I would appreciate links to fatwahs

What you need is to proclaim the shahadatein, according to hanafis ghusl is mustahab for a kafir becoming a muslim, while hanbalis says it is required, but to be on the safer side, do ghusl, this is also the view of sheikh ibn uthaymeen.

And Allaah knows best.

You might want to check this out;

https://islamqa.info/en/32863

lexiconkabir:


What you need is to proclaim the shahadatein, according to hanafis ghusl is mustahab for a kafir becoming a muslim, while hanbalis says it is required, but to be on the safer side, do ghusl, this is also the view of sheikh ibn uthaymeen.

You might want to check this out;

https://islamqa.info/en/32863

Thanks. I was a little unsure but I have my doubts cleared now.

Modified
@lexiconkabir you are right. Found the detailed answer here https://islamqa.info/en/81949

You don't even need to go deep to discover the utter bucum called horoscope or whatever they call it.

Yeah...you might want to amuse yourself sometimes by saying someone behaves like you because they were born same day.

The actual question that punches holes in those theories is what happened to kids who are multiple births? twins, triplets and so on who end up having different characters and outlook towards life even though they were born the same hour.