Fortune telling And Fortune teller in Islam, Quran And Hadith

What is fortune telling???

Fortune telling:

Fortune telling is a form of superstition.it is the practice of predicting information about a person’s life.The person who predicts people’s future is called fortune teller.

Fortune teller:

the fortunene teller is a person who claims to use special powers to tell what will happen to someone in the future through Palm reading, dream interpretation, numerology, phrenology and other methods of predicting the future.

Fortune telling in Islam:

Although Islam prohibits fortune-telling that is illogical and superstitious. Our Prophet (Peace and Blessings be upon him) demonstrated the matter by means of one statement: Fortune-tellers are nothing.(Muslim)

Fortune-tellers attempt to speak with authority about the unseen and future, man’s personality and expectations. However, the Owner of the future is only Allah. Only and only Allah knows the future.

Say: None in the heavens or on earth, except Allah, knows what is hidden(The Ants (An-Normal), 27:65)

but still, people believed that fortune teller speak the truth and its work sometimes.one of the companion said this phrase and this is the answer of Hazrat Muhammad (peace be upon him)…

This word belongs to Jinn. Jinn captures the information and cackle to the ears of their friends as hen cackles. Moreover, they add more than a hundred lies into this information.(Muslim)

Types of fortune telling:

There are some types of fortune telling those are practiced from many centuries. A type which was applied by drawing lines on the sand and then telling about the fortune was called as hatturraml. In addition, telling fortunes by means of words, names,dice, besides such fortune-telling types as astrological fortune telling, fortune-telling by means of bones of sheep, meat of slaughter, water, inspecting the grounds remaining in one’s coffee or tea cup, throwing beans or casting lead, salt, wax and palm reading were used.
Basing on superstitious religions and beliefs, fortune-telling does not have any relations and connections with religion, belief, the Quran and Islam at all.

“Whoever approaches a fortune-teller and asks him anything, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights.”(Al-Saheeh Al-Muslim V-2, P-233 Rasheediyah)
moreover, Rasulullah (Salla Allahu Alayhi Wa Sallam) said, “That person who goes to a fortune teller has committed Kufr.” It is not permissible to go to a fortune teller even though you do not believe in his predictions. Similarly, it is not permissible to read books of predictions just as an entertainment. To purchase, sell and read such books is supporting an evil concept which itself a sin.

Allah knows best….