37 - The prohibition of black magic and all claims of having knowledge of what is beyond human perception

عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضي الله عنه، عَنْ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ: «مَنْ أَتَى كَاهِنًا، أَوْ عَرَّافًا، فَصَدَّقَهُ بِمَا يَقُولُ، فَقَدْ كَفَرَ بِمَا أُنْزِلَ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ ﷺ» 


Abu Hurayrah narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said:

Whoever goes to a fortune teller or soothsayer and believes what he says disbelieves in what has been revealed to Muhammad.

Related by Abu Dāwūd, 3904 ; al-Tirmidhī, 135 ; al-Nasāʼī, 9017 ; Ibn Mājah, 639 .

Related Quranic Verses

With Him are the keys to what lies beyond the reach of human perception: none knows them but He. He knows all that the land and sea contain; not a leaf falls but He knows it; and neither is there a grain in the earth’s deep darkness, nor anything fresh or dry but is recorded in a clear book.

(6: 59)

 

We have indeed set up in the heavens constellations, and endowed them with beauty for all to behold, (16) and We have guarded them from every cursed devil, (17) so that anyone who tries to eavesdrop is pursued by a flame clear to see.

(15: 16-18)

 

Say: ‘None in the heavens or earth knows what is hidden except God. Nor can they ever perceive when they shall be raised from the dead’. (65) Indeed the total sum of their knowledge stops short of comprehending the Hereafter. Nay, they are in doubt of it. Nay, they are blind to it.

(27: 65-66)

 

Indeed with God alone rests the knowledge of when the Last Hour will come; and He it is who sends down rain; and He knows what the wombs contain; whereas no one knows what they will earn tomorrow, and no one knows in what land they will die. God alone is omniscient and takes cognisance of all things.

(31: 34)

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