30/08/2024
The Fortuneteller Ritualist
Visiting fortunetellers has become a well-known practice in our culture, often depicted in movies and other forms of entertainment. Many people turn to these babas/Boka (as they are commonly called) when facing various problems in life, believing that they can provide guidance and solutions. However, the reality is quite different.
The Illusion of Knowledge
• The babas you consult are not free of problems themselves.
• They lack genuine insight and will mislead you with falsehoods.
• Instead of finding solutions, you may end up losing your valuables, afterlife and also compromise your well-being.
Questions to Consider
• When someone knocks on the door, the baba asks, "Who is it?" This raises a crucial question: If they possess such great powers, why don't they know who is calling beforehand?
• Can they accurately count the number of hairs on their own head or those that have fallen out?
• If they are truly powerful, why are they not among the richest individuals in the world?
The Paradox of Power
• It is ironic that someone who cannot improve their own life claims to have the ability to foresee and enhance the lives of others.
The Importance of Knowledge and Employment
• There is nothing wrong with being knowledgeable, particularly about Islam and also possessing skills for a job.
• A lack of employment can lead individuals toward unethical behaviors, such as stealing or scamming.
Ruling on Visiting Fortunetellers
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen said: Those who go to fortunetellers fall into three categories:
1 – The one who goes to a fortuneteller and asks him things without believing in what he says. This is haraam, and the punishment of the one who does that is that his prayers are not accepted for forty days, as it is narrated in Saheeh Muslim (2230), that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever goes to a fortuneteller and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days.”
2 – When a person goes to a fortuneteller and asks him about something and believes what he says. This is disbelief in Allah (kufr), because he is believing the fortuneteller’s claim to have knowledge of the unseen, and believing a human’s being claimed to have knowledge of the unseen constitutes disbelief in the verse in which Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the Ghayb (Unseen) except Allah”
[al-Naml 27:65].
Hence it says in the saheeh hadeeth: “Whoever goes to a fortuneteller and believes what he says has disbelieved in that which was revealed to Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).”
3 – When he goes to a fortuneteller and asks him questions so that he can explain to the people what he is really doing, which is deceiving people and leading them astray. There is nothing wrong with this. The evidence for that is the fact that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) went to Ibn Sayyaad. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) thought of something to himself. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) asked him what he was thinking of and he said, “Al-dukh” meaning al-dukhaan (smoke). End quote.
(Majmoo’ Fataawa wa Rasaa’il al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 2/184)
Tests and Toil
Allah says “Verily, We have created man in toil.” (Al-Balad : 4). And all of mankind will have one or more problems to struggle with. And the believer will also be tested.
Allah says: And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sabirin (the patient ones, etc.). (Al-Baqarah 155)
Who, when afflicted with calamity, say: "Truly! To Allah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return." (Al-Baqarah 156)
So, when afflicted do remember Allah and say inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi Raajiun! You should not remember your village people, an old female neighbor, etc. as no one controls the world and is always in charge except Allah!
Who says you can’t make du’a on your own? Who says you must pay money to some people before your du’a are answered?
And your Lord said: "Invoke Me, [i.e. believe in My Oneness (Islamic Monotheism)] (and ask Me for anything) I will respond to your (invocation). Verily! Those who scorn My worship [i.e. do not invoke Me, and do not believe in My Oneness, (Islamic Monotheism)] they will surely enter Hell in humiliation!" (Al-Ghaafir: 60).
Beware of Ritualists/Babalawo in the guise of Islam!
We have seen many of these ritualists killing people and selling their body parts! So many have been duped of their hard-earned money! There’s a popular story of one at a mosque at Ikorodu as exposed by FIJ.
That one was even requesting for sacrifice to cure someone who faked being gay or something of that sort. He was even faking to see what does not exist!
In Summary, the ritualists and fortunetellers will just eat your money! They are equipped with many tricks to make you believe they know the unseen but they know nothing!
Read the hadith attached in the image below!
Whatever you need is in the Qur’an and Sunnah!
If Afflicted with witchcraft embrace Ruqyah from the Sunnah!
Shun Fortune telling!
Shun Shirk!
Shun the scamming 419ers!
Embrace the Sunnah!
Embrace Islam completely!!!
And Allah knows best!
