During Tough Times* [[--- 17th Outing ---]]

 *During Tough Times*

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

In Islam, everything considered harmful either to the body, mind, soul or society is prohibited (haram), while whatever is beneficial is permissible (halal). Islam encourage Muslims to sincerely turn to Allah (swt) and prohibits Muslims from complaining around and about regarding their life challenges.. Islam also warn Muslims to stay away from any act of shirk, for it consume their eemaan (Faith).

Because,

Hafsah bint Umar (RA), reported: *“The sallah of whoever approaches a fortuneteller and asks him about anything will not be accepted for 40 days and nights.”*📚Sahih Muslim

Really? Is this serious like this?

The scholars said: 👉 the punishment stated in the above hadith is simply for approaching a fortuneteller and asking him/her out of curiosity😳. Yes. Whether the person believes what the fortuneteller said or not. And believing the fortuneteller amounts to disbelief (ie - kufur) in Islam, which is bigger than having 40days swalat not accepted

*THE 419 U NEED TO KNOW MUCH ABOUT*

Many people addresses such people (soothsayers/fortunetellers) as mallams, Alfa, Shehi, Boka, magician, palmist etc.. I mean those who tell stories about past, present or future..They claim to have knowledge of the unseen and about the future

Obedient Servants Of Allah!

Fortunetellers use various methods and mediums from which they claim to extract their information.. They use Tasbaa, sand, reading tea-leaves, drawing lines, writing numbers, palm-reading, casting horoscopes, crystal ball gazing, rattling bones, throwing sticks, torat cards, parrot reading cards, throwing dices etc

On this,

Nana Aisha (ra) reported that when she asked Allah's messenger about fortune-tellers, he replied that they were nothing but a lier. She (Aisha) then mentioned that the fortune-tellers sometimes told the things which were true. The Prophet (saw) said: 'that is a bit of truth which the Jinn steals and cackles in the ear of his friend; but he mixes along with it a hundred lies"📚Bukhari & Muslim

Now,

Since the act is satanic, many of the fortune tellers use jinns😳. Yes. Even if the person who fortunetell is the imam of your village.. The Jinns are able to inform their human contact of the relative present or future.. For instance, when someone comes to a fortune-teller, since everybody has a jinn assigned to him/her *{called Qareen},* the fortune-teller's Jinn gets information from the person's Qareen (the jinn assigned to every human being) of what plans he/she had made prior to his/her coming to see the fortuneteller😳. Yes. So the fortune-teller is able to tell him/her that he/she will do this or that, or go here or there😃. And by this method, the real fortune-teller is also able to learn about a stranger's past in vivid detail🙆‍♀. Yes.  He is able to tell a total stranger of his/her parents's names, where he was born, the acts of his/her childhood etc

Oh you who believe!

Islam has taken a strong position against visitation of fortunetellers and the art of fortunetelling. Yes. Allah say:

*“Say! None in the heavens nor the earth knows the unseen except Allah"* 📚 Qur’an 27:65

Therefore,

Even without BELIEVING the fortunetellers, visiting them could make us LOOSE OUR SWALAT for 40days. And believing them or taking instructions from them lead to kufr. Yes. Some of us  believe them and even take instructions from them like Mumu who is not civilized😃. Yes. Instructions like giving this or that to so so so and so - as charity - eg salt, onions, colanut, bean-cake, used-clothes etc or using items like  rings, thread-like-materials for protection or burying charms or tieing ropes on the neck or waist of children and adult all in the name of seeking protection or healing

What if you die before 40days? Are u not finished?

TO BE CONTINUED