A person who tells people who are present about private and secret matters
Question:
One of the liars claims to know the Unseen. He recites Qur'aan over people who
suffer from epilepsy and tells them to use papers on which he has written as
incense, and he gives them amulets to wear. If a person who comes to him for
treatment is a wine-drinker, he tells him that he drank wine the day before and
that the rest of the wine is to be found in such and such a place, and says
that he will not treat him for epilepsy until he gives up drinking wine. Then
the person admits it. Please give us a fatwaa (ruling) on this matter. Is it
permissible to sit and eat with this person and to greet him with salaam and
pray behind him _ as he sometimes leads the people in prayer? We have tried to
advise him but he did not accept our advice, and says that he is doing the
right thing. Please give us a fatwaa, may Allaah reward you.
Answer:
Praise be to Allaah. Undoubtedly this person is a fortune-teller who uses the
shayaateen and gets close to them by doing things that they like so that they
will tell him some concealed things. He may be offering sacrifices to them,
calling them by name, obeying them by disobeying Allaah and eating haraam or
impure things, etc. Of course this is kufr and shirk. He must be asked to
repent, and if he repents, all well and good _ otherwise he must be executed.
It is not permissible to pray behind him or to greet him with salaam until and
unless he repents. And Allaah knows best.
al-Lu'lu' al-Makeen min Fataawaa Ibn Jibreen, p. 20
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