Is it permissible to view weather forecast websites that display weather predictions for five to ten days, fearing that this might be a claim to knowledge of the unseen or a form of divination?
Knowing weather conditions and times of eclipses (solar and lunar) does not fall under astrology or claiming knowledge of the unseen. Rather, it is based on sensory matters, experiences, and cosmic laws. Knowing the time of a lunar or solar eclipse can be achieved by calculating the movement of planets, and this is not a matter of the unseen for those who know astronomy. Similarly, weather forecasts are based on understanding God's cosmic laws and relying on sensory matters such as atmospheric adaptations. Therefore, anything that can be understood through calculation or is based on something perceptible is not part of the knowledge of the unseen or fortune-telling.
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