Are there any schools of thought among scholars other than the Egyptian Dar Al-Ifta that consider reading horoscopes reprehensible, and what are these schools of thought, with their names mentioned?

Reading horoscopes is divided into two categories: a permissible science, which includes studying planets, their movements, their constellations, and using them to determine the direction of the Qiblah, prayer times, and the like; and a forbidden science, which involves the fortune-tellers' claims of predicting the unseen.

If the purpose of reading horoscopes is to predict the unseen, then reading them is impermissible if one believes in them. However, merely reading them for amusement is discouraged due to the waste of time involved.

Reading horoscopes without belief is not devoid of three situations: 1. The reader is a specialist whose aim is to refute the falsehoods within them. This is a communal obligation (fard kifayah). 2. It is merely for gaining information. This is disliked (makrooh) if one does not fear confusion regarding their belief, and forbidden (haram) if one does fear it. 3. The general Muslim public who lack knowledge. For them, looking into horoscopes is forbidden (haram) for fear of confusing them.

Whoever reads horoscopes believing that they influence or reveal the unseen has committed an act of disbelief (kufr). And whoever believes them in their claim of knowing the unseen has committed an act of disbelief, because knowledge of the unseen belongs to Allah alone.

Whoever reads them for information, or to refute them, or to understand the superstitions of astrologers, there is no harm. However, merely going to diviners and astrologers is forbidden, even if one does not believe them, and their prayer will not be accepted for forty days.

Whoever believes in these horoscopes and thinks that they can harm or benefit without Allah's permission, or that someone other than Allah knows the unseen, is a disbeliever. And whoever believes that they are speculative and does not believe that they can harm or benefit is a disobedient believer.