Is it permissible to resort to sheikhs who ask for mothers' names, or give papers with squares and numbers or incomprehensible words to fumigate with, or claim knowledge of the unseen and predict people's future, in order to find out the reason for an uncompleted marriage or its dissolution?
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A practitioner cannot predict future events. For more information regarding the difference between a legitimate ruqyah practitioner and a charlatan, the impermissibility of consulting charlatans, the permissibility of legitimate ruqyah, and the treatment of spinsterhood/bachelorhood, please refer to fatwas numbered: 66398, 41780, 32150, 68979, 71342, 74880, 72143, 63292, 69661.
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