Did the practice of opening the Mus'haf to answer worldly matters—such as the questioner placing his finger or keeping the questioner's name within the Mus'haf overnight to extract answers like "the khirah is dry," or "the house has a bad threshold," or "a red wind and the patient is afflicted by the evil eye"—come from the Salaf of the Ummah? And does this act resemble divination by arrows or the actions of soothsayers and diviners?
What this person is doing is an act of sorcerers, divination, and soothsaying, which was not reported from the predecessors of the Ummah. Scholars have denounced opening the Qur’an for omens. Claiming to reveal the unseen through the Qur’an by means of the actions mentioned is even more deserving of denunciation, because it falls under the category of seeking to know the unseen by drawing lots, which is forbidden by Islamic law.
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