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Is it permissible to listen to a horoscope program on the radio for entertainment purposes, not for application?

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Listening to horoscopes programs is forbidden and a reprehensible act, even if it is for entertainment without believing in them. It is akin to asking soothsayers and fortune-tellers. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever goes to a soothsayer and asks him about anything, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights." If one believes in them, then the matter is graver, for the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad." The prohibition increases if other reprehensible acts accompany it, such as music.

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