Is Umrah accepted after visiting a sorcerer if prayer is not accepted for forty days?
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It is not permissible to consult sorcerers due to their disbelief (kufr), and the prohibition becomes even more severe if the sorcerer claims knowledge of the unseen. If someone consults a soothsayer and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights. And if someone consults a diviner (kahin) and believes what he says, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights. The non-acceptance of prayer does not mean its invalidity, but rather a denial of pleasure and reward for it. Your 'Umrah is valid as long as you have repented to Allah for what you have done, because one who repents from a sin is like one who has no sin.
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