What is the ruling on entering websites that answer questions about the unseen, and foretell future matters, or reveal names and private information about those around us?
Claiming knowledge of the unseen is a forbidden form of divination (kahana), for none knows the unseen except Allah. Anyone who claims to know secrets and perceive the unseen is a soothsayer (kahin), and soothsaying and divination are forbidden by consensus. Going to a soothsayer to inquire about the consequences of matters is forbidden, and believing what he says is an act of disbelief (kufr), based on the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "Whoever comes to a soothsayer or a diviner and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him." Divination encompasses every claim of knowing the unseen, the knowledge of which Allah has kept exclusively to Himself. The term "soothsayer" includes anyone who makes such a claim, whether an astrologer, a diviner, or one who practices geomancy (striking pebbles). The soothsayer commits an act of disbelief by claiming knowledge of the unseen, because it contradicts the words of Allah the Almighty: "Knower of the unseen, and He does not disclose His [knowledge of the] unseen to anyone, except whom He has approved of messengers." Dealing with websites that make such claims falls under the ruling of going to soothsayers; whoever believes them has committed an act of disbelief, and whoever deals with them for amusement and does not believe them has committed a forbidden act, for which his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights, based on the saying of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him: "Whoever comes to a diviner and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty nights."
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