What is the ruling regarding some women, including حافظات (memorizers) of the Qur’an, going to a sorceress who claims to bestow blessings and provide offspring, and prescribes to them baseless things such as drinking certain concoctions or a calf’s testicle, or claims to improve marital relations, despite the clarity of the noble verse: "To Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth; He creates what He wills. He grants to whom He wills female [offspring], and He grants to whom He wills males. Or He combines them [as] males and females, and He renders whom He wills barren. Indeed, He is Knowing and Competent"?

The ruling on resorting to soothsayers and believing them has been previously addressed in former fatwas. A Muslim must turn to Allah and seek His help in all their affairs, for everything is by Allah’s decree and destiny. They should know that children and love between spouses are provisions from Allah, and that obedience to Allah is the greatest means of acquiring provision, while disobedience leads to deprivation. What charlatans describe for improving relationships might be a love-inducing spell, which is disbelief (kufr) and polytheism (shirk). As for medicines and material things, they should be examined. If their benefit is scientifically proven, if they are permissible, and if the charlatan has not recited polytheistic incantations over them, then there is no harm. Scholars have differed on eating calf testicles; many have permitted it, while the Hanafis prohibited it, citing a weak hadith.