How accurate is the circulating discourse about "Ancestral Secrets and Energy Sciences," which links popular practices such as ventilating the home, scattering salt, covering mirrors, not opening scissors, and not sweeping the house after guests leave, to the sciences of "Feng Shui" and the energy of place? Is it permissible to disseminate it?

It is impermissible to attribute any cause to something unless Allah has made it a cosmic or Shar'i (legal) cause, otherwise, it would be shirk (polytheism). People concerning causes are of three types: those who deny them, like the Jabariyya and Ash'ariyya; those who exaggerate them, like the Sufis; and those who believe only in what Allah and His Messenger have affirmed from them, and these are the true believers. If what is mentioned in the article is scientifically proven, then there is no harm; otherwise, it is a polytheistic ṭiyara (omen-taking), because ṭiyara is shirk. Believing in a cause that the Sharia has not made a cause is minor shirk because it weakens reliance on Allah, whereas believing that this cause acts on its own without Allah is major shirk. Therefore, it is impermissible to publish such statements unless scientifically proven.