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What is the ruling on determining personality traits or uncovering what is going on in a person's mind through picture tests and body language, and does that contradict Allah's knowledge of the unseen?

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Practices of personality analysis are a mixture of charlatanism and divination, combined with conjecture and following mere suspicion, along with what might be based on accepted scientific studies. Nothing is permissible from these methods except what is founded on scientific principles. Personality analysis based merely on selecting a picture from several pictures is not permissible; rather, it oscillates between charlatanism and divination, and conjecture and following mere suspicion. Whoever wishes to explore this field should arm themselves with knowledge that allows them to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and begin with works that have addressed the Islamic sciences related to this topic, and whose authors have taken into consideration conformity with the Islamic heritage.

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