What is the authenticity of the leaflet that includes the story of a girl's healing thanks to a vision of Lady Zaynab (may Allah be pleased with her), which asks for her story to be circulated 13 times to achieve wealth or ward off poverty, and what is the ruling on distributing this leaflet?
Indeed, the flyers that claim benefits for those who disseminate them and harm for those who neglect them are lies and fabrications, aiming to divert Muslims from relying solely on Allah for bringing benefit and repelling harm. These flyers are among the stratagems of the enemies of Islam to turn Muslims away from their true religion. A Muslim must be wary of them and not be deceived by them. It is not permissible to write or distribute them; rather, that is a reprehensible act and an innovation (bid'ah). These flyers are among the means of polytheism (), exaggeration concerning the dead, and lying about Allah. The duty of anyone who receives such flyers is to tear and destroy them and to warn people against them, because whoever fabricates and distributes them is sinful, and this falls under cooperation in sin and aggression.
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