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Are you facing difficulty overcoming psychological and academic problems that began in 2011, and do you fear that this is due to pessimism associated with the Capricorn zodiac sign, despite your disbelief in horoscopes, and can believing in them lead to apostasy?

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The scholars have deemed the claims made by astrologers regarding knowledge of happiness, misery, or luck, based on zodiac signs, as forbidden divination. This is because it involves claiming knowledge of the unseen, which Allah alone possesses. The information reported about these zodiac signs is a form of sorcery (kahana), which a Muslim is not permitted to believe, due to the Prophet (peace be upon him) saying: "Whoever goes to a diviner or a sorcerer and believes what he says, has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad." What a person experiences is a decreed matter, and destiny is also repelled, just like all diseases are repelled by medicine.

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