My uncle is into the feng sui profession. it predicts future, tells which direction to sleep, what symbols to keep for prosperity-health. Is this ok as per islam
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my uncle is into the
feng sui profession. it predicts future, tells which direction to sleep, what
symbols to keep for prosperity-health. Is this ok as per islam. Shold one eat
at such person`s home or from such earning, support him. Are there any quranic
verses which says not to support such a person.
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Astrlogy support eat
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Your Question: my uncle is into
the feng sui profession. it predicts future, tells which direction to sleep,
what symbols to keep for prosperity-health. Is this ok as per islam.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 31
Surah Luqman verse 34:
34 Verily the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah (Alone). It is He Who sends down rain and He Who knows
what is in the wombs. Nor does anyone
know what it is that he will earn on the morrow: nor does anyone know in what
land he is to die. Verily with Allah is
full knowledge and He is acquainted (with all things)
Dear and Beloved Brother, it is the ardent belief
of the believers that none knows anything about the future except the All-Knowing,
All-Wise Allah Subhanah, The Creator and Sustainer of the Worlds. Allah is our
witness brother, if anyone in creation claims to know or predict the future, know
with conviction that the person is nothing more than a manifest liar!
The much-acclaimed ‘feng shui’ is a self-concocted,
baseless, and utter falsehood which has beguiled many people who do not believe
in the Divine Decree and Absolute Power of Allah Subhanah! The so-called knowledge of ‘feng shui’ is
nothing more than the conjectures, whims, and fancies of the ignorant and does
not contain even an iota of truth!
To believe in ‘feng-shui’, or astrology, or
palmistry or any other self-invented format or method which claims to predict
the future or bring about prosperity in one’s health or wealth is absolutely
against the Guidance of the Quran and the Sunnah; and in almost all forms such
belief is tantamount to the abomination of ‘shirk’!
Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith 8.232 Narrated by Aisha
Some people asked Allah's Messenger
(saws) about the fore-tellers. Allah's Messenger (saws) said to them,
"They are nothing! (i.e., liars)."
The architecture or structure of a place, the
position of its furniture and fixtures, the direction one sits or sleeps, etc.
have absolutely nothing to do with one’s prosperity or health! Prosperity and adversity, good and evil,
health and wealth, life and death and every condition one experiences in one’s
life is no more than a test ordained for man by their Lord and Creator, and He
Alone has Absolute and Total Power and Control over all things. If The Lord wishes Mercy on someone, no
combination in creation can withhold His Mercy; and if the Lord wishes to test
one amongst His creation with an affliction, no combination in creation can
remove the affliction except Him Alone!
Such is the Absolute and Total Control, Power, and Strength of the Lord
Most Gracious, Most High!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 10
Surah Yunus verses 106-107:
And do not call besides Allah, any being
that can neither do you any good nor any harm.
For if you will do so, you shall be one of the doers of wrong. If Allah afflicts you with a calamity, there
is none to remove it, but He Himself.
Likewise, if Allah wills to bestow a favor on you, there is none to
withhold Allah’s Bounty. He bestows His
bounty on anyone of His servants He wills.
And He is The Forgiving, The Merciful.
Your Question: Shold one eat at
such person`s home or from such earning, support him.
If one is of the knowledge and knows with
conviction that the complete earnings of the person is earned from selling the
falsehood of ‘feng-shui’, then it would indeed be prudent to avoid being
entertained at such a person’s home. But
if the person has other earnings which are legal, the food one consumes at
their hands will be considered of the halaal earnings and the burden of the
haraam earnings will be on the person who earns it.
Your Question: Are there any
quranic verses which says not to support such a person.
To the best of our knowledge there is no specific
verse in the Glorious Quran which prohibits the believers from supporting a
person who engages in earning from ‘feng-shui’ or fortune telling…but the
general law and principle in Islam is to co-operate and support one another in
deeds and acts of righteousness and piety, and abstain from participating or
supporting acts and deeds of sin and rancor.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5
Surah Maidah verse 2:
Help ye one
another in righteousness and piety but help ye not one another in sin and
rancor: fear Allah: for Allah is strict in punishment.
If by supporting or helping such a person, one is
hopeful that the person could be brought to fear his Lord Creator and made to
realize the enormity of his sin so that he could save himself from it, there is
absolutely no harm in supporting such a person. But under no circumstances should a believer,
who sincerely fears Allah and the Last Day, must do anything that supports the
propagation or distribution of falsehood.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due
to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and well
wisher in Islam,
Burhan