whilstshe is asleep she is visited by a man wearing a white gown who
walks around her, then the next morning she predicts things that are
almost true. The people know of her and they have started to visither
and they say that shehas knowledge of the unseen, but no one knows the
unseen except Allaah. What is the ruling on this woman? What do you
advise us to do?.
Praise be to Allaah.
It is not permissible for anyone to claim to have knowledge of the
unseen. The one who makes such a claim is a kaafir. And it is not
permissible to believe that anyone has knowledge of the unseen. The
one who believes that is also a kaafir.
Allaah has told us that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be
upon him) does not haveknowledge of the unseen, and that the jinn do
not have knowledge of the unseen.
What we are referring tohere is the unseen in absolute terms, which no
one knows except Allaah. As for the relativeunseen - which some people
know and others do not - some people may find a way to know this, so
we have to find out how they know it; some may find out by spying and
some may find out through the jinn. Both are ways which it is
forbidden for us to use.
Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:
Do the jinn have knowledge of the unseen?
He replied:
The jinn do not have knowledge of the unseen because Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
"Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the Ghaib (Unseen) except Allaah"
[al-Naml 27:65]
"Then when We decreeddeath for him [Sulaymaan (Solomon)], nothing
informed them (jinn) of his death excepta little worm of the earth
which kept (slowly) gnawing away at his stick. So when he fell down,
the jinn saw clearly that if they had known the Unseen, they would not
have stayed in the humiliating torment"
[Saba' 34:14]
So whoever claims to have knowledge of the unseen is a kaafir, and
whoever believes the one who claims to have knowledge of the unseen is
also a kaafir, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the Ghaib (Unseen) except Allaah"
[al-Naml 27:65]
No one knows what is unseen in the heavens and the earth except Allaah
alone. Those who claim to have knowledge of the unseen future are all
fortunetellers, and it is proven that the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever goes to afortuneteller and asks
him (about anything), his prayer will not be accepted from him for
forty days." And if he believes him then he is akaafir because if he
believes that he has knowledge of the unseen, then he has disbelieved
in the wordsof Allaah (interpretation of the meaning):
"Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the Ghaib (Unseen) except Allaah"
[al-Naml 27:65].
Majmoo' Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen, 1 Shawwaal, no. 115.
And Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked
about the ruling on one who claims to have knowledge of the unseen. He
replied:
The ruling on one who claims to have knowledge of the unseen is that
he is a kaafir, because he has disbelieved in Allaah. Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning):
"Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the Ghaib (Unseen)
except Allaah, nor can they perceive when they shall be resurrected"
[al-Naml 27:65]
If Allaah has commandedHis Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) to proclaim to all that no one in the heavens or
onearth has knowledge of the unseen except Allaah, then whoever claims
to have knowledge of the unseen has denied what Allaah has told us
here.
We say to them: How canyou possibly have knowledge of the unseen when
the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not have
knowledge of the unseen? Are you better or the Messenger (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him)? If they say, "We are better than the
Messenger" then they become kaafirs by saying that. If they say, "He
is better," then why was the unseen concealed from him but you have
knowledge of it?? Allaah says of Himself(interpretation of the
meaning):
"(He Alone is) the All-Knower of the Ghayb (Unseen), and He reveals to
none His Ghayb (Unseen).
27. Except to a Messenger (from mankind) whom He has chosen (He
informs him of the Unseen as much asHe likes), and then He makes a
band of watching guards (angels) to march beforehim and behind him."
[al-Jinn 72:26]
The second verse attests to the kufr of the one who claims to have
knowledge of the unseen. And Allaah commanded His Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) to announce to all (interpretation of
the meaning):
"Say (O Muhammad): I don't tell you that with me are the treasures of
Allaah, nor (that) I know the Unseen; nor I tell youthat I am an
angel. I but follow what is revealed to me"
[al-An'aam 6:50]
Majmoo' Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymeen, 1 Shawwaal, no. 22.
The one who predicts the future is called a kaahin (fortuneteller,
soothsayer), and it is notpermissible to ask questions of such a
person or to go to him or her. If their predictions are sometimes
correct, that is either a coincidence or because the jinn
haveintercepted the news and conveyed it to the fortuneteller, but
they add a hundred lies to it.
It was narrated that 'Aa'ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) said:
Some people asked the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of
Allaah be upon him) about fortunetellers. He said: "They are
nothing."They said: "O Messenger of Allaah, sometimes they tell us
something and it is true." The Messenger of Allaah (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "That is a word of the truth
that they learn from the jinni which he whispers into the ear of his
familiar, but they mixa hundred lies with it." Narrated by
al-Bukhaari,5429; Muslim, 2228.
Al-Haafiz ibn Hajar said:
Al-Qurtubi said: During the Jaahiliyyah they used to consult the
fortunetellers about events and rulings, and follow what they said.
Then the fortunetellers stopped when the Prophet (peace and blessings
of Allaah be upon him) was sent. But there are still some who resemble
them. It is forbidden to go to them,so it is not permissible togo to
them or to believe them.
In the version narrated by Yoonus the phrase "sometimes they tell us
something and it is true"appears as "they tell something and it turns
out to be true." This phrase has confused the questioner because of
the general meaning of the phrase "They are nothing", which he has
understood to mean thatthey never get anything right. But the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) commented that although
they sometimes coincidentally get thingsright, it is never completely
right for it is always contaminated with many lies.
Al-Khattaabi said: The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon
him) explained that the reason why the fortuneteller sometimes gets it
right is that the jinni tells him of something that he has heard by
eavesdropping on the angels, and he adds lies to that to embellish
what he heard. So occasionally he gets it right but usually it is
wrong. Fath al-Baari, 10.219, 220.
With regard to what is mentioned in the question of what this woman
sees in her dreams, such dreams arenot to be taken as evidence
concerning rulings of sharee'ah, let alone whatever they may indicate
that goes against any matter of 'aqeedah (belief) that is confirmed in
the texts ofIslam. Whatever she seesin her dreams is to be regarded as
the Shaytaan's toying with her and taking advantage of her ignorance.
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