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CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE WHO GO TO THE FORTUNETELLER AND THEIR RULINGS Shaykh Ibn Uthaymīn (may ALLĀH have mercy on him) said: "Those who go to fortunetellers fall into three categories: 1️⃣. The one who goes to a fortuneteller and asks him things without believing in what he says. This is harām, and the punishment of the one who does that is that his prayers are not accepted for forty days, as it is narrated in Sahīh Muslim, that the Prophet (ﷺ) said:

Whoever goes to a fortuneteller and asks him about something, his prayer will not be accepted for forty days.

2️⃣. When a person goes to a fortuneteller and asks him about something and believes what he says. This is disbelief in ALLĀH (kufr), because he is believing the fortuneteller’s claim to have knowledge of the unseen, and believing a human’s being claim to have knowledge of the unseen constitutes disbelief in the verse in which ALLĀH says:

قُل لَّا يَعۡلَمُ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ ٱلۡغَيۡبَ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُۚ Say: None in the heavens and the earth knows the Ghayb (Unseen) except ALLĀH. (27:65).  

Hence it says in the sahīh hadīth:

Whoever goes to a fortuneteller and believes what he says has disbelieved in that which was revealed to Muhammad (ﷺ).

3️⃣. When he goes to a fortuneteller and asks him questions so that he can explain to the people what he is really doing, which is deceiving people and leading them astray. There is nothing wrong with this. The evidence for that is the fact that the Prophet (ﷺ) went to Ibn Sayyād. The Prophet (ﷺ) thought of something to himself.  The Prophet (ﷺ) asked him what he was thinking of and he said, 'Al-dukh' meaning al-dukhān (smoke)." 📚 Majmū' Fatāwā wa Rasā'il al-Shaykh Ibn 'Uthaymīn (2/184) https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VbCkXG6HrDZeu5zvIA1A http://bio.link/albaseerah