The Edgar® Awards – 2026 Submissions

Prohibition Of Fortune-telling In Qur'an And Sunnah Pdf Download Portable -

Surah Al-Ma'idah (5:90) explicitly labels divination (such as by arrows) as "Satan's handiwork," urging believers to abstain from it to prosper. Evidence from the Sunnah

In Surah An-Naml (27:65) , Allah states: "Say: 'None in the heavens and the earth knows the unseen except Allah ...'" .

The Qur'an establishes that knowledge of the future and the unseen belongs solely to Allah . Any claim by a human to possess this knowledge is viewed as a challenge to His divine sovereignty.