Can you please throw light on the concept of "Tarot Cards". Is Reading or Practicing or believing in Tarot Cards a form of Shirk.
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Can
you please throw light on the concept of "Tarot Cards". Is
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Future telling
tarrot cards
In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask
for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever
He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that
there is none worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad
(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 31 Surah Luqman verse 34:
Verily,
the knowledge of the Hour is with Allah Alone.
He it is Who sends down the rain, and He Alone knows what is taking
shape in the wombs of the mothers. No
living being knows what he will earn the next day, nor does any know in what
land he is to die! Verily Allah is the
All Knowing, Wise.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 16 Surah
Nahl verse 98-100:
Then, when you begin to recite the Quran, seek
Allah’s refuge against the accursed Shaytaan, for he has no power over those
who believe and put their trust in Allah.
Shaytaan has power (to inspire) only over those people, who make him
their patron, and practice ‘shirk’
by his temptation.
In their urge to decipher or seek something of the
knowledge of the future, ignorant people have tried every trick in the book,
from palmistry to the movement of the stars, from the way a worm crawls to the
crossing of a cat, from crystal-ball readings to tarot-cards, etc.; and the
Shaytaan has made it fair-seeming to them to believe in such absolute
nonsense! The believers are content
with the firm belief that none in the Universe has any knowledge of the future
except the One and Only Majestic Lord of the Worlds.
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 people said, 'O Allah's Messenger (saws)! Sometimes they tell
something which comes out to be true."
Allah's Messenger (saws) said, "That word which comes to be true is
what a jinn snatches away by stealing and then pours it in the ear of his
fore-teller with a sound similar to the cackle of a hen, and then they add to
it one-hundred lies."
Sahih Muslim Hadith
133 Narrated by Abu Hurayrah
The Messenger of
Allah (saws) said: “Don't you know what
your Lord said? Your Lord
observed: ‘I (Allah) have never endowed My bondsmen with a favor, but a section amongst them disbelieved it,
and said: stars, it was due to the stars!’”
The practices or beliefs of any
method used to decipher of the happenings of the future is nothing more than
absolute lies, whims, conjecture,
and guess-works of ignorant and unscrupulous people.
Everything that happens in the
heavens and the earth, is in the Absolute Control and Sole Domain of the All
Powerful, All Knowing Lord of the Worlds.
No star, no sun, no moon, no
marks or lines on one’s palms, no signs or numbers on the back of some ‘tarot’
cards, and absolutely nothing and no one in the universe has the power to bring
about any good or evil on anyone…..or inform one regarding one’s future! All Power and All Strength is vested in the
Hands of Allah Subhanah Alone.
To believe in the readings of
‘tarot’ cards, or palmistry or any form of astrology or fortune or
future-telling, etc. is a form and
manifestation of the heinous sin of ‘shirk’;
and all the believers must abstain from this abomination.
To believe even a part of what
the astrologer or the palmist or the ‘tarot’ card reader has said, is to
disbelieve in the Divine Decree and Qadr of the Lord; and a heinous sin. Thus the believers must absolutely abstain
from such false beliefs; and put their full trust and belief in the Power and
Might of the One Lord Alone! Allah
Alone has the Power and Knowledge of everything that is in existence, and
absolutely no one else.
If one trusts,
obeys, and follows the guidance
and commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws), he can be assured of never ever being
misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger
(saws), he can be assured of being led
astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to
Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only
Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
Wister