 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين بارئ الخلاق أجمعين باعث الأنبياء والمرسلين ثم الصلاة والسلام على خير خلقه العبد المؤيد والرسول المسدد حبيب إله العالمين أبي القاسم المصطفى محمد وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين من الطهرين وصحابته المنتجبين صلى الله عليك يا رسول الله صلى الله عليك يا سيد ويا مولا يا رحمة الله الواسعاء ويا بنجاء ويا عبرت ومؤمنا يا شهيد كربلا يا ليتنام سادتي فنفوزا فوزا عظيمة أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قل لا يعلم من في السماوات والأرض الغيب إلا الله وما يشعر يبعثون صلى الله علي محمد وآله محمد الله صلى الله علي محمد وآله محمد أي سكن فوضى الله في إمام زل حسن والحسين الله صلى الله علي محمد وآله محمد أي سكن فوضى الله في إمام زل حسن والحسن والحسن والحسن والحسن وآله محمد لا يوجد فتاة بأننا نحن نعيش في مدينة مدينةornage white spread everywhere Our are a lot. More educated today. than they were in the past Today as things have become more modern We see more advancement we see scientific technological economic advancement This is the age of knowledge this is the age of education this is the age of information الناس تعرفون اليوم بشكل أكثر than they knew in the past إذا كنا نتقل with our generation to previous generations our generation by far is more educated and knows more than the previous generations لكن حتى حتى our generation is the most educated generation وكنا نتقل with our generation and has more knowledge and information than previous generations وكنا نتقل with our generation and we still see certain things that exist that are quite surprising such as fortune telling today is a multi-million dollar industry that makes a lot of money that has a lot of customers even though we live at a time where you would expect people to be educated you expect people to be better yet even today there is a need for fortune tellers people want to know their fortune people want to know their future what will happen to them in the next 10 years or 20 years there are still customers now when I say fortune telling or fortune tellers this could include a horoscope those that are interested in reading the horoscope in a lot of newspapers there is an important section there is a big section for the horoscope why? because there are people that are interested people that would like to read it almost on a daily basis this could include tarot card reading this could include palm reading this could include crystal balls telling the future from crystal balls this could include fortune tellers that claim to have communication with the jinn or with souls of dead humans this could include opening the Quran and trying to tell the future from the Quran these are all various ways that are used by Muslims and non-Muslims alike these are various ways that are used in the east and in the west in order to tell people's fortune this is not just a phenomena you would think only in America or in Canada or in Europe that people would like to know their fortune this is a phenomena that exists among Muslims and Islamic countries I remember a couple of years ago there was a show perhaps the show is still on I don't know but it got very famous a couple of years ago in the middle east a man who claimed to tell people's fortune he could tell about their past and could tell their future and he claimed to be in contact with the jinn he claimed to have friends from the jinn and they would tell him people's future and this program was extremely popular in the evening everyone was watching this show and this was in Islamic countries people where you would think in areas where you would think these people have enough Islamic knowledge and enough Islamic education to know but these people are all crooks yet nevertheless these people such shows and this business the fortune telling business is quite widespread among Muslims and non-Muslims tonight my dear brothers and sisters we'd like to examine first of all an analysis of why do people want to know their future why do people go to fortune tellers what is it that drives people to want to know their future so first let's examine that two what does Islam say about fortune telling can we go to fortune tellers can we depend on them can we depend on the horoscope or the palm reading can we depend on them or no does Islam allow us or does Islam not allow us number three what fortune tellers say is it true or is it false when you go to a fortune teller and the fortune teller tells you that so and so is going to happen you're going to marry this person or that person or you're going to find a job in this city or that city is this true or is this false these are all a bunch of lies now stick with me as we take this journey tonight and we try to discover these the answers to these questions وصل على محمد وآلي محمد first of all why are people interested in knowing their future this the fortune telling industry this industry is not something new it's a very old business that existed from the days of the prophets even perhaps before there were astrologists there were fortune tellers there were magicians كهنة كهنة meaning fortune tellers منجمين meaning astrologists سحرا meaning magicians there were a lot and it was a very well-known business that would make money they had a lot of customers it goes it goes way back this is not something new in fact most of you know in the story of Prophet Musa a.s Prophet Musa when he was born the year that he was born the pharaoh of the time فرعون astrologists when a jameen they told him that this year a child will be born that will kill you in the future he will kill you they told him and what happened he ordered that any woman that is pregnant you take out the fetus you abort the child and you kill the child and that's what happened يستحي نساءهم يذبحوا ابناءهم يستحي نساءهم he would leave their women he would abort their children and he would kill these children thousands thousands of children were killed why because astrologists had told that Musa will be born that year thus there were astrologists who depended on them Imam al-sadaq a.s was asked he was asked and this hadith is in he was asked by an atheist that where did fortune tellers come from Imam al-sadaq a.s he told them that during the days of جاهلية they came during في حين فترة مين الرسول meaning whenever prophets did not come soothsayers and fortune tellers would come and fill in their place so if in a couple of years decades there was a prophet and then that prophet died and there was no other prophet till another decade or two decades within that period fortune tellers would appear they would take advantage of that period prophets and people would come to them people will fooled if this person could tell the future once or twice or he would guess people would think that this fortune teller has supernatural abilities supernatural powers so they would depend on him in fact he would be the judge if two people were in an argument they would come to these fortune tellers they would tell them who is right and who is wrong who stole who didn't steal who killed so if we examine the history it goes back for centuries people believed in fortune tellers this is not something new it's not a new business today today it's the age of the internet there's websites there's mass communication there's universities there's colleges there's iBooks for God's sake you expect people to be educated yet today it's a flourishing business fortune telling industry is a flourishing business I read studies and reports that you have top executives top CEOs of companies that go to fortune tellers you have top politicians of course they didn't name any because obviously there's a privacy law there's politicians that go to fortune tellers they want to know what does their future have in store for them executives top most successful people they go to fortune tellers and they want to know their future why first of all we human beings we're interested we'd like to know what will happen to us in the future who are we going to marry who's going to come propose to us for your female what am I going to be doing within the next 10 years where will I be will I be living in Montreal or will I be living in in the UK or the Netherlands or New Zealand or the US or Iraq or Pakistan where am I going to be am I going to have any children everyone's interested right we're all interested in what will happen to us in the future everyone's interested everyone has an interest they're nosy they'd like to know what will happen to them in the next 10 years some people are not just interested they have fears I want to know what will happen to me a year from now where will I be what do my enemies have in store for me are they going to set a trap for me are they going to kill me are they going to what are they going to do some people are very nervous they don't want to be surprised they don't want to be shocked am I going to get married some people don't know are they going to get married and not get married is this person going to really come and propose to me or no is this person going to accept my proposal or not they're very anxious they're very nervous for them the future is very stressful will I have children or do I have to perform a surgery what is it and they keep on asking questions they'd like to know what will happen to them they don't want any surprises they don't want to be shocked or surprised so they go to fortune tellers and you know this it tells you a lot about this person a person who has weak faith in Allah SWT will resort to fortune tellers and would want to know what's in store for them in the future a person who has strong faith in Allah SWT would care less what will happen in the future a person who has strong faith in Allah will do what they need to do now they will do their business they will go to their school they will finish what they have to finish and they leave the rest for Allah SWT will they become successful or not I'm sure they think about it but they leave that for Allah they're not going to go to a fortune teller and see am I going to be successful with my business 10 years from now am I going to be on Fortune 500 10 years from now or 20 years from now no they do what they need to do they do their obligation their responsibility they do everything that they can and they leave the rest on Allah SWT a person who has strong faith in Allah will not need to go to a fortune teller and would want to know what's happening no a person who has strong faith in Allah will depend on Allah will leave things in the hands of Allah of course with actions not without performing actions sitting at home not doing anything and depending on Allah to make them rich no, of course that's not how things work you do what you have to do and you leave the rest on Allah say that nothing will happen to us unless it's been destined for us so why are you nervous about the future what's been destined for you what's been destined for you will happen to you no matter what and what's not destined for you won't happen to you so what are you worried about leave things in the hands of Allah and let Allah take care of you there's some people that always try to be on control of things be on top of things be in control instead of you wanting to be in control of your life you wanting to know what will happen to you 20 years down the line so that you'll be prepared let Allah be in control leave things in his hands and there's a difference between you being in control of your life or letting Allah be in control of your life which would you rather have I would rather have Allah's will to make decisions for me I would rather have Allah be in control of my life than I be in control of my life is the best of planners and he will choose the best things for me now before we discuss fortune telling and can we depend on them can we not depend on them what they say is it true is it false let's first say to Allah and this lies that no one knows the future other than Allah SWT this is what the Quran tells us it is only Allah SWT knows the future he has the keys to the future no one knows them except him فقل say that the future that the unseen is with Allah عالم الغيب والشهادة الكبير المتعال he knows the unseen and of course one of the aspects of the unseen is the future قل لا يعلم من في السماوات والأرض الغيب say that no one knows the unseen in this earth in the skies other than Allah SWT thus no one knows the future other than Allah okay how about prophets and imams yes we believe they also know the future and we will talk about this in a couple of nights we have designated a lecture on the imams and the knowledge of علم الغيب the imams and علم الغيب do the imams have علم الغيب or not because some some of our sunni brothers and sisters they accuse us they say that you give god qualities godly qualities to your imams you say that your imams know علم الغيب is this true do we say that the imams have علم الغيب do we give them divine qualities we will talk about that in another lecture but briefly we believe that the prophets and imams they do have some knowledge of علم الغيب but it's from Allah whatever they have it's been given to them from Allah it's not natural it's not natural they actually have علم الغيب it's from Allah وما كان الله ليطلعكم على الغيب ولكن الله يجتب من رسوله ما يشاء الله will not show you his knowledge of the unseen however Allah chooses some He chooses some those who he wishes who he wishes to have knowledge of the unseen who will give them knowledge of the unseen thus this is the first law let's get things straight that no one has knowledge of the unseen no one has knowledge of the future other than Allah and some of his prophets and Awliya and the imams other than that no one has the knowledge of the future horoscope telling you what will happen in the future no one has knowledge of the future the ones that read your your palms they have crystal balls the ones that do tarot reading tarot card reading no one has knowledge of the future other than Allah SWT and those whom he chooses those whom he chooses رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم was asked he was asked about the day of judgment when is the day of judgment Allah SWT tells him answer them يسألونك عن الساعة قل علمها عند ربي في كتاب they ask you about the hour which hour the hour of the day of judgment they ask you about the day of judgment say that only Allah knows علمها عند ربي my lord knows about the hour of the day of judgment does this mean that the prophet does not know about the day of judgment perhaps he knows perhaps Allah SWT has given him naturally he doesn't know but can Allah give him absolutely Allah could give him the knowledge however when this verse is trying to say don't ask me you want to know about the future don't come and ask me only Allah knows the future it will happen in 10 years 20 years basically it's trying to close this door you want to know about the future only Allah knows the future I as a prophet I'm not going to tell you about the future we'll talk about this more to come insha'Allah so who knows about the day of judgment Allah knows about the day of judgment by the way as a joke they say that it was the day of judgment and one of the one of the father was he also got up from his grave he saw the grave next to him also he read the name also so he knocked on the grave he told them get up the man in the other grave he looked up he said it's the day of judgment he said no according to my tomorrow is the day of judgment صلى الله عليه و سلم صلى الله عليه و سلم صلى الله عليه و سلم صلى الله عليه و سلم when we read the Hadith of Ahlul Bayt we see that fortune tellers fortune telling and those who go to fortune tellers are all condemned they're all condemned Islam has closed that door Islam has closed the door of fortune telling and a Hadith by Imam Sadaq عليه السلام he says he who goes to a magician or to a fortune teller or to a liar meaning that the others are also what they don't put them in the same context a magician or a fortune teller or a liar meaning they're all the same يصدقه فيما يقول he goes to him and he believes what he says he believes this magician or this fortune teller فقد كفر بما عن انزل على محمد صلى الله عليه و سلم if he believes him then that means he disbelieves in what was revealed upon صلى الله عليه و سلم that means he disbelieves in Islam this is very powerful that he who goes to a fortune teller and he who believes in what a fortune teller tells him you know sometimes you read the horoscope for fun as a joke for humor for entertainment that's fun but reading to believe in it and acting upon it you know someone comes and proposes to you he's a he's a scorpio for example no no no I don't get along with the scorpios I don't get along with scorpios we don't get along that means you believe in it that's a problem and that's what Islam says when Islam says no we draw a red line صلى الله عليه و سلم صلى الله عليه و سلم now let's analyze this a bit more fortune tellers what's their source of knowledge because just to tell you that fortune telling is haram you're going to tell me okay it's haram it's haram but that doesn't explain to me much but what if I've been to a fortune teller and what they told me was true you might say say I went to a fortune teller and what they told me was true just to tell me it's haram well that doesn't that doesn't help much no let's come and analyze where does fortune telling come from fortune tellers what is their source of knowledge let's examine let's examine it's either one, two, three, four, five these are their sources let's examine these sources and let's see that is their source of knowledge is it authentic is it reliable or is it not reliable and as you will see that none of them is reliable and that is why we say that fortune telling in Islam is forbidden and it's haram and it's haram to go to fortune telling because their source of knowledge is all invalid let's begin one inspiration there are some fortune tellers that claim to be inspired inspiration in Arabic is called alham they claim to be divinely inspired how? I don't know but they say that we've been divinely inspired and this is how I know the future I can tell you the future because I receive inspiration I'm inspired and this of course is false because as we said only Allah knows the future and he told some of his Awliya some prophets all prophets and the imams and that's it yes there are some people that receive inspiration Allah tells us in the Qur'an some people are inspired for example the mother of Musa ووحينا إلا أم موسى أنا أرضعيه فإذا خفت عليه فألقيه في اليم ولا تخافي ولا تحزني إننا رادوه إليك وجعلوه من المرسلين أم موسى when the army of Fura'an they went door to door killing all the fetuses and all the babies Allah inspired her to put Musa in a basket and put him in the river and she did she was inspired Allah tells her put Musa in a basket and put him in the Nile river and we will make sure that he will come back to you as a messenger he will come back to you as a messenger this was an inspiration by the way الشيخ الأنصاري الشيخ مرتض الأنصاري if you've heard of him one of our greatest scholars the one who renewed علم أصول الفقه the Islamic legal theory in Shi'a school of thought 250 years ago approximately when he wanted to join the Islamic seminary he was from Iran from a city called Dasfool or Shushtar in Iran he wanted to come to Iraq and he went to Karbala to study he was only 16 years old his mother was afraid of sending him she was worried at the age of 16 sending him to another country and it's not like he had airplanes he could come every weekend he would go and visit maybe once every 5-6 years or maybe once every 10 years so she wasn't sure they took an istikhara and this verse came out we told the mother of Musa that let him go and if you have fear do not have fear let him go and we will send him back as a messenger several years after الشيخ مرتض الأنصاري came back to his mother as the grand merger of his time some people receive divine inspirations like the mother of Musa and the fortune teller every random person comes and says that I'm divinely inspired I can tell you your future this is going to happen to you no this does not happen every day there are some people that are divinely inspired you might say well some people they tell them they tell the future someone predicted that this person will become president today in Canada you have a new prime minister I hear some people saying I predicted that he will be the prime minister I predicted that this person will win the elections I predicted these political events that doesn't require knowledge of the future that sometimes requires knowledge of politics if you kept up with politics you will know that this person will be the prime minister if you kept up with politics you will know what will happen with the Iran deal this does not require knowledge of the future this requires just being smart and being up to date and having knowledge of political events that's it this is not knowledge of the future there are some that take educated guesses you go to some that read your palm or they have the crystal balls or the terror reading they take educated guesses people think that they have knowledge of the future they have no knowledge of the future it's absolutely it's an educated guess it's a smart guess let me give you an example you're a young man in your 20's or 30's you go to a fortune teller he reads your palm and she tells you you have relationship problems now which guy in his 20's or 30's doesn't have a relationship problem today that's an educated guess that doesn't take a lot to assume something like that or a man in his late 40's or 50's goes to this fortune teller and of course they ask for their age and they ask for info and she tells them you're having 50's which man in his 50's is not having financial difficulties they're all having financial difficulties these are educated guesses they take information from you knowledge of your of your past your age, your job, your work and then they give you an educated guess about what's going to happen in the next year or two years you will meet someone every day that doesn't take a genius to figure it out or someone will come propose to you of course someone will propose to you that's no brainer right people assume that they know the future no this is not known the future صلى الله عليه وسلم some claim to have contact with the jinn and this happens especially in our countries in some villages or some Islamic centers there are some that claim from the Muslim community to know the future they tell you your future and they claim to have connections with the jinn and that the jinn provide them with knowledge now first of all is it possible to contact the jinn is this possible or not possible let's get this straight do the jinn have knowledge of the future after being in contact with the jinn do the jinn have knowledge of the future or not let's see first of all the jinn are real they exist they're not fake we believe in them they're mentioned in the Quran there's an entire chapter named after them صورة الجن they exist no doubt about it and there were some that had contact with the jinn there were some prophets that had contact with the jinn maybe some of the imams had contact with the jinn we have stories that Imam Ali alaihi salam had contact with the jinn but does this mean that everyone can have contact with the jinn no no only a limited people only chosen people some prophets imams they have contact with the jinn but you can't listen to whoever says I have contact with the jinn whoever comes on tv or maybe where is the turbine or you know lives in your local village claims that he has contact with the jinn you believe them in fact there is a hadith qudsi a divine hadith by Allah SWT says Allah says that I will put a barrier between humans and jinn they will not see each other or at least humans cannot see jinn jinn could see humans but humans cannot see jinn they cannot communicate with them they cannot speak with them this is a hadith and some scholars believe that indeed humans cannot be in contact with the jinn those who claim so they're they're either crooks they're either lying or it's hallucinations or they're not lying but it's hallucinations they think you know they think you know once I remember I was visiting a country and I was lecturing somewhere and I was in a I was in a house they put me in a house it was a very old house I'm lucky to be staying at a good hotel nowadays an old house and there was someone staying with me in that house one of the brothers in the community and it was around we started hearing noises we started hearing tapping on the window you know I thought it was probably a raccoon or an animal but the brother that was with me he thought it was a jinn he thought it was a jinn if you think about it if you think about these things it will happen to you you'll start hearing noises and you'll begin translating a regular tapping on the window that it could be a bird or a raccoon or an animal you start translating it as what as a jinn and this is very dangerous this is very dangerous even though if I go off topic this is very dangerous and I've seen people that they lose their mind and they hear stories from their grandmothers and their grandparents about what happened in India or Pakistan or Iraq or Iran this is nonsense I will tell you this is nonsense not that we don't believe in jinn the jinn exist but the jinn came and they entered this person's body and they entered that person's body and this is ridiculous this does not exist don't think of such things don't be burdened because there are some people they overthink and they become crazy they lose their mind they're afraid of taking showers by themselves they're afraid of sleeping in a room by themselves because they're afraid of jinn so don't do that to yourself so don't believe anyone who came and says I have contact with the jinn I have a friend from the jinn that brings me news two jinn are limited beings just like humans just like we human beings were limited jinn are also limited of course they're different but they don't have super limited but they don't have super limited so don't believe anyone but they don't have super natural powers and they could do whatever they like no in this verse يا معشرة الجن والانسي ان استطعتهم ان تنفذوا من أقطار السماوات والأرض فنفذوا لا تنفذون الا بسلطات الله says oh jinn and oh humans if you think you could fly out this universe and do whatever you like do it but you can't do it this tells us that the jinn are limited and their knowledge is also limited the knowledge of the jinn are also limited and the story of Prophet ﷺ Prophet ﷺ had contact with the jinn and he had jinn working for him he had the jinn build him a palace and he was in another palace they were building him a larger palace he would stand on his balcony and overlook at the jinn and the jinn whenever they'd see him they would work harder one day he was overlooking the jinn standing on his balcony and he was leaning on his cane ملك الموت the angel of death came to him he told him are you here to visit or are you here to take my life he said I'm here to take your life he said okay give me a chance to go say farewell to my family members he said no he said give me a chance to say farewell to my children he said no he said give me a chance for me to lie down on my bed he said no he took his life while he was standing he says Prophet ﷺ if Prophet ﷺ was not given the ability to sit or lie down do you think you and me would be given that chance فأدع جاء أجلهم لا يستخرون لا يستخدمون لن يكون لن يكون لدينا محاولة أي how he remained standing the hadith said and the verse for an entire year سليمان remained standing leaning on his cane until insects they came and started eating his cane until he fell the jinn they saw سليمان standing 24 hours a day they kept on working building his palace until he fell they realized that سليمان was well he was dead and they were working for no reason the jinn realized that if they had knowledge of the unseen of the the unseen of the future they would not be tortured like this this tells us that the jinn are limited even in their knowledge their knowledge is limited furthermore even if they have knowledge jinn are religious and non-religious some are truthful some are liars the jinn say that some of us tell the truth and some of us are liars just like whom just like people just like human beings people also tell the truth and there are some that are liars are just like us they have our qualities some are truthful and some are liars so even if they have knowledge who says that they're telling the truth also also we believe that the jinn they used to come to the skies and they would hear news from the angels they would spy on the angels the angels would pass by in the sky bringing news from here from there some of the jinn they would go in the sky and listen to the news pick up signals pick up signals and this is how they discovered the birth of prophet Musa how did the astrologers know about the birth of prophet Musa was from the jinn the jinn told them the jinn were able to listen to the news and pick up signals from the sky until prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم was born the year that he was born the jinn were banned from listening to news وأن لمسنا السماء فوجدناها مولئة حرسة شديدة وشهبا the jinn said that when we went to the sky the skies were protected we were not allowed to listen they were shooting stars banning us burning us not allowing us to listen وأننا كنا نقعد منها مقاعدة للسماء فمن يستمع الآن يجد له شهاب الرصد and we would sit and listen to news in the sky but now we can't so from the time of صلى الله عليه وسلم the jinn can no longer bring news if they could bring news in the past today they could no longer bring news after the birth of the messenger of Allah so if you hear someone saying that I have a jinn bringing me news of the future I can tell who is going to get married who is going to get divorced who will live, who will die who will have children this is nonsense this is nonsense الله صلى الله عليه وسلم there are some that claim to have connection with souls of dead humans they have connection with souls and these souls they bring them knowledge of the future some fortune tellers is this possible again is it possible to be in touch with dead people with souls and number two do these dead people they have knowledge of the future or not we according to a hadith we know that when a dead person goes into the next life when a person dies he goes into عالم البرزخ and that's another ruled he's disconnected from this world and these two people from these two worlds from عالم البرزخ can no longer communicate they can no longer communicate that is absolutely impossible when a person dies he goes to another world it's a different place where the dead can no longer communicate with the living so how can this person communicate with a dead person and bring him news in fact who says that that person can bring news who gave him the authority when he was coming back from صفين he came back to نجف the hadith says meaning نجف when Islam is a huge cemetery it existed from before the days of Imam Ali Imam Ali was with his companions he stood at the cemetery and he began speaking to the dead people نعم يا أهل الغربة يا أهل التربة يا أهل الوحشة all the people of loneliness all the graves he began speaking to them and then he tells them أما دور فقد سكنت your homes that you built you spent so much money on people are living in them don't think that your room is empty no the day that you died they buried you someone went and they slept in your room your room is no longer vacant وعم الأموال فقد وزعت and as for your wealth the Imam is giving them news to the dead people and as for your wealth it's been dispersed it's been distributed your money is not waiting for you وعم الأزواج فقد نكحت and as for your spouses your widows they went and they remarried your wife she went and she remarried your husband he went and he remarried and then he says this is the news of us of this world now you give us news of your world عالم الآخر I just told you what's happening here now you tell me what's happening there and then he looked at his companions and he said أما لو أذن لهم بالكلام if they are allowed to speak to us which means what they are not allowed to speak to us if they were allowed to speak to us what would they tell us only one sentence one sentence what happened to them death after death in the grave when they went into that world what happened they would summarize it in one sentence what is it the best thing to carry with you is it's a piety who says that we could communicate with dead people this is one and two who says that dead people have knowledge of the future when we die we will have knowledge but knowledge of what of our actions of our actions we will see our actions the prayer that we pray we will see it we will see it physically the majlis that we attended the tears that we shed for abaa عمد الله the food that we cooked for the majlis and all the bad deeds as well we will see them we will have knowledge of our deeds لقد كنت في غفلة عن هذا فكشفنا عنك غطائك فبصرك اليوم حديد we will be told that you did not see these things but today the curtain is removed from your eyes and now you could see 2020 you could see yes we will have knowledge of our actions but other actions we don't know and finally there are some that claim to have knowledge of the future from stars from the movement of the stars and these are astrologists they claim that the movement of the stars has an effect on people's lives when a person dies lives his income his journey his travels the movement of the stars has an effect of course this is nonsense would you not believe in this a person who believes in that this is a form of shirk because as we mentioned a couple of nights ago لا معثرة في الوجود الا الله there is no authority except him الله الله gives us life الله takes away our life الله gives us children not stars, not anything else Imam Ali A.S. was about to set off to the battle of Nahrawan an astrologist told him يا مومنين don't leave at this hour if you leave at this hour evil will come to you the Imam told him no I will not believe you if a person believes you that means he is disbelieving in the Quran and the Imam Ali A.S. he sent out yes finally I will say this that there are that there are exceptions there are divinely inspired individuals that have knowledge of the future these are a handful these are not people that are showing up on tv they have a tv show that are telling you call me and I will tell you no these are divinely inspired scholars some of them are in some of them are in some of them are in they are not going to come out and boast and tell you that I know the future but there are some there are some they do there are some exceptions صلى الله عليه وسلم