{"id":6415,"date":"2024-07-10T07:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/benefiting-from-sorcery\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T13:36:38","slug":"benefiting-from-sorcery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/benefiting-from-sorcery\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefiting From Sorcery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>Can  we consult a sorcerer? This is a simple prediction similar to those  made about hurricanes, earthquakes and rain. This is my personal  experience. A sorcerer told me that I might go abroad at that point of  time and it happened. It proved helpful for me as I had prepared well to  go abroad. Is it allowable to benefit from such counsels of the  sorcerers? <\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>This  kind of knowledge is reminiscent of polytheist societies. The Holy  Qur\u2019\u0101n has clearly stopped us from believing in sorcery and such kind of  knowledge is in itself a branch of sorcery. The best way is that you  should plan in the light of your experience and reason and trust in God  and pray for your success. <\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by: Abid Mahmood Hashmi  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Talib Mohsin<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-01-23<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6415\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can  we consult a sorcerer? This is a simple prediction similar to those  made about hurricanes, earthquakes and rain. This is my personal  experience. A sorcerer told me that I might go abroad at that point of  time and it happened. It proved helpful for me as I had prepared well to  go abroad. Is it allowable to benefit from such counsels of the  sorcerers? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1265],"tags":[1352,2238,1737,2240,2269],"class_list":["post-6415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith-and-beliefs","tag-magic","tag-palmistry","tag-polytheism","tag-prediction","tag-sorcery"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benefiting From Sorcery - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/benefiting-from-sorcery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Benefiting From Sorcery - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Can we consult a sorcerer? 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