Fatwa ID: 06509

Answered by: Maulana Mohammed Dilwar Hussain

Question:

Does saying to someone, “Don’t worry you’ll get admission to the university” because the person is stressing out, comes under the heading of fortune telling? Thus is it shirk?

And there are many more scenarios like that. If based on someone’s behaviour, who’s a narcissist, we say to them, “No one’s gonna stay with you” we say it because of their behaviour, is this shirk?

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

Answer:

Shirk is to associate partners with Allāh Ta’ālā, either in His being or through His attributes. To do an act of shirk is a testament to one going out of the fold of Islam.

“Allah has promised those of you who believe and do good deeds that He will certainly make them (His) vicegerents in the land, as He made those before them, and will certainly establish for them their religion which He has chosen for them, and will certainly give them peace in place of fear in which they were before; (provided that) they worship Me, ascribing no partner to Me. And those who turn infidel after that are the transgressors.” [Surah An-Nur; 24:55] [1]

In your first statement, it would have been better to add “In Shaa Allāh” to the end, meaning that if Allāh Ta’ālā so wills then he will get admission.

Neither of your statements associating partners with Allāh Ta’ālā thus, they will not be acts of Shirk.

Only Allah knows best.

Written by Maulana Mohammed Dilwar Hussain

Checked and approved by Mufti Mohammed Tosir Miah

Darul Ifta Birmingham

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