FORTUNE - TELLING The Salaah (Daily Prayer) Of Whoever Approaches A Fourtune - Teller And Asks Him About Anything Will Not be Accepted For 40 Days And Nights. - Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) Astrology, horoscopes, superstition and fortune-telling are all actions of Jaahiliyyah (ignorance) which Islam came to show as false and to explain that they are Shirk, because they involve depending on something other than Allaah and believing that benefit and harm come from something other than Him, and believing the words of fortune-tellers who falsely claim to have knowledge of the unseen in order to cheat people of their money and change their beliefs. The evidence (Daleel) for that is the Hadeeth narrated by Abu Dawood in his Sunan with a Saheeh Isnaad from Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allaah (Peace Be Upon Him) said: “Whoever learns anything of astrology has learned a branch of witchcraft (al...