4 – Adultery is among the gravest sins and the vilest abominations. Any payment taken for it is foul and forbidden, whether the woman involved is free or enslaved.
5 – Claiming knowledge of the unseen, which Allah alone possesses, is a tremendous sin and a major offense. This covers the pretensions of soothsayers, fortune-tellers, astrologers, and occult charlatans who assert that they know future events and hidden matters—especially when such false claims are used to strip people of their wealth unjustly.
6 – On the rare occasions that any of these unseen claims prove correct, it is only because the devils have informed them; and the devils do not divulge anything unless they are served and obeyed through disbelief in Allah—or at least through other acts of disobedience. Concerning them the Almighty said: “We benefited one from the other, and now we have reached (the term You appointed for us)” (al-Anʿām 6:128).
7 – Going to these impostors is a sin, and believing what they say may even amount to disbelief. The Prophet ﷺ said, “Whoever goes to a fortune-teller and believes what he says has disbelieved in what was revealed to Muhammad.” Reported by Aḥmad (9171).
8 – The ḥadith therefore forbids matters that violate the five essential necessities—religion, life, intellect, honor, and wealth. The prohibition in these areas is especially emphatic, and every prohibition denotes unlawfulness.
9 – Islam is a religion of truth and therefore does not endorse impostors and sorcerers; a religion of purity and integrity and thus rejects earning money through filthy or obscene avenues; a religion of seriousness and so allows taking people’s property only by beneficial means that serve both parties. Illicit gains are not recognized by Islam, which assigns them neither price nor worth.
10 – Because these matters are reprehensible, any contract that leads to them is prohibited and invalid, and whatever earnings result from them are unlawful. A legal prohibition entails both unlawfulness and nullity.
11 – In some narrations of the ḥadith the phrase “and the price of blood” also appears; the blood in question is the spilled, flowing blood, including