please the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. This is when a person sets out trusting in Allah and hears a good word:
“He liked good omens and disliked taking ill omens.”
A good omen reinforces what a person has undertaken with Allah’s permission and in reliance upon Him, whereas taking an ill omen runs counter to this. It is therefore disliked for a person to take ill omens. Such omens harm only those who heed them, because they have harmed themselves; they do not harm those who rely upon Allah. The purpose here is not to discuss these matters or explain why they sometimes prove correct and repeatedly prove wrong.
Rather, the point is that people deliberately tell many lies concerning these practices, even when the practices have given no indication of what they claim. Likewise, many people deliberately lie about dreams, although these include righteous dreams, which constitute one of the forty-six parts of prophethood. Similarly, the jinn would mix a hundred lies with a word they heard from heaven and then convey it to the soothsayers. Thus, it is established in Sahīh Muslim:
“Mu‘āwiyah ibn al-Hakam al-Sulamī reported: I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, I have only recently left the time of ignorance, and Allah has brought Islam. Some men among us visit soothsayers.’
“He replied, ‘Do not visit them.’
“I said, ‘Some men among us take ill omens.’
“He replied, ‘That is something they feel in their hearts, but it must not deter them.’
“I said, ‘Some men among us draw lines.’
“He replied, ‘One of the prophets used to draw lines; whoever matches his lines is right.’”
If abundant lies may be deliberately introduced even into things that are parts of prophethood or reports from the angels, what, then, of something inherently inconsistent, with no firm foundation? This is why you find that most people whose religion is corrupt engage in falsehoods concerning events in the world, such as those who hold that the Creator and creation are one. For Ibn ‘Arabī, in his book “‘Anqā’ Mughrib” and elsewhere, foretold many future events