بسم الله الرحماني الرحيم
First, we have to make some explanations about the istikhara and fortune telling and we will try to make this in the most simple way. A lot of people make a mistake, when they think that the istikhara is the same like the fortune telling in islam. No such thing, brothers and sisters! In every part of the world the fortune telling has its own deep roots and we may say that the fortune telling in every culture is pre-religion practice. However istikhara should not be mistaken with the fortune telling. Istikhara is to seek guidance from Allah S.A.T. – for example – the question - is this male suitable for my future husband or not? –or – Is it safe to go to this journey? - and the answer can only be given by the Holy Book – Quran. This is not fortune telling, this is not predicting the future. It`s all about to do something or not – yes or no! In judaism for example ,they use for this - two stones - Urim and Thummim, the Mormons are using Liahona,etc. Usually before making istikhara – the person who will make it, have to make wudu, to fast , recite surah fatiha for several times, then ayat Kursi and surah Ikhlas. This is just example - there are various methods for istikhara.
The fortunetelling is another thing. It is all about predicting the future – for example – this guy will marry on 32 years, his wife will be ugly, but they will have three kids and he will die on 93 years in car accident.This is fortunetelling – there is no guidance from Allah S.A.T. here. And due to this reason, in islam the fortunetelling is forbidden. Of course ,like every forbidden thing – it is the most interesting. And a lot of wise people through the centuries( most of them sufi), made a different methods for fortunetelling based on the Holy Book – Quran, and other books – most of them astrological. Usually these methods are based on numerous mathematical actions.
And here we will show you one of these methods – the most easiest of them. Remember,that the method we are showing is just for your information. It is based on the abjad ( the numerical value of the Islamic letters). For example - we will use the name of Ali, son of Fatima, who have problems with women, and cannot find woman for wife. So we take his name, his mother name ( in Islamic and Arabic spiritual practices the mother name is very important) and the word – marriage. Of course if we want to find something more about Ali, we will use another word or whole sentenses. We use the abjad to find the total sum of the numerical value of the letters as you can see on the picture below.
So we got 314.
Now we open Quran, and we will see first – surah3, ayat 14 –
Beautified for people is the love of that which they desire - of women and sons, heaped-up sums of gold and silver, fine branded horses, and cattle and tilled land. That is the enjoyment of worldly life, but Allah has with Him the best return.
First of all ,you have to notice the name of the surah – it is about the Imran kin. This is good for our friend Ali,who is stressed from the lack of family and wife. And when we read ayat 14, we understand that Ali will have a wife and he will love her passionate and also will have kids and he will be happy.
Then we will take from the holy book - sura 31, ayat 4 – Luqman
And we read there:
Who establish prayer and give zakah, and they, of the Hereafter, are certain [in faith].
From here we may make the decision that to fulfill this wish to have wife and kids, he has to be more humble and merciful.
With this example, we showed you how this simple islam fortune telling method works. Of course, when you start predicting - in the beginning it will be hard for you to explain yourself some verses and to connect them right with the person issue, but with the time – you will became more wise and freely can predict and speak what you have read for the exact person problem.
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