Question:
A man gave me a cloth bag that had symbols on the outside of the bag. On the back of the bag there was a sand coloured swirl. He told me the symbols could tell the future. I didn’t want to tell the future.
Answer:
Alhamdulillah you avoided what is forbidden, divination and fortune telling. Sometimes someone under the tarbiya of a Shaykh will be tested in faith via a dream because the real test is too hard.
Taher Siddiqui