Fortune telling is treated as haram in mainstream Islamic teaching. This includes practices that claim to reveal the future, hidden events, destiny, unseen causes, or secret knowledge through methods such as palmistry, astrology, cards, omens, or spirit communication.
The reason is not that Islam denies human planning or intuition. It is that claiming certain knowledge of the unseen moves into territory the Quran reserves for Allah alone.
The hadith literature adds a sharp warning: consulting fortune-tellers is not treated as harmless curiosity. It is treated as a serious spiritual error, especially when their claims are believed.
