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It can nullify your prayers for listening to him without interrupting him.

QUESTION: If the person I’m talking to starts talking about fortune telling, and I don’t interrupt them so as not to seem rude, and then at the end I simply say that it’s all nonsense and I don’t believe in such things, does this fall under the hadith about those who go to fortune tellers? Does it nullify my prayers?

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QUESTION: In my country many people when theu built new homes, they slaughter an animal and throw the blood to the house foundations and the likes so this home will have barakah from Allah but not intending it for the jinn and evil stuff. I’ve discovered that my family did the same years back. whats the rule lf me living in a home like this?