[26].Surah Ash-Shuara [The Poets]: Ayat 36-38

৩৬. তারা বলল, তাকে ও তার ভাইকে কিছু অবকাশ দিন এবং শহরে শহরে ঘোষক প্রেরণ করুন। 
৩৭. তারা যেন আপনার কাছে প্রত্যেকটি দক্ষ জাদুকর কে উপস্থিত করে।
৩৮. অতঃপর এক নির্দিষ্ট দিনে জাদুকরদেরকে একত্রিত করা হল।  

Ayat 36. They (the chiefs of Firaun) said: "Put him off (Musa PBUH) and his brother (Harun PBUH)(for a while), and send callers to the cities;

Ayat 37. "To bring up to you every well-versed sorcerer."

Ayat 38. So the sorcerers were assembled at a fixed time on a day appointed. 

Tafseer of Ayat 36. They the chiefs of Firaun kingdom said to him : "Keep him Musa PBUH and his brother in suspense (for a while), and dispatch to the Cities heralds to collect sorcerers to teach them lesson - 37. "And bring up to thee all (our) sorcerers well versed." 38. So the sorcerers were got together for the appointment of a day well-known, A day well-known: a solemn day of festival: see 20:59 . The object was to get together as large a concourse of people as possible. It was confidently expected that the Egyptian sorcerers with all their organization would win with their tricks against these amateur Israelites, and so the State cult of the worship of Pharaoh would be fastened on the necks of the people more firmly than ever.

Hazrat Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) said: Some people asked the Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) about soothsayers. He [SAWW](PBUH) said, "They are of no account.'' Upon this they said to him, "O Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) ! But they sometimes make true predictions.'' Thereupon the Messenger of Allah [SAWW](PBUH) said, "That is a word pertaining to truth which a jinn snatches (from the angels) and whispers into the ears of his friend (the soothsayers) who will then mix more than a hundred lies with it.''  [Muslim Book 26, Number 5535].

This Hadith brings out the following points: Kahin (soothsayer), Munajjim (astrologer) and Arraf (foreteller) have similar characteristics but with a slight difference. All of them make predictions about the future. Kahin would overhear some jinn and disclose the secret to people which would sometimes prove true, because the jinn's source of information was Satan who sometimes stole away some information from the angels. But after the annunciation of the Prophet [SAWW](PBUH) it was made impossible for jinns and satans to overhear anything in the skies. Moreover, Kahin and others of his ilk would make predictions on the basis of certain signs and circumstantial evidence which could go wrong or right. This is so even to this day. Astrological prediction is also a form of foretelling but this is often wrong. Al-`Irafah, or what is known to be as divination is also an indication of some future occurrence on the basis of certain causes and events. All the three occult arts supplement each other and also take the help of similar other things. In other words, these are all different forms of soothsaying. Geomancy also tries to tell about the invisible future. At-Tarq is the art of taking omen by striking birds with gravel on their wings or by throwing barley, etc., before them. In the latter formula, if a bird flies towards the right side, it would be a good omen; and if it goes towards the left it will be a bad one. All such things are unlawful and have been strictly forbidden by Islam. If anything predicted by these means comes by chance true, it does not furnish any justification for their validity.