{
 "id": "concept/kahana",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "kahana",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الكهانة والعرافة",
  "en": "Soothsaying & Augury"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الكهانة والعرافة وتقليب البيتات: بضاعة الجاهلية لكشف المغيبات بالجن والنجوم وحكايا الحدثان؛ الضرب كلها نهى عنها النبي.",
  "en": "Kahāna, ‘irāfa and sand-reading: the pagan trade in the unseen through jinn and stars — all forbidden by the Prophet."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "tradition-versus-culture"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "belief",
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/mirqat-al-mafatih"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin; al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 35–47"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نبذة",
     "markdown": "الكهانة والعرافة وحكاية الحدثان: طرق أهل الجاهلية في ادعاء علم الغيب؛ أبطلها الإسلام ونهى عن إتيان أصحابها."
    },
    {
     "heading": "القصة",
     "markdown": "كانت الجاهلية تتعاطى ضروباً من قراءة الغيب: الكاهن يزعم أن له تابعاً من الجن يأتيه بالخبر، والعّراف يدّعي معرفة الأشياء بأمارات، والراقي يقلّب الحصى ويحدّث بالمحدثات {cite:mirqat-al-mafatih}.\n\nفنهى النبي عن إتيان الكهان والعرافين وتصديقهم، وعدّ الإيمان بالنجوم سبباً للمطر نوعاً من الكفر بالله في حديث الأنواء {cite:sharh-sahih-muslim-al-nawawi}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "كان كهّان الجاهلية يزعمون معرفة الغيب بالجن والنجوم، فنهى الإسلام عن سؤالهم وتصديقهم."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/kahana",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Kahana (soothsaying), 'irafa (augury) and telling of hidden events: the Jahiliyya's ways of claiming knowledge of the unseen; Islam annulled them and forbade going to their practitioners."
    },
    {
     "heading": "The story",
     "markdown": "The Jahiliyya practiced kinds of unseen-reading: the kahin claims a familiar of the jinn brings him news; the 'arraf claims to know things by signs; the stone-caster turns pebbles and tells of happenings {cite:mirqat-al-mafatih}.\n\nThe Prophet forbade going to soothsayers and augurs and believing them, and counted believing that stars cause rain a kind of unbelief in God, in the anwa' hadith {cite:sharh-sahih-muslim-al-nawawi}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "The Jahiliyya's soothsayers claimed to know the unseen through jinn and stars; Islam forbade asking or believing them."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/kahana",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Devin (SWE-2), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "concept/anwa",
  "concept/azlam",
  "concept/hama",
  "concept/hums",
  "concept/jahili-marriage-forms",
  "concept/maysar",
  "concept/nasi",
  "concept/sacred-livestock-jahiliyya"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}