Predicting future looks of babies through aging pictures

22-4-2017 | IslamWeb

Question:

Shaikh, with technological advantages, some people are making pictures of future adult/teenager/old-aged faces of a person who is a baby or an infant at present based on the features of the baby's face. Is this some kind of fortune telling? And if a person who prays shows interest in that, are all their prayers invalid for 40 days? How can they continue the prayer in such situation? Can you clarify it?

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Answer:

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, is His slave and Messenger.

Making future pictures of a baby or infant based on their features as a form of guessing – as you mentioned – does not seem, to us, to be included in fortune telling or in the warnings against it.

Allah knows best.