Is It Considered Shirk to Buy and Wear Zodiac Jewelry?

Answered by Shaykh Yusuf Weltch

Question

Is it considered shirk to buy and wear zodiac jewelry as a mere identifier of one’s birth month, without believing that it influences personality or fate?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate

Being that the zodiac signs are not religious symbols, wearing them would not be considered disbelief, let alone shirk.

Shirk is defined as ascribing any of the attributes of Allah (Most High) to other than Him or doing an act of worship for other than Allah’s sake. Neither of these meanings is found in merely wearing zodiac jewelry. [Laqqani, Jawhara al-Tawhid]

Resembling the Disbelievers

That said, one is still responsible for abstaining from wearing such jewelry as it has become an identifiable symbol of the disbelievers. Resembling the disbelievers in any of their identifiable symbols is strictly prohibited [Nahlawi, al-Durar al-Mubaha]

If someone wore such jewelry due to ignorance of this ruling, they merely need to repent to Allah Most High and not wear such things moving forward.

Hope this helps
Allah knows best
[Shaykh] Yusuf Weltch
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Yusuf Weltch teaches Arabic, Islamic law, and spirituality. After accepting Islam in 2008, he completed four years at the Darul Uloom Seminary in New York, where he studied Arabic and the traditional sciences.

He then traveled to Tarim, Yemen, where he studied for three years in Dar al-Mustafa under some of the most outstanding scholars of our time, including Habib Umar Bin Hafiz, Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, and Shaykh Umar al-Khatib.

In Tarim, Shaykh Yusuf completed the memorization of the Quran and studied beliefs, legal methodology, hadith methodology, Quranic exegesis, Islamic history, and several texts on spirituality. He joined the SeekersGuidance faculty in the summer of 2019.