Is a person sinful for not sending a warning WhatsApp message that includes a picture of an injured child and the text "May Allah not forgive whoever reads it and does not send it," due to uncertainty about the authenticity of this message?
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One should not pay attention to such messages, whose authenticity is doubtful, nor to the supplication mentioned therein; because it is a supplication against people with evil without them having committed any sin. This is a sin and an act of disobedience in supplication, and it will not be answered for its a petitioner. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "There is no one who supplicates with a supplication except that Allah gives him what he asked for, or averts from him an equivalent amount of evil, as long as he does not supplicate for a sin or the cutting off of kinship ties."
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