Discover the meaning of the term Al-kahn (كاهن) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readHe who tells of future events and claims knowledge of the secrets and reading of the science of the unseen.
He who tells of past states.
He who tells of future events and claims knowledge of the secrets and access to the hidden things, with or without the mediation of the casting of jinn.
He who tells of future events and claims knowledge of the secrets and reading of the unseen; it is said: he who tells of past states. Al-munajjim and al-matanajjim: he who observes the stars, reckons their times and their course. Al-'arraf: he who claims knowledge of the stolen thing and the place of the lost thing; he claims to know things by the first causes.
'Lisan al-Arab (kahn) 6/50, 3949, 4358; al-Ta'rifat p. 160; al-Tawqif p. 597; al-Kulliyyat p.
773.'
He who tells of future events and claims knowledge of the secrets and reading of the science of the unseen.
He who tells of future events and claims knowledge of the secrets and the markers of the science of the unseen, drawing upon the devils and the jinn.