Week 3: Luck Flashcards
A form of shirk because it it also entails believing that something other than Allah can bring upon Good or Bad.
Luck
He reported that when the Prophet (May peace be upon him) saw a brass bangle on a man’s upper arm, he said to him, “Woe be on you! What is this?” The man replied that it was to protect him from a sickness called al-wahinah. The Prophet (May peace be upon him) then said, “Cast it off, for verily it will only increase your weakness. And, if you died with it
Eiman Ibn Husayn
also reported that when Allah’s messenger (May peace be upon him) set out of Hunayn (The site of the last major battle between the Prophet (May peace be upon him) and the Arabian pagan tribes), they passed by a tree called Dhaatu Anwaat (that which has thing hanging on it). The idolaters used to hang their weapons on its branches for good fortune. Some of the sahabah who were new to Islam asked the
The Prophet (May peace be upon him) replied, “Subhanallah! This is just like what moses’ people said to him; “Make a god for us just like their god!” (7:138) By the one in whose hand my life rest my soul, all of you will follow the path of those before you. (Tirmizi, an-Nasa’ee and Ahmad)
Abu Waqid Al-Laythee
reported that the Prophet (May peace be upon him) once said, “May Allah cause failure and unrest to whoever wears a talisman or puts it on other”.
(Ahmad and al-Hakim)
Uqbah Ibn ‘Amir
Abdullah Ibn Mas-‘uds wife reported that once when ibn Mas-’ud saw a cord necklace around her neck and he ask what it was, she replied, “it is a cord in which a spell has been placed to help me.” He snatched it from her neck, broke it up and said “Surely the family of Abdullaf has no need for Shirk!” I have heard Allah’s messenger (May peace be upon him) say, ‘Verily sells, talismans, and charms
The wife replied, “Why are you saying this? My eye used to twitch and when I went to so and so, the Jew, he out a spell on it and it stopped twitching!” Ibn Mas-’ud replied, “Verily it was only a devil prodding it with his hand so when you had it bewitched he left it. It would have been sufficient for you have to say as the Prophet (May peace be upon him) used to say: (Idh-habil-ba’s Rabbannas aw ishfi’ antash-shaafi’ La shifaa’a illa shifaa ‘uka shifaa ‘an la yughaadiruha Saqaman) Remove the suffering, O lord of mankind and heal it perfectly as You are the true healer, there is no cure except Your cure; a cure which is not followed by sickness!” (Abu Dawud, Ahmad and Ibn Hibban). Who is the wife who reported it?
Zaynab
