Islam and Superstition | Mufti Abu Layth

we're going to be taking a look inshallah at had a question that I believe is incredibly important and that is what is the stance of the dean on matters of superstition now that's from a broad perspective that's I mean that seems very obvious that the dean does not like things like superstition so from one perspective that's a very simple question it's a very simple question that yes obviously

the dean doesn't like that the part that isn't so obvious to people is how much the dean abhor and absolutely detests Superstition you see everybody accepts that Superstition doesn't have or shouldn't have I say that as in they accept that it shouldn't have a place in the dean unfortunately many Muslims do fall in in a practical sense they fall into the notion that there are

superstitions and they do recognize that Islam isn't so I mean it isn't so pleased with this but they don't truly grasp how seriously Islam the dean detests Superstition because it negates it eats away at the very core concept the pillar that is holding the whole Dean the root from which the dean stems is is the Oneness of Allah now what we

mean by the Oneness of Allah is not just the fact that oh Allah is one that I mean is is absolutely common sense to Muslims what we are talking about is in superstitions or with superstitions people are attributing elements of unseen control and power beyond the apparent to times animate and inanimate objects they are ascribing subconsciously such power to them that

they are saying that these things now have such control over the lives and Destiny of people and I I don't when I when I explain it like that it sounds absurd but this is the reality so people say things like oh this is bad luck for me I don't want to do this this is bad luck I'm going to you know I don't something bad's going to happen now you know I've walked under a ladder I've done seen some mag pies or I've done I don't know there's a particular number that's unlucky for me a lot of sometimes people have things with numbers or

there's all sorts I've read the horoscopes something bad is going to or I've had somebody read my palm and tell me and or somebody has said this will be unlucky for me due to whatever numerology or whatever it is that somebody's looking into these things these are very dangerous they are cancerous to the root of the dean which is because they are eating away at that concept that everything in essence is controlled by

Allah when the Great was once somebody because was asked he was asked a question um I mean it was more like somebody made a statement about as he was about to go into what would have been like a bathroom if you like he was about to go into and somebody made the statement in relation to the Dua where you seek refuge and there's a huge discourse a Hu and so it's not simplistic about what is meant by and whether it's you know whether it is things like Jin or whether it's actual impurities or whether it's other

things or whether it's waswasa or whether it's this huge debate on these things but somebody but people had a belief that if you had left out that Dua and you went into the toilet there was a chance that you will I you will be hurt by the the other and people would interpret that as the gin or as demons or whatever they want to say these sh would hurt you because you've gone into the bathroom and not said

and then people have stories so and so would always say this Dua and then on one day he forgot to say it and then this happened so this is mentioned before uh and in response to it he says that he says that our Lord is Allah the one on his own he alone he has no partner don't you start making these things so powerful don't you start ascribing such

power to these people and there is a reverse type of um I'm calling a reverse type of superstition or almost a religious Superstition which is as antagonistic and contrary toed as these superstitions are and that is things like saying oh and that is an example of almost thein incident but it's where somebody says oh every day I say this Dua which is excellent we should be saying duas andar and things like this and then they'll say oh today I forgot to say

that something might happen because today I'm not protected today I'm not oh you know normally I always read this after sub or I read this after ass or I read this today I never ready and this happened to me this is a religious rendition a religious version of superstition what what you are doing is you are once again ascribing these types of Powers Negative associations with what is something in essence good and

the Dua and stuff like this so yes and Dua and all these things are an extra bonus if you've done them and we should be doing them there amazing duas to read after and after these things are in and Sun that you know in the name of Allah with whose name no harm in the heaven and the Earth can afflict you and we read that and and we are taught in the Sunnah that this will Aid this will

be a source of protection for us so it's like saying you are ordinary and now you're extraordinary you have this extra layer of what it doesn't mean is if you hadn't said it that you now somehow feel a layer below like you feel like oh no all of a sudden evil things are going to happen to me now Allah is watching over his IAD over his servants and slaves at all times Allah does not

disappear he is not overcome by Sleep nor tiredness Allah is always there and he is always in control so to clarify once again that yes we all know superstitions are wrong but at times these things they have a variety of manifestations sometimes they appear in a religious sense sometimes they appear in subtle nuances where we think it's wrong but it's okay to still do it you know okay I still read horoscopes okay I still do this you know I know I'm not supposed to but no that is incredibly wrong because you don't

understand the long-term danger that is to the root of the dean which is it eats away and the same thing with certain you know people wear things for good luck or they do any this luck concept it is a exists in the social understanding people might say oh good luck with this or good and that's different but in a real in reality there is no such thing as luck being good or bad okay that our Lord alone is Allah who has none equal or no partners and none

that have true agency in this world besides him okay so that's done