Beware of these Superstitions

[muslim man]

I have decided to comply this list of false superstitions that are floating around which we might believe in without realising due to our culture or because we've been brought up to believe them.

Please beware of these.

If I am wrong in any one of these please correct me.

1. Attaching a blue eye to a new born child that is visible for all to see will ward off the evil eye and no harm will come to the child.

2. Looking into coffee cups after the coffee has been drunk (especially lebanese coffee) you will be able to see your future.

3. Jumping over a young child will stop him from growing up.

4. Your left ear rings because someone is gossiping about you in a bad way, while your right ear rings because someone is talking about you in a positve way.

5. Chewing gum at night is the same as chewing dead human meat.

6. Hanging a childs shoe to a car thats been recently purchased will ward off all evil from the car and you wont have any accidents.

7. Whistling at night time will annoy the dead.

8. Pouring ammunition on a baby will stop him from waking up at night.

9. Hitting someone with a broom stick will give him bad luck unless you spit on the broom stick afterwards.

10. A moth found in the house will bring guests.

11. Opening an umbrella at night will also bring about bad luck to the one who opened it.

12. Looking at the palm of your hand you will be able to tell if you will be successful in life or not.

13. A cat will come back and haunt you after you've run it over because cats have 9 lives.

14. Stamping your feet at night will anger the dead.

15. Placing dough at the door step of a newly bought house or newly wed couple will ward off harm to them and the house.

15. Placing a horse shoe at the door step will protect the households.

17. A child that has the ability to walk but crawls in the house will bring you unexpected guests.

18. Placing the date seed in your wallet after eating the date will increase your money.

19. Leaving sissors open will bring bad consequences to the father.

20. Placing a shoe upside down at night will stop the dog from howling or barking.

[eisa]

May Allah guide us. I find muslims seem to believe this rubbish more then non-muslims sometimes.

[BadarZ]

And then there are those that may seem like superstitions but are actually in Islam:

"Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, ‘If a house fly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure for the disease." Bukhari vol.4 book 54 no.537 p.338.

[isa]

I have decided to comply this list of false superstitions that are floating around which we might believe in without realising due to our culture or because we've been brought up to believe them.

Please beware of these.

If I am wrong in any one of these please correct me.

2. Looking into coffee cups after the coffee has been drunk (especially lebanese coffee) you will be able to see your future.
stop being racist! turkish coffee is just as bad!

3. Jumping over a young child will stop him from growing up.
stop being sexist! when i was much younger i was asked to jump back over a girls legs! so she could continue to grow again i guess!

5. Chewing gum at night is the same as chewing dead human meat.
different flavours for different races too i presume?

8. Pouring ammunition on a baby will stop him from waking up at night.
:brow: and if it's LIVE ammo. they'll NEVER wake up! na`oodhu bi'l-Laah!

9. Hitting someone with a broom stick will give him bad luck unless you spit on the broom stick afterwards.
yeah, i guess you could call PAIN FROM BEING BASHED, AS WELL AS THE BASHING bad luck!


11. Opening an umbrella at night will also bring about bad luck to the one who opened it.
but what if it's raining?

13. A cat will come back and haunt you after you've run it over because cats have 9 lives.
not if it was the 9th live you snuffed out of it! (astaghfiru'l-Laah)

14. Stamping your feet at night will anger the dead.
geez they get bothered easily!

15. Placing dough at the door step of a newly bought house or newly wed couple will ward off harm to them and the house.
this one reminds me of the movie: the skeleton key

19. Leaving sissors open will bring bad consequences to the father.
yes, if he falls on the pointy bits up! na`oodhu bi'l-Laah!

20. Placing a shoe upside down at night will stop the dog from howling or barking.
not true, Mr. Bus* stills barks and howls!

:thumbsup:

[Islam_Junkie]

8. Pouring ammunition on a baby will stop him from waking up at night.

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[LovinMyDeen]

:ha: :weirdo: :hawla:

LOL! I agree! May Allaah swt guide us.

[Sacrifice]

ive always heard about "Jumping over a young child will stop him(i think its her too:rolleyes: )from growing up" since i was a child and everytime some1 jumped over me, i'd tell them to jump back over me so i can grow again and now im 15 at 152 cm tall:(..lol..but i never really believed in it...i always figured that it was a myth and also haram because of it being superstitious .i never heard of the coffee thing...now dats wat u call weird...

for some reason ive always wondered if its true that if you see a shoe upside down facing the sole, you should always turn it the other side so that the sole of the shoe isnt facing Allah (swt) because its dirty? what are the facts behind this? :confused:

[khadija]

lol these superstions are funny dont people have better things to do then believe in this nonsense

[black_blood]

5. Chewing gum at night is the same as chewing dead human meat.
yuck. ive heard many of these pathetic thngs, may ALLAH protect us.

19. Leaving sissors open will bring bad consequences to the father.
yes, if he falls on the pointy bits up! na`oodhu bi'l-Laah!
that one made me laugh. shoe uside sown is disrepectful as pointing ur feet towards the sky or Kiblaah.
may ALAH protect us. no one mentioned the famous black cat or mirror. gee i bet theres alot more.

SALAMZ

[your sister]

has anyone ever heard this.........if a pregnant woman gets a craving and its not fulfilled and she scratches herself somewhere that spot the baby will have a birth mark lol..and....if a pregnant woman looks at ugly things like an ugly animal she shouldnt look at it too long she might "itwaham" and the baby might come out looking similar to that.

[your sister]

oh yeh my mum told me this the other day.........apperently when she had my bro he had alot of fluid and stuff the nurses had to clean up and they told her shhh dont tell anyone its when ALLAH blesses a child they have that stuff and they will be really righteous good people:aah: who thinks of this stuff!!

[Al Baitel 'ateeq]

Yeah i've heard that, plus one even crazier: If you're pregnant, you have to walk with your back to the wall else u'll have a mis-carriage. Whackos!

[isa]

:rolleyes: and in many different variations Yaa Ukhtee your sister!

1) If a pregnant woman doesn't have what she is craving, the baby would be born malformed.

2) If you have a piece of haraam food(fruit) and rub it anywhere on your body, the baby will have a mark where the rubbing took place.

3) In regards to: "if a pregnant woman looks at ugly things like an ugly animal she shouldnt look at it too long she might "itwaham" and the baby might come out looking similar to that"

I once saw a boy with Downe Syndrome, and was told that the mother whilst pregnant locked herself up in a room she had prepared with pictures of only the most beautiful actors and actresses so that when her baby was born, the baby would look like one of them. What a fright she must have had when she saw her baby as soon as he was born.

A`oodhubi'l-Laah min dhaalik.

[your sister]

thats bad subhanALLAH