when ppl follow culture and not islam but call that cultural practice islam its ok for us to have a laugh and giggle about.
also i think its important that we all inform eachother cultural stuff that we've seen and heard about so we can warn others and make sure we dnt do it out selves. cuz sometimes i see practicing ppl do stuff that is culture rather then islam because theyve never asked about thr history of that practice.
so lets all share these funny culturals things we used to do n believe in.
we were told to fold the corner of our musallahs so the shaitan cudnt pray on it. lol, where did that come from? i say let the shaitan pray, if he wants to repent let him repent, it always makes me laugh wen i go to some ones house n their musallahs are folded up in the corner.
ill try n think of some more n post em wen i remember inshallah but want to hear some of urs.
if you blow on your food after saying bismillah youre blowing the barkat away
Our Lord! Verily, we have heard the call of one calling to Faith: 'Believe in your Lord,' and we have believed.
Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and expiate from us our evil deeds, and make us die (in the state of righteousness) along with Al-Abrar
My aunt used to say that to me allllllllllll the time
She would be like " Be quiet!! do you want to marry an old man?? "
And then I was reading this website of old malay superstitions concerning the dead.
One of them said, that if a pregnant woman dies, then you should drive a nail into the back of her neck, and place two eggs under her armpits, otherwise in three days time she will be resurrected as a Pontianak and come to haunt others
One of them said, that if a pregnant woman dies, then you should drive a nail into the back of her neck, and place two eggs under her armpits, otherwise in three days time she will be resurrected as a Pontianak and come to haunt others
Oh yes, and I remember my aunt telling me (she was queen of superstitions ) That you should never talk about a dead person after darkness has fallen, otherwise their spirits will come into the house seeking the person who called them
There was a man who committed suicide around her area, and one time after maghrib I asked my aunt " Why do you think so and so killed himself? " And she rushed at me with her cooking spoon and slapped me on the mouth and told me to shut up!!!! :eek:
It's a Ghost, I beleive its of malay (or asian) origin, it's the ghost of a woman who dies in pregnancy,......when she's approaching suddenly a strong smell of orchid flowers will pervade the air, and she will be upon you and kill you!!
subhanallah i thought malaysia was a muslim country?
how could you mutilate the dead when the dead feel pain as we do? how could you believe in ghosts and spirits when such people are in the grave?
assalaamu alaykum,
Abu Abdullah
Yes, It's a Muslim country, but that doesn't mean that it is void from these types of cultural superstitions.
These types of things will exist in everyplace where people dont study Islam and begin to bring their culture into the Deen. As the way it is in Malaysia, particularly with the older folk.
subhanallah i thought malaysia was a muslim country?
how could you mutilate the dead when the dead feel pain as we do? how could you believe in ghosts and spirits when such people are in the grave?
assalaamu alaykum,
Abu Abdullah
that doesnt mean diddly squat, yes its a muslim country but it doesnt mean its totaly islamic.
pakistan is a "muslim country" but look how much shirk n bidda n black magic etc goes off there, and england is meant to be a christian country, that dnt mean nothing.
5) Dont open the umbrella inside the house, or a snake will come into your house.
That's odd, in western countries there is also a superstition that says bad things will happen if you open an umbrella indoors. But it's just general bad luck though, not something specific like a snake.
Snakes were probably seen as good things to have in houses in old England, since there is only one poisonous snake species in the country, and snakes often eat pests...
I concluded that I better follow the things whatever people here do, because no one can judge its just local culture or islamic one. And I realized by seeing other's thread that we have very similar cultural stuff in especially islamic countries such as covering head during uadu in bathroom, fold the coner of namaaz sheet, cover your mouth when yawning, evel eye, so on. Most of these stuff are to remove the influence of satan, and if there are so many cmmon things , we better believe there is something to be followed.
Only Allah knows.
salaamz,
Well i'll tell u one weird one which was done before in Maldives.
If somone becomes sick or has difficulties in life.... The people
used to make some sort of pancakes and take the person to some
mosque or some person's graves and used to place the pancakes
and cover the whole body with it! LOL! and they used to eat them!
yuck! they believed that there difficulties or sickness wud be over
after that! how crazyyyyyyyy! lol!
Assalamu Alikum,sister,
I didn't mean that all the customs being done in any country are to be followed but the certain things in islamic countries. Maldive is not the islamic country and that horiible tradition was terminated, wasn't it?
We have but similer one. When especially kids become sick suddenly without possible reason, we give sadaka( money or sometime food) to needy people.
We say it removes evil eye from the kid.
Only Allah knows but it works.
yeah...nobody truly believes it...its just a story that entertain other ppl.
well maybe i'm wrong...maybe the person that practise bomoh or black magic will believe that...maybe
25:36 And the true servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk the earth with humility and when the ignorant address them, they respond with words of peace.
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