funny cultural stuff we've heard/seen about.

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if you blow on your food after saying bismillah youre blowing the barkat away
 
Hmmmm... some people say that you shouldn't throw away your nail clippings, because it'll be rice for you in paradise.:uuh:

I'm pretty sure this isn't from the deen.:vomit:

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:lol: at the virgin not singing whilst cooking

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?? "

:lol:

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

;D

Malays love their ghosts lemme tell you :D
 
As Salaamu Alaykum,

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
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Lol Mawaddah that's WEIRD!! :uuh: :haha:

what's a Pontianak? :)
 
Oh yes, and I remember my aunt telling me (she was queen of superstitions :rollseyes) 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 :rollseyes

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:

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amirah_87 said:
As Salaamu Alaykum,



Lol Mawaddah that's WEIRD!! :uuh: :haha:

what's a Pontianak? :)
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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!! :D :D
 
assalaamu alaykum,

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
 
Dawud_uk said:
assalaamu alaykum,

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
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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.
 
Dawud_uk said:
assalaamu alaykum,

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
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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.
 
north_malaysian said:
5) Dont open the umbrella inside the house, or a snake will come into your house.
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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...
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:sl: 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.:w: :rollseyes
 
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.
 
Dawud_uk said:
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?
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This practice had been abandoned since 1980s...
 
north_malaysian said:
This practice had been abandoned since 1980s...
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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:heated:
 
Other Malay superstitious beliefs (But, only handful of people taking it seriously.. especially those old people...)

1) A pregnant woman should never fight with her mother-in-law, or she would have difficulties when giving birth.

2) Dont whistle in the house because it'll invite the snake in.

3) Dont urinate by standing, or the ghost will bite your butt.

4) dont eat the chicken's heart, or you'll be sleepy on your wedding day.

5) Dont eat the same meal in one place then move to the another place... or you;ll be marrying two wives.

6) Dont sleep at the doorstep, or the ghost will cross over you.

7) Dont sleep on a tree, or "langsuir" (a kind of ghost) will eat you.

8) Dont eat chicken's neck, or you'll have broken neck on your wedding day.

9) Dont bring a lime to a river, or crocodile will eat you.

10) If you heard female voices on Maghrib time, the fairy ghosts are having a party.

Source: http://www.geocities.com/azdriana9/petua8.htm

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