It is famous regarding a person that if his inauspicious face is seen in the morning, or he comes in front of you while you are going somewhere for some work, then you will definitely have to face some hardship or trouble. Moreover, no matter how confident you are in the fulfilment and completion of your task, you still have this thought in your mind that there will definitely be an obstacle or trouble. Therefore, such people have experiences according to their mindset every time. And they specially make sure that if they come across a certain person while going somewhere, then they come back to their home, and then leave after a short while after ensuring that the accursed person is not there anymore. Now the question is that what is the ruling on such beliefs and actions of such people? Is there anything negative in it from the perspective of Shari’ah?

A’la Hadrat رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه replied: It has no base in the blessed Shari’ah. People encounter their own superstition. The ruling of Shari’ah is: اِذَاتَطَیَّرْتُمْ فَامْضُوْا i.e. when you get bad omen, then do not act upon it. At such instances, a Muslim shall recite اَللّٰہُمَّ لَاطَیْرَ اِلَّا طَیْرُکَ،وَلَا خَیْرَ اِلَّا خَیْرُکَ،وَلَا اِلٰہَ غَیْرُکَ (i.e. O Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ! There are no omens except Your omens and there is no goodness except Your goodness and there is no god except You.) and go to perform his task while relying on his Allah Almighty. He shall not stop at all and neither shall he return.

(Fatawa Razawiyyah, vol. 29, pp. 641)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب                                                                صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد

Refrain from hurting feelings

Dear Islamic brothers! Declaring someone to be accursed hurts his feelings severely, makes one (declaring this) face humiliation in the Hereafter and makes one deserving of the Hell. If we hurt somebody’s feelings by calling them accursed due to a bad omen, or hurt his feelings in any way, for example, swore at him, called him with a bad name, made fun of him, scared him off by staring at him, beat him, copied him or backbit him and now he has found it out, in short, we became a means of hurting the other person in one way or the other without a Shar’i permission, then it is necessary to