Sick womenfolk...

Sick womenfolk, instead of going to a physician, fall in the trap of magicians and fortune-tellers. Superstitious and unwise ignorant parents fill the minds of their children with futile and imaginary things. They think that the Wednesday following marriage and the rituals performed on the fourteenth day after the Navroz festival are steps to success.

On the thirteenth day after Navroz they take their children to a forest and ask them to tie knots on long grass leaves so that their ambitions may be fulfilled and the luck which has become angry at them may return to their lives. The parents tell their children that if they sit on a tablecloth full of seven kinds of food while holding a red colored purse in hands would surely become wealthy. Our beloved Prophet (s.a.w.a.) always opposed such beliefs in all the fields of life and at every stage.

One day, his foster mother sent him for a walk in the forest with her own sons and hung a small Omani green stone in his neck so as to protect him from calamities. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) removed it and said, Mother, what a superstition is this. My protector is someone else (Allah).” Sometimes, a van driver, instead of taking care of the break, tires etc., and instead of replacing old parts with new ones, takes shelter behind superstitious matters.

He fixes horseshoe at the back of his vehicle and believes that it would be safe from mishaps. An armed dacoit gets ten years’ rigorous imprisonment. When he enters the prison he blackens the walls with couplets like this: No astrologer could recognize the star of my luck. O God! What a kind of luck I am born with! He is so unaware, and his own words show that while suffering the torments of the prison he is not prepared to understand the reality.

In order to satisfy his chiding soul he attributes his crimes to stars and luck. He does not understand that he has misused arms and endangered public peace; that shops and business establishments closed down due to his mischief and that he deserves this punishment. Instead of the above quoted couplet he should have written these couplets of Nasir Khusro: Do not blame the blue sky. Drive out the wind of carelessness from your head.

If you spoil your luck by your own carelessness, you should not hope for success from the sky. The wood of a leafless tree is being burnt down by people. This indeed is the punishment of not taking care of the tree of life.