If the fruits of knowledge and intelligence grow on the tree of your life...

If the fruits of knowledge and intelligence grow on the tree of your life, such a tree can even bring down the sky. He alone is successful who marches forward on the path of his aim and refrains from entertaining all kinds of superstitions and baseless things. The Holy Prophet (s.a.w.a.) strived hard, especially to free the people from the bonds of superstitions.

Even if a baseless thought was in his favor he used to tell the people, “Such a belief is baseless.” For example, the Holy Prophet’s son Ibrahim expired. There was a solar eclipse that day. Superstitious people went to the Holy Prophet and said, “The calamity, which has befallen you, is so great that the sun too is mourning. This eclipse is due to the death of your dear son.”…