The Sharing Group Discussion: Is Swalah al-Khusuf a Superstition?
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Brother Naushad Omar posted, on The Sharing Group, on the 26 th September 2015: “Some lady on Facebook said that there will be a lunar eclipse on the 28 th September, and the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, according to Swahih al-Bukhari , that we must hasten to make two raka’at of swalah . My response was: It is not necessary to make swalah now for an eclipse, since we are not superstitious anymore. The Jahilliyah Arabs were superstitious because they had all kinds of weird beliefs about comets, eclipses and other heavenly aberrations. Prophet Muhammad ( s.a.w. ) advocated swalah to wean the Arabs off this superstition. It is totally unnecessary and weird that we make swalah now for eclipses. Rather make swalah for the wars, poverty, corruption and mass migrations afflicting the ummah .” Brother Terence Helikaon Nunis : That is not true. Are you saying that for 1,400 years, we have performed a sunnah al-muthlaq because we are s