 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين باري الخلاق أجمعين باعث الأنبياء والمرسلين ثم الصلاة والسلام على خير خلقه العبد المؤيد والرسول المسدد حبيبي إله العالمين أب القاسم المصطفى محمد الله وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين وصحابته المنتجبين صلى الله عليك يا رسول الله صلى الله عليك يا سيدي ححمة الله سعى شهيد كربلا يا ليتنا يتنام سادتي فنفوزا فوزا عظي أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم فخرج على قومه في زينته قايت لنا إيت لنا مثل ما أوت يقا صلى الله عليك يا محمد وآلي محمد أعوذ بالله من حسن والحسين أعوذ بالله من فاطمت الزهراء with your loudest voices أعوذ بالله نرى فكرة جميلة فكرة جميلة فكرة جميلة فكرة جميلة خبك فكرة جميلة فكرة جميلة فكرة جميلة فكرة جميلة خبك آخر خبك أو قام على زيارة خبك ومن الآخرين لم يجد أجل لم يجد في زيارة خبك نحن نرى الكثير من الناس بأنهم يستخدمون الناس بخير وخير من الوقت They call this person lucky and that person not so lucky Sometimes they speak of individuals This specific individual is lucky He has it all He has a good job He has a good wife He has a good salary He travels He has a good car He's lucky Sometimes they speak of nations and countries The United States of America is very lucky Canada is very lucky You know, in the Middle East They say in the West they're very lucky They have electricity They have safety They have security While people in Canada and the United States They say that people of Iraq are very lucky Because they're close to the imams And the people of the house This group sees that group as lucky And this group sees the other group as lucky Thus sometimes a person with luck is an individual Sometimes it's a family Sometimes it's a city The people living in Najaf are very lucky To be connected to the Imam Ali And sometimes it's a country There are some people that define success and failure Through luck and bad luck I can't find a job I can't find a wife I'm not doing so well financially Because I have no luck Another person found a good job He has a successful marriage He has good kids He even looks good Because he's lucky We associate success and failure With luck and bad luck Now this is one Two, there are some people that talk about Things that bring bad luck And they believe in this They really believe in this There are certain things that bring bad luck A black cat If a black cat passes in front of you That's bad luck A breaker mirror That's bad luck The number 13 That's bad luck I remember when we first came to the United States I would see the number 13 missing In buildings, airplanes And for some reason I thought Did these people now know how to count From 12 they jumped to 14 And then I realized that No, the number 13 is bad luck Friday the 13th Among the Arab of the Jahlia During the days of the ignorance Black crows A crow A black crow I think all crows are black They brought bad luck If they saw a crow A black crow That would bring bad luck They would hear They would wait for bad news The news of someone's death The news of some sort of calamity There are some places that bring bad luck For example, if you move to a new house People think this Is this true or not true? We'll talk about this If you move into a new house And an accident occurs Some people think that that house is bad luck If you buy a new car And you get in a car accident That car brings bad luck In fact, there are some people That believe children bring bad luck If a child is born And there is an accident Or a death in the family That means that that child brought bad luck So change the name of the child Perhaps the bad luck will go away Tonight my dear brothers and sisters In the minutes that we have with you We'd like to talk about this topic Is there such a thing as luck? In Islam, do we believe in luck? Does luck actually exist? Do we really have people that are lucky And people that are not so lucky Is this true? Or is this just merely superstition? Is this purely mad made? And there's no such thing as luck and bad luck This is one Two, are there actually things that bring bad luck Like a broken mirror Like the number 13 Like a crow Or like a black cat That passes in front of you Do these things actually bring bad luck? Or is it merely superstition? And things that people say folklore And it has absolutely no reality This is what we'd like to examine tonight صلى الله عليه وسلم You hear the word lucky a lot And the word luck This person is lucky That person is not lucky This person has luck That person does not have luck And this is in every culture In Arabic this is called حظ Luck is called حظ You see people talking about حظ In Arabic poetry In Farsi they call it شانت Comes from شانت Which is luck This person has شانت Another person doesn't And so on and so forth Thus this idea The topic of luck exists in every culture What does it mean? What does it mean to be lucky And have luck But I have to know the definition In order to decide According to Islam And the teachings of Islam The Qur'an And the أهل البيت Does luck exist or not? Well first let's define what luck means Luck You know when you see people talk about luck This is what they mean It means To receive good things Without earning them Without earning them Something good happens to you You get a promotion You get a good job But without being qualified You get into a good university Without having the good grades You find a good wife Without having the qualifications You might have a very bad reputation But you find a good wife That's called luck You get promoted You receive a job That you didn't earn You didn't deserve That is called luck Receiving something That you didn't look for You didn't work for You don't deserve You don't earn This is called luck Someone who doesn't work At all Yet receives every month Ten thousand dollars That's luck However If you earned it If you deserved it Someone who works every day Seven days a week Twelve hours a day And it makes ten thousand dollars Is this called luck? This is not luck This person earned it This person worked for it He deserved it This is not luck Luck Being lucky Means getting good things Good things happen to you And you didn't earn it You didn't deserve it You find a good husband But you didn't earn it Because you don't have a good reputation Or you don't have the looks Or you don't have the traits And qualities That's called luck So let's get things straight Being lucky Means having good things done to you Or good things come your way Success And you didn't really deserve it How does luck happen? How can a person be lucky? How can a person have good luck? Have luck Have health Have chance How is this possible? You see my dear friends My dear brothers and sisters Allah SWT gives us a gift A beautiful gift And that's our brain He gave us reason and logic And it's meant to be used And we human beings We use our brains You know With some of the times at least If not all the times But some of the times We do use our brain We use our God Given reason and logic We human beings We don't take things for granted We ask questions Why does this happen? Why does that happen? How does this happen? How does that happen? If I were to tell you That I found An iPhone 6S In the middle of the desert In between the sand I found an iPhone 6S It wasn't made by Apple It didn't come from a company It didn't fall from anyone It wasn't lost No, it was made in the desert Do you believe that? Do you accept that? Don't you ask how? Why? Where? When? How did that happen? We human beings We ask Especially if we hear of things That are not so logical We have to think How are these things made? How do these things happen? Now let's ask How is it possible For a person to be lucky To be lucky all the time To have good things Happened to him Without earning them Not once Not twice But All the time How is that possible? How is luck possible? Someone To go to the best universities To have the best job To have the best wife To have the best children To have the best life Be lucky all the time How is this possible? Well There's two possible reasons One reason Is that luck Just happens And it has nothing to do with Allah SWT Luck Has nothing to do with Allah Luck just happens For someone to be lucky And Allah has no say in it God plays no role in it Well this is impossible Logically That's impossible Because we believe No one Nothing has authority in this life In this world Other than Allah SWT لا معثر في الوجود إلا الله The only authority in this world Is Allah SWT Whatever happens He's either the direct cause Or an indirect cause So to say that luck Has nothing to do with Allah Allah has nothing to do with luck That's impossible That's impossible How could luck not come from Allah There's one possible reason The second possibility Is that luck is from Allah Allah causes some people to be lucky While other people are not so lucky Allah gives luck to some people And doesn't give luck Gives good luck to some And gives bad luck to others This is also not possible Logically Rationaly This is not possible as well We followers of Ahl al Bayt We believe That it's not We were not created in complete predestination Nor complete free will ولكن أمر بين أمرين There's half of it as predestination Half of it as free will To believe that our person is always lucky Good thing always Happened to him or her Without deserving them That's basically believing in what? Predestination And if bad luck is always associated with a person Or with a country Or with a family Or a tribe That's also considered predestination No matter how much you strive for success You always fail You have bad luck That's basically predestination And we don't believe in predestination We don't believe in complete predestination Thus to believe that good luck Being lucky all the time Is from Allah That means you believe in predestination And we don't believe in that We believe that there's free will as well A person has his saying And the results of his actions And where he ends up Or she ends up Success and failure A person has a saying that A person can decide whether he will fail Or succeed Allah has given us free will To decide, to work To produce, to achieve Also To believe that good luck Or bad luck comes from Allah This also Intells oppression from Allah Allah is oppressive He chooses one person To have good luck all the time To be lucky all the time And another person To be unlucky and to have bad luck all the time This is what? This is ظلم This is oppression This would mean that Allah is oppressive We don't believe in this We believe Allah is just Allah is عادل Allah treats everyone justly Why would he give good luck To one person all the time And bad luck To another person all the time That would be oppressive That's not justice صلى الله عليه وسلم These are two possible reasons For luck Either it's not from Allah That's impossible Or it's from Allah And that's not possible either So where does luck come from? Where does luck come from? And you see people that are rational They're very logical They keep on talking about luck This person is lucky I'm not lucky That person is lucky This person always has luck And I have no luck This person might be a doctor A physician A lawyer They talk about luck Well let's analyze it Let's analyze where luck comes from Give me a logical explanation to luck That has no logical explanation Furthermore To believe in luck And that a person is always lucky Is to believe that a coincidence Can be repeated several times And that's impossible A coincidence can occur once For example You see your neighbor Out on the street once No, that's a coincidence A coincidence occurs once Maximum twice You see your neighbor twice in one day That's a coincidence Even though we don't believe in coincidences We believe that everything happens for a reason You think it's a coincidence You think that you saw your neighbor Out of a coincidence But in Islam We believe that everything happens for a reason Everything happens for a reason There are no coincidences But let's say Let's say we believe in coincidences Coincidences occur once Maybe twice But not ten times If you run into your neighbor ten times In one day He's either spying on you Or you're spying on him There's no other logical explanation To run into your neighbor ten times To get in a car accident To get in a car accident Once Okay, that's a coincidence Twice in one day, that's a coincidence But to get into ten car accidents in one day That's not called coincidence That's called being a reckless driver Thus, how do you explain Being lucky every day At several times How? To believe That a person is lucky all the time Is to believe That a coincidence can occur Several times That's impossible A coincidence does not occur several times If it keeps on occurring Then it's not a coincidence There's a reason behind it There's a reason behind it Now A person Who got Very good grades At school Could this be a coincidence? Let's say it's a coincidence But then he got into a good university Is that also a coincidence? And then he found a really good job Is that also a coincidence? He's making a lot of money now Is that another coincidence? He found a good wife He has a good... How many times does a coincidence occur? To believe that a person is lucky Keeps on getting lucky Is to believe that a coincidence can occur Many times That's not rationally possible Rationally a coincidence Cannot keep on happening If it keeps on happening That means it's not a coincidence There's a reason behind it There's a scientific reason That is why I'm asked about the Bing Bang Theory all the time This is one of the reasons Why we do not accept the Bing Bang Theory You might say What the heck is a say talking about? Has any red science? No, we've read science But the reason why we deny the Bing Bang Theory Is because the Bing Bang Theory Is based on one major coincidence A major explosion occurred By coincidence And by coincidence This earth was created on the moon On the sun And these beautiful mountains And oceans And waterfalls And these beautiful human beings Were created And Allah created Well, of course, they don't say Allah And this human being was created With such a perfect system With a heart, with lungs, with kidneys With a pancreas, with eyes All by coincidence All major coincidences Do you accept this? Because a coincidence occurs once Twice Not 20 million times To believe in the Bing Bang Theory Is to believe that coincidences Can be repeated many times And that is rationally And logically not possible And hence to be lucky All the time is not possible Because it is to believe That a coincidence can be repeated Many times صلى الله عليه وسلم Who are the people that talk about luck Most of the time? Who are the people that say This person's lucky And that person's not lucky The people that talk about luck Think about it for a moment Who are the people that talk about luck Most of the time? And lucky, being lucky all the time Have you ever seen someone who's successful Talk about luck? Someone who has a good job And makes a good amount of money And lives a successful life A successful CEO A successful politician A successful leader Do you ever see him talk about luck And say that he's lucky That I was lucky to be the CEO Or I was lucky to be elected president No Because successful people They feel that they earned their success They worked hard for their success They went through all the steps They did all that it takes To be successful And they earned it They never talk about luck Did Steve Jobs ever say that he was lucky Or President Obama say That I'm lucky to be the president No, these people feel that they earned it They deserved it Because they worked hard It's the people that talk about luck Most of the time It's the people who fail It's the people that Sense failure And failed They talk about luck You know, I didn't I didn't get a college education Because I wasn't so lucky My marriage failed Because I wasn't lucky I can't have a proper family together Because I have no luck I don't have a good business Because I'm not lucky You see, luck is the best excuse for failure Instead of admitting your faults Instead of saying I didn't get good grades Not because I'm not lucky Because I didn't study Because on the night of my exam I went out with my friends to the movie theater Because instead of staying up all night Reading my books I was staying up all night Talking to my friends Or listening to music Or watching TV Or wasting my time On social networks You see But that's too hard It's too hard to admit That you're the reason behind your failure So we need a scapegoat The best and easiest scapegoat as well I failed on the test because I had no luck Not because I didn't study But because I'm not lucky I failed in my business Because I wasn't lucky You never see a person admit That he didn't work hard for his business He didn't do enough research He didn't ask He didn't get enough advice From friends, from family members From coworkers How to run this small business Or big business He didn't do his homework He didn't do enough research But now that he fails He doesn't say it's my fault He says what? I wasn't lucky I didn't have luck Others were lucky But I didn't have luck My marriage failed I divorced My wife left me Why? Because I have no luck If I had luck, my wife wouldn't leave me She doesn't say that I have temper issues That I'm a selfish person Or her She doesn't say that I'm too controlling I'm too bossy I have a sharp tongue And hence my marriage didn't work out And hence my husband left me And he married another wife He divorced me But instead of admitting That she wasn't a good wife He wasn't a good husband I wasn't lucky I wasn't lucky in my marriage With children I see some parents they say I have no luck with my children My children are not religious They disobey me My children come late at night I have absolutely no role In the lives of my children They don't listen They don't come with me to the Islamic center They don't come with me to the Husseiniyah I have absolutely no luck with my children While my neighbor is very lucky with his children Instead of admitting That he had no role in the life of his child Because he didn't look after his child He was too busy with his business With his work He never left room for his children He never cared about the lives of his children His son, his daughter, his teenage What were they doing What kind of friends do they have What problems and obstacles did they have At school, at work In finding a spouse So on and so forth Now that his son or daughter Don't speak to him or her They're not lucky with their children She has no luck with her children He has no luck with her children You see The people that talk about luck the most Being lucky or being unlucky Are those who fail You never see someone who succeeds Talk about luck A person who works hard And succeeds Becomes a top lawyer A top doctor A top politician A top CEO We'll never say I got lucky Or I was just lucky When I was elected Or when I became the chairman of this organization They'll tell you I earned it I deserved it I worked hard I wasn't lazy Wasn't luck Luck has absolutely nothing to do with it صلى الله عليه وسلم You see in Islam In Islam, in the Qur'an, in the hadith There's no mentioning of luck There's no mentioning of luck That this person succeeded because of luck And that person failed because of lack of luck No On the contrary We see that in the Qur'an, in the hadith In the seer of the halbait There's something else Called actions Tell about actions You want good grades? Work Act You want good grades? Study hard Don't go out with your friends Pray your phone aside And study Concentrate on work You'll get good grades Has nothing to do with luck Has to do with work With actions You want a good job? Go work Go look for it Go get a good education Be qualified Have the right criteria You'll find a good job Has nothing to do with luck You want a good family You want a good marriage You want a good spouse Be the right person Be the right qualities Have the right criteria And you'll have the right wife You'll have the perfect family Has nothing to do with luck Has to do with actions You want good children Children that practice Islam That wake up for salah That pray And practice hijab You raise them that way Raise them to pray To fast To come to majalis To wear hijab To eat halal food Has nothing to do with luck Doesn't come with luck Nothing is with luck You want a good body A good physique You want big biceps Like myself That is also earned Has nothing to do with luck Go to the gym Work hard You'll end up with big biceps You'll end up with a good physique It's nothing about luck Has nothing to do with luck And the Qur'an emphasizes on actions وقل عمله فسير الله عالم عملكم And say Work Do good deeds Act إن الإنسان لفي خص والعصر إن الإنسان لفي خص إلا الذين عامنوا وعملوا الصالحات By the time All humans will lose Except those who believe And do good Action ولكل إن درجاتهم منما عملوا Each person will have his stage Have his levels Due to their actions Has nothing to do with luck قل يا قوم عملوا على مكانتكم إن إعملوا Allah tells prophets To tell their people Work Do good Act And we'll see who has the best result At the end of the day Has nothing to do with luck And being lucky Some of the presidents of the world So now You think they became presidents Because of luck Our top مراجب Some of the most important people of our times today They were just lucky They were in the right position At the right time Or because they earned it They worked hard They achieved They contributed Hence They became successful Now Some of you might be thinking Well This This still doesn't explain to me Some questions Some people are still lucky You might be thinking You might say That I have a friend We grew up together We went to the same school We went to the same high school We went to the same college We were the same age And we even went into the same business Yet he succeeded and I failed How do you explain that? Isn't he just being lucky? Why didn't I succeed? We have the same job We make the same amount of money Yet he has a good wife And I have a bad wife We go to the same Islamic center And we listen to the same Sayyid or Shaykh We listen to the same lecture Yet my kids are not religious And his kids are religious Isn't that luck? How do you explain that? We took the same exact route We did the same exact thing Yet he has a good And I have a bad She has a good And I have a bad How do you explain that? Isn't it about luck? I wasn't lucky And he was lucky That's the only logical explanation No You see my dear friends There's something else that I'd like to introduce to you And you all know it This is called توفيق It's blessings from Allah Some people You don't know it You think that you've done the same exact thing That this person's done You grew up together You went to the same school You founded the same sort of business You go to the same Islamic center And say mosque Yet that person's successful And you're not It's called That person has done something In his life Or her life That's earned the goodness But just because you don't see it It doesn't mean that That person is not blessed توفيق is to be blessed By Allah Just because you don't see it With your own eyes Doesn't mean that That person's not blessed That person's just lucky You think he's lucky Nobody's earned it He's earned his His blessing You know I'll tell you a personal story I know a scholar In one city I won't mention where He's blind The scholar He's a say it He's blind He told me That So and so مرجب Grand Ayatollah He was my classmate When we were studying Back in the day We were classmates And I am not surprised That he is now a Grand Ayatollah today I told him why He said because He did a good deed He did a good deed I said what He said When we were studying I'm blind And you know In Hausa There's no braille You know here In the west There's books made in braille You could read Blind people could read Without any assistance In Hausa Unfortunately We don't have books Made out of braille Perhaps in the future Inshallah We'll have that He said I needed someone to read for me And my brothers And sisters were always busy This scholar Would sit and read to me He would open the book And would read He would be patient And he would read for me For hours He left Iraq The scholar remained in Iraq He said he left He came back As a Grand Ayatollah As a merajab I'm not surprised Because he did a good deed In his life This is called I know two brothers They grew up in the same house Under the same roof With the same parents They went to the same school They did exactly the same Yeah, one of them Was more successful than the other And the reason While many people don't know One of them was good to his parents Served his parents Half of his income He would give it to his parents People didn't know this Half of the money that he made Would go to his parents His parents were poor He was blessed Now he's successful Now everyone respects him Some people might think he's lucky But if you really know him You know that he's blessed Because he did something good I said بحر العلوم A very well-known scholar Maybe about 300 years ago Or less Less In the 18th century This scholar Visited the city of حلّة In عراق The people of حلّة Came to greet him And everyone wanted I said بحر العلوم Who was the top scholar Of his time The grand merge of his time To stay at their house There were scholars There were merchants There were rich people There were dignitaries There were all sorts of people Yet the Sayyid Chose to stay in the house Of someone who did not even Invite him to his house Who was a butcher Own a butcher shop He stayed in his house By the way Sayyid بحر العلوم For those of you that have read about him He had a special connection with whom With امام المهدي God bless him He had a special God bless him God bless him God bless him God bless him God bless him Sometimes he would meet With the Imam Sometimes the Imam Would tell him what to do Apparently the Imam Had told him To stay at the house Of this butcher So Sayyid بحر العلوم Stayed at his house For three days And on the third day He wanted to leave He wanted to leave He wanted to go back To نجف The Sayyid He came to the butcher He said You know what I have to I have to tell you something I was ordered To stay in your house And I thought There's something special about you But I saw That there's nothing special about you I thought For example You prayed the entire night And you fast during the day And you were very holy There's something special about you But it turns out That you're an ordinary person And I was ordered Meaning by whom To stay in your house Why? What's special about you The butcher He said Sayyid If you hadn't asked me I would never have told you In fact I was planning on telling anyone But now that you've asked me I'll tell you I've done one good deed in my life One good deed What was it? He said I proposed to a lady And I married her The night of our wedding When I came to my wife The night of my wedding I discovered something bad About my wife That night I discovered That she had a bad past I discovered that she Was in a prior relationship And When I discovered this I wanted to leave her I wanted to leave this marriage But she started begging me Not to expose her She begged me not to expose her She told me If you expose me And if you leave me And divorce me My parents will kill me They will kill me He said That night I decided to keep my wife For this reason Only to have mercy on her So that her family Will not hurt her And I decided To not expose her I concealed her secret I concealed her secret And that was the only thing That I did The only thing that I did Was I concealed her secret I did not expose her إمام المهدي Tells us To stay in this person's house For this one good quality People would think He was one This butcher was being Lucky The people of Probably assume That this butcher Is the luckiest butcher ever He came and stayed in his house But it's not luck He earned it This is called This is called This is called Prophet Jesus He says واجعلني مباركا عينما كنت Allah made me blessed I'm blessed Wherever I go I'm blessed Why? Because he's lucky No He tells us why وبرن بوالدتي I'm good to my mother نريم عليه السلام Because he was good to his mother And perhaps for other reasons Allah makes Prophet Jesus blessed Wherever he goes He's blessed People might think he's lucky But he's not lucky He's blessed Because he earned it This is called توفيق صلى الله عليه وسلم Now briefly Before we conclude I come to the second question Are there certain things that bring bad luck? Like black cats Crows The number 13 Broken mirrors Some homes Some cars Some children Are there things that bring bad luck? Or is this merely superstition? This is things that We're passed down to us In some cultures But are merely superstition They're not real There's people that really believe in these things That the number 13 brings bad luck That a broken mirror brings bad luck That a crow brings bad luck During the days of Jahlia Among the Arab If they saw a black crow This was a bad sign A bad omen Bad luck They were afraid That a bad thing will happen If they were about to set on a journey They wouldn't If they saw a black crow If they wanted to get married If they see a black crow They will stop the marriage They will stop the wedding Because that's bad luck Is this real? Are there certain things that bring bad luck? Or is this superstition? Because until today And that's the irony Today when people are so educated Yet there are some people that still believe In good luck and bad luck And that there are certain things That bring bad luck The Quran mentions bad luck The Quran talks about Certain people that believe in bad luck But the Quran speaks about it negatively That there are those that believe in bad luck But the Quran condemns them The Quran ridicules them Criticizes them For example Some people felt That some prophets brought bad luck For example, Musa Some people thought that he was bad luck There are some prophets There are tribes who do not believe in Allah They are disbelievers They thought that these prophets brought bad luck فإذا جاعتهم الحسنة قالوا لنا هذه وإنت صبهم سيعت يطيروا بموسى ومن معا The people of Musa When good things happen to them They say yes We are the reason But when bad things happen to them They say it's all because of Musa He's bad luck قالوا تطيرنا بك ومن معا The prophet of The prophet Saleh His tribe They would tell him You are bad luck You bring us bad luck قالوا ان تطيرنا بكم People would tell prophets You bring us bad luck Allah answers them قالوا تطيركم معكم The prophets do not bring bad luck You are bad luck So to speak Of course this is metaphoric The Quran is basically telling them The prophets don't bring bad luck There is no such thing as bad luck If bad things happen to you It's because of your actions Remember It's not luck It's actions When bad things happen to you It's because of your actions It has nothing to do with luck Right? Now to believe That some things can bring you bad luck Like a black cat Or a crow With a number 13 Or a broken mirror Or I don't know what This goes against Two things In Islam A belief And a practice This contradicts The idea of bad luck That certain things bring bad luck This contradicts an Islamic belief And an Islamic practice The Islamic belief Is that the only thing that The only authority in this World is whom? Allah SWT How can a broken mirror Have an effect on your life Or on your marriage Or on your journey How can it have an effect? Or a crow Or a black cat Or the number 13 The only authority in this life Is Allah SWT These things have no effect There is a hadith by Allah SWT That says Allah SWT Who is affected by bad luck Meaning For example If he sees a black cat He sees a black cat He sees a black cat He thinks it's bad luck So he stops doing what he's doing He doesn't get married He doesn't go on a journey He doesn't start that business The prophet says This is a form of shirk This is a form of shirk Because you think that that black cat Or that crow Or that broken mirror Or the number 13 Will have an effect on you That's ridiculous The only one that can Have an effect on you Is Allah SWT So this is one It contradicts an Islamic belief And number two It contradicts an Islamic practice And that's توقل توقل على الله You're about to get married A mirror breaks You stop Where's the توقل We are telling Islam To depend on Allah And only Allah And not to be afraid Not to worry Depend only on Allah SWT وعلى الله فليتوقل فليتوقل المؤمنون إن ينصركم الله فلا غالب لكم وان يخذلكم فمن الذي ينصركم من بعده وعلى الله فليتوقل المؤمنون إذا الله سبقوك Then no one can harm you And if Allah does not support you If Allah neglects you Then no one can support you And believers should depend on Allah SWT Depend on Allah Don't pay attention to things That you think will bring bad luck There's no such thing This is superstition This is nonsense Depend on Allah قل ليه صيبنا إلا ما كتب الله لنا هو مولانا وعلى الله فليتوقل المؤمنون This is a concurrent theme In the Quran That we should depend on Allah وشدوة وكل We shouldn't pay attention to these things That we think bring bad luck قل ليه صيبنا إلا ما كتب الله لنا Say that nothing will happen to us Unless it is been destined by Allah To happen to us If it's been destined It will happen If not You think that a broken mirror Has an effect on you Or the number 13 Has an effect on you Absolutely not You might say Well once You know It actually happened Something brought me bad luck You know I saw a bad sign And indeed Something bad happened to me A mirror was broken And indeed that brought me bad luck Or I saw the number 13 I traveled on For example Friday the 13th And I got in an accident on that day It happened It's real No it's not real Why The Imam tells us Imam صادق He says that sometimes These things that you think Bring bad luck It has a psychological effect It has a psychological effect So if you for example See a broken mirror And you think it will bring you bad luck You will translate a lot of things In a negative way In a negative way If in the beginning of your marriage You think that this marriage is bad luck For some reason You will give up on the marriage Because thinking that this marriage Is doomed anyway That's why you will not make an effort You will not make an effort To fix that marriage And you will say yes That marriage was bad luck Or so and so brought me bad luck No it wasn't bad luck But it had a psychological effect On you You gave up You translated certain things To believe that that had bad luck Rather it didn't have bad luck Imam صادق عليه السلام Says على ما تجعلها And how one ta'a to how one it Bad luck It depends on how you treat it If you don't pay attention to it Nothing will have bad luck But if you pay attention to it If you think about it Then yes It will have a bad effect on you It's all in the head It's all in your mind Will you allow it to have an effect on you Or you don't allow it to have an effect on you It's all in the head It's all in the mind صلى الله عليه وسلم If you are afraid of bad luck If you are afraid that Some things will bring you bad luck The hadith say that the cure is توقل على الله Depend on Allah And all of your deeds And all of your actions You are afraid of this You are afraid of that You are afraid that this will bring you bad luck You are afraid of certain dreams They mean bad luck No, depend on Allah