Placing cloth on vehicles to ward off the evil eye
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on what some owners of buses and trailers do? They say that they place cloth to ward off the evil eye. Is this something that should be refuted directly, or is it necessary to report it?
Answer:
It should be refuted. This is a practice from the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah), so it is not permissible. The scholars have alerted the municipalities to prohibit this matter, placing rags on cars, and it has been prohibited.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: What is the ruling on what some owners of buses and trailers do? They say that they place cloth to ward off the evil eye. Is this something that should be refuted directly, or is it necessary to report it?
Answer:
It should be refuted. This is a practice from the pre-Islamic age of ignorance (jahiliyyah), so it is not permissible. The scholars have alerted the municipalities to prohibit this matter, placing rags on cars, and it has been prohibited.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان-13- 03-1441هـ — alfawzan.live (1:10:10)
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