Collecting food leftovers and washing with them to ward off the evil eye
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Question:
There is a custom practiced by some people: when they finish a feast or wedding banquet, they collect what is left over from the guests to wash with it or drink it, in order to ward off the evil eye, and they do this before it happens as a precaution. Is their action correct?
Answer:
I know of no basis for this. It is a bad opinion of Allah, and it is not permissible. This is not the practice of Muslims. May Allah help us.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence the Shaykh
There is a custom practiced by some people: when they finish a feast or wedding banquet, they collect what is left over from the guests to wash with it or drink it, in order to ward off the evil eye, and they do this before it happens as a precaution. Is their action correct?
Answer:
I know of no basis for this. It is a bad opinion of Allah, and it is not permissible. This is not the practice of Muslims. May Allah help us.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence the Shaykh
Source
أحكام الحج — islamhouse.com (1:06:13)
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