Muslims

[nunyab 0]

The evil eye is a folk belief that the envy elicited by the good luck of fortunate people may result in their misfortune, whether it is envy of material possessions including livestock, or of beauty, health, or offspring. The perception of the nature of the phenomenon, its causes, and possible protective measures, varies between different cultures.

Belief in the evil eye is found in Islamic doctrine, based upon the verse of the Qur'an, "And from the evil of the envier when he envies," [Chapter al-Falaq, verse 5][1] and the statement of Prophet Muhammad, "The influence of an evil eye is a fact..." [sahih Muslim, Book 26, Number 5427][2]. Authentic practices of warding off the evil eye are also commonly practiced by Muslims: rather than directly expressing appreciation of, for example, a child's beauty, it is customary to say Masha'Allah, that is, "God has willed it", or invoking God's blessings upon the object or person that is being admired. [3] Aside from beliefs based upon authentic Islamic texts, a number of unsubstantiated beliefs about the evil eye are found in folk religion, typically revolving around the use of amulets or talismans as a means of protection.

Now that's some good info.. thank you. And will you look at that we just got married and now there is some trouble. My husband is always warning me about this "bad eye" he calls it.

I grew up with people who were not born in this country, so I have heard all that evil eye stuff, I used to be scared of gypsies, always thought one of them had given me the evil eye, than my friend who is English told me one day that he use to fight with the gypsies all the time in England, and he is very successful, so I guess my excuse of the evil eye on me is not holding much weight. I have to say this, I claim that I have questions on God, but ask my family if I am atheist, they will say no. I was telling my mother the other day about how I feel about organized religion, and she starts yelling, you are not an atheist, you are just confused. Also olive oil is the cure all for all that ails you, and when I had some kind of pain somewhere on my body, my grandmother would say you have a cold there. ####### is that, all I ever wanted when I was young was the normal American family, the Brady bunch kinda of life, where you eat tuna casserole which to me is so American. I used to be so embarrassed when I was in school, cause when you called my house, no one was good at speaking English, and I always got the question, your family doesn’t speak English. This was in the late 60’s early 70’s, when speaking another language was not as cool as it is today, didn’t help we lived in a white neighborhood. I took after my German father who is whiter than snow, so when you look at me, you never expect my family to be dark, it always shocks people. I love that now.

Ganga_girl I can top that... imgaine being a teenager and your parents passing the bong to your firend.... not cool. I never liked drugs probably cuase they were so front and in my face. Hamodlah I don't worry about those days much anymore... they use a pipe now.

[SaadBell 0]

I would have smoked the bong with them, just kidding, I totally understand. I remember I forgot my lunch at school; I might have been around 8 at the time, and the school sectary had to call my home to get my lunch. Well guess who answers the phone, my great grandmother, whom never likes America, and spoke maybe two words of English. The sectary starts her normal speech your child has forgotten their lunch and you need to come to the school to bring it to her. The sectary’s face just froze and she looks up at me and said, your family doesn’t speak English? EMBARESSED, this is an all white school, we had one black girl on the class, who was my best friend, and looking back I guess we found each other. My ex-husband was an alcoholic and my daughter saw what it did to his life, and I am happy that she so far has never drank. So totally understand about the pot smoking your parents did. I smoked during my chemo, and when I get really sick, which hasn’t been in a long time. Parents, at least they didn’t call my father, he is a pathological liar, I am not even kidding, and he lies about everything. One time my sister was over at my fathers, and he was cooking shrimp, so she goes, that looks like some good shrimp, now get this, my father turns to my sister and says, I am not cooking shrimp. #######, WHAT A TOOL

[nunyab 0]

I would have smoked the bong with them, just kidding, I totally understand. I remember I forgot my lunch at school; I might have been around 8 at the time, and the school sectary had to call my home to get my lunch. Well guess who answers the phone, my great grandmother, whom never likes America, and spoke maybe two words of English. The sectary starts her normal speech your child has forgotten their lunch and you need to come to the school to bring it to her. The sectary’s face just froze and she looks up at me and said, your family doesn’t speak English? EMBARESSED, this is an all white school, we had one black girl on the class, who was my best friend, and looking back I guess we found each other. My ex-husband was an alcoholic and my daughter saw what it did to his life, and I am happy that she so far has never drank. So totally understand about the pot smoking your parents did. I smoked during my chemo, and when I get really sick, which hasn’t been in a long time. Parents, at least they didn’t call my father, he is a pathological liar, I am not even kidding, and he lies about everything. One time my sister was over at my fathers, and he was cooking shrimp, so she goes, that looks like some good shrimp, now get this, my father turns to my sister and says, I am not cooking shrimp. #######, WHAT A TOOL

LMAO... i really needed to laugh thank you. Sorry at your expense though... oK here is one. So I am now @ 16 and I have my 18 yr bf with me (before being a muzzie alright) and I went to get something out of the kitchen i come back to the front room and my mother has her hand on his knee!!!!!!!

Next!!!!!!

[SaadBell 0]

Sounds like we come from the same family, my father gave me up when I was 13, my sisters were much younger, I had to go to court, they took me into the judge’s chambers and asked if I knew what was going on, of course I know, of course my father showed up to court with wife #5, anytime I saw him it was usually in court and he always had some new girlfriend. When I was married to my ex-husband and had my daughter, this is about 14 years ago, I called him, this is after I got my diagnosis, you will love this response, "I don't know anyone by that name," than he called my sister and told her that I called and would not tell him who I was. LIE LIE LIE, he is priceless, my ex-husband always held it over my head saying that I would turn insane like him. Now he is trying to slime his way into my sisters life, what a tool.

[April and Mohamed 0]

The evil eye is a folk belief that the envy elicited by the good luck of fortunate people may result in their misfortune, whether it is envy of material possessions including livestock, or of beauty, health, or offspring. The perception of the nature of the phenomenon, its causes, and possible protective measures, varies between different cultures.

Belief in the evil eye is found in Islamic doctrine, based upon the verse of the Qur'an, "And from the evil of the envier when he envies," [Chapter al-Falaq, verse 5][1] and the statement of Prophet Muhammad, "The influence of an evil eye is a fact..." [sahih Muslim, Book 26, Number 5427][2]. Authentic practices of warding off the evil eye are also commonly practiced by Muslims: rather than directly expressing appreciation of, for example, a child's beauty, it is customary to say Masha'Allah, that is, "God has willed it", or invoking God's blessings upon the object or person that is being admired. [3] Aside from beliefs based upon authentic Islamic texts, a number of unsubstantiated beliefs about the evil eye are found in folk religion, typically revolving around the use of amulets or talismans as a means of protection.

Don't forget that even if the evil eye exists, nothing will befall you unless Allah swt allows it to. So I wouldn't be so much afraid of the evil eye as I would be afraid of Allah swt Himself. And I like to think that if you yourself say masha'Allah and tabarakallah to people, then Allah will reward you for giving Him props. And whenever people are like ooooh wow for whatever and all they say is wow, I myself say alhamdulillah and masha'Allah and hope that that will suffice with Allah, and usually they pick up on it too and repeat it after me. I like the hand necklace, what they call "lkhemsa", but I wouldn't necessarily use it in a religious way because that just might fall into the category of bid3a. I like the keychains and decorations with it because it's pretty, but not because I believe in its powers, I don't believe it has any powers, only Allah swt can protect me from the evil eye.

[palilover 1]

ooo...I dont nkow what is more scarey, a mother putting her handd on a bf's knee, smoking pot with your kids, or the evil eye.

I did not have parents who partied with me or anything, but my mother tries to make friends with everyone I know whom is a friend. Not just being friendly but I mean trying to be best friends so she can eventaully turn them against me. I dread when my husband comes here and she tries to get me to leave the room so she can talk about me. She has done that with my other family members and his is why no one in my family really speaks to me except wehn I make the effort go to there and even then, they maybe speak to me for an hour and then leave. This is why I never go there:)

But I have seen parents (a mother) who parties with her 19 year old daughter. She got up and danced at a party with her kids. I don't know what is more scarey-the fact that the mother did that or the fact that the daughter and her kids thought it was the coolest thing to see a mother party like a 19 year old.....scarey stuff.

Ok now I know what the evil eye is. I have been wondering ever since I became Muslim because I saw it a lot on islamway.com but I never understood it. Maybe I had to become victim to an evil eye to fully understand? Yep my neighbors became irate when I decided to marry my husband for love and not their relative for green card marriage.....so they had evil eye really bad. It led to me leaving the friendship with them and I was very hurt over this cuz I thought they were nice, but I found out they had been stabbing me in the back all this time. It caused problems between me and my husband, but in the end, the ordeal brought us a lot closer together too....and alhumdoolillah we were able to overcome it. So maybe Allah cannot control the evil eye but he can help people overcome it? I don't know. I never have luck in Allah helping me prevent people from hurting me...but he can help me overcome maybe.

[HLM 1]

The evil eye is a folk belief that the envy elicited by the good luck of fortunate people may result in their misfortune, whether it is envy of material possessions including livestock, or of beauty, health, or offspring. The perception of the nature of the phenomenon, its causes, and possible protective measures, varies between different cultures.

Belief in the evil eye is found in Islamic doctrine, based upon the verse of the Qur'an, "And from the evil of the envier when he envies," [Chapter al-Falaq, verse 5][1] and the statement of Prophet Muhammad, "The influence of an evil eye is a fact..." [sahih Muslim, Book 26, Number 5427][2]. Authentic practices of warding off the evil eye are also commonly practiced by Muslims: rather than directly expressing appreciation of, for example, a child's beauty, it is customary to say Masha'Allah, that is, "God has willed it", or invoking God's blessings upon the object or person that is being admired. [3] Aside from beliefs based upon authentic Islamic texts, a number of unsubstantiated beliefs about the evil eye are found in folk religion, typically revolving around the use of amulets or talismans as a means of protection.

Don't forget that even if the evil eye exists, nothing will befall you unless Allah swt allows it to. So I wouldn't be so much afraid of the evil eye as I would be afraid of Allah swt Himself. And I like to think that if you yourself say masha'Allah and tabarakallah to people, then Allah will reward you for giving Him props. And whenever people are like ooooh wow for whatever and all they say is wow, I myself say alhamdulillah and masha'Allah and hope that that will suffice with Allah, and usually they pick up on it too and repeat it after me. I like the hand necklace, what they call "lkhemsa", but I wouldn't necessarily use it in a religious way because that just might fall into the category of bid3a. I like the keychains and decorations with it because it's pretty, but not because I believe in its powers, I don't believe it has any powers, only Allah swt can protect me from the evil eye.

I totally agree with u

ooo...I dont nkow what is more scarey, a mother putting her handd on a bf's knee, smoking pot with your kids, or the evil eye.

I did not have parents who partied with me or anything, but my mother tries to make friends with everyone I know whom is a friend. Not just being friendly but I mean trying to be best friends so she can eventaully turn them against me. I dread when my husband comes here and she tries to get me to leave the room so she can talk about me. She has done that with my other family members and his is why no one in my family really speaks to me except wehn I make the effort go to there and even then, they maybe speak to me for an hour and then leave. This is why I never go there:)

But I have seen parents (a mother) who parties with her 19 year old daughter. She got up and danced at a party with her kids. I don't know what is more scarey-the fact that the mother did that or the fact that the daughter and her kids thought it was the coolest thing to see a mother party like a 19 year old.....scarey stuff.

Ok now I know what the evil eye is. I have been wondering ever since I became Muslim because I saw it a lot on islamway.com but I never understood it. Maybe I had to become victim to an evil eye to fully understand? Yep my neighbors became irate when I decided to marry my husband for love and not their relative for green card marriage.....so they had evil eye really bad. It led to me leaving the friendship with them and I was very hurt over this cuz I thought they were nice, but I found out they had been stabbing me in the back all this time. It caused problems between me and my husband, but in the end, the ordeal brought us a lot closer together too....and alhumdoolillah we were able to overcome it. So maybe Allah cannot control the evil eye but he can help people overcome it? I don't know. I never have luck in Allah helping me prevent people from hurting me...but he can help me overcome maybe.

Palilover Allah can do anything! read April and Mohammeds post masha Allah she says right n brief

[nunyab 0]

The evil eye is a folk belief that the envy elicited by the good luck of fortunate people may result in their misfortune, whether it is envy of material possessions including livestock, or of beauty, health, or offspring. The perception of the nature of the phenomenon, its causes, and possible protective measures, varies between different cultures.

Belief in the evil eye is found in Islamic doctrine, based upon the verse of the Qur'an, "And from the evil of the envier when he envies," [Chapter al-Falaq, verse 5][1] and the statement of Prophet Muhammad, "The influence of an evil eye is a fact..." [sahih Muslim, Book 26, Number 5427][2]. Authentic practices of warding off the evil eye are also commonly practiced by Muslims: rather than directly expressing appreciation of, for example, a child's beauty, it is customary to say Masha'Allah, that is, "God has willed it", or invoking God's blessings upon the object or person that is being admired. [3] Aside from beliefs based upon authentic Islamic texts, a number of unsubstantiated beliefs about the evil eye are found in folk religion, typically revolving around the use of amulets or talismans as a means of protection.

Don't forget that even if the evil eye exists, nothing will befall you unless Allah swt allows it to. So I wouldn't be so much afraid of the evil eye as I would be afraid of Allah swt Himself. And I like to think that if you yourself say masha'Allah and tabarakallah to people, then Allah will reward you for giving Him props. And whenever people are like ooooh wow for whatever and all they say is wow, I myself say alhamdulillah and masha'Allah and hope that that will suffice with Allah, and usually they pick up on it too and repeat it after me. I like the hand necklace, what they call "lkhemsa", but I wouldn't necessarily use it in a religious way because that just might fall into the category of bid3a. I like the keychains and decorations with it because it's pretty, but not because I believe in its powers, I don't believe it has any powers, only Allah swt can protect me from the evil eye.

I totally agree with u

ooo...I dont nkow what is more scarey, a mother putting her handd on a bf's knee, smoking pot with your kids, or the evil eye.

I did not have parents who partied with me or anything, but my mother tries to make friends with everyone I know whom is a friend. Not just being friendly but I mean trying to be best friends so she can eventaully turn them against me. I dread when my husband comes here and she tries to get me to leave the room so she can talk about me. She has done that with my other family members and his is why no one in my family really speaks to me except wehn I make the effort go to there and even then, they maybe speak to me for an hour and then leave. This is why I never go there:)

But I have seen parents (a mother) who parties with her 19 year old daughter. She got up and danced at a party with her kids. I don't know what is more scarey-the fact that the mother did that or the fact that the daughter and her kids thought it was the coolest thing to see a mother party like a 19 year old.....scarey stuff.

Ok now I know what the evil eye is. I have been wondering ever since I became Muslim because I saw it a lot on islamway.com but I never understood it. Maybe I had to become victim to an evil eye to fully understand? Yep my neighbors became irate when I decided to marry my husband for love and not their relative for green card marriage.....so they had evil eye really bad. It led to me leaving the friendship with them and I was very hurt over this cuz I thought they were nice, but I found out they had been stabbing me in the back all this time. It caused problems between me and my husband, but in the end, the ordeal brought us a lot closer together too....and alhumdoolillah we were able to overcome it. So maybe Allah cannot control the evil eye but he can help people overcome it? I don't know. I never have luck in Allah helping me prevent people from hurting me...but he can help me overcome maybe.

Palilover Allah can do anything! read April and Mohammeds post masha Allah she says right n brief

Mashallah Mashallah mashallah... good job April. And yes I do say it for fear that other's think i am inflicting the Evil Eye... I was told that as one of my "intro to the middle East" classes the sisters gave me.lol As well as Insha'allah and Hamdolah... can't go wrong with those.

[nunyab 0]

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[nunyab 0]

Ok... here's something for any hijab wearers... have you noticed people are obsessed with talking about your hair??? I started a new job and all they can do is say things.. ask questions I know they're curious but is it just me... geeez it's just hair for goodness sake!

[HLM 1]

I think becoz its the frst thing ppl will notice n talk about lol to most women it is the most important thing... they dont know that even hijabies care about their hair too; esp. when u re married u have to look nice for ur hubby ;D

[Zee Bee 61]

Ok... here's something for any hijab wearers... have you noticed people are obsessed with talking about your hair??? I started a new job and all they can do is say things.. ask questions I know they're curious but is it just me... geeez it's just hair for goodness sake!

I have a thousand and one stories

My sister tells everyone her hair is green with purple polka dots

[sara..... 371]

ok... soo what's this about the "Evil eye?"

lol well for spanish it means that if someone looks at a person in admiration such as their hair of face or something that person can get sick if they do not touch what ever it is that they envy........if the person has very strong eye the person can even die............so for most spanish u will see them go up to a small cute child they dont even know and touch their face or their hair i have heard stories of one lady she was sitting at her friends home and was looking at a clear glass water pitcher the sweat on the outside of it intrigued her she didnt touch it so it broke lol for us it is mostly old wifes tails .......but its not so funny when u get fever for no reason and wake up to ur grandmother saying a prayer and passing an uncooked egg still in the shell over ur head and body lol.......u see the evil that made u ill is suppose to go to the egg then it is cracked and put in a half a cup of cold water if two eyes appear on the broken uncooked egg then u were very sick if just one and is looking like it is slightly cooked ur lucky lol........i never argue with her about it but never let her know im not feeling well either lol

[caybee 21]

I think becoz its the frst thing ppl will notice n talk about lol to most women it is the most important thing... they dont know that even hijabies care about their hair too; esp. when u re married u have to look nice for ur hubby ;D

I've wondered if your hair would end up in even better shape -- no UV rays and air pollutants soaking in all day long. Sorry if this exactly the kind of silly question you're tired of, but has anyone noticed their hair becoming healthier after you started wearing hijab?

[sara..... 371]

lol one lady asked me if i wear it cuz its more easy to just put it on and go and not worry about styling my hair.......