SHAH ALAM - Muslims must increase their faith towards Allah and not be easily influenced by nonsensical beliefs regarding the disasters that would supposedly happen on the last Wednesday of the Safar month.
Penang Mufti Datuk Seri Dr Wan Salim Wan Mohd Noor stated the actions of believing in bad luck or being pessimistic about any particular day, month or time comes from pre-Islamic culture which was the age of ignorance.
He said the presence of Islam destroyed such beliefs and thought it's followers to surrender their fate to Allah.
"Some believe that the Safar month would have a lot of disasters, accidents and bad events causing them not to marry or carry out business for fear of loss.
"This is not Islamic," he said.
Recently there had been a viral social media post regarding claims that 320,000 plagues, calamities, disasters and such would happen on the last Wednesday in the Safar month.
The post uploaded by a user on Tiktok advised individuals to pray to prevent misfortune and to give charity.
Wan Salim added the superstitious practices based on polytheism must be avoided to preserve the purity of the Muslim faith.
"No calamity or disaster would occur without the permission of Allah and all things that happen are according to qada and qadar (fate and destiny).
"I advise Muslims not to restart the culture that was forgotten for decades.
"They must raise their knowledge and understanding about true Islamic teachings," he said.