What is the meaning of the evil eye in the Qur'an compared to the knowledge we have from our cultures? Is it a superstition or is it true? May Allah protect our brother from evil eye.
00:01:47.600Let's watch for ourselves and dissect where we agree with him and where we disagree with him, inshallah.
00:01:52.100As soon as something negative happens, people tend to blame it on Nazar or the evil eye.
00:01:56.340So my question is, what is the meaning of the evil eye in the Quran compared to the knowledge we have from our cultures?
00:02:01.020I am not convinced that we have interpreted the common interpretation of the hadith involving the evil eye is interpreted properly.
00:02:07.820Al-ayn-u-haq, in my opinion, Allah ta'ala alam, al-ayn-u-haq is referring to jealousy, can have really bad consequences.
00:02:12.500But not that if I stare at someone with enough laser focus, they will fall down the stairs.
00:02:15.880Or, you know, you developed, I developed really bad allergies yesterday because the first day somebody didn't say mashallah when they saw my PowerPoint presentation.
00:02:23.220No, because if ayin was really that powerful, then every time a country elects a president that the country doesn't like,
00:02:28.320everybody should just get together for a ayn party and just, and then they should just start melting as they speak.
00:02:37.200And nobody gave, like nobody received more ayn than the Prophet of Allah, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, right?
00:02:43.380The thing with, the idea of, you know, oh, you dressed up for a wedding and then you look really nice, but you didn't say mashallah,
00:02:50.900or somebody else didn't say mashallah, even worse, okay, you said it, you're like, mashallah, tabarakallah, inshallah,
00:02:54.500but when you got to the wedding, somebody in a corner was like, oh, she looks nice, some old lady,
00:03:01.080and she didn't say mashallah, and somebody else pulled her the other direction, and now all of a sudden qadr has changed,
00:03:04.360and now, you know, you're just going to develop this skin rash that's going to make, like, boils on your forehead,
00:03:07.960and you're like, that old lady, I got ayn, I got ayn at the wedding.
00:03:10.660No, that's, in my opinion, that is superstition.
00:03:12.940This is a kind of religion that, it's an exaggerated extreme that has gone too far,
00:03:17.760and we've turned our religion into this superstitious stuff,
00:03:19.580and it's just not something true to the spirit of the Quran.
00:03:21.880Now, first I want to start with the points that he made, which are very, very true.
00:03:26.060What we've done with the evil eye, we've turned it into an absolute superstition.