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Solar eclipse and pregnancy?
Anonymous
02/09/05 at 19:33:53
salaam,

I recently found out I'm pregnant.  All of a sudden I have these aunties telling me to
avoid the solar and lunar eclipse because it causes birth defects.  One aunty even told me
this was stated in the Qur'an, she didn't know where though.  Anyways, I've never heard
this before.  If anyone knows the validity of this please let me know.


thank you
Re: Solar eclipse and pregnancy?
Mona
02/09/05 at 19:59:22
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just out of curiosity, how would you avoid the eclipse *after* you found out that you are pregnant??

i don't know anything about whether the eclipse would harm the baby.


wassalam
mona

Re: Solar eclipse and pregnancy?
Fozia
02/10/05 at 15:47:49
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I always thought this was one of my mother's cookey superstition's. When pregnant with my first daughter there was a lunar and solar eclipse forecast and my mother rang me panic stricken to tell me not to do a whole list of things. It didn't really matter as I was doing the eclipse prayers anyways so wasn't about to start
[*]chopping/cutting things
[*]sweeping
[*]brushing my hair
Apparantly all of the above and more lead to birth defects, mother however said 'old people say...' So I've no references from either the Quran or the hadith, just my mother's hysterics to go on.

Would be interested to know if there actually is a religious basis to this though.

In case anyone was wondering, my daughter was born perfect alhumdulillah all appendages accounted for ;)

Wassalaam
Re: Solar eclipse and pregnancy?
Trustworthy
02/11/05 at 02:23:38
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First of all...Congrats!!!

Stay away from superstition.   That's found everywhere in the hadiths and Qur'an.

Lastly....Allah (SWT) bless....  

Ma-assalaamah....
02/11/05 at 02:24:28
Trustworthy


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