Why is ISLAM So Superstitious?

Question

I previously asked a question about the 99 names of Allah and was directed to a website by a respondee:
http://www.luvu4luv.com/99names.html

It explained what would happen if you recited one of Allah's names as follows:

Al Ahad (The One) = Reccitation of this name 1000 times opens certain secrets.
Al-Awwal (The First) = Recitation of this name, 1000 times for 40 Fridays will help in getting a child.
Al-Hakeem (The Wise) = One who recites this name continuously will prevent him from the difficulties in work.
Al-Haleem (The Forbearing One) = Write this name on the piece of paper and put it where the seeds are sown, this will prevent from any disaster and calamity.
Al-Jaleel (The Sublime One) = One who writes this name on a piece of paper with musk and saffron, washes it, and drinks the water from a ceramic container made of earth, will be revered among men.
Al-Muhsi (The Recokner) = Recite this name 1000 times will have easiness on judgement day.

Al-Khaafizu (The Abaser) = Recitation of this name, 70,000 times in gathering after fasting for 3 days will be safeguarded from enemy.

An_Naafi (The Propitious) = One who recites this name continously for four days will be prevented from any harm.

As-Sabur (The Patient) = One who recites this name 3000 times will be resuced from any difficulty.

Qabiz (The Constrictor) = One who writes this name on 50 pieces of food (fruit, bread, etc) for 40 days will receive ample sustenance.

Ar-Raafi (The Exalter) = Reciting this name 100 times during day and night will make the person higher and rich.

Al-Wadud (The Loving) = Reciting this name 1000 times on food before eating will help making compromise between two persons.

Al-Zaarr (The Distresser) = One who recites this name will gain status

SUPERSTITIOUS CULT NOT A RELIGION!

Answer 1

whoa! I'm the one who referred you to that page and didn't even notice the right column!

Funny, no? It's like catholics who pray to x or y saint because he/she is supposed to help in certain matters. even Buddhism (my religion) has its share of superstition, with all the mandala thing.

Answer 2

This is not part of the religion. In Islam we have du'aa , which is a small prayer that you would say just like in christianity, you pray to god to be in a better health, to save you from bad stuff, several things then appeared such as the one you wrote, like if you put this on a paper and throw and then wash it and I don't know what or if you say this one thousand time, god will grant you whatever you want, these are all superstitions that have appeared later where some people used religion to gain money and they made these stuff up in the name of the religion. In Islam, the only source is the quran and the prophets saying and everything that ignorant people believe in are just some stuff that were added later. If you go back to the quran , it doesnt mention any of these stuff.

Answer 3

Even tho the above mentioned is not apart of Islamic law or doctrine, its apart of the spirituality of Islam, and can differ from culture to culture.

As it is, the teachings of Islam say that words on their own, have no power to do anything for you.

but the meanings of those words, if fully realized, can have profound effects on you.

the numbers on their own are meaningless, numbers like 70, 100, 1000 have always been used to describe 'large quantities' of something,rather than the exact number.

Please read up on things like sufism and islamic spirituality to get the bigger picture.

Answer 4

This is NOT part of the true Islamic faith

Some people are just so superstitious, and thats a bad image for Islam

The only thing that might be true (I dont know if the website mentioned it or not), is that if you memorize these 99 names by heart, you'll get a great number of good deeds

Answer 5

You're right.

This is, just like you said, superstition.

There's no proof from the Qur'an or Sunnah about the 'benefits' of reciting the names.

Answer 6

Do it with pure heart and you will realise that it really works:)O wait does your religion give you such gifts.Maybe not.
Our religion guides us in every moment of our life,whether be it desease or happiness:)

Answer 7

I never heard of such!
and I study Islam IN SAUDI..!

Answer 8

ALL religion relies on superstition, not facts. Why single out Islam?

Answer 9

Sounds like a load of Islamic crap to me.

Answer 10

Mohammad, the founder of Islam saw that like previous 'prophets', he too could invent a religion and proclaim his thoughts to be from the 'Creator'. This would give him power over his relatively illiterate and dumb audience. One of the reason why he created Islam was that he wanted to control people and rule over them.
This is what Islam is in a nutshell - A collection of manipulative lies created by one of the most malicious men to have lived on Earth.
This clever system of lies (or Islam) capitalizes on (makes use of) several things.
1) Islam takes advantage of previous liars who pretended to be prophets of “God”.
Every new 'liar' would try to find better ways to deceive the public. One of the earliest liar was the caveman who boasted about being able to talk to the Rain God. If everyone obeyed him, he would make sure Rain would fall on their crops. Mohammed the Liar was an advanced version of this caveman- like Windows XP, as compared to MS DOS.

2) Islam makes use of mankind’s : - age old fear of fire: The (Un)Holy Quran keeps repeating threats of Hellfire to anyone who doesnt obey Allah, the false God.
- desire to live an eternal life after they have died (the survival instinct)
- desire to beleive in a God, who will listen to their problems, and provide justice to them if they have been violated in any way. Beleif in a God reassures mankind that there is someone who is powerful, responsible and 'good' who will take care of them, now in this life, and then in the 'afterlife'.
- men’s almost insatiable desire for sex - by promising beleiving men to be rewarded with beautiful women in paradise. (Quran 44:54)
3) Islam makes use of man's high vulnerability to develop low self-esteem and their tendency to keep it in the system.
The low self-esteem can be created by abuse in younger years, and is almost always passed on to next generations. Islam is a system that further degrades Humans and pushes them down the low self-esteem trap by:
a) telling the beleiver that they have no right to live life their own way, and are only infact, a slave of Allah, who they must obey in order to avoid Hellfire.
b) giving lesser self-esteem to women (advising a man to beat his wife[Quran 4:34], lesser testimonial rights [Quran 4:11], covering up in a veil as if she can only be a sex object [various hadith and quran] etc.). Women with low self-esteem will raise children who have low self-esteem as well. Once low self-esteem enters a family system, its hard to build it up, because nature shows that Destruction is easy, while Contruction is hard and takes more time.

Islam: A plague
Islam is the worst plague to have hit humanity. The Bubonic plague physically killed 25 million people in Europe in the 1300's. Islam is a more serious illness, which has mentally infected about 1 billion people and continues to effect the rest of the 5 billion population of Earth. The religion is very destructive and dangerous, and threatens peace on Earth..