Birds In The House Keep Evil Away?

[salam006]

Salams everyone :)

This is my first topic here and I was just wondering if you guys can shed some light on this issue. I am not a very superstitious person but I of course believe that there are some things you cannot answer or know the reasons for, that our religion guides us on. So today I heard from a friend about this hadith their family knew about and 'practiced' in order to keep 'evil' and 'misfortune' away. I would like to know if anyone can clarify where this comes from and whether it is validated within Islam....or whether its just superstition and old world tale.

So basically, apparently they say that if you keep pet birds in the house it pushes away any tragedy that may occur in the house. A friend of mine was telling me how she used to own two pet birds who suddenly died one day....no signs or anything...they just died and were lying at the bottom of their cage. She said she was heartbroken about her pets both dying, but then noticed a crazy coincidence. An otherwise deadly accident was prevented in her household on that same day....something prevented that they could not explain how on earth it was prevented. Logic dictated that this tragedy would occur because no one was home to stop it. She claims that from hadiths she knew..... if you have birds in your house it keeps tragedy away and that is the reason nothing happened to her family but the birds died.

I did not say anything but felt like this might be just plain superstition...but I would like to have that clarified. Like...it just sounds kind of insane :P

Anyone hear about this sort of thing? Can anyone verify whether it is true or not?

thanks!

Edited May 23, 2013 by salam006

[guest022017a]

such superstition is reminiscent of pagan beliefs and has no place in Islam, not the mention the ignorance associated with it

[The Green Knight]

I've read a hadith about pigeon that says that the sound of its wings flap is unpleasant to shayateen and so it keeps them away. There are a couple more about the same in a well known Shia hadith book called Tehzeeb-ul-Islam by Allama Baqir Majlisi.

[Ali-Reza]

such superstition is reminiscent of pagan beliefs and has no place in Islam, not the mention the ignorance associated with it

Don't jump to conclusions so fast! Creations of Allah (swt) serve multiple purposes some we can see and some are beyond what we can see.

So while in this case I don't know if birds do anything to evil spirits or energies, I think we should not rule things like this out simply because we don't see it.

[Your-Best-Friend]

Ahadees-e-Mubarika say:

Keep birds/pet animals in your houses to eradicate evils i.e. Pigeons, [Edited Out], etc.

And yes, this is fact that such animals take evils on themselves, instead the evil hurt you.

[hasanhh]

Get yourself a better educated, less paganesque "friend".