Hazrat Mariyah Qibtiyyah — Page 19
19 4 AN IGNoRANT CUSToM REMoVED B y chance, on the day that Hadrat Ibr a h i m ra passed away, a solar eclipse took place. In those days people held the superstition that a solar or lunar eclipse took place when a very important person died. Due to this wrong belief, some Muslims of Mad i nah began to say that the solar eclipse happened because of the death of Hadrat Ibr a h i m ra. The Holy Prophet sa did not like this idea because it went against his conviction that Allah the Almighty causes such events in accordance with the divine laws of nature. He gathered all these people together and said to them: “The solar and lunar eclipses do not happen because of