PRAYERS FOR DIFFERENT OCCASIONS

There are prayers for rain, prayers for protection against windstorms or terrible dark clouds, prayers to be recited at the time of a solar eclipse (1966-1972).  However, Muhammad had no friendly eye for nature.  He regarded clouds and winds with terror.  �When there was on any day windstorm or dark cloud its effect could be read on the face of the Messenger of Allah, and he moved forward and backward in a state of anxiety,�  �Aisha tells us.  She further says: �I asked him the reason of this anxiety and he said: I was afraid that it might be a calamity that might fall on my Ummah� (1961).

Muhammad deals with the problem with the help of an incantation.  �Aisha tells us: �Whenever the wind was stormy, the Apostle of Allah used to say: O Allah! I ask Thee for what is good in it, and the good which it contains, and the good of that which it was sent for. I seek refuge with Thee from what is evil in it, what evil it contains, and the evil of that what it was sent for� (1962).

author : ram swarup