Everything Has Its Athr (effect)
Everything, animate or inanimate, exercises an athr (impression / influence/effect/impression) which may be good or bad, beneficial or harmful.
THE AMBIYA AS SHEPHERDS
Almost all the Ambiya (alayhimus salaam) were shepherds. Allah Ta’ala did not ordain for any Nabi to be a camel herder or a cattle herder. The reason for this is that in sheep and goats there is humility. Association with even such animals, infuse humility in a person.
On the other hand, a camel and a bull are associated with ‘pride’ and anger, hence no Nabi was made a camel herder or a cow herder.
Once Allah Ta’ala asked Hadhrat Musa (Alayhis salaam) if he was aware of the occasion when Allah Ta’ala decreed his Nubuwwat. Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam) did not know. Then Allah Ta’ala narrated to him the occasion when he set out in pursuit of one of his goats which had separated from the flock and had run off into the wilderness infested with wolves.
Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam) was exhausted chasing after the she-goat to save it from the wolves. When finally he caught the goat, the latter too was so tired that it could barely walk.
Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam) gently lifted the goat, placed it on his shoulders and spoke affectionately to it. This was the occasion when Allah Ta’ala had decreed the Nubuwwat of Nabi Musa (Alayhis salaam). Tawaadhu’ (Humility) is an essential attribute for all Muslims. That is why the Ambiya tended to sheep and goats. The athr of the tenderness of these animals exercised its effect even on the Ambiya (Alayhimus salaam).
BREAST-FEEDING
Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: “Do not allow humaqaa (naturally ignorant women) to breast feed (your infants), for verily, the milk is contagious.”
The effect is both physical and spiritual.
In this Hadith, Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) relates the contagiousness to hamaaqah (being ignorant / imbecile / foolish). The primary consequence of the hamaaqah of the woman will be the effect of hamaaqah in the child she breast feeds, and this is not a physical disease. Thus this Hadith refers to a spiritual/intellectual malady even if the woman is physically healthy.
The evil and harmful a faasiqah/ faajirah (immoral woman) will be greatly magnified. From this, it should be understood the morally and spiritually harmful athr of taking food from the hands of the faasiqah/ faajirah air hostesses when travelling by plane. In addition to the harms of the filthy and haraam food of the plane is the harmful athr of the lewd air-hostesses.
It is necessary to take along your own food when travelling by plane. Exercise great restraint on your desires and do not allow your eyes to even look at these faasiqaat/ fajiraat. You just do not know the moral and spiritual damage you inflict on yourself by giving vent to your inordinate lusts.
SKINS OF WILD ANIMALS
Rasulullah (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) discouraged sitting on the skins of wild animals such as lions, tigers, leopards, etc. Although the skins of these animals are rendered pure by any process which expels all the moisture, it is still inadvisable to sit on anything made of such skins, e.g. saddles. mats, musallas, etc.
The predatory athr of these animals remains in the skins. Use of these skins will have an adverse affect on morality, hence Rasulullah’s (Sallallahu alayhi wasallam) discouragement notwithstanding the tahaarat (purity) of the skins.
ATHR OF A GHAIR-MAHRAM
Imaam Abu Hanifah (Rahmatullah alayh) was also a cloth merchant. Once when a young man entered his shop, he was about to sit on a chair. Immediately Imaam Abu Hanifah cautioned him: “Young man, do not sit in that chair. It has just been vacated by a female.” With his firaasat (spiritual insight and vision) Imaam Abu Hanifah (Rahmatullah alayh) was able to discern the spiritual germs emerging from the chair in which the female had sat. The athr of the female was capable of adversely affecting the morality of the ghair mahram man. His spiritual defences would be weakened by such athr.
THE EVER-WARM JUG
A Wali on his journey halted one night in a village. Some village folk brought an earthenware container with some water to the Wali. They explained that the water in the jug remained perpetually warm even in mid-winter. It never cooled.
The Wali asked about the source of the clay from which the jug was made. He was informed that the clay was obtained from the local Qabrustaan. He told the village folk to leave the jug with the water with him for the night.
The next morning when they visited the Wali, they found the water in the jug to be cold. Astonished, they asked the reason for the transformation. The Wali informed them that some inmates of the graves were being punished with fire. The heat of the fire affects the soil in the Qabrustaan. This athr was transferred into the jug made from the clay, hence the water remained always warm. However, that night the Wali had engaged in considerable Istighfaar, pleading to Allah Ta’ala to forgive the inmates of the grave being punished. Allah Ta’ala accepted his supplications and ended the punishment, hence the athr of the punishment of the fire disappeared from the jug.
From these examples, the detrimental and harmful physical, moral and spiritual effects of blood transfusion and organ transplants should be
quite understandable.
Even atheist scientists have established by their own methods the reality of athr.
Source: The Majlis