Superstition is a part of human culture, especially in the Middle East,, This part grows or shrinks according to the level of science, knowledge, and enlightenment, The higher the level of ignorance, the higher the level of superstition by the same proportion, Superstition provides false answers to real questions, When the questions concern the foundations of existence, the answers of superstition become a threat to this existence, Questions about faith and the sacred concern the existence of some peoples, so the answer with superstition becomes a threat to the existence of these peoples, because superstition threatens the stability of consciousness and the relationship of consciousness with the environment, that is, with the human or earthly material surroundings,
Sacred faith is inherently blind, and conviction within its framework is merely formal, There is no true sacred faith, for faith has no connection to truth, Truth is always relative and requires not faith, but reason and conviction,Anyone who claims to be convinced by religion, for example, is deceiving themselves, Religion does not enter the mind through conviction, but through enticement and intimidation, Enticement is offered through the provision that the Creator or religion intends to provide daily to every creature, especially those who carry a spear on their shoulder or a sword in their hand, Then comes the promise of paradise and eternal life between the thighs of women or on the banks of rivers of wine and honey, Intimidation is offered through the fires of hell and the burning of people alive, as we have seen in numerous images of ISIS atrocities, including the burning of 19 Yazidi women who were placed in an iron cage and then set ablaze, just as the ancients did,   When Ali wanted to burn the extremists, he wrote a poem whose first verse reads: “
When I saw the matter was abominable, I kindled my fire and summoned Qanbar.” Qanbar ibn Dakan was his trusted servant and the manager of the burning pits mentioned in the rest of the poem. Qanbar was no different from the rest of the believers and the one who called for the burning; they all burned, slaughtered, and enslaved. ISIS was nothing but a carbon copy of all of them.
The influence of superstition is linked to blind faith in its validity, and belief in the validity of superstition leads to its entrenchment and thus its ability to statically mold people, providing some with a degree of internal stability, psychological surrender, and tranquility,The infiltration of superstition into minds is characterized by cunning, and superstition is presented easily and smoothly, making it easy to deceive oneself with a false conviction that is sometimes difficult to refute, Refuting it is accompanied by a disturbance in the stable psychological balance of those who believe in it, Refutation returns the one who is certain or believes in the superstition to a state of anxiety, confusion, and the search for answers to difficult questions.
Through these means, religion armed itself by offering a kind of false stability through myth, which presents assumptions, explanations, predictions, and interpretations, Religion attempts to prove their validity through its holy book, meaning that the truth of what is attributed to the Creator is what the Creator said about Himself: that the Creator created man from a handful of dust. The proof of this truth is His statement that He created man from a handful of dust—a witness from among His own people. Even more
perplexing is His statement that He taught man what he did not know and how to write with a pen. How could this be, when the very foundations of religion were utterly illiterate? Even the Prophet Muhammad, the one who brought the message, remained illiterate for 23 years and did not learn to read or write, Furthermore, how could He teach people what they did not know when, 1440 years ago, not a single scrap of paper with a single letter written on it existed in the Arabian Peninsula?
The forces of good were assumed to be represented by the Creator and His messengers, while the forces of evil were invented to be represented by Satan, It was assumed that there was a constant conflict between good and evil, that is, between God and Satan, We do not know the reason for the continuation of this conflict for tens or hundreds of centuries between the representatives of good and the representatives of evil, and why did the Almighty not settle the matter with Satan? So we ask if the existence of Satan is a divine necessity?
Superstition is taught in schools, alongside science, which is also taught in schools despite the contradiction between science and superstition, Science explains natural phenomena related to matter and the factors that affect it or are affected by it, by using the method of hypotheses, then conducting experiments, and finally obtaining scientific proofs, laws, and theories, Unlike absolute metaphysical religious beliefs, science is never complete and remains relative and subject to modification and development whenever new hypotheses appear and those hypotheses turn into theories in the social, economic, psychological, medical, and other scientific fields,In contrast, religious beliefs are considered correct and valid for all times and places, and their validity includes even scientific aspects that have no relation whatsoever to religious beliefs, such as the earth being oval or flat, etc.
Science and its results are not based on conjecture, guesswork, or imagination, but rather on tangible evidence such as the laws of gravity and the laws of the transformation of matter into energy, Science has no relation to metaphysics and superstitious religious beliefs such as the Isra and Mi’raj (Night Journey and Ascension), belief in the existence of a creator of the universe, revelation, resurrection, heaven and hell, angels, devils, and demons, All of this remains without proof or explanation, and therefore it must be considered superstitions that cannot be trusted and can only be dealt with through blind “faith,” which allows for the belief that the earth is flat and stationary, the sun moves, mountains are tent pegs, and the sky is a ceiling from which stars are hung like lamps! 

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