The Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) never took anything as a bad omen. Islam has prohibited pessimism, the kind that prevents one from doing what he intended to do as practiced in the pre-Islamic era, taking evil omens, and divination by arrows. It offered the substitute represented in the Istikhārah prayer.

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2. The Creed
3. Belief in Allah the Mighty and Majestic
4. Oneness of Allah's Worship
5. Hadith

• Do not sit on graves, and do not pray towards them
• All of the earth is a mosque (prayer place) except the graveyard and the bathroom
• I am the One Who is most free from want of partners. So, he who does something for the sake of someone else beside Me, I discard him and his polytheism.'
• O Ruwayfi‘, you may live a long life after me; so, inform people that anyone who ties his beard, wears a string around his neck, or cleanse himself with animal dung or with bone, indeed Muhammad has nothing to do with him