European 
superstitions on eclipse.
superstitions on eclipse.The American historian "Will Durant" says | In his encyclopedia The Story of Civilization:
"While the Europeans believed that the solar eclipse was a ghoul ; ogre 
that wanted to swallow the sun 
and it (the eclipse) was trying to scream and make noise in the streets to expel this ghoul swallowing it, Muslim astronomers were making graphs showing how it happened, and Muslims were making calculations to know the date of the next eclipse."
that wanted to swallow the sun and it (the eclipse) was trying to scream and make noise in the streets to expel this ghoul swallowing it, Muslim astronomers were making graphs showing how it happened, and Muslims were making calculations to know the date of the next eclipse."When Europe, the ancient and Chinese civilizations believed that the eclipse was caused by a "dragon eating the sun", and they drew strange creatures and monsters to narrate legends about them... The Muslims were building astronomical observatories and studying the movements of planets and stars.
How not, and the Messenger of Allahﷺ said:
The sun and the moon do not eclipse because of the death of any of the people, but they are two of the signs of God, so if you see them, get up and pray.
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