Seeking Blessings The Wrong Way

Shaykh Muhammad ‘Abd as-Salam ash-Shuqayri said:

The ignorant have the custom of writing the verses of salaam, such as

“Salamun (peace) be upon Nooh (Noah) (from Us) among the Alameen (mankind, jinns and all that exists)”

[as-Saffat 37:79]

and so on, on the last Wednesday of the month of Safar, then they put them in vessels and drink (water that has been poured on them), and seek barakah (blessing) thereby, and exchange them as gifts, because they believe that this will remove evil. This is a corrupt belief and is blameworthy superstition and an abhorrent innovation; everyone who sees it must denounce the one who does it.

(As-Sunan wa’l-Mubtada‘at, pp. 111, 112)