How Religions , Around the World , View Solar Eclipses.br With the upcoming April 8 total solar eclipse quickly br approaching, Fox News offered readers anbr overview of how religions traditionally view eclipses.br Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism suggests that the karmic results br of positive and negative actions are magnified during br major astronomical events, including solar eclipses.br Christianity, Christian tradition connects eclipses with br a number of significant events, including br the death of Jesus and the "end times.".br Hinduism, In Hinduism, eclipses both solar and lunar br are generally regarded as bad omens.br Islam, Muslims see a solar eclipse as a time br for prayer and contemplating God.br The sun and the moon are two br signs amongst the signs of Allah br and they do not eclipse because br of the death of someone... br Whenever you see these br eclipses pray and invoke (Allah), Kaiser Aslam, Muslim chaplain at the Center for br Islamic Life at Rutgers University, via Fox News.br Judaism, Similarly to Hinduism, Judaism views br eclipses as "an ill omen for the world.".br Eclipses should be opportunities to br increase in prayer and introspection br — as opposed to prompting joyous br blessings. It is a sign that we really br could and should be doing better, Rabbi Menachem Posner, via Fox News.br Fox News reports that Rabbi Mordechai Becher cited Judaism's longstanding connections with astronomy br and the heavenly message eclipses deliver.br He created a system that would remind br us regularly that our choices can create br darkness, even at times when there br should be light.