๐๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ?
Mohamad Mostafa Nassar
Twitter:@NassarMohamadMR

There is no doubt that what is mentioned in celebrations of Christmas is haram because it is an imitation of the unbelievers. It is well known that Muslims do not have any festivals apart from โEid al-Fitr and โEid al-Adha, and the weekly โโEidโ which is Friday (Yawm al-Jumuโah).
Celebrating any other festival is not allowed and is either of two things: either it is an innovation (bidโah), if it is celebrated as a means of drawing close to Allah, such as celebrating the Prophetโs Birthday (Mawlid) ; or it is an imitation of the unbelievers, if it is celebrated as a tradition and not as an act of worship because introducing innovated festivals is the action of the people of the Book who we are commanded to differ from. So how about if it is a celebration of one of their actual festivals?
It is not permissible to celebrate innovative festivals such as the Christmas of the Christians, Nowrooz (Persian New Year) or Mahrajaan (Persian festival), or festivals that have been innovated by Muslims such as the Prophetโs birthday in Rabeeโ al-Awwal or the Israaโ in Rajab and so on. It is not permissible to eat the food that the Christians or Mushrikeen prepare on the occasion of their festivals.
It is also not permissible to accept their invitations to join them in their celebrations of those festivals, because this encourages them and is tantamount to approving their bidโah, which gives the wrong idea to ignorant people and makes them think that there is nothing wrong with that.
The Christian celebration of what they call Christmas is an innovated and polytheistic (shirk) celebration. It is not permissible for the Muslims to imitate them in that, and โEesa (Jesus โ peace be upon him) has nothing to do with it or them.
Congratulating the disbelievers on the occasion of Christmas or any of their other religious festivals is haraam according to scholarly consensus because it implies approval of what they follow disbelief and approving of it for them. Even if he does not approve of this disbelief for himself, it is haraam for the Muslim to approve of rituals of disbelief or to congratulate someone else for them.
Similarly, it is haraam for the Muslims to imitate the disbelievers by having parties on these occasions, or exchanging gifts, distributing sweets or plates of food, taking time off work, and so on, because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: โWhoever imitates a people is one of them.โ Narrated by Abu Dawood.
End quote from Majmooโ Fataawa wa Rasaaโil Ibn โUthaymeen (3/45-46)
๐๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ
Patย Robertsonย Formerย Southern Baptistย minister, Robertson advocates aย conservative Christian, and religious broadcaster, political commentator, and former presidential candidate. Pat Robertson admits Christmas is Pagan, the date of 25 December is originally Pagan, and exchanging gifts in the name of Jesus is Pagan.
All these Pagan activities were NOT approved by God not even inspired by God, Yet Christians are quite happy to ADOPT the Pagan rituals and claim it as Religious Christian activities.
๐๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ


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