Many of the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) wish that if they could turn you away as disbelievers after you have believed, out of envy from their ownselves, even, after the truth (that Muhammad is Allah's Messenger) has become manifest unto them. But forgive and overlook, till Allah brings His Command. Verily, Allah is Able to do all things.} [Quran 2:109]
Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression….}[Quran 5:2
The Prophet said: "Whoever imitates a nation is but one of them." [Abu Dawood]
It is not worthy of Muslim authority figures to demean themselves and their belief by taking part in pagan celebrations.
Jazakallah Khairun brother for speaking about this. I made a couple threads about this, one of them was merged into a dead thread that nobody visited, another was deleted.
what is wrong with it!! Christians celebrating Xmas, their right. Taking part in their festivities for harmony, nothing wrong with it.
The problem is that Christmas isn't a celebration of birth of Jesus Christ (AS) since they don't know the birth date but the celebration of associating lies to Allah (swt).
Everything is wrong with it. When you celebrate it, you say you're pleased with what they associate to Allah (swt) Nauzbillah.
If we're so worried about pleasing minorities, why not celebrate and congratulate Hindus on their Hindu festivals? What is wrong with celebrating Ganesha Chaturti? Hindus need solidarity too.
In the video i posted that the administration merged so it doesn't get any views, two former Christians explained why Muslims don't celebrate Xmas. Why don't Christians celebrate Eid? Or Hindu festivals? Aren't they close minded? It isn't even an issue but God forbid, a Muslim practices his religion, it is extremism. Despicable!!!
People who call Muslims extremists when they reject these pegan festivities are extremists themselves.
I don't blame Muslims who are saying this out of ignorance but when a brother is explaining to you, it's time to shut up and listen and educate yourself. Because it's a serious matter. I didn't know either but when YouTube suggested me Deenshow video about why Muslims don't celebrate Xmas, i clicked on it and didn't scream extremism or drag Khadim Rizvi into it.
Sadly this is the state of the Muslims, they love being educated by liberals and atheists and pegans but God forbid, a Muslim tells them something, it's immediately extremism.
Look at the life of Prophet Muhammad (saww), did you see Sahabas(ra) celebrating Christmas? No!. Yet they were considered tolerant and even JEWS came to Muslims for justice and fairness.