Greeting The Kuffaar On Their Festivals

Bismillah

Greeting The Kuffaar On Their Festivals
Imaam Muhammad Ibn Saalih al-Uthaymeen (Rahimahu ‘Llah)
Source: Majmoo’ah Fataawa wa Rasaa’il

Greeting the kuffaar on Christmas and other religious holidays of theirs is haraam
(forbidden), by consensus, as Ibn al-Qayyim – (Rahimahu ‘Llah) – said,
“Congratulating the kuffaar on the rituals that belong only to them is haraam by
consensus, as is congratulating them on their festivals and fasts by saying ‘A
happy festival to you’ or ‘May you enjoy your festival,’ and so on. If the one who
says this has been saved from kufr, it is still forbidden. It is like congratulating
someone for prostrating to the cross, or even worse than that. It is as great a sin
as congratulating someone for drinking wine, or murdering someone, or having
illicit sexual relations, and so on. Many of those who have no respect for their
religion fall into this error; they do not realize the offensiveness of their actions.
Whoever congratulates a person for his disobedience or bid’ah or kufr exposes
himself to the wrath and anger of Allaah”

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