Do muslims fuss over Christmas & Easter.

Participating in the non-religious aspect of Christmas such as family reunion dinner or visitation is OK. Attempts should be made to avoid situations where alcoholic drinks are served on the same table. Kindness to parents and family without compromising one’s beliefs is an Islamic duty.

During socialization and whenever appropriate, one may share one’s thoughts [on religion] with them, preferably in answer to their questions or comments without being too argumentative.

Moreover, Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, adds:

You are allowed to partake of their feasts and celebrations so long as you stay away from their specifically religious rituals, and so long as you are clear in your mind that Christmas has nothing to do with the original teaching of Jesus (peace and blessings be upon him).

While remaining steadfast to your beliefs about Jesus, you are allowed to join them in their feasts in order to reciprocate kindness with kindness. By doing so, you may even be helping them remove their misconceptions about Islam being a fanatical religion. So go ahead and participate in their feasts, and let them know the true image of Islam.

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Dear Brother Socialist1
Converting to Islam isn't only change for you, it also means change for your whole family. They as much as you will go to many transitions before they get used to your new faith. I think that we Muslims should try to make others understand the way of our thinking and the essence of our believes. Christmas or Easter could be very good seasons to do this. First of all, your family could hear the Islamic version of what happened to Prophet Issah (Jesus Christ) and the fact that we consider him and his mother a holy person in Islam. Reciting them from the Quran and explaining them what the Quran says about them would be good. This conversations could lead to discussing the fact that we consider him as a holy Prophet but not as Son of God and why we don't do that which will of course lead to talking about the most important believe in Islam, the Tawhid (the uniqueness of Allah) and that it is impossible to say that he has children, even when it is not literary meant so.
I don't think that Islam has something against buying presents to your relatives at these holidays or to go to a family gathering. On the contrary, it could be actually good if it would lead that your family likes you more which might speed up the pace of understanding. There is only the thing that normally at these days alcohol is served and pork is eaten. You should explain them why you can't participate in such meetings or meals when these things are served. Sometimes it might be necessary that you will be present when these things happen, and you should judge the situation whether to become direct and leave or do it step by step, but always never drink or eat these things, and also always try not to act in a offensive and harsh way like hardliners do. It is very important that you reflect an mediocre image of Islam: faithful with principles but easy, open minded and wise. By the time they will understand.
I think that Muslims shouldn't run away on these days. They should take the chance in these holidays to introduce their believes and thoughts to others and maybe they can win by them by your open minded behavior. I think that by "fuss" you meant acting harsh and unwise, like hard liners do. It is right, there are Muslims who act like this. We Muslim should act on Prophet Muhammad's Strategy, the strategy that created this more than one Billion Ummah: "Enter the hearts before entering the Minds".
So let us Muslims make these Holidays seasons of mutual understanding and dialog.

Salams brother. i was lstening to this lecture by Shaik Abdullah Quick a few months ago and he said that visit your family before christmas and after christmas but DO NOT go on christams day and explain to them in a gentle maner as to why - because it involves shirk and that is the biggest sin. watch his lecture on the truth about holidays. it somwhat relates to this topic and Inshallah it should give you a better understanding.

8 THE PSEUDO PROBE . In communication science we do content analysis on dialog. We discover who is the abuser that way. Say for example, someone asks "How long have you been this stupid?" They don't really want to know how long! ... they are attempting to PUNISH YOU for not meeting their expectations. In this particular post actually have the temerity to accuse Muslims of doing the very thing that Christian do for 3 whole months out of every year: fussing over Christmas!
Allahu Akbar ! I am not the one installing small hooks all over the house, taping little ribbons and papers, decorating endless cookies and checking the mail for stuff., buying potholders with santas face on them . That's not happening .. FUSSING?? What mindless ninnys do that in the middle of a genocide? Count orphans not cards.

7. RED AND GREEN DISEASE The USA is a visual culture. What they see is reality for them. They are not too concerned about actions... er sins even ... unles it is somehow entertaining for them .A big part of this holiday is the colorful decorative aspect which adorns every place. In the same way that we guard our eyes from the AURAAT of the other gender we also should guard them from the enjoyment of this kind of decoration and the shirk associated with it. Just don't look at it ! There is a certain amount of it you cannot avoid. It's in your power stop to stop looking at it! Use the power of not looking. Eventually the memories you have which are associated with those decorations will become distant and small. In islam we have a vast amount of beautiful art and decoration. Our clothing is the most beautiful in the world . Use the holiday time of the mushriqs to focus on your home. Stay inside. Improve its function and beauty so that it enhances your worship and makes you feel good when you are there with friends.When you are there with ALLAH!
Become concious of the ereas where Christians impose their religion upon the public s eye and avoid them. Wear earphones so you don't have to listen to loop tapes of "Jingle Bell Rock" six times while you buy groceries. Late at night when the stockers are working they take Xmas music off. I see that as opportunity.

6. Emotional self reliance of the Muslim .
Muslims need to learn emotional detatchment. It will protect you from many of the harmful social influences that come as a result of being a minority- and from haveing non-Muslim relatives and co-workers. If you are getting your emotional needs met by your fellow Muslims then the non Muslims will not be able to influence you or hurt you emotionaly. Kufr Holidays are a nightmare for Muslims who marry outside the PROTECTION of Islam . Children with non Muslim grandparents are vulnerable to coercion both emotionaly and materially.Its common to see christian inlaws attempt to alienate the children from the parent who is most islamic in their lifestyle and beleifs.
Non Muslim in-laws are the single most dangerous thing you can have in your life as a Muslim . Every last one of them wants the convert out of islam and they will use the children to make that happen . In those seemingly innocent holiday visits they lay seige to your family and make it possible for you to never see those sons and daughters ever again . It happens . Many of these muslim hateing people will go to extremes to yank babies right from the arms of their mothers for no reason other than their hatred of her hijab and her muslim husband . Do not marry non Muslims! Catholic in-laws are particularly crafty in the US because they are running all the welfare agencies and are well embedded in hospitals and schools. The only safe way to deal with non Muslim inlaws is to live on the opposite side of the country so that they cannot interfere with your life. Don't give them a lot of information. They'll use it against you. Christmas presents are a trojan horse .

5. IMAN In a secular society all aspects of religion are relegated to purely social erea of expression . In other words they cannot by law sharia or cannon law make people obey religion or even respect religion . Takeing advantage of this is a sport engaged by secularists, marxists & socialists. Their aim is to destroy the authority of sharia. That is the ultimate aim . Just like Henry the 8th and Cromwell wiped out cannon law in England and replaced the papal authority with the king's authority. After which they engaged in a mass murder killing 30 thousand innocent people and robbing the monastic orders and clerics of a massive amount of silver. They burned every library and destroyed their own history- Christian history back to the 6th century GONE forever! Most of the excessive revelry in Christmas throughout Europe is due to the removal from culture of respect for religion and reverence. They do not feel the prescence of God. So that now we see low people such as sex industry workers and pornographers engaged in the degradation of this holiday as a form of sport. The atheists also do this type of thing and so do many people who hate Christians for historical reasons .
Islam forbids insulting the religion of ahlul kitab people be they Jews or Christians. You cannot do that as a Muslim. Many things in popular media are insulting to the religion . For example a local sports team , the Florida gators won a national and the paper wrote "promised land" on the headline.
Now we all know the promised land is the holy land to all three faiths . So it was a kind of blasphemy and also they were celebrating football wins so in that way showed disrespect to the Bible and the Jews by the confabulation american football with religion. The mixed what is sacred with what is profane. In the context of the massacre in gaza was very low in intelligence on the part of that news paper.
Stuff like that happens all over christmas. Don't let it happen to your religion .

Well my mother (who is a convert as well as my father) her family is more excited when it comes to Christmas because they always celebrate it every year. My mother and father converted when I was 8 years old. So for about 8 years all I knew was christen ways. My mother started wearing hijab, fasting, reading quran, etc and I followed after here in the blink of an eye. Well when it came to the holidays my mother wasn’t so sure what to do. She didn’t want to disconnect from her family (who was already upset about her becoming muslim) or upset them. So she went. But even though she kept telling them that she (and I) didn’t celebrate but was coming for them. She just kept telling them such every time we went (same for easter, but x mas is more popular in our family) On days that it wasn’t xmas (but the topic would come up) she would explain what x mas was all about and what gift giving on x mas actually meant. They would shut up about it after a while of the same repeating but they would understand what type of information we where on. All in all it takes time for the family to wrap their heads around the information. It took my aunt 2 years before she could understand, my grandmother 5 and my cousin still doesn’t truly understand. They’ve grown up with traditions that seem unbreakable to them. It takes time and patience. A good website to read about chrismas is this one. It breaks it down.

http://home.sprynet.com/~pabco/ptofxmas.htm

4. RIBA- Many people are paying entirely for the expenses of this holiday with credit cards. At the least credit cards are 18 % intrest.
RIBA is forbidden in ISLAM by sharia law and by the Qur'an. Ask people "how did you pay for this?" If they say "by credit card" you cannot accept it . The gain from usery is haram to you including those things purchased with it.
Bill Cinton eliminated the laws which separate banks and insurance companies. So that now they can be owned by one corporation. This means when the banks fail so also will the insurance companies. Many of the retiree medical sytems are now bankrupt. Most are in deby 7-10 X their value! This means that millions who think they have secure medical insurance will awake to find them went bankrupt.
The implication here is life without medical insurance. If you have vision to see the depression ahead you will understand that the only health you are going to have is the health you create yourself by sound nutrition. Get your health is good shape. Don't waste money ( eating out, grease,high glycemic foods that do not feed you!).
Buy yourself high quality natural foods and vitimins to cure the ailments you have now. Get healthy. There is nothing about the Christians dietary habits worth emulating. Food shareing with them may be social but it is also unhelathy. Don't rely on the medical industry or insurance to secure your health. Do it yourself by studying nutrition and then act on it. Insurance and RIBA is haram (Hanafi madhab ) if you stay healthy you wont need it Inshallah .
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suggestions to deal with Christmas
1. KAMR (alchoholic drinks) understand well the level of sins which are committed during this holiday. Everyone that came out of an alchoholic family knows christmas is a nightmare for women and children living with alchoholic spouses. Abuse rates go up Alchohol makes people become depressed. The depression hammers individuals ( prostagladin level depletes with alchohol use) . People wreck their cars, loose jobs beat kids spend money all that. HAD crime QURANIC
2. PORK and meat s which are not halal . Every Christmas Christians insult their own Bible by serving pork. They did this historically to insult Judaism. They are also willing to insult you too. The Bible the Torah and the Qur'an clearly forbid eating pork . Other animals not slaughtered zabiha are also forbidden . It's the sharia QURANIC
3. FOOD food dyes and colors are excessively used in cookies, frostings, fruit candies and other foods during the season. Halloween, Easter, Christmas--- all loaded to the gunnels with food colors . Seven of these now banned in the EU . The effects of artificial food coloring on the brains of growing children is worse for them than lead . Hanafi madhab has made illegal any substance in food which contaminates it or adulterates it in any way.
Sodium nitrates & nitrites (in all pork, sandwich cuts, bacon ) known carcinogens produce NITROSIMINES in the gut., Hydrogenated fats, many with lard all of these known health hazards are illegal under Muslim law. This is by opinion of all scholars . It is a sin to harm muslims . If it's harm you cannot do it to yourself or anyone else. Cast a wide net and stay healthy . You need to be healthy to make it through the struggle. and Bush's depressin insurance is owned by banks banks and insurance cannot secure your health. you must do this with sound scientifiv nutritionally complete and natural foods . That is not christmas food> christmas food is "dead food" .Causes only harm to the body. First to last course