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#هل_يحتفل_المسلمون_بعيد_الميلاد   🌸🌸 Do Muslims celebrate Christmas? ■It’s the holiday season and you may be wondering do Muslims celebrate Christmas? A time of year to take a break from all of our hard work and spend some much needed time with family and friends. It’s no coincidence that this holiday period happens around Christmas, as traditionally it was a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus. ■More recently Christmas has been adopted by most of us to be a cultural holiday of gift giving and close gatherings whilst spending time with loved ones. We accept the social etiquettes such as wishing Merry Christmas, attending Christmas gatherings and even to some extent, decorating our homes and workplaces with a Christmas tree. ■Though we do not believe in the religious undertones of Christmas, should we, as Muslims, participate in Christmas although it is a national holiday and celebrate this holiday? And what are the implications of our actions? ■Here are five reasons why we Muslims do not celebrate Christmas. 📌Christmas goes against the Islamic belief in God. Christmas is a holiday celebrating the birth of the son of God. This goes against our fundamental belief of monotheism, in the Oneness of Allah, in lordship and worship. Allah says in the Qur’an: ▪︎Say (O Prophet), “He is Allah, One (and Indivisible); Allah, the Sustainer (needed by all). He has never had offspring, nor was He born. And there is none comparable to Him.” [Al-Qur’an 112:1-4] 📌Jesus is a great prophet of God but not divine. As Muslims, we…
🌸🌸The Great Caretaker🌸🌸 The Prophet was attributed with all the good attributes. He was the caretaker of the poor, the needy, the orphans, the widows, and the weak. He was humble. He loved the needy and attended their funerals and visited the sick among them. He was all this and he was a beautiful person with a honorable lineage. ‘The Prophet (saw) said, “The one who cares for an orphan and myself will be together in Paradise like this,“and he (saw) held his two fingers together to illustrate’. [Bukhari] The Messenger of Allah (saw) said, ‘The best house among the Muslims is the house in which orphans are well-treated. The worst house among the Muslims is the house in which orphans are ill-treated’. [Bukhari] When mentioning certain good deeds in the Qur’an, Allah also describes in detail the beautiful things in Jannah we will earn by doing these good deeds. In Surah Insan, Allah describes people who give their food to orphans and the needy, purely for His sake: ’And they give food, in spite of love for it, to the needy, the orphan, and the captive. [Saying], “We feed you only for the countenance of Allah. We don’t want from you either reward or gratitude. Indeed, we fear from our Lord a Day austere and distressful”’. (The Noble Qur’an, 76:8-10) Sponsoring an orphan brings you closer to the Prophet (saw), gives you ‘the best house’, and is a righteous action, it also blesses your wealth, furthermore, you will be called through the gate of…