At the end of the day, despite the pages and pages of refutations and elucidations of the origins of the holidays of the disbelievers, what it really boils down to is two principles: 1.Differ from the disbelievers in that which is unique to them 2. If it is isnt Eid ul Fitr or Eid ul Adha, you shouldnt even be asking if its permissible to celebrate it. There are five types of holidays. 1. Religious holidays. Technically they are all religious holidays, but we include this category to ease confusion. A holiday must have a basis in the Shariah. So when someone says Its not a religious holiday!, you say Is it an Islamic holiday? and refer them to principle one, which negates celebrating the holidays of the disbelievers. 2. Cultural holidays. A cultural holiday includes something like thanksgiving. Some of the people of desires will use the argument of `urf, cultural customs, in order to justify celebrating a holiday that apparently has no religious origin. However culture refers to ethos. The people of Medina had two holidays they used to celebrate that werent religious holidays, but cultural, yet the Prophet(sal Allahu `alayhi wasallam) told them those days of festival were replaced with the `Idayn. Islam takes precedence over culture. 3. National holidays. These include things like independence day. As a Muslim, your nation is the Ummah of Muhammad(sal Allahu `alayhi wasallam) , and the nation of Muhammad(sal Allahu `alayhi wasallam) has two Eid. 4. Holidays that originally had a religious significance, but are now considered secular. This would include birthdays, which originated as the celebration of the birth of the god within you, This pagan nonsense should be enough to stop Muslims from celebrating it, though it is secular today. Which brings us to the last category. 5. Secular holidays. These include holidays that purport to have no religious significance, such as anniversaries, mothers day or even saint valentines day. The thing about secular holidays is they all seem to be gross distortions of principles that may by themselves be noble. After all, what could be wrong with celebrating marriage, or our parents, or love? The issue with Valentines day is that it celebrates haraam love, while the others overlook how we should be honoring our parents and celebrating our marriages every day. And if a holiday is secular, meaning, not religious, and our religion is Islam, then a secular holiday is by definition not Islamic. So the Muslim stays away from that and all holidays of the disbelievers.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 03:51:02 +0000
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