Allah سبحانه وتعالى has distinguished and honoured the Muslim Ummah by Islam. He سبحانه وتعالى made Islam her way of life, the source of her unique concepts and rules, and a comprehensive and complete system for all of her life's affairs.
Allah سبحانه وتعالى says:
كُنتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللّهِ
"You are the best ummah singled out for mankind: you enjoin what is right (ma'roof), forbid what is wrong (munkar), and believe in Allah." [Al-Imran:110]
Since the abolishment of Islam, from life, as a ruling system, the state of the Ummah has been declining from one bad stage to a worse one. The Ummah is being ruled by Kufr laws, dominated by Kufr concepts, invaded by the West with its corrupt culture and repugnant promiscuity, and as a result, It has corrupted the Ummah's Deen, ethics and future generations. The Western beacons, symbols, concepts, and occasions have become those of the Ummah. The West has been aided by the rulers of the Muslims who have devoted themselves to keeping Islam away from life, to fighting off it's thoughts and concepts, thus molding the Ummah's to the West's desire.
Celebrating the Christian holidays, such as Christmas and the Christian New Year is part of the Western culture that is imposed on the Muslims. In imposing such culture, the West intended for the Muslims to accept and recognize the Christian rituals, and believe in the equality of Christianity with Islam. We pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى that the Muslims do not start celebrating the Jewish holidays as they have been celebrating the Christian ones.
With great sorrow and broken hearts, we witness the killing, rape and the expulsion of Muslims, throughout the world, at the hands of the Western Christians - the enemies of Islam. At the same time, we observe some of the children of the Muslims expressing their loyalty to the West and being fascinated with its culture. They celebrate the Christian holidays, occasions, and prepare for their seasons. It is no longer appalling to hear that some of the Muslims host the Americans and the other Christians in their own homes to celebrate Christmas, New Year, and other holidays. Indeed it is no longer considered strange for this to occur since the Ummah does not have a caretaker who would foster her affairs with Islam, shield it from Kufr concepts, protect her deen, and rule her so that she may remain a distinguished Ummah, as Allah سبحانه وتعالى willed for her.
O Muslims!
Celebrating the holidays and the occasions of the Kuffar is certainly Haram. You are not permitted to do it. Nor are your rulers allowed to make these (Kufr) holidays as official holidays, since it is an imitation of the Kuffar.
Imitating the Kuffar in any of their religious affairs or in any gesture that distinguishes them as groups is forbidden. Al-Bukhari narrated in his Sahih (book) that Abu Saeed Al-Khudri رضي الله عنه reported that Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said: "You will indeed follow the ways of those before you, hand span by hand span, and an arms length after another. Even if they enter into a lizards hole, you will follow them. We asked, is it the Jews and the Christians? He صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم replied, Who else!"
This hadith condemns imitating them. It is a proof for the prohibitions of imitating the Jews and the Christians in their occasions, symbols, or any matter related to their belief.
Celebrating the holidays of the kuffar is an act of imitation which is forbidden in Islam. Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم warned us against it. At-Tirmidhi narrated that Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنه reported that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said: "He is not one of us who imitates other than us. Do not imitate the Jews or the Christians."
At-Tabarani and Abu Dawud narrated that Ibn Umar and Hudhayfah رضي الله عنه reported that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said: "Whoever imitates a people, he is one of them."
Furthermore, there are many Islamic evidences that forbid the Muslims from having holidays other than Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adhaa. Al-Bayhaqi reported in his Sunan that Anas Bin Maalik رضي الله عنه said: "When the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم came to Medina, the people had two holidays from the days of Jahiliyyah."
He صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said: "When I came to you, you had two days which you used to celebrate in Jahiliyyah. Allah سبحانه وتعالى has replaced them for you with better days, the days of slaughter (Adhaa) and the day of fitr."
Also Imam Ahmad in his Musnad reported that Uqbah bin Amir رضي الله عنه reported the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم to have said: "The day of Fitr and days of Tashriq are our holidays, the people of Islam."
These evidences are clear in forbidding the Muslims to have any Eid other than what Allah سبحانه وتعالى prescribed for them. Thus, they are not allowed to participate in or celebrate the holidays of the Kuffar, nor are they allowed to attend them, even if invited. Moreover, holidays, such as the New Year are filled with corruption and vice. Such occasions, where sins are committed and liquor is served, have become avenues to commit acts of fisq (disobedience). The official media uses its creativity to corrupt the tendencies and morals of the people by spreading the corrupt programs that contain nothing but vice in order to eliminate any sign of purity and morality.
O Muslims!
The Muslim Ummah is still being ruled by Kufr rules and dominated by Kufr concepts. The thoughts and sentiments of the children of the Ummah are still being molded in accordance with the corrupt Western values. Unless the Ummah rids itself from all of this corruption and works to establish the rightly guided Islamic Khilafah, that implements the Book of Allah and the Sunnah of His Messenger صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم, the situation of the Ummah will remain the same. The Ummah must establish the Khilafah in order to remove the injustice and corruption which has resulted in the loss of the identity and glory of the Muslims. Moreover, it has made them victims of the Kuffar and their agents, who implement the laws of Kufr which contradict with the Aqeedah and the Deen of the Muslims. It is to the Khilafah that we call you.
Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said, "Verily the Imam is a shield; you (the Muslims Ummah) fight from behind him and protect yourselves with him."
Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Wilayah of Kuwait
20 Rajab 1415 Hijrah
22nd December, 1994
TrackBack URI for this entry
Subscribe to this comment's feed
Zeital
said:
 |
As this article was written in 1994 in Kuwait, a reminder of what had occurred is worth mentioning. The Coalition had defeated President Saddam Hussein's army in 1990, and the U.S.S.R was being phased out in place of numerous republics. The Christian Evangelists from America were being increasingly aggressive in preaching overseas. There where high profile campaigns by preachers such as Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham, flying in large numbers of Bibles before the outbreak of Operation Desert Storm. Furthermore, the continual Israeli-Palestinian conflict drew attention from Christian Zionists who viewed events as being prophesied as a precursor to Armageddon. Christianity and the Nazarene faith span two Millennia in Egypt, Ethiopia, Palestine and the Levant. The sacred days in Christianity were treated more for contemplative worship (and is still the case in places like Syria and Palestine); whereas Christianity in Europe became commercialised and rather un-Christian. Until the advent of Televangelists using media aggressively, there was limited causes for agitation between Muslims and Christians in the Near East. |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
SISTER UNKNOWN
said:
 |
I BELIEVE DAT CELEBRATING ANY CRISTIAN HOLIDAYS ARE HARAM AND I WILL ALWAYS STICK WITH THAT BELIEF NO MATTER WHAT!!!!!!! I SEE ON HALLOWEEN OR CHRISTMAS THAT THE SKOOLS AROUND ENCORAGE THE STUDENTS TO DO STUFF LIKE GO TRICK OR TREATIN OR BELIEVE IN SANTA!!! AND FROM THERE ON THE CHILDREN STICK AND BELIVE THAT THERE IS SUCH HOLIDAYS OR SUCH PERSON AS SANTA WHEN EVERYBODY IS JUST MESSING WITH YOUR MINDS!! I HOPE Y'ALL ALL REALIZE THIS CAUSE WEN YOU GET OLDER YOU WILL SOON SEE THAT ALL THIS TIME WAZ A WASTE CUZ THERE FORE ONCE A MINUTE HAS PASSED YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK TO THAT MINUTE....................EVER! WA SALLAMZ SISTERS AND BROTHERS! |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Maryam
said:
 |
Salam alaikum Anyone who say's its ok to celebrate non muslims festivals much bring the evidence forward from Quran and Sunnah, we should not have to waste our time explaining is not allowed as its clear that they are in shirk so why would we want to be part of it................ |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Socrates
said:
 |
Dear Abdul-Kareem, Thanks for this explanation - when you put it like that, it sounds sensible. What you are describing is almost exactly the Australian approach for handling minorities in our majority cultural context, like we see for Chinese New Year, Orthodox Christian Easter and Christmas, Muslim festivals and festivals of other faiths The term 'Christmas items' worries me, but I assume you mean Christmas trees, puddings, cards, etc. I am not really clear how you prevent shopkeepers from selling stuff to willing buyers, but that is not relevant to this discussion. It would be interesting to see how this all worked out in the Caliphate. |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Abdul-Kareem
said:
 |
RE: Socrates However, there will not be any public manifestation of their festivals in society like we see in the west. This doesnt mean dhimmi will be forced to celebrate their festivals such as christmas underground. What it means is in 'society' as a whole this is not celebrated. So of course Christians will send each other christmas cards, have christmas trees in their houses, midnight mass etc. The media will report on this. There will be no secret that Christians in the Khilafah are celebrating christmas. However, there wont be massive christmas trees in the centre of the city, christmas lights everywhere, jingle bells on the radio and Santa Claus in the local shopping mall. The rule on dhimmi festivals is similiar to the rule on pork and alcohol. They can trade it amongst themselves in their shops but cannot trade with Muslims. They would be forbidden from trading christmas items with Muslims and Musims would be forbidden form participating in any christmas festivals. It will be similiar to how Muslims celebrate Eid in western countries. Generally no one knows its Eid. Its not a national holiday and the only sign would be hiring of halls or sports grounds to have the prayer. In society as a whole they are not celebrating Eid. The difference in the Khilafah is that employers would be legally obliged to give dhimmi workers their religious festivals off as holidays whereas Muslims have no such legal right in the west. |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Socrates
said:
|
Dear Abdul-Kareem, Your reply to turkish mughal raises new and interesting questions. They can celebrate Christmas and other celebrations within their communities. However, there will not be any public manifestation of their festivals in society like we see in the west. Can you expand on this - how do you celebrate in your community *without* a public manifestation of the festival? For example, while most Australians would consider Australia to be secular, Christianity has a privileged position with national holidays for Christmas and Easter. However, a number of Islamic communities hired local sports grounds to celebrate the end of Ramadan recently, and anyone could go along to participate in the festivity. So, this festival was celebrated within the community, but there was support from the state through rental of the public sports ground. There was even public manifestation, since the events were reported in the local newspapers. So, in the Caliphate, how will non-Islamic faiths celebrate festivals inside the community whilst avoiding public manifestation? Clearly, Islam will enjoy the privilege of national holidays of Islamic festivals, but what about the mechanics of getting large numbers of non-Muslims together? Are they allowed to rent public buildings and public spaces for celebration from the state? What happens if local newspapers report on the event - does that count as public manifestation? I would be very interested in understanding, in the Caliphate, how non-Islamic communities will celebrate festivals only within their communities and avoiding public manifestation. |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Abdul-Kareem
said:
|
RE: turkish mughal Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in Surah Tawba, ayah 33: هُوَ الَّذِي أَرْسَلَ رَسُولَهُ بِالْهُدَى وَدِينِ الْحَقِّ لِيُظْهِرَهُ عَلَى الدِّينِ كُلِّهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْمُشْرِكُونَ "It is He who has sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of truth, to show that it is above all [other] religions, however much the idolaters may hate this." Dhimmi (Jews and Christians) are allowed to practise their religions without interference from the state in the Khilafah. They can celebrate Christmas and other celebrations within their communities. However, there will not be any public manifestation of their festivals in society like we see in the west. |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
turkish mughal
said:
 |
bro, u shud study sufi equality concepts of islam. it shud be clear from there. And I think khilafah shud have holiday for christian / jews holy festives... Although moslims will not participate. |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Socrates
said:
|
Dear Abdul-Kareem, the West intended for the Muslims to accept and recognize the Christian rituals, and believe in the equality of Christianity with Islam I am not really clear how 'secularisation' gives the same intent as 'equality' for Muslims in this sentence. My confusion about the term 'equality' was because I do not understand if the problem is belief in: * Equality between Christians and Muslims in the present day in Muslim-dominated nations * Equality between Christians and Muslims in the present day in the West * Equality between Christians and Muslims in the future Caliphate * Equality between Christianity as a religion and Islam as a religion, in terms of the relationships between religions (for example through intercultural discussion). The other issue is just what 'equality' is in these contexts. For example, does it mean that Christians/Muslims are the same, and Christianity/Islam is the same? Or perhaps, equality means that Christians/Muslims and Christianity/Islam should deal with each other respectfully, deal with the other in the same way that we would deal with people of the same faith? |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Abdul-Kareem
said:
|
RE: Socrates the West intended for the Muslims to accept and recognize the Christian rituals, and believe in the equality of Christianity with Islam. This means the West wants to secularise Islam by seperating Islam from politics and lifes affairs as happened to Christianity. Islam would then become like Christianity i.e. just a spiritual religion. There is also a specific agenda under the guise of interfath dialogue to unite all the religions and their beliefs and concepts by looking for 'shared' values between them. This is propogated as means to end conflict between religions and hence create peace. However, there is a more sinister agenda at work which is to weaken the uniqueness of the Islamic beliefs and concepts, and the uncompromising stance on many issues. Further details on this can be read in the book Dangerous Concepts under the Interfaith Dialogue chapter which can be downloaded from here: http://www.khilafah.com/images/images/PDF/Books/DangConcepts.pdf |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
Socrates
said:
|
Although this article was written in 1994, is it possible to ask for clarification? If so, I note that you write "the West intended for the Muslims to ... believe in the equality of Christianity with Islam." What is meant by 'equality' in this context? |
|
report abuse
vote down
vote up
|
| < Prev | Next > |
|---|