We are in the time of the year where ignorance heightened by the nonchalant attitude of Muslims has caused them to shy away from the teachings of Qur'an and sunnah. I have made 11 scholarly thoughts on why Muslims should exclusively boycott Christmas and its proceedings. Allah says in the Qur'an 109 vs 6 "For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.”

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This OP must have had to work on Christmas day. Why don't you negotiate with your HR or admin so you could at least get the New years day off?

Nigeria is a secular state, and Christmas as well as other Sallah celebrations are public holidays. We should sit back and relax ourselves not post ridiculous messages on nairaland questioning the practice of a tradition you cannot stop.

alphaNomega:
This OP must have had to work on Christmas day. Why don't you negotiate with your HR or admin so you could at least get the New years day off?

Nigeria is a secular state, and Christmas as well as other Sallah celebrations are public holidays. We should sit back and relax ourselves not post ridiculous messages on nairaland questioning the practice of a tradition you cannot stop.

Nigeria is a secular state because Christianity has no laws to rely upon! Nigeria may be a secular state but most individuals in Nigeria are seemingly religious!
And no one is telling you not to relax you may Relax In Peace if you like.
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But we Muslim take the message of the OP seriously! The tradition of celebrating nonsense, idolatry, etc has stopped! You and your kin are free to continue the tradition.
Obviously the message is not for you.

Rashduct4luv:


Nigeria is a secular state because Christianity has no laws to rely upon! Nigeria may be a secular state but most individuals in Nigeria are seemingly religious!
And no one is telling you not to relax you may Relax In Peace if you like.
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But we Muslim take the message of the OP seriously! The tradition of celebrating nonsense, idolatry, etc has stopped! You and your kin are free to continue the tradition.
Obviously the message is not for you.

Do you even have an idea what a secular state means? Your first sentence shows you are far from it.

You have one life to live and as long as you are not causing harm to your fellow human beings, enjoy yourself and live long! Enough with all these religious bullshít you keep carry on your heads!

While growing up, we were told that we should not wish Christians merry Christmas or celebrate Christmas or Easter because we were told they are of pagan origin.

Little did I know that all the 5 pillars of Islam are of pagan origin

1. "There is no god but Allah "
Is of pagan origin. Allah was an idol worshipped by the Quarysh tribe of Mecca and Abdulmuttalib, a pagan worshipper of Allah even named one of his son's Abdul Allah which means slave of Allah, Abdul Allah was later contrapted as Abdullah.

In fact, we were told in authentic Siras that Abdulmuttalib almost sacrificed Abdullah to Allah while standing before the image of Hubal. Allah is the spirit, Hubal is the image. Hubal is represented by star and crescent moon, the same image we have on the top of our mosques minarets today.

Muhammad was born into that pagan family and was also doing all the pagan worshipping associated with the Quarysh tribe even before he received his first revelation.

Part of the pagan traditions of the Quarysh that time was going to the caves for days to worship and chants to invoke jinns and other demons. It's of common knowledge that Arabian jinns are mostly in the caves.

Muhammad was doing one of this seclusions in the caves when a jinn appeared to him and gave him the first revelation that later formed the basis of Islam.

How did we know it was a jinn and not the spirit of God?

it was because the jinn pressed Muhammad 3 times until he could not longer breathe, and the spirit didn't say that He was sent by God almighty. Angels of God don't suffocate who they are sent to, they introduce themselves as being sent from God and they don't make the recipients of their messages to feel cold and to shiver.

The spirit that appeared to Muhammad in the cave made tried to suffocate him 3 times until Muhammad could no longer breathe, the spirit never introduced himself as being sent from God, Muhammad felt cold and shivered and ran home to his wife Khadijah who later covered him with clothes.

Please read Sahih Bukhari Vol 1 Book 1 Hadith 3 to confirm all these.

Muslims are the ones practicing paganism but they accuse Christians wrongly.

Muslims please read wide and free yourself from the shackles of Islam.

Lemme share you an islamic website narration of how Abdulmutallib almost sacrificed Abdullah to Allah his idol and all the references they gave are from authentic sources.

https://questionsonislam.com/question/how-did-incident-prophets-father-abdullah-being-vowed-be-sacrificed-take-place


Allah was among the 360 idols resident in the Kaaba whom the Quarysh tribe believed was the greatest of all the 360 idols of Mecca, that was why the Meccans were angry with Muhammad for trying to promote his family's idol above the other 360 idols.

Learn, so that you can free your mind.

The reason Shahada is of pagan origin is because Abdulmuttalib who was a pagan and every other pagans of Quarysh before him believed Allah their own idol was the greatest and that there is no other god except him, that was why Muhammad was beating other idols in the Kaaba with sticks when he later conquered Mecca

AbooBilal:
We are in the time of the year where ignorance heightened by the nonchalant attitude of Muslims has caused them to shy away from the teachings of Qur'an and sunnah. I have made 11 scholarly thoughts on why Muslims should exclusively boycott Christmas and its proceedings. Allah says in the Qur'an 109 vs 6 "For you is your religion, and for me is my religion.”

Going for Hajj is of pagan origin, circumambulation around the Kaaba is of pagan origin, Kissing of the Blackstone is of pagan origin. Umrah is of pagan origin, it was the tradition of the pagans that Muhammad brought and retained into islam

Have you seen that this pillar of Islam is of pagan origin.

Sahih Bukhari Vol 5 book 59 Hadith 554

Narrated By Ibn 'Umar
Allah's Apostle set out with the intention of performing 'Umra, but the infidels of Quraish intervened between him and the Ka'ba, so the Prophet slaughtered his Hadi (i.e. sacrificing animals and shaved his head at Al-Hudaibiya and concluded a peace treaty with them (i.e. the infidels) on condition that he would perform the 'Umra the next year and that he would not carry arms against them except swords, and would not stay (in Mecca) more than what they would allow. So the Prophet performed the 'Umra in the following year and according to the peace treaty, he entered Mecca, and when he had stayed there for three days, the infidels ordered him to leave, and he left.

They asked him to leave because it was their tradition but when Muhammad later conquered Mecca, he retained the pagan practices but you people are not condemning the act, rather you're condemning Christians celebration.

Even the Kaaba that you claim Ibrahim built, we read in the authentic Hadith that Muhammad knew it was of pagan origin and wanted to demolish it but he changed his mind when he realized that pagans who had converted to Islam were already used to the Kaaba, so he had to leave the Kaaba in order to please his new converts

Sahih Bukhari Vol 1 Book 3 Hadith 128

Narrated By Aswad
Ibn Az-Zubair said to me, "'Aisha used to tell you secretly a number of things. What did she tell you about the Ka'ba?" I replied, "She told me that once the Prophet said, 'O 'Aisha! Had not your people been still close to the pre-Islamic period of ignorance (infidelity)! I would have dismantled the Ka'ba and would have made two doors in it; one for entrance and the other for exit." Later on Ibn Az-Zubair did the same.

Today, Kaaba of pagan origin has become the holiest site in Islam but you're concerned about the pagan origin of Christians festivities.

It's a pity that instead of focusing your attention on your religion, it's another people's religion that is now your headaches!

Finally, your imams are issuing fatwas of hatred everyday and are even referring to Christians as enemies of Allah but when you're trying to preach the Islam is a religion of peace, you're always quick to quote Sura 2:62.



إِنَّ الَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا وَالَّذِينَ هَادُوا وَالنَّصٰرٰى وَالصّٰبِئِينَ مَنْ ءَامَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْأَاخِرِ وَعَمِلَ صٰلِحًا فَلَهُمْ أَجْرُهُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ وَلَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلَا هُمْ يَحْزَنُونَ
"Indeed, those who believed and those who were Jews or Christians or Sabeans [before Prophet Muhammad] - those [among them] who believed in Allah and the Last Day and did righteousness - will have their reward with their Lord, and no fear will there be concerning them, nor will they grieve."
(QS. Al-Baqara 2: Verse 62)



If Quran is the Supreme book in Islam why don't you obey the Quran that clearly states the Christians will have their rewards from their Lord and which didn't call them your enemies, why are you listening to the fatwas of your imams who are sowing seeds of acrimony into you?


You're here telling us that we should not collect anything tagged Christmas from Christians when the Quran has said that the food of Christians have been made lawful for us. Are you or your imams superior to the Quran?

You guys need to learn and free yourselves from hatred


الْيَوْمَ أُحِلَّ لَكُمُ الطَّيِّبٰتُ  ۖ وَطَعَامُ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتٰبَ حِلٌّ لَّكُمْ وَطَعَامُكُمْ حِلٌّ لَّهُمْ  ۖ وَالْمُحْصَنٰتُ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنٰتِ وَالْمُحْصَنٰتُ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتٰبَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ إِذَآ ءَاتَيْتُمُوهُنَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ مُحْصِنِينَ غَيْرَ مُسٰفِحِينَ وَلَا مُتَّخِذِىٓ أَخْدَانٍ  ۗ وَمَنْ يَكْفُرْ بِالْإِيمٰنِ فَقَدْ حَبِطَ عَمَلُهُۥ وَهُوَ فِى الْأَاخِرَةِ مِنَ الْخٰسِرِينَ
"This day [all] good foods have been made lawful, and the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you and your food is lawful for them. And [lawful in marriage are] chaste women from among the believers and chaste women from among those who were given the Scripture before you, when you have given them their due compensation, desiring chastity, not unlawful sexual intercourse or taking [secret] lovers. And whoever denies the faith - his work has become worthless, and he, in the Hereafter, will be among the losers."
(QS. Al-Maaida 5: Verse 5)