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Celebrating New Year Not For Muslim by sod09(m): 9:16am On Jan 01, 2014 |
Celebrating the New Year ? Not for Muslims ! Celebrating the New Year -? January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doors and gateways. He was commonly depicted in statues, carvings and paintings as a two headed man with one head facing forward and the other head facing backwards. In 46BC Julius Caesar chose January 1st as the first day of the New Year as Janus symbolically represented the door to the New Year. Wild parties and orgies were held on the night before the New Year’s Day as a re-enactment of the chaos which Roman mythology depicted as preceding the cosmos or the ordered world whose organization was set by the gods. Furthermore, by that time, Janus had become, in practice, the highest god receiving the ritual sacrifices of Roman worshippers before the other gods, including the chief god, Jupiter. Thus, in its essence the celebrations of the New Year on January 1st and New Year’s Eve, the night before, are a part and parcel of pagan religious rituals based on idolatrous beliefs in false gods. Consequently, it is completely Haraam (sinful and forbidden) for Muslims to participate in or adopt any of its related rituals, customs and symbols. If a non-Muslim greets a Muslim, “Happy New Year”, the Muslim is not allowed to respond in a similar manner or say, “Same to you.” Instead, in order not to offend or hurt the feelings of non-Muslim friends or acquaintances, one may say instead, “Happy holiday.” As for celebrating the New Year according to the Islamic calendar which begins with the month of Muharram, this is also not permissible from a number of perspectives. First and foremost, if one does so believing that it is pleasing to Allah to do so, thereby transforming it into an act of worship, it becomes a Bid‘ah or cursed innovation in the religion about which the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Every innovation in religion is misguidance and all misguidance leads to the Hellfire.” If one does so merely as a custom, it is still impermissible as it falls under the prohibition of imitation of pagan customs about which the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Whoever imitates a people becomes one of them.” [1] Pope Gregory 13th who set the modern calendar, the Gregorian calendar, also officially fixed the first day of the year for Christian Europe as January 1st in 1582. U should learn 2 lay more emphasis on d Islamic, Hijri calendar, bcus each month in it contains a lot of medicines. |
Re: Celebrating New Year Not For Muslim by Nobody: 10:08am On Jan 01, 2014 |
But in reality.... |
Re: Celebrating New Year Not For Muslim by moewuro(m): 10:37am On Jan 01, 2014 |
Tanks 4 enlighten us!May Allah reward u |
Re: Celebrating New Year Not For Muslim by sod09(m): 11:33am On Jan 01, 2014 |
moewuro: Tanks 4 enlighten us!May Allah reward uamin |
Re: Celebrating New Year Not For Muslim by joyce2013(f): 12:54pm On Jan 01, 2014 |
But why now? This is the calendar that we live in not that one.hope you get. Its just a celebration in my own view for any religion saying thank you allah for another calendar year(the general one that you use) that we on earth use daily for our living.e.g are you not in 1st January 2014 today? That's because it's what it is in the world you live in. It's same as saying thank you lord for another day. Is that bad? Pls explain I really want to understand It's taking everything to extreme. Fanatism that causes problem and issues. My Allah would not be angry I am celebrating a new day in a new calendar rating method the world he put me in uses. He would be glad I am thankful. It's not about the celebration or the food. It's about the gratitude to allah that comes along with it. May Allah help us |
Re: Celebrating New Year Not For Muslim by sod09(m): 2:28pm On Jan 01, 2014 |
joyce2013: But why now? This is the calendar that we live in not that one.hope you get. Its just a celebration in my own view for any religion saying thank you allah for another calendar year(the general one that you use) that we on earth use daily for our living.e.g are you not in 1st January 2014 today? That's because it's what it is in the world you live in. It's same as saying thank you lord for another day. Is that bad? Pls explain I really want to understandwe have done our own new year since nov.... |
Re: Celebrating New Year Not For Muslim by joyce2013(f): 4:54pm On Jan 02, 2014 |
sod09: we have done our own new year since nov....Ok celebrate it as a new month in the normal calendar our world uses . Don't mind me jare. Anyone you choose is ok brother |
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