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GodDeyCraze:
You and your God should go and sit down

if your Allah god will see all this happening to the Palestinians under his nose while Jewish own is taking lands for them and defeating Allah followers in battle, don’t you think common sense should tell you that you need to shift base and follow Jews God and dump this your Allah. Just my own advice o. Because common sense no really common these days. Where this Allah dey when jews dey wire Arab koboko for wars again and again.

Badonasty:
The way naija xtians carry this Jerusalem matter for head just tire me...like Dem forget say Judaism and Christianity na two different religions...na Jews kill Jesus...Jews persecute both palestian Muslims and Christians

Doesnt your Quran tell you we are friends of each other?

yazach:
Question:

What is the ruling on congratulating the disbelievers on their celebration e.g Christmas ? And how do we respond to them if they greet us with it.

And is it permissible to go to the places where they are having celebrations for that purpose. And does the person (Muslim) take a sin if he does the aforementioned without any intent? Rather he only does it being courteous, or due to shyness or due to being put in an awkward situation, or due to some other reasons. And is it permissible to resemble them in this?

Answer:

Congratulating the disbelievers on their Christmas celebration or other than that from their religious holidays is not permissible according to the consensus. As was related by Ibn Al Qayyim, may Allah have mercy upon him, in his book The ruling on the people beneath the Muslim protection [Ahkham Ad Dhimmah — أحكام أهل الذمة] when he said:

“As for congratulating the disbelievers for their religious ceremonies that have kufr (disbelief) attached to it, then it is not permissible according to the consensus. For example congratulating them for their holidays or their fasts, so the person says, ‘May you have a bless holiday’, or he wishes them well for their holiday or something like that. So this, if the one who says it escapes from falling into kufr (disbelief), is (still) from the impermissible things. And it is on the same level as congratulating them for prostrating to the cross. Rather it is a greater sin with Allah. And it is a more severe abomination than to congratulate them for drinking alcohol and killing someone, committing illegal sexual intercourse and things of this nature. And many of the people who don’t have any religion (or respect for the religion) fall into this. And he doesn’t know the ugliness (evil) of what he has done. So whoever congratulates a person for committing sins, or innovations, or disbelief, then he has exposed himself to the hate, wrath (anger) of Allah.”

End of the Shaykh’s (Ibn Al Qayyim) speech may Allah have mercy upon him.

Shaykh Uthaymeen continues:

So congratulating the disbelievers on the religious holidays is not permissible, as shown by the proof brought by Ibn Al Qayyim. Because in it, (congratulating the kufar on their religious holidays) is an approval for what they are upon from their kufr ceremonies, and showing them that you are please with it. Even if the person is not pleased with the actual kufr itself, it is also not permissible for the Muslim to be pleased with kufr ceremonies, or to congratulate them for it. Because Allah the Exalted is not pleased with that, as Allah the Exalted says,

“If you disbelieve, then verily, Allah is not in need of you, He likes not disbelief for His slaves. And if you are grateful (by being believers), He is pleased therewith for you.”

(Surah Az Zumar, Chapter 39 verse 7)

And the Exalted says,

“This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.”

(Surah Al Ma'idah, Chapter 5 verse 3)

So congratulating them with this is not permissible whether this person is your co worker or not. So if they greet us with their holiday greeting we don’t respond to them with it, because it’s not our holiday, and they are holidays that Allah is not pleased with, and because it is something that is either innovated in their religion, or it was legislated but has since been abrogated by the deen of Islam that which Muhammad peace and blessing be upon him, was sent with to all of the creation. And He (Allah) says about it (Islam)

“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers”

(Surah Ale Imran, Chapter 3 verse 85)

And for the Muslim to accept their invitations to these occasions (holiday celebrations) is haram. (Impermissible) Because this is worst than congratulating them with it, because this would entail participating with them in this. Also it is haram for the Muslim to imitate the disbelievers by establishing celebrations for these occasions, or to exchanges gifts, or

to distribute sweets, or trays of food, or to stop work or anything like this. Due to the statement of the Prophet (ﷺ)

“Whoever imitates a people is from them”

[Narrated by Abu Dawood in his Sunan, no. 3512; Classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani in Irwa’ al-Ghaleel, 2691].

Shaykhul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said in his book,

“Follow the straight path and oppose the path to the fire,” Imitating them in some of their celebration causes happiness in their hearts for what they are upon from false hood. And it is possible that this might encourage them to take advantage of this opportunity to humiliate the weak minded”.

End of his (Shaykhul Islam ibn Taymiyyah’s) speech. May Allah have mercy upon him.

And whoever does anything from this is a sinner. And it is the same whether he did it being courteous, or seeking friendship, or due to shyness, or any other reason, because this is from being deceitful in the deen of Allah. And this is from the reasons that reinforce the psyche of the disbelievers and to make them proud of their deen.

— Shaykh Saalih ibn Uthaymeen (rahimahullaah)

[The above is a summary translation of a post taken from sahab.net. Translated by Rasheed Estes Barbee

What about Happy New Year! I hope you know celebrating new year 2018 is celebrating two thousand and eighteen years after the birth of Jesus? Technically, it’s not a Muslim celebration and new year. But you can shout it on roof top that you are in 2017 or 2018. Don’t you see any problem with that as a Muslim acknowledging Christian calendar. So, you need to start writing your own date henceforth using Islamic calendar. Failure to do that is participating in recognizing Christian new year and acknowledgment of its celebration. Hypocrisy of the highest order.

ollah1:
Go ba

Cannan, area variously defined in historical and biblical literature, but always centered on Palestine.

Guy, based on this bold above, I would like to ask, what has happened to your English comprehension? So many half baked school graduates these days.

What that quote above is saying is that: The land of cannan as refered to in historical or biblical record transcends the present day land of Israel. It’s talking about a whole region. When we are talking about the land of Cannan, it refers to a region more than the land of Israel. According to historical facts, the Romans after they exiled the Jews named all the land in that region Palestine including some areas of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria and were put under the same Roman rule by the name Palestine and erased israel. Palestine is not Arabic name. It’s Roman. That’s way before the fall of Roman Empire and before the occupation of Roman Palestine by Islamic jihadist that saw Arabs moving in to Roman Palestine wherein there was Jerusalem.

So there was never Palestine nor Palestinian arabs . All that was after the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem and the whole Palestine (not as known today) region.

Jesse01:
Indonesian are not Whites u are a full grown man, I believe u know wat is right and wrong, u don't need anyone advice to solve d mess u just put urself through.

Yes in the United States, if you are neither black or European white, you are called brown. It doesn’t matter where you are from.

ollah1:
Trump made a very wrong move and has been condemned by virutally every country. The only people extremely happy with the news are Nigerian Christians. I wonder the kind of hatred in them, the special hatred has blinded them from reasoning logically.


[b]Jerusalam is sacred to ALL THREE ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS. [/b]To them, it's a land fought between Jews and Muslims.
Where did Jesus died if Jerusalem isn't important to them ?

Since Islam is involved they have to prove their hatred to them believing they are with the Jews. The latter that doesn't even care about their existence. They don't even value Jesus or believe in him

Where is Jerusalem mentioned in the Quran. How it became their holy city overnight I don’t know.

The question you need to ruminate over and ask yourself is, “who were the previous inhabitants of the land before Islam was founded and before the Romans named the whole region Palestine?” Or do you think Palestine is an Arabic name? The Romans named the whole region Palestine after they drove out the Jews into exile in 70 AD. The so called Palestinians are the real land thieves. Be truthful to yourself. Jews are only taking back what had been theirs for thousands of years before Islam existed and before Arabs moved in.

censeakay:
Lol, am telling u that its only Jordan and Jerusalem that fight the 6 days wars that make Isreal occupy west Jerusalem until now, and if truly they defeat them, y they do not over East Jerusalem Gaza and West Bank.

Since you don't want to research it.

On 15 May 1948 the ongoing civil war transformed into an inter-state conflict between Israel and the Arab states, following the Israeli Declaration of Independence the previous day. A combined invasion by Egypt, Jordan and Syria, together with expeditionary forces from Iraq, entered Palestine – Jordan having declared privately to Yishuv emissaries on 2 May it would abide by a decision not to attack the Jewish state.[13] The invading forces took control of the Arab areas and immediately attacked Israeli forces and several Jewish settlements.[14][15][16] The 10 months of fighting, interrupted by several truce periods, took place mostly on the former territory of the British Mandate and for a short time also in the Sinai Peninsula and southern Lebanon.[17]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76NytvQAIs0

censeakay:
Bro it is only Jordan go and search it

no its you that should go and search it. Israel defeated all the surrounding Arab nations put together and occupied Sinai peninsula of Egypt and occupied east Jerusalem and territory east of river Jordan which were then part of Jordan territory. Sinai was returned back to Egypt. East Jerusalem and territory east of river jordan were annexed till today. Its you that should go and research more.

censeakay:
Be deceiving urself, did u think that Palestinian attack Isrealites, or u think that 6 days war u ar talking is with all Arab nations, it is only with Jordan.
America 9/11 event is 24/7 event in Palestin

Israel engaged all the Arab countries surrounding it from Syria to egpty to Lebanon to Jordan, Iraq, Iran. Just in a six day war. Since they were all defending Palestinians. Not only Jordan. Its not Jordan Israeli war my friend. Its Arab Israeli war. Get your fact straight.

ollah1:
Jesus was a Jew and he was killed by his own people(Jews). You should read about the original settlers of Jerusalem and they aren't Jews.


Since you know he was crucified and died there, why are you and others jumping around about the news? Do you think your Lord Jesus will be happy with you guys?

So were the original settlers Palestinians the Arabs? Palestinians started settling in Jerusalem after the exile of Jews by the Romans and the conquest of Jerusalem by the Muslims war general by the name Sar Aladdin and later consolidation of the conquest by Othoman Empire. Or you think the Jews just by accident found themselves scattered all over Europe. The Arab land grabbers grabbed their lands while they were scattered away from their home land of thousands of years.

ollah1:
Oh ok
The funny thing about people like you is the hated you have for Islam and Muslims have clouded your sense of reasoning.

Do you think Jews cares about Christians or Muslims?
Do you think Jerusalem recognition by Isreal favours Christians?
Didn't Jesus die in Jerusalem, ain't it supposed to be important to Chrisitians?
Do you think the Jews care about Jesus?

Nigerian Christians are happy about the news because it doesn't favor the Muslims. Why the hatred? Why?

Jesus was crucified and died in Jerusalem. Since Palestinians are saying Jews do not belong in Jerusalem, then Palestinians were the ones there in Jerusalem that crucified Jesus about 2000 years ago. Doesn’t that tell you Palestinians came there somewhere in history.

sloye5:
$70 per week

Did I hear $70 per week or per day. Thank God for America. I make twice that in a day.

fay39:
Trump is a Trash. he did not finish with North Korea he is adding more trouble to the citizens of Jerusalem

He is not adding any trouble. The trouble has been there since 1945. All we are seeing is a continuation of day by day decades of trouble. So, nothing new.

Why God will not continue to bless America for this kind of move? God bless America joor. God bless America jare.

Okay

This Oba has been seeing what Ooni has been doing lately. Oba no wan carry last. Welcome to 21st century, Oba.

Tamarapetty:
always in need of ''GOD FEARING'' men.

If only they knew no God fearing man will settle for a no God fearing woman. Maybe flaunting her boob is her own definition of fearing God. Oya, “God fearing men”, see yah food.

An outlawed fighting another outlawed.

beamtopola:
abeg, make una no vex o. shebi them say Lagos na the giant of Africa by mouth. Have any SA celebrity brought their marriage to Lagos or even doing honeymoon in Lagos?
well, sA is the USA of westafrica.

Here in the US, dears are roaming around in our backyard every time staring you in the face. We don’t come posting pics on social media. No one bothers about them either.

beamtopola:
abeg, make una no vex o. shebi them say Lagos na the giant of Africa by mouth. Have any SA celebrity brought their marriage to Lagos or even doing honeymoon in Lagos?
well, sA is the USA of westafrica.

Here in the US, dears are moving around our backyards everyday, we don’t come on social media to post pictures.

Please don’t waste that statue. Rochas has made statues business lucrative these days. I need it for rochas.

Try am with naija girls. Sorry na your case.

Addictedtodrugs:
Abeg if I hang my self for 30 minutes , will I die , I just want to play a prank on my girlfriend

No your neck will only break. Broken neck is better than being dead .

timesup234:
They are all brainwashed. Nobody knows them in America. Typical black man slave mentality. Watch the Asians buy up everywhere in America and you are talking about black men who are victims of neocolonialism. They are just occupying space in the US., they are not relevant

I hope you know those Asians did not grow wings and fly to America. They were brainwashed too like you said and they started out first by lining up for visa at the US embassy in their home country. Now a lot of them now have American citizenship or green card that someone said out of his ignorance that he cannot trade his worthless drivers license for. That’s how those Asians started. They too were nobody. And majority of them started out working your so called degrading jobs. Now they have their own businesses and trade names. Eni ti ko ba se bi alaaru loyingbo... It’s a popular Yoruba saying.

timesup234:
and what is the worth of american citizenship if not a life sentence of 40 yrs of hard labor and debt

Go ask your former Vice President Atiku and Wole Soyinka that refused to tear his own and that will not stop visiting the US every time . Ask so many well meaning Nigerians with US citizenship while they travel around the world with their US passport what value it has added to them and why they keep it. Don’t ask me. You can go to Ilorin and ask Bukola Saraki too.

timesup234:
and what is the worth of american citizenship if not a life sentence of 40 yrs of hard labor and debt

Go and ask your former Vice President Atiku why he keeps his own.

donniemc:
I wont trade my Nigerian driver's license for an America citizenship!![/font][/b]

Liar! Your worthless drivers license. Now this is a red flag that all you have been saying so far are lies, nothing but lies.

thebosstrevor:
that is a low wage job nobody has done the job and still be in college full time you seems you do not understand how low is the job to survive and pay college tuition that is why you will need student loan

college is very hard when working.if you wanna have good grade you need to give your 100% to college.

Chai! This guy can argue...as if there are no Nigerians here slipping burgers at McDonald’s and working at Walmart for $10 per hour and they are still going to school all together. Loan or no loan. The fact still remains that they school and work pari passu. School daytime, work evening time. Unless you have enough financial support. That’s how some do it. Is this something new? No.

teddybluez:
How stu.pid can someone be though? What's the percentage of Nigerians who can afford that?

We need to ask him how many streets Dangote has bought in Nigeria? Like he does not have better things to do with his money. He dey talk of Texas and Nigerians that don’t have 10% of Dangotes wealth.

When I went back to read through the previous quotes. Something caught my attention. It was like I never saw it before. @thebosstrevor said something about people making delivery for amazon. As if it’s a low life job for Africans and Asians that dominate the job trying to start a good life for themselves. If only he knew that they are being paid $18(for package delivery) and $20( for fresh produce and food delivery) an hour. He would not downplay them like that. Some have done the job getting themselves through college.