Rulings on Christmas & Greetings | Mufti Abu Layth

a blessed right now moving on to an important question there's Christmas what do we think about all of these right celebrating Christmas or just saying you know giving returning greetings returning greetings of saying Merry Christmas people or Ted setting up a Christmas tree or Santa Claus father Christmas kind of thing gifts getting together on Christmas Day what do we

think about all of this so let's take a look right so first of all I'd like to tackle this from a few perspectives let's look at the religious angle now I understand that many people there just to be clear on the discussion here I do feel that all of these things are permissible okay that I've mentioned and I'm going to go into the detail and the evidences in just a moment but I'll begin by clarifying the malkov okay the position that these things are permissible whether it's saying Merry Christmas

Happy Christmas whether it's setting up a Christmas tree Santa Claus presents getting together even if people are having a meal on Christmas Day these kind of things I do feel they're permissible that said I recognize that many people unfortunately feel all of these things I've said are Haram okay they've said that not only are they Haram some of those people feel that they qu4 as well that they desperately right so okay so I'm going to tackle some of these things and go through them just to give us an

an idea okay now what I'd like to do is also I'd like to know okay here is I'd like to go through as well the evidence is that these people would have I'm sorry I'm just bringing up here a a list just to begin because I know a

lot of people will object to what I'm about to say so first of all I'm not alone in saying these things I'd just like to for the greetings and saying things like you know Merry Christmas to non-muslims and stuff like this or just exchanging greetings not only is it an old opinion from the humbly method one of the four schools of law within Sunni Sharia but it is also the the opinion of you've got shaykh abdullah bin baya has given that fatwa you've got sheikh ali al Jeffrey has given that fatwa you've

got chef use of Karl are we sure the ground share of al-azhar has given that fatwa Sheikh Ali Jinnah before him had given it share found us at our side of al-azhar had given that fatwa share Ahmed mum do we used the resident Mufti and head of research for derelicte in Egypt has given that fat one share say you'd the Sufi from Allah has given that fatwa chef Mustapha zarba has given that fatwa chef Rafi driba had given that fatwa share Pajaro Audrey from Pakistan has given that fatwa ulema Java dramedy

sir has given that fatwa chef Ahmed Shah basi from Egypt has given that fatwa sure I'm a baker from the UK has given that fatwa these are just to name a few and then of course last but not least heels truly has given that fatwa so so people just to show first of all that there is that there that there are many ala ma who have said this is permissible so I'm not alone in that but I want to go through some of the arguments on why on those people who've challenged

as being Haram so first of all let's look at the religiosity they've said well Christians claim that Jesus was born on this day so okay the birth of Jesus now we know although that isn't factually accurate but let's say this is a day in its origin commemorative of the birth of Jesus Christ now okay ELISA Lam now let's look at the Quran what is the attitude of the Quran towards the birth of Jesus Christ now they ask you the Quran quotes the words of Allah all that salam ala youma will

it - may there be peace and blessings upon me the day i was born jesus said so the quran doesn't seem to if anything it seems to you know partake in celebrating that Jesus was born so okay so the birth of Jesus in and of itself can't seem to be a problem because and the Orang seems to recognize his birth as a blessing so he said well hmm that's okay but the Christians when they say Jesus was born they don't mean Jesus the way we mean Jesus they mean Jesus the Son of God so you say okay okay that's their

understanding so they say yeah of course they said but what we don't ascribe to that understand say no but when you accept Christmas you by default accept their understanding say well okay well the Quran seems to recognize the Christians as worshipping God would you not agree they would say of course you know cooley al-kitabi to Allah Allah Kelly Martin Sawa in vain in our binkham oh we've got you know there's many the idol Khattab in the quran or clearly recognized as records worshiping allah yes

ah but the concept of Allah is one that can have different God heads so Jesus can be a Godhead of God you say yeah say but we don't ascribe to that no we don't but well

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know speaking if you say any form of validating them must validate validate in the fact they Trinity right in the past you can marry

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they take let's take just a quick moment an example right now look in your back son in essence all the same kind of people

same kind of culture Stan doesn't want to be associated with India in any way Indians don't want to be associated with Pakistanis in any way now to the extent that look these words will be words right which they won't use conscientiously I can be amazing words and I think why not

let's say you have the would summit and like some ah you know like some are like the environment but it means like time if I say something no it's never use this kind of work we'll just you know you see ya they go use that word you

know like it's crazy making a point to not say certain words because I differentiate the words different that we don't want to seem similar in any way with just words you know let's say the word life like even like no no we can't

use that and you go by a thousand years I imagine then when the races were different as well language and culture was different so it's the animosity is gonna be much more stock so you've got

people saying look if you donate if you gift an egg to somebody to a Persian person celebrating the male roles which is the which is the New Year's Day then that is cool but isn't really but it's just because in the day in age this was something that was oh my God we're going to be so different so I accept in the past it was this thing just because Muslims do it doesn't

justified it by using Islamic justified just as they just justify like I

mentioned

that's what I'm saying okay what did the Prophet say the first thing you should do when they are seen washing with you what's the message what you want us to do something they were motivating and the prophecy he gave them

advice and this is the best practice that we can do he said so

that's the message that's because so yeah now moving towards the final

evaluative stage on listing people may say look body participating let's say people may say okay we recognize things like a Christmas tree actually have Santa cool some people say may be

originating today nobody knows Oh presents and it's an opportunity for family let's

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this is yes/no suffer history but now they are seeing our symbols and does not mean

so whether now except you know he's grateful for the Blackstone maybe most likely because there seemed to be the Nabataean and the main God which was the big black song and you've got because

there's so many residue which you find these black stones but in the time of Islam because people just kind of ritual and respect

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in the time is for those things so Islam just today when you look at these practices here off let's say a Christmas tree or Santa Claus getting together yes they may have been they would have been some origin if you go back a thousand years it would have been some origin that would have originated some way you know maybe it was a pagan practice maybe a Christian practice maybe some other kind of practice but today it doesn't know these people partaking so they buy

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