What is the logic of setting aside a day e.g. “Thanks giving day” for this?
Thanksgiving is 24/7 365 days to my creator.
‘Jesus is a prophet close to my heart. It does not mean I’ll be “celebrating” X-mas!
Likewise, it is laughable that a day in the year is allocated to “celeberate” Mothers Day.
Why not celebrate Haloween’s too because of our own belief in Jinns?
Such “celebration days” are random or paganistic allocations now used as money making schemes masked by noble cause excuses.
Our ‘Eid’s are but two.
Gratitude to Allah
and His creation, good behaviour towards mother, loving the wife…. and other such noble actions are FOR LIFE… not for a date that is commodified and commercialised to milk out cash from hapless zombies lost in WalMart world.
As Muslims when We should not be mindless zombies just celebrating things left and right because thats the garbage society and media feed us.
In modern times people are known to overeat to disgusting excess, especially so during Thanksgiving and this is totally contradictory to the sunnah. Who are we emulating when we indulge in such practices ?
There’s obviously nothing wrong with a family getting together because they have break, however getting together because its thanksgiving and having a turkey and everything is completely following the ways of the non-muslims, pure imitation. There’s a saying that state, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”, by imitating the non-muslims are we not saying that we have some type of love for their ways?
The Prophet Muhammad (saw) said, “Whoever resembles a people is one of them.” (Recorded by Abu Dawud).
Why would ANY Muslim want to take the risk of being like the non-muslims, when this act is so disgraceful in the eyes of the Allah.And what are we taking this risk for anyway, to eat some turkey?
If any Muslims have doubt on this issue then may I remind you of another hadith,
“Leave that which makes you doubt for that which does not make you doubt.”
May Allah
swt guide the Muslims, may he protect us from following the wretched path of the disbelievers. Ameen.