Poll - Muslims only: When somebody wishes me a 'Merry Christmas'...

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New_Muslim said:
I honestly hate to hear merry christmas. I'm much happier with happy holidays. I don't see the point to christmas. It seems very materialistic and polytheistic to me. HamdaAllah I'm Muslim.
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My shaykh once said...
Assalaam Alaikum,

What is up with some people that they are saying, and typing, "hamdulillah"..... and worse still, "hamdellah"???

The word is Alhamdulillah..... or you can type it as al-Hamdulillah.... or al-Hamdu Lillah....

BUT, please do not forget the "Al" in the beginning. It is very important and necessary, if you are trying to say "Praise is due for Allah". The "Al" is so important, that dropping it is extremely dangerous in your status with Allah!

Please take heed of this, and change it if you are one of those saying/typing it incorrectly.

Was Salaam
Afroz
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Greetings,

Here's a quote from the article linked by Fi Sabililah:

It is as great a sin as congratulating someone for drinking wine, or murdering someone, or having illicit sexual relations, and so on.
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Is it just me, or is that not a bit of a strange thing to say?

Peace
 
what Christmas is based on is more sinful in Islam* than "drinking wine, or murdering someone, or having illicit sexual relations, and so on". We wouldn't congratulate them for these things so why would we congratulate them for something worse?

*i.e. the son of God concept.
 
Malaikah said:
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^Can you explain why for us non-Arabic speaking members?:?
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I thought the quote i provided was self explanatory.

Obviously it wasn't.

Sis, the forum that he posted that on is MV, and MV is down at the moment.

Try to visit this link later on today/tonight :

http://forums.muslimvillage.net/index.php?showtopic=19895

For the full story.

And, if you want to, visit his website :

http://www.alghazzali.org/ for great articles and even better, all the Programs they (The Alghazzali centre Crew) are offering to Muslims in Australia.

Hope that helps.

Wa'salaam

-Zubair
 
As a non-Muslim, I did not vote, but I have enjoyed reading this thread.

I certainly never expected a Muslim to extend to me a Merry Christmas nor to necessarily return the greeting in that form. But I had not considered how to some it might come across as a form of "congratulations" for the Christian faith. I never consider it a congratulatory greeting among Christians, but rather a wish for a joyous and God-filled day. And I am still not sure about that reasoning being applied to it. But there is one other thing I see now that I never saw before, that as a Muslim who within one's own faith is horrified (my word, maybe not the best choice) at the thought of a person worshipping a human -- and that being what Muslims understand Christians to do -- then certainly to wish someone a Merry Christmas would be equal to wishing someone to go and have a merry time blaspheming God. If that is what I understood those words to mean, I couldn't use them either and would be very disheartened everytime I even heard them used by others.
 
I don't wish the greeting back, I just nod my head, and say, "Have a Happy New Year."
 
Well i voted other because for me it all depends who is saying it.Some people say that expecting u say the same to them while others just say it having full knowldge that i dont celebrate christmas.For example,at work most people have no excuse to be ignorant abt the fact that we muslims dont celebrate since a group of hard workers do an outstanding job of doing work place education about islam.so everyone is familiar with our believes and values.And we respect theirs too.
I never walked to a non muslim and wished them a happy eid,why would they wish me a merry christmas when i dont even celebrate it?makes no sense to me.
 
Hey, I don't want to start a poll for this, but maybe you can still answer this question here.

For those of you who are Muslim and do not celebrate Christmas, would you be upset if asked to work on Christmas so that a co-worker who was Christian could have the time off with family?
 
Grace Seeker said:
For those of you who are Muslim and do not celebrate Christmas, would you be upset if asked to work on Christmas so that a co-worker who was Christian could have the time off with family?
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Isn't Christmas a public holiday though? :? No one has to work...

I got wished a Merry Christmas yesterday. It was 11:30 PM, just me and my dad in the car, waiting at a red light. All of a sudden we hear someone shout: "Hey brother". I look out the window and see a car with five young men looking at us, then the guy in the passenger seat goes, "How are you, Brother!". I am just looking at him like :eek::rollseyes, and hes like "Merry Christmas!" *Holds up bottle of beer* "Merry Christmas". Now it hits me, hes drunk! :offended: Then my dad just said "You too", more to shut him up than anything else...

Ah yes, Christmas cheer is in the air. :rollseyes
 
syilla said:
only men? :? Please explain...

sorry...i'm a very confused lady :D
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Its more a superstition-the women will not have a pink year if they say it. The men needs to open every new year - right they have now an important role -and the first person which enter in your house must be a man because, like i said they are the only one able to bring the new year without dangers.After the man "opened" the new year, the women can say it also, because there is not danger to ruin your year which just begin.I think over here the men likes to be the first in everything:giggling:
 
Malaikah said:
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Isn't Christmas a public holiday though? :? No one has to work...
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Yes, it is a public holiday, but there are many health and public services which don't just shut shop for the holidays. And thousand and thousands of people will be working on Christmas day to provide necessary sevices for the rest of us.

So Grace Seekers question is quite valid:
For those of you who are Muslim and do not celebrate Christmas, would you be upset if asked to work on Christmas so that a co-worker who was Christian could have the time off with family?
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I would add the question if you would even volunteer to work on Christmas for the above reasons?

Peace :)
 

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