Would you accept a Christmas card from someone?

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Grofica said:
i am not sure how you see christmas as a pagan holiday... the winter solstice is on the 21st (or sometimes 22nd) of december not the 25th.

I dont mind if i get a x-mas email from family friends whom ever has good intentions as long as they are equal with all holidays... (we get a lot of mass emails at work) the only part that bothers me is if people are going to send out happy anything they should send it out for every holiday... once i start getting Bajram emails and hanaka emails and kwanza emails then i will stop complianing... i think everyone has a right to say happy holiday i just think we should be equal...

i just hate feeling pushed and suffocated by the x-mas stuff. and dont get me wrong im not saying one is wrong or right im just saying if people dont want to send a holiday greeting for EVERY holiday then none should be sent... (to other then family)
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Good answer. No one should suffacate you with Christmas. If they know you are a Muslim i'm sure their just being nice. I send some e-mails to my Muslim friends and they just usaully bring up for comparitive religion discussions, it's great. In my company i employ a muslim, Mohammad. We usually spend hours after work discussing these things, but usually he mostly likes throwing water balloons at me.lol We have a blast at the office. I am one-up on him now and i know he and my other employees are planning a retaliation on me, they have been planning for weeks. All i have heard is that it involves "popcorn" and my Lexus!?

God be with you.
 
Italianguy said:
This does not sound like the "brotherhood" in humanity i hear so much about from my Muslim friends. Sounds as if you have some hostility towards others? Why?I am at a crossroad right now and these kind of responses are the ones that steer me more in the direction i am in now.

God be with you. May Allah give you peace.
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BTW, i get Eid e-mails and cards from a few of my Muslim friends. Whats wrong with that? They have good intentions.
 
Argamemnon said:
That's not the right attitude because most non-Muslims are ignorant about Islam.
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I'm a non-Muslim and i am not ignorant about Islam. I will agree there a a lot of people who watch to much tv and make assumptions. But they do that with christianity as well.

God be with you.:D
 
islamiclife said:
Why would any Muslim accept a Christmas card whose entire asl (principle,foundation) is shirk and pagan worship?

As far da'wah, you give them da'wah at the moment when the card is being given to you. You explain to them why you can't accept it, why you don't celebrate this pagan ritual and why pagan ritual are forbidden Islam. This is an opportunity for you to tell them about tawheed and not take card and wait for another time. Do you know you will get another time?
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Now you have the right attitude. We should all take the chance to witness when we can. I would still take a card from you though.:D

Blessings.
 
^I have edited my post and I would appreciate if you do the same (remove my previous comments), thank you

PS: I will take a card from you since I know you are sincere unlike many other Christians
 
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islamiclife said:
^I have edited my post and I would appreciate if you do the same (remove my previous comments), thank you

PS: I will take a card from you since I know you are sincere unlike many other Christians
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Thank you Sir. I'm not sure how to delete an already posted reply? I will try though. Keep in mind brother i as a Christian know who i am sending my cards to, and most of the time I send a "Happy New Year" card to my Muslim friends. Sometimes a Christmas card gets sent to them.

God be with you always and forever!
 
Before my friends sended me christmas cards but because I never sended them any, they have stopped. So my problem aren´t cards but greetings.

If I can I will tell people whose greet me that xmas matter, that by my religion I haven´t xmas but greet them "nice YOUR holiday". Some of them ask sorry, some says nothing but always some wants to know more and then I am always ready to tell them why we muslims don´t celebrate that holiday and sometimes I can also tell more about islam.

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Salam,
If I would give eid present or eid card to my family (now I haven't had the opportunity yet though), then yes I would accept both Christmas present and Christmas card from my family. They are my family, they are believing Christians and for them Christmas means so much so I can't take it away from them, the happiness of giving something to me for Christmas and getting something from me too. So I will accept it if it's from my family. If it's from someone else outside my family I will say thank you but explain that I don't really celebrate Christmas but tell that I appreciate the concern anyway and wish a happy holiday.
 

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