5 Christmas Arguments - Discussion between two sides in Question and Answer format

 

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5 Christmas Arguments - Discussion between two sides in Question and Answer format

Some say greeting Merry Christmas is permissible &

Some say it’s Shirk to say so

There are some Muslims who Say greeting Merry Christmas is not wrong rather should be promoted while

there are those who say it’s unislamic to wish with any such greetings instead simply respond w/o Christmas reference (such as Safe holidays or happy summer break)

1) Christmas supporters:

There is no link between saying Happy Christmas and believing Jesus was God's son. It's like claiming that if a Christian wishes us Eid Mubarak he becomes a Muslim on doing it. A claim should be supported by an evidence or it shouldn't be made. There is no evidence supporting such claim

Response:

Some say there’s no link between Christmas and believing Jesus is Son of God!

Wow, either such people live in Jungles with no human interaction or they don’t understand English and are illiterate. Ask any Christian, what’s Christmas, he/she would educate you, Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the only begotten Son of God on earth - some would even say God himself in flesh on earth.

Check oxford dictionary, it says, Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Son of God.

For anyone to say otherwise, need to present evidence that on the day of Christmas, there’s no church gatherings, no mass, no celebrations, no family gatherings, no Christmas trees lightened outside homes, no Christmas holiday, no Santa.

Some say if non Muslims greet us eid Mubarak do they become Muslim

How childish, every other religious community has no issues in committing Shirk as it’s already part of their belief, so why would they be unhappy for committing it when they already believe in it!

Moreover, Islamic Eid festival has no Shirk involved in it for anyone to commit, even if they greet, since Islamic festivals are based on pure deeds (eid ul fitr) and imitation of the Prophet (eid ul adha).

No Muslim is saying by greeting Christmas you become Christian, but yes one is committing Shirk for sure.

Moreover, just because they greet us doesn’t necessitate we to do exactly the same instead we can with respect respond with other general good greetings such as Safe holidays or happy summer break.

2) Christmas supporters:

If we have Christian relatives, friends, and neighbours we should wish them Happy Christmas. They have their religious views and they know that we have different beliefs from theirs. However, courtesy demands that we wish them greetings on their important religious occasions as they do to us on ours. We have been asked to be good to others.

Response:

As the Christmas supporters themselves would attest that everyone has their own belief and hence should be respected. Well exactly for that reason, shouldn’t Christians respect the belief of Jews, Muslims and Atheists, that they don’t want to participate in a celebration which is contrary to their belief.

As practicing Muslims, we do respect (Quran 2:256) the right of Christians or anyone having their own faith and belief (as Allah has granted time to all humans until death to know and accept the truth) but it doesn’t necessitate believers participating in their belief and celebration.

Courtesy and respect demands that they respect our belief’s as well and not wish us Merry Christmas or expect us to say the same in return. As far as being good to each other, I haven’t come across a single Muslim who has slapped or hurt any Christian for wishing Merry Christmas, they have every right to celebrate and have good time and as Muslims we are not demanding any ban or stopping it, that’s out of COURTESY & RESPECT.

The Prophet (saws)and his 100,000 companions had relatives, friends and neighbours who were non Muslims yet there isn’t a single evidence of anyone of them ever wishing them on their religious festival.

3) Christmas supporters:

Moreover, for God's message to be delivered effectively to people belonging to other faiths, we need to be good to them. And we should maintain good social relations with them to be able to do so. It's rude to not wish others on their occasions of celebration. No one likes to be friendly with bigoted, narrow-minded people.

Response: If for God’s message to be delivered to people belonging to other faiths effectively required greeting them on their Religious festivals then our beloved Prophet Mohammed (saws) would have done so. Show us one evidence where he ever did so, while he lived all his life amongst non Muslims in Makkah yet he never ever for once greeted them on their pagan festivals. On the contrary, when he came across Jews celebrating their religious festival, in defiance the Prophet instructed believers, for them (Jews) is their festivals and for us (Muslims) we have ONLY 2 Eids (indicating, if one needs to celebrate or enjoy then let’s do it ONLY on our own religious festivals that’s Eid).

4) Christmas supporters:

God hasn't stopped us from being friendly with good non-Muslims. If He has stopped us from being friends with some Jews and Christians (5:51), He has clarified that they were the ones who made fun of our religion (5:57-58). He has praised some of the Jews and Christians lavishly even though they had not converted to Islam (3:113-115)

Response: To have good relations and give Dawah, one should be honest and clear in their communication; instead of being a hypocrite and sell out in ones approach;

It’s much more respectful to explain to a Christian why as a Muslim and lover of Jesus, we take strong exception to calling him or referring him as Son of God and open the doors of Dawah, to save that person from eternal fire and bring him/her into the fold of Islam. Instead some choose to greet them ok such disbelief and lead them to hell fire for ever!!! What an irony

Moreover, Allah swt, praised those amongst Jews and Christians who are in search of truth and give more right to Truth than to their whims (who eventually would embrace Islam due to their towards obedience to God). The only religion acceptable to Allah swt is Islam and all other religious beliefs are meant to enter hell fire forever (Quran 3:19; 3:85).

5) Christmas supporters:

God has also permitted Muslim men to get married to chaste women from the people of the book. (5:5) If a good Muslim has a Christian wife, should he not wish her Happy Christmas?

Response: If a good Muslim has Christian wife, then his most important responsibility is to convert her to Islam to take her to Jannah, not wish her merry Christmas, let her die a Christian committing the most heinous of crimes of Shirk and let her enter hell forever!

What an abusive husband would be such a Munafiq Muslim.

There’s a reason Allah did not allow Muslim women to marry Christian men, only if one could ponder!

Note:

The Prophet (saws) is the best and perfect example for all of us.

He lived in the midst of his non Muslim Mushrik relatives, his companions some of whom were Jews and christians who had become Muslims, also had relatives who were still Jews and Christians.

There is not a single incident where the Prophet himself or any of his companions (mind you they were no less than 100,000+) some of whom lived for almost 100 years, ever wished or greeted a disbeliever on their religious festival!

May Allah guide us to that which pleases Him and keep us firm on the Truth of Islam

by Waseem Razvi

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