Cultural holidays vs Religious holidays

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Being Muslims we usually don’t celebrate other religious holidays like Christmas or Hanuka, but there should be nothing wrong in celebrating cultural holidays like Thanksgiving :hmmm: I like to make turkey on this holiday and enjoy it :hmmm: My question is do you celebrate them or not?

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Lot of them do here. Just have look at Home affairs and cooking section!

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Celebrating Thanksgiving is a bidaat , Muslims should avoid copying other nations. :snooty:
Cooking and eating turkey is a bidaat too. :snooty: You can cook murghi instead.
Those Muslims who eat turkey they will be fed burning hot turkey on the day of judgment.

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I've celebrated Christmas a couple times with my aunts and cousins in the UK, although never in Pak of course :p

But my aunt and cousins do it every time. It's fun to celebrate!

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I don't celebrate cultural holidays, only religious (islamic) holidays.

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Good for you.

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i think its stupid not to celebrate every chance one gets.

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Why not celebrate. What’s the big deal. Going on sales is also part of the celebration :faizy:

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Astaghfarullah

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:hehe:

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you make turkey?? i thought people only cooked it :D

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Our little Pakistani group meets up every year for Thanksgiving and we have a dinner with halal turkey. I think this will be the last year though since Thanksgiving will fall in Muharram next year, and the people who host the party are Shia. So bye bye turkey, see you in 7, 8 years :(

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We usually celebrate em by visiting family. Thanksgiving dinner today:sadiyah:

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i don't celebrate religious or cultural holidays that have no specific cultural or religious meaning for me. just like i don't celebrate a stranger's birthday at home. simple as that. assimilation into the herd mentality? no, thanks.