Fasting on the day of Aashoora (10th Muharram)

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Re: Fasting on the day of Aashoora (10th Muharram)

@khoji

Yes, most people do not fast thinking that it is a day of celebration. They are therefore innocent.
Problem is with those who have told them to fast without telling them the reason they are fasting. And the reason is because they believe in some traditions that say that Ashura is a day of celebration for Muslims (hence fasting) because it was a day of celebrations for Jews.

There is no problem celebrating a Jewish holiday. Afterall we do have religion most aligned with Judaism. But the issue is that it is the same day when a huge tragedy happened in the history of Islam and the history of the world.
Now it makes no sense to fast EVERY YEAR on Ashura thinking that it was ordered by Prophet to celebrate Jewish holiday, and overlook Islam’s own tragedy.

Prophet’s saying and act is ‘muqqaddam’ over any event that comes after. When and which tragedy was celebrated annually in the time of Prophet SAW? Nobody has given an answer to me on that. If we can are ordered to celebrate Eid al Azha to remember Ibrahim AS’s obidience of Allah, why its strange to celebrate Musa AS’s remarkable history changing event. Prophet’s SAW order is order, we don’t need to disect it if its Jewish tradition. You forget that it is Musa AS’s miracle by the grace of Allah that they celebrated, not the wonders or deeds of Jewish people.