Halloween and other occasions

[Muzna]

Re: Halloween and other occasions

@Niksik

Enigmatic, I was planning to start a thread on this topic in the morning but good you did. I’ve been receiving a ton of mail from people who like to call Halloween and other such festivals HARAM. I don’t think kids dressing up in fun costumes and collecting candy is haram. It’s just a fun evening.

It’s the lazy and stingy parents who don’t want to do anything fun with their children who make claims such as those.

Funny that mostly women are participating in this thread.
Yesterday happened to be an occasion when I was in the car alone for a while and I tuned the radio to the local desi channel. A gentleman was speaking about how Halloween is in fact “Haram” and using all the key words: “pagan”, “christian”, “satanic” etc etc.

He was speaking in Urdu and explaining how we really mustn’t allow our kids to dress up or go “ghar ghar bheek maNgnay”. His tone was filled with loathing and hatred. His tempo and volume would rise as he would reach each point that he wanted to stress.

I listened for a good 10 minutes. When he started addressing the “mard hazraat” that “allow” their “auratain” to accompany the children for “hifazat” on their “bheek mangnay kay dauray” I became disgusted and turned the station.