Many Sindhis would be celebrating ‘Cheti Chand’ today. The first month of the Hindu calendar, Chaitra, begins on Monday.
Today marks the beginning of a new year and also, the beginning of spring. While Maharashtrians are celebrating Gudi Padwa, people in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are celebrating Ugadi. Kashmiris are celebrating Navreh. Kashmiri Pandits celebrate this festival by taking a holy dip in the sacred spring of Vichar Nag and also inaugurate the new calendar on this day.
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Spring all over the northern hemisphere! Nouraz! Happy nouraz to all!
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on the risk of being a inconsiderate ... What the heck is "Cheti Chand" and who the hell cares? Pakistanis do not care...
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Happy Cheti Chand to all hindu sindhi's everywhere.
Just so you know though, not all sindhis are hindu. A lot of sindhis only celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr and Eid-ul-Adha. Please put a little more thought in what you post.
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No it was not.
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Spring all over the northern hemisphere! Nouraz! Happy nouraz to all!
Iranians celebrate festivals which are pre-Islamic times. Why dont Pakistanis celebrate?
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^ Duh, because they are Iranians... What does that have to do with Pakistan and Pakistanis?
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please stick to the topic and avoid personal attacks. if u have nothing nice to say then dont say anything.
happy cheti chand to those that are celebrating.
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Did you read that guys? Do not say anything against Punjabis :)
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lack of manners is not a punjabi trait :)
Happy cheti chand!
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Happy Jhulelal day to all who're celebrating.
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We are happy and content with Allaah :swt: as our Lord and Muhammad :saw: as our Prophet.
Cheti-Chand, Basant and Navroz are Kaafir holidays.. I use to say they are secular but they’re not, first two are Hindu and the third is Zoroastrian so why should we celebrate them when we don’t follow those religions anymore?
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Whether you celeberate or not! But nature does celeberate it! Spring coming all over! And spring comes from Allah!
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yes ..we can give celebrations to those sindhi hindhus over thier eid or religious customs they are minorities of pakistan but it does not ever mean that we should start celebrating any other religious customs and eids with them as in islam there are only 2 celebrations..eid-ul-fitar and eid-ul-azha...and thats all....
well ...sir is it necessary that what iranians celebrate ..we should also celebrate....iranians also do many "other" things which pakistanis or rest of muslim world do not do...so do not pass examples and impositions of other's on us....Nauroz is purely a Zoroastrian custom from 2500 years of great Sassanaid empire of Jamshed..Nausherva..Khusro....Kaikoous...Bahman Javdia ....Dara....etc etc..it has nothing to do with islam.....thats why shiaism which is based primarly on the love,resemblance and residues of Zorostrian and Persian Nationalism has the main centre in Iran and Iraq which are Zorostrian empires for 2500 years in past till islam came there 1400 years back..well i do not want to touch this specific topic but just giving why nauroz is celebrated in Iran only .....Basant case is a bit difference as it is the celebrations of a season of sarso kai phool ..yellow in colour in whole Punjab in india and pakistan...it is not a religious custom or celebrations....still many people including me dislike it as there is a resemblance of muslims with hindus which is strictly prohibited as in hadees ...a person who follows the customs and rituals of any other religion is considered in that religion....
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Narrow minded and biased people! No shortage of them at all!
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Having a strong sense of identity and wanting to uphold it is not being "narrow minded and biased".
Every community has their own ways and like to stick to them instead of aping every next person, honorable people are content with their own ways and only adopt the positive from other communities.
As Muslims we have our own ways, just as Christians don't celebrate Eid we don't celebrate Christmas but we agree with each others right to celebrate what they want.
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Do you think by saying my next door hindu neighbour happy cheti chand, I am celeberating their religious festival? Am I aping?
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And these days Hindus are celebrating Navratres.
Most of the festivals irrespective of affiliation with a religion have certain common things....time of the year.
Why ?
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I greet my muslims friends Id Mubarak, does that make me a muslim or when my muslim friends wish me happy diwali do they become Hindus ??