Is Thanksgiving Celebrated in Your Household?

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If you are not carving a bird then it really isn’t the thanksgiving in the western sense, is it?

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Public service message on behalf of all the turkeys in America. :slight_smile:

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I hear there is a shortage of Turkeys this year. Are you people happy now? :naraz:

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LOLLLL…dude…my friend’s family actually “books” a halal turkey weeks in advance because the halal ones literally flyyyy off the shelves.

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We don’t particularly celebrate Thanksgiving but we take it good opportunity to invite people over for dinner and have baked chicken with fries and all that goodies that comes along with it. And pray in jamaat at home..when azaan is called..

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^ Masha Allah

Same here, Ray! The halal butcher shop starts taking orders a few weeks before Halloween.
We pick up a farm fresh turkey a couple days before Thanksgiving :yummy:

Last year we thought we’d test our luck and didn’t place an order. We had to get a frozen (halal) turkey because they ran out of fresh ones :bummer:

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Ok, I can get people making a big deal of shab barat or eid milad, though I don’t see harm in doing praise of the prophet, but what is the logic behind quran khatm? I assume that you mean that people are getting together and reading a quran. Is that such a sin or bid’dat?

I ask because that I know someone that does it in my cousin’s family (married to one of my cousin’s cousin) and I don’t really get the logic.

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So are you then saying that your family has established a “tradition” of eating baked chicken and fries and then praying ba’jamaat on Thanksgiving?

:smiley:

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^^^ lolz, it reminds me a gem of a scholar. the scholar asks indian muslims, why do you eat parsad hindus give you from their mandir?
common muslims reply “hum to bismillah parh k khaatay hain” :smiley:

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I like food and stuff.
But thanks giving ?? I would celebrate it when native people say its ok to celebrate it.

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If you want a fatwa from resident Pakistani, ask Asma Jahangir, Ayaz Amir, najam sethi or NFP. They can give you fatwa on urgent basis. :smiley:

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:k:

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Thank God, nobody has asked whether Pakistani Muslims in the West put up Christmas trees in their homes or not. :chai:

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uffo…Thanksgiving tau guzar janay do!!!

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Ye tenshun Disambar ke liye rakh choRain. :slight_smile:

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My post might be irrelevant but I wonder what US, UK, Australian etc., precisely speaking the ‘non-muslims’ do on eid holidays, in case if they are living in a Muslim country? :konfused:

Do they sacrifice and eat meat from it as the muslims do? or get-together at one place/home like we muslims get-together. Do they ever said that they also would like to celebrate this “eid days”, in their own way/style :hmmm:

Three days off, sometime, if weekend falls then 4-7 days off from duties, so what actually they do the whole weekend? :hmmm:

Any idea ?

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I am sure some do and some don’t.
It would also depend on how long they have lived in the country and whether they are citizens.

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I have a Christian friend that was born and brought up in Karachi.
He knows all the Muslim holidays and never fails to celebrate them with me. He has fond memories of participating in exactly the same way that his Muslim friends celebrated except for the ibadat part.

So yes…he would eat the meat that was sacrificed but he would not be doing the sacrifice himself.

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:slight_smile:

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I know of Europeans (Christians) in India joining in and celebrating Diwali.. They see it as a something fun and don’t really think about the religious aspects..

Don’t think the bit in bold would appeal to most of them tho..