The funny thing is that Hannukah is one of the least relevant Jewish holidays. It really had nothing to do with gift giving or lavish celebrations. And the holiday is not fixed around Christmas time. The Judaic calander is lunar-solar.
The Jewish month of Kislev can currently start as early as November 3 or as late as December 2, which means that the first day of Hanukkah can come as early as November 28 or as late as December 27.
The reason for the broad range of possible dates is that the Jewish calendar is lunar-solar. The months are based on the cycles of the moon. But the calendar changes the lengths of those months, and even how many months are in a year, to make sure that Passover always falls in the spring. This complex system — put in place by Rav Shmuel in the first half of the first millennium CE — ensures that the Jewish date and the secular date match up every 19 years. (By contrast, the Muslim calendar is purely lunar, which is why Ramadan can fall during any time of the solar year.
Thanksgiving has no religious or anti-religious value/origin and no problem celebrating it if someone lives in a place where it is celebrated and wishes to.
The Turkey itself has to be halal/zabiha for Muslims to consume.
You felt it excellent may be. However I stick to the same point that WE MUSLIMS are not allowed by our beloved Prophet SAW to resemble the kuffar in anyway and I think that no scholar is over and above our Prophet SAW. When for ashura he says us to fast 2 days so that we may not resemble jews who fast on 10th muharram as its birth date of Nabi Musa AS then what we can say about other traditions.
You felt it excellent may be. However I stick to the same point that WE MUSLIMS are not allowed by our beloved Prophet SAW to resemble the kuffar in anyway and I think that no scholar is over and above our Prophet SAW. When for ashura he says us to fast 2 days so that we may not resemble jews who fast on 10th muharram as its birth date of Nabi Musa AS then what we can say about other traditions.
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You can stick to your views but then again that can also be perceived as Allah swt allowing you to stay in the dark since you so willingly chose that path.
People who do these fuzool ki behsein only do it because they don’t understand what they’re even up against. Fear. Fear of the unknown leads to automatic opposition.
But we are allowed to migrate to Kafir countries and take advantage of all these things mentioned in the article?
What gets me is how a Muslim scholar can come to the United States for an advanced degree at one of our universities, applies for citizenship, swears an oath of allegiance to our government and constitution, buys a house in the suburbs courtesy of our interest based banking system, shops at Walmart, installs cable television to watch American movies on his big screen T.V., and then decries that the rest of us are imitating the kuffaar/infidels when we visit grandma’s house on Thanksgiving Day.
I’m sorry but it’s hypocritical to see a thread against thanksgiving and eating Turkey when HACC is brimming with lavish menus and twenty dish tea parties. It’s called waste…a huge gunah.
Drinking chai came from India and India is a Hindu country. Chai peena chordo. Sari pehenna chordo. All these things and borrowed from the Kuffar…let’s talk about that.
Prophet SAW never said to leave our muslim countries and prefer to move to the land of KUFFAR (when there are numerous established muslim countries) to raise our social status,professional degrees,‘better’ future for our children and to fill our hunger from the money earned after working for/helping the KUFFAR from the money given by kuffar,did he ? We help in economy of these KUFFAR by purchasing their products,watching their movies yet have guts to tell people they resemble kuffar when they are cooking food for their family on public holiday ?
