As for immitiation, we can get carried away with that. I mean, all Kafirs drive on either the let or right side of the road...therefore we should drive in the center. See what I mean? Now, if we drove on either left or right because we thought that's what "good people" do, then we would be guilty of immitation. We do it strictly as a matter of convention for the sake of order.
Sorry but that is ridiculous example. There are laws which are strictly for world as you mentioned, there are things which have no religious relevance whatsoever. Which side of the road you drive doesn't have any significance in religion, there is no religious "origin" issue in this case i.e. left/right hand drive. But celebrating an event which DOES have religious origin is a different issue doesn't matter how good they are in marketing it as secular "just for your mom" event, this could fall under "imitation".
IN 8th grade, I learned that the founder actually developed the holiday as a time for women to take a stand against the very military lifestyle, and to refuse to be an excuse for warfare.
I don't remember the details, but I'll look into it.
Captain1, I agree with you. Celebrations and innovations cannot be all summed up into a single category where it would make everything either permissible or impermissible.
There's clearly a difference between driving a car and a celebration that has had religious roots and significance in the past.
whatever was not part of religion “1400” years ago AND now is being marketed as “secular” event while having roots in some other religion … I don’t celebrate/participate in to begin with,
As long as it has not been prescribed in Islam, it means nothing to me. It’s just a day like any other. I will try my best to treat my mom the best I can every day inshAllah.
There's clearly a difference between driving a car and a celebration that has had religious roots and significance in the past.
Please read my previous rejoinder.
There is an insignificant difference between a yearly event that does not (in fact) have religious roots (again, this whole business of the modern Mother's day having anything to do with ancient Greeks is absurd) and driving, say, cars. Or even going to international symposiums/conferences on whatever topic (which are almost always yearly events).
Really, it mustbe made clear that to make something haram which is not is a huge sin.
To each his/her own, indeed...but such fatwa's are hardly keeping to one's self. That such fatwa's are based on incorrect, and often diliberatly twiseted, notions of what something is makes us look bad indeed.
IF you're celebrating mothersday, then might as well celebrate christmas, easter, valentines, etc etc.
a) Mother's day has little to do with ideology (the philosophical underpinnings of a political movement). The good Dr. Israr Ahmed's preeching aside, not everything is related to politics.
b) It's mostly harmless what "they" do.
c) Whereas christmas, easter and V-day have clear religious roots, Mother's day is much closer to something like "Earth" day (and no, that has nothing to do with a pagan festival honouring Gia or some other Earth-god).
If you have a problem with Mother's day, that's fine. But would it kill people to at the very least understand what they are arguing against?
