Re: Where they came from?
The problem in dealing with Culture and religion simultaneously is created by people’s own perceptions. Islam doesn’t ask for not celebrating occasions like marriage and it doesn’t put bar on customs till it violates basic principles of religion.
People got a habit to link each and everything with halal and haram. Though, same people are of the behavior which was pointed out by Hazrat Isa (AS) in one of his sermons that ‘log machar chaan lete hain, hathi nigal jate hain’. When a practice /custom is not specifically forbidden, why should we indulge in discussion of haram / halal to make it haram?