Why do Muslims celebrate <span >Christmas</span>?
Loads and loads of Muslims and many other religions have Christmas decorations up and give presents on christmas day, but why!? Christ-mas is a Christ-ian holiday festival, not Jewish! It isn't part of their religion so why would they take part in the festival? We don't stop eating at Ramadan, do we?
Update:Also, everyone celebrates birthdays, it doesn't even have to have anything to do with religion, it is celebrating the fact that one was birthed. Duh!
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It has become very popular in Buddhist Japan too. I think what it is is that people like to have fun. The lights are pretty, they like to get gifts, etc. There are a few elements that are based in Christianty. Jesus was born in a stable or manger, and it was a happy occasion for the angels for they rejoiced. All that other stuff including the date have nothing to do with Christianity. Even the Wise men displays are inaccurate. He wasn't a newborn baby when they visited and there weren't three of them. Astrologers is a more correct term than magi or wisemen and the star that led them to Jesus was not a phenomenon put there by God. It was meant to lead them to Jesus so they could report back to Herod where he was. Herod wanted to kill him. Christendom defends celebrating it by saying it doesn't matter what the origins are, that it is celebrated in the spirit of honoring Christ. Does that mean the Muslims and Buddhists are honoring Christ too. Remove the commercial aspect and the ones who celebrate it for fun who are you going to have left? The ones with the right motives should just honor God everyday in their lives and don't do it by having a big bash and overeating , drinking and so on and so forth. Another thought: maybe they can't stand the pressure. When people ask you all day long what you are going to be doing for Christmas and when you say you don't celebrate some get indignant, then it is easy to cave in to pressure.
True. but those religions have nothing similar, so they fall back on the pagan festival of light intended to lighten dark winter days. Christmas was actually based upon this festival but adapted to suit the requirements of the faith. (Scholars now reckon that Jesus was born in September/October, so the journey for Mary and Joseph was not as arduous as if it had been December. Christine Rosetti's carol 'In The Bleak Midwinter' is picturesque but inaccurate.) The reason is fairly clear. Jesus is the Light of the World, so the festival of light was the best time to celebrate His coming.
Also Christmas now is so commercialised and secularised that the other religions are in a position of "if you can't beat them, join them." More unkindly, it could be said that they are envious of the Christian festival. They have not got anything to match Easter either, as neither Judaism nor Islam has a Saviour who rose from the dead. The shame is that although they like the wordly side of Christmas, the 'mas' part, Muslims andJews refuse to accept the spiritual side or the 'Christ' part, that Jesus is the Messiah so it is hypocritical of them to join the celebrations.
This is because they both follow Ezrean doctrine. Ezra, the Governer of Jerusalem, was a religious politician and he taught the Jewish people via the Rabbical schools that the promised Messiah would be a xenophobic warrior. It's no wonder the Ezrean-trained Caiaphas and his band of cronies failed to recognise Jesus since He was a pacific universal Messiah.
Islam follows facets of Judaism in that Shara Law is based upon Leviticus which was written by Ezra, so they do not see Jesus as the Messiah either because of Ezra's serious errors of judgement.
You are correct.
We Muslims shouldnt be celebrating Christmas in any way, even having decorations up is a form of celebrating.
The reason we dont and wont celebrate is because we follow a lunar calander not solar and Dec 25 doesnt even exist for us.
Jesus and Muhammed pbut are great prophet but we do not celebrate any prophets birthday, we do not celebrate and we shouldnt even celebrate our own birthdays once a year, infact we celebrate everyday as a gift because we dont know if it will be our last.
Birthdays come from pagan rituals and holidays, Im amazed christians celebrate it.
Christmas has become a very commercialized holiday, and thus doesn't religiously mean anything outside of a Christian church. So, those of Muslim and Jewish religion can easily celebrate the holiday.
Also, maybe they have christian co workers, friends, or neighbors, and they just want to celebrate with them?
We don't celebrate Christmas, we just respect the festival since our friends and neighbors celebrate it. And Muslims do celebrate birthdays. its just the WAY we celebrate that's a bit different. Go and research up these things before accusing people of things you don't even know is true or not.
1) Most don't.
2) Christianity co-opted Yule. Why do Christians celebrate the pagan solstice festival?
3) Anyone can celebrate anything they want, unless it's hateful.
4) Christmas is more about family than anything else to all but the most puritan of Christians. I think it is nice that Muslims want to celebrate family.
Christmas is a Pagan festival along with Halloween and Easter. Birthdays are also a Pagan tradition.
When people supposedly claimed that Jesus was born on the 25th they didn't even celebrate birthdays because that was a Pagan thing to do. They stole the festival from the Pagans because then it would be easier for them to convert. They could become Christians and still have their festival.
Muslims shouldn't rejoice Christmas Becuase Christmas Is A Christian holiday And it truly is in regards to the Worship Of Jesus not Allah and maybe they think of Now That it truly is approximately TThe Worship Of Allah even yet it truly is not/
I had Muslim neighbors for a time. Some of the most fabulous neighbors I've ever had. They love Jesus. They think of him as a prophet. So they celebrate his birthday. But since they do not think he is divine, they do not celebrate the day of his resurrection.
The place where I get my nails done is owned and operated by devout Buddhists -- who celebrate Christmas as a legal, gift-giving holiday.