How do you feel about Easter?

Question

I am a muslimah and I don't celebrate the holiday itself. However, for the fun of it, I do color the eggs as a craft with my daughter so she gets to explore her creative side, one of numerous we do throughout the week. I want to know if other muslims do anything or just refuse to buy anything associated with Easter? My step sister refuses to buy any single thing, even candy, if it has Easter things on it, which I honestly think is a bit extreme and uncalled for. I want to know your honest opinion. (Hard boiled eggs are pretty good aren't they? Amazingly, my 3 year old daughter loves them and so does my 1 year old son.)

Answer 1

I respect what Easter is SUPPOSED to represent, but I am against most Christian holidays that are celebrated for reasons other than why they were intended. If you look into the holidays and traditions involved, you will find many of them are pagan based. I am also a diabetic and I am against the practice of giving candy to children. I feel that it encourages bad habits at an early age, on top of celebrating pagan ideas. Don't get me wrong, I DO respect what the holidays were intended to be, but I dislike what they have become.

Answer 2

I'm quoting Peter Griffin, here: "Easter is the holiday where Jesus rises from the dead to feast on the flesh of the living!"

He could have been talking about christmas. Doesn't matter. Same idea.

When I was a kid our family did the Easter egg hunt thing at my grandparent's house. It was fun. We ate hardboiled eggs (yes, they are good) and got candy baskets with fake grass and marshmallow rabbits and chocolate things. The whole religious aspect of it never came up, and even as a child, I think if anybody had explained the religious reasoning behind it, I probably would have laughed my keester off!

It's like most holidays in America. You can choose to enjoy it in a completely secular way, divorced of any religious significance, if you like. It serves the purpose of giving us a common reason to get together and party with built-in silly traditions that we can all enjoy if we don't take them seriously.

Or you could get up early, put on fancy clothes and go to Mass. I never have. Never will. Doesn't really sound like fun.

All of the holidays are crap. All of the holidays are potentially entertaining. It just depends on your outlook. I used to be very cynical about it all, but I think I'm lightening up, these days. I still can't abide religion in any form, but holidays have their functions and uses.

Answer 3

I am a Muslimah and I would celebrate Easter, but only with family (they are Christians) and friends and not by myself.

I don't see anything wrong with celebrating Easter or Christmas. While we Muslims may not worship Jesus, he is still very important in our religion.
Nowadays, you can celebrate these holidays without being religious.
Instead of focusing on Jesus on Christmas then you would focus on Santa Claus. Make the holiday into only getting presents in the morning!
Easter, what you are doing is a good example. Just focus on the eggs and chocolate.

I think it is extreme to not buy anything for Easter. Who can resist all that chocolate?

Answer 4

I celebrate the Vernal Equinox during and after the full moon. I drink pure water and renew m healthy eating habits (used to be chocolate, no more). I also renew my exercise and outdoor activities. I plant things in the garden and give thanks to Nature.

Easter goes way back to times when humankind was socially and practically more in tune with the seasons and cycles of 'life'.

It is now generally marked as the first Sunday after the full moon following the Vernal (spring) Equinox.

The symbolic occurence of the 'egg' speaks for itself wth regard to life bursting forth anew.

Etymologically the word 'Easter' is similar to 'Estrus'.

Estrus:

Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin oestrus gadfly, frenzy, from Greek oistros -- more at IRE
: a regularly recurrent state of sexual excitability during which the female of most mammals will accept the male and is capable of conceiving : HEAT; also : a single occurrence of this state.

The easter 'bunny' speaks for itself. If you go and look out in the fields and hedgerows at this time of year, the little things are hopping with joy.

Coincidence or not, this describes the bursting forth of the desire for life and reproduction.

Easter was adopted by the Christian faith, and the symbolism of rebirth fitted well into a resurrection tale that helped gain it's popularity in (pagan) Saxon England. Many Christian celebrations (i.e. Saturnalia/Christmas) spread in this fashion and in many places unwittingly share the pagan symbols to this day.

Chocolate is just modern commerce utilising a celebration, which has largely lost its original meaning today owing to the spread of agri-business and city-dwelling.

Answer 5

actually ive only experienced one easter while being muslim as ive spent all my "muslim" years in a islamic country. however that one easter was pretty fun. went on the egg hunt with my neice who is christian. helped her make a basket etc. not a whole lot of talk about Jesus actually to the christians i spent that day with. i think its more commerical now then ever before...unless your actually sitting in church the morning of...i have no hangups having fun with the non religious aspect of easter...which there seems to be alot....anyway, am i crazy to ignore all that chocolate just cause theres a bunny on it?....i do not have the will power strong enough to deny myself chocolate in any form...lol(sigh)

Answer 6

i heard an imam tell me once that we will be associated with non belivers in the akhirah if we take part in non muslim activities he gave an example of sending chrismas cards, this will include you on the day of judgement for celebrating jesus's birth. i dont know only allah can judge but i wouldnt want to personally just to be on the same side.

Answer 7

I love chocolates and Im sorry to say nothing is going to stop me from consuming them ^^

haha

as for easter, theres no harm in celebrating the coming of spring.

most cultures have some form of celebration for it

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Mum always used to buy us books for easter - I like that tradition better than chocolate.

Answer 10

Easter to me means chocolate... And commercialized religion: the best kind.