I will be Marrying a Muslim and I am Cristian How do we Celebrate Holidays for both religion's?

Question

How do I celebrate Christmas with him without stepping on his toes?

Answer 1

If you're already worried about stepping on his toes....call the whole thing off.

Answer 2

I hope you pray long and hard about this decision and hear God when He says to reconsider. The fact you are questioning things before you are even married is not a good sign. You do realize that Muslim men are allowed to marry non-Muslims but Muslim women are not, right? Why do you think that is? It's simple. The men expect their wives to submit to them, in all matters but especially concerning religion. If he says no Christmas, are you going to give in to that or will there be an argument? Are you then prepared to be beat, as it says in the quran, if he decides that is what you need? Are you prepared to have Muslim children? There will be no debating on that subject. Do you want to do that to your children? Have your daughter submitting to a Muslim man and your son thinking he has the right to hit his wife. How can you, as a Christian, spend your life with a man who denies Jesus as The Son of God? How will you be able to teach your children that? You will have an antichrist in your home. I'll pray you come to your senses.

God Bless.

Answer 3

Muslims are not allowed to celebrate any holidays that are not Islamic. As his wife you are obligated in Islam to obey your husband. If he doesn't want you celebrating non Muslim holidays then you have to listen to him. Christmas is a Pagan holiday. It has nothing to do with Christianity. Muslims don't even celebrate their birthdays. If you have kids then your kids will be raised Muslim and if you get divorced he will get custody of his kids according to Shariah Law. You won't be allowed to teach your kids anything about your religion as kids take the religion of the father not the mother. The Bible says you will not be unequally yoked meaning if your Christian you can't go and marry a non Christain because your going aganist your holy book.

Answer 4

Work it out.

I'm married to a Muslim man. I agreed to let the kids be raised Muslim. I'm an atheist.

I celebrate all the "American Traditional" holidays, including the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Mother's Day and Father's Day, Halloween and Xmas (the solstice & santa holiday, not the Jesus one). We also celebrate the Eids. The kids are, without a doubt, Muslim.

My husband is pretty cool about it. He doesn't participate much in the holiday stuff, but the kids like it, and he doesn't fight it.

You do need to work this out before you get married, though.
Definitely.

Answer 5

Like all interfaith relationships you need to discuss this BEFORE you get married so you're both on the same page. I'm Jewish and dating a Catholic, and everything needs to be discussed.

It's certainly fine I assume to celebrate your own religious holidays, but you need to tell him that you plan to continue doing this.

Also, if you plan to have children, you need to determine NOW what they're going to be raised as so this avoids problems down the road.

On top of this, I know a lot of Rabbis will refuse to marry an interfaith couple. Who is going to marry the two of you and how will the ceremony play out? All of these issues need to be looked into before you get in too deep and find out you and your husband-to-be are not on the same page about big life issues like this.

Good luck to you!

Answer 6

With an open mind. And compromise.

Tell him you'll respect his holidays and won't belittle him or his choices, as long as he gives you the same respect.

Compromise is the best thing in marriage - and that is how it will work to have 2 different religions.

I know because I am a Christian (LDS) and my husband is not. He's not religious, but if there's a religion that he would belong to it would probably be Buddhism. So, we have pictures of Christ as well as a statue of Buddha in our home. And things are fine.

I give my husband the respect he wants and deserves for his choice of what to believe in. And I receive the same respect from him. I celebrate my Christian holidays the way I want to and allow him the same.

Answer 7

To be honest, you should have talked this one out with him a long time ago. Here's some other thoughts for you. When you have a child, do they get baptized? When your kids want to join a religion or ask questions about God, who wins that argument? What if your kids want to become confirmed into a religion, which one? Is there a dress code for you or your kids? The two of you need to sit down and figure out what your own beliefs actually are first. Are you identifying yourself as a Christian who believes the tenets of your mainline faith? Does he identify himself as a Muslim who believes the tenets of his mainline faith? Or are both of you a union no longer fitting into the faiths that you were raised into and maybe it is time to look at something that you can both identify with?

Answer 8

Talk to your fiance about it. Any time there is a mixing of cultures, these things need to be agreed on by both parties. My boyfriend is muslim(non-practicing bt still) and we celebrate all holidays. A relationship is based on communication and compromise. Good Luck

Answer 9

Well i am muslim and i think you should just celebrate christmas with your family and let him stay at some other place at the time. Or just forget about marrying him because i think it is a ad iea.

Answer 10

By marrying him you will be expected, not just by him but by his family also, to adopt Islam as your new religion.

Another thing, you should consider what the Bible has to say about your marriage to this man. Don't you know that the Bible says you should not marry someone w/ different beliefs? There are reasons God says that. I think you need to pray long and hard about this...you're probably making a HUGE mistake.

God bless.

Answer 11

Actually you wll be marrying a Kafir like yourself because Christians are haram for Muslims.
Christians are polytheists and worship the Sun God Zeus and his son Jesus in a trinity of 13 Gods.
Many translators of the Quran have used Christian to describe the followers of Isa al Masih ibn Mariam when the word could only be translated Helper and does not even come close to Christian.
Christmas is the birth of the Sun God on the Winter Solstice that the RC Church, the first church of Christian paganism, used for Jesus the son and the Sun God Zeus in his new role as oppressor of the Bani Israel who were Muslim and who should still be Muslim because they worship One God.
It is safe for you to give your kafir husband ham if you ask him to halal the pig.