even I as a Muslim can recognize the general spirit of CHRISTmas. It's about family and spending time together. Many reunite and forgive at this time. Surely it can't be bad even if it is commercialized. If something is commercialized, why can't we see it as being a benefit for the economy? Nobody is getting harmed in it, and God knows the true intentions of those who do celebrate it. I don't celebrate it in the Christian sense, but I do enjoy the lights and decorations that are all around my city.
Is enjoying this holiday so bad to some? A day off for those who work is a day off, why not just enjoy it and do whatever you want to do? And why be PC about it?
This Muslim, in an effort to bring all people together as a united front against terrorism, hatred and intolerance, wishes all Christians a Merry Christmas.
Is there any problem with that?
2007-12-15 13:10:06 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No problem at all. Thank you and Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones. Keep on speaking up for peace and love.
SN
2007-12-15 13:17:53 · answer #1 · answered by Suen 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No problem at all. :-) It's nice to know that there are some people who won't get all huffy because you wished them a "Merry Christmas" or referred to a "Christmas tree," etc., even if they don't celebrate Christmas. Or don't celebrate it the same way that Christians do. Personally, I think Christmas (or at least the latter part of December) has come to be more of a cultural holiday than a religious holiday, and I don't really see anything wrong with that. Nobody even knows just when Jesus was born anyway, so... :-)
Incidentally, I don't know if you've heard of this, but there was a news story recently about a Muslim man who jumped in the middle of a fight to protect a Jewish man.
The fight had started because the Jew had called, "Happy Hanukkah!" in response to a group's "Merry Christmas!" Apparently that ticked them off so badly that they jumped the Jew and began to beat him up. (I do not know if the group were Christian or not... but they sure were not exhibiting Christ-like behavior) The Muslim saw the fight and intervened until the police came to break things up.
So yeah, that was a cool story. I just thought of it when I read your question.
2007-12-15 13:33:48 · answer #2 · answered by ATWolf 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Lot of them ....
Spirit comes when there is spiritual value in it? what is the spiritual value in the Christmas?
First of all, Christmas sounds like a Christian holiday .. it is celebrated as a birthday of Jesus (peace be upon Him) . He was not even born on December 25th. So it's tottaly wrong. It was a pagan holiday .. now Cristian adopted this as their holiday. Now how you can say Merry Christmas? You may say... oh it's a white lie .. no harm in it. but Lie is a Lie.
Muslim should not celebrate something that does not have any value in it.
Muslim is not hating anybody. We pay respect to Jesus peace be upon Him). We dont hate them because we already beleive them as a people of the book. They hate us even though Jesus(peace be upon Him) said Love everybody.
I dont understand how it is benecial to the economy except for some of the big name stores.
Harm lies where you teach wrong thing to somebody. You know about it so your true intension can't be tolerated. But uneducated or less educated person may understand it wrongly and start following something that they should not.
2007-12-15 13:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Don't have an answer for you here, as a Pagan I still have Christmas because my sons have always had it. I don't see what is wrong with it. It makes what would be a cold and dreary season cheerful for a while. That is if you can avoid the whole "Christmas Cheer" that is being spread at the malls with the pushing, shoving and "love thy neighbor". But, I stay out of the malls and enjoy the rest of it.
2007-12-15 13:18:44 · answer #4 · answered by Bella Wolffe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they are actually not Jews as a results of fact Jew's don't have self assurance the messiah has come yet. they don't have self assurance Jesus so believing in Jesus and announcing your Jewish needless to say contradicts one yet another.... it incredibly is unhappy that there are those Evangelist Christians that decision themselves "Jews". end this custom now, your disgracing the two Judaism and Christianity.
2016-10-11 09:10:09 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's great, and I think gift-giving can be good, but it isn't categorically good for the economy. That would be a "broken window fallacy":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
Money that would have otherwise been spent more wisely is unfortunately spent on lavish gifts.
In my family, we don't do gift-exchanging much, because it's so rare that we're all in the same state at once, we don't want to spend that time at the mall and fighting traffic.
2007-12-15 13:13:57 · answer #6 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, there is not, and thank you for bringing this up.
I fail to see how having a day off to be with the ones we love can be a bad thing.
2007-12-15 13:40:19 · answer #7 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
thank you so much! and a very Merry Christmas to you as well!
2007-12-15 15:43:52 · answer #8 · answered by trace 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you very much for the sentiment. Happy Eid.
2007-12-15 13:15:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thanks so much for the question and comments. If more Muslims and Christians had this mindset, I think things would be a lot different in our world today.
2007-12-15 13:13:36 · answer #10 · answered by i'm trying 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋