Muslims clebrate eid like chritians celebrate chrismas. But I dont know what athesist clebrate.Because most of them are athesist.
Athesist tell me on what occasion do you celebrate?
We celebrate eid because prophet ibraham was tested by allah and was orderd to sacrifice his son prophet Ismail,when he was about to sacrifice his son,allah send a goat insted of him.So on this day ,we follow his ritual of sacrifising any cattle except pig . And from that meat we give one third to poor one third to relatives and one third we keep for ourselves.On this day we pray to allah ,and celebrate like others do.
Its EID ul AZHA.
I know chrismas is not christian at all,but christians do clebrate it ,so I just compared it.
Athesist ,everything on earth to you people look like a story………..
You people can never give me an answer that why do you belive that way….?
I m tired of asking this on y/a
I’m an atheist, but I celebrate Christmas and Easter — only because I was raised Christian, and the majority of my friends and family are Christian, and so now it is about spending time with loved ones instead of being a religious celebration. It’s also familiar and brings back memories of childhood, so I’m celebrating the feeling that I’ve been raised to associate with the holidays.
Plus, I can always celebrate on my birthday.
*Edit* — I like that 1/3 of the meat goes to the poor. That’s an admirable practice.
Pagan, it is a pagan festival of roman diety mithra
To Christians…Christmas is suppose to be a day of worshiping the birth of Chris (which is call Chris-mas), and the meaning now today is gone. All we do now is think about Santa Claus, Chrismas trees, and presents when it should be about Christ. It was a ancient Holiday traditions put together. It actually didn’t become a Holiday in America till the early 1800’s. I like to know what you think about Christmas. Should we still celebrate Chrismas b/c it’s tradition? Even if it’s for our children’s enjoyment, everything behind is based on pagan cults and beliefs on feritility and sacrifice. Not only that, the birth of Jesus wasn’t even in December. Should it still be carried down, just for the fun of it? I think it’s leading our Christian values to be spirtuality blind,… could it be a way of satan trying to decieve us.? The Bible even warns us about:
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=2561
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_trees
http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/T
In Jeremiah 10:3-5, "For the customs of the people are vain: for it is but a tree which one cutteth out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not, … neither … is it in them to do good."
I agree with some of you that Chrismas is about getting together and enjoying what we have. Santa Claus is an idol (a misrepresentation of God, judge them if their good or bad) to kids to look up to, they get rewarded by a magical man to give them presents, and when we tell them there is no Santa. What is going to happen? What was the reason in the first place? They are going to feel mistrust toward their parents and to what they’re taught. They are going to doubt their beliefs and even fall out of their Christianity or not take as serious as they should. Then they don’t go to church or even read the Bible, because it looked at as fables like Santa, not a manuel to your life
Here’s some more about if Christian should worship Chrismas in the way that they do. Really a lot of this is adding up. It comes down to, that the bible teaches us how strict our Lord, and we sometime ignore them, which means we don’t believe in Christ but Material things, but shouldn’t make us happy or justicfied to go to heaven. We know the Commandments and Jesus’s teachings, And I ask What Would Jesus Do (WWJD)? I don’t think he would approve of it, He teaches us the what is right and to accept the truth, but we are spirually blind and sinners. No one is good, but God, and doing what God want for us is first. The scriptures have said to be aware of our culture and do not do what others do, but walk with God and love Him, if you love Him you would turn away from sins or temptations because you would know it hurts God, and believe in his word and truely hold it.
http://www.ucgstp.org/lit/booklets/holidays/vsbible.html
http://www.nisbett.com/holidays/christmas.htm
Christmas does not even have its roots in Christian tradition. It was originally a pagan holiday that the Catholic Church took over to try and root out paganism. Does that mean Christians should not celebrate it? Certainly not! Whether or not Christmas has any historical connection to Christ’s birth is irrelevant. Christmas has come to be a symbol of Christ’s incarnation, and there is nothing wrong with celebrating a it on symbolic grounds. God doesn’t care which day we pick to remember the incarnation. Of course we should educate our children and tell them Christmas is a symbol and not the actual day of Christ’s birth. As long as we do not misrepresent it to our children, I see absolutely no problem here.
hi i’m 14. i am a muslim and verry faithfull. i do not celebrate chrismas. but if i like a song that has to deal with christmas, deos that mean i am not faithul. i like the christmas song that mariah carey sings, because of the beat, ect. i do not do anything dealing with christmas. should i not listen to this song? is it bad? =[
I like rap music, but that doesn’t mean I hate the police or objectify women.
Liking some music or art doesn’t change your beliefs or who you are. If you like the song, enjoy it.
hi i’m 14. i am a muslim and verry faithfull. i do not celebrate chrismas. but if i like a song that has to deal with christmas, deos that mean i am not faithul. i like the christmas song that mariah carey sings, because of the beat, ect. i do not do anything dealing with christmas. should i not listen to this song? is it bad? =[
I like rap music, but that doesn’t mean I hate the police or objectify women.
Liking some music or art doesn’t change your beliefs or who you are. If you like the song, enjoy it.
but to those who Celebrate Chrismas….
Have a Merry Christmas….
Same to you and all ! …Better late than never…Happy new year too.
do indians celebrate chrismas? i am indian and we just give each other presents and thats all..
what else did u indians do?
THE DOT ONES OH I LOVE YOU
I HAVE A FRIEND WHO HAS AN INDIAN BACKGROUND AND SHE IS HINDU, BUT SHE CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS BECAUSE SHE SAYS ITS AN AMERICAN HOLIDAY, NOT NECESSARILY RELIGIOUS
its hard to go to school and people say you cant celebrate chrismas what do i say what will my actions be! help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the real world. The world will make fun of you because of your beliefs.
its hard to go to school and people say you cant celebrate chrismas what do i say what will my actions be! help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the real world. The world will make fun of you because of your beliefs.
Are there any other important holidays in islam? And how are they celebrated?
Also can I celebrate chrismas with my christian family?
(I’m a new muslim)
In general you have no choice but to celebrate Christmas with your family unless they live in another state and your car broke down. Stay away from the wine obviously. I used to have my dad read out loud from the Quran, the story of Jesus’ birth, in addition to the Bible passages. Share the love and the joy. Just don’t take communion at church. Islam says it’s good to exchange gifts with family and obviously if they are not Muslim Eid is not the appropriate occasion. Don’t let other Muslims convince you to disrespect your parents’ tradition. They will not be around forever.