21/12/2017
Assalamalaikum warehmatullahe wabarakatohu,
Every year, many Muslims get into the festive spirit and celebrate New Year’s day. Whether it’s Facebook status updates, Twitter messages or even holding New Year’s Eve parties. But is this a harmless cultural practice with no faith based significance or a step in the wrong direction.
Any celebration by Muslims needs to be put into context of the local and global situation of our fellow human beings. The two Eids amply do so by encouraging prayers, duaa for those suffering and alms to the needy. However, celebrating the New Year does no such thing.
It is a celebration that is cut off from the reality of the rest of the Ummah. The starvation in Somalia, the murder in Syria, the imprisonment of Gaza, the ethnic cleansing of Burma – celebrating the New Year is pretty much exactly the opposite of the “fever and wakefulness” that the Prophet ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him) spoke about when he said we were like one body.
"Salahuddin Ayyubi was once asked why he hardly ever smiled even though this was a sunnah of the Prophet ṣallallāhu 'alayhi wa sallam (peace and blessings of Allāh be upon him). He replied, “How can I smile when I know that Masjid Al Aqsa is being defiled and the Muslims are suffering?!” That attitude, dear brothers and sisters, is why he achieved what he did and why we’re still debating on whether or not it is acceptable to send “Happy New Year” messages"
Muslim should not accept the rituals of kufr or congratulate anyone else for them, because Allah does not accept any of that at all, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):
"If you disbelieve, then verily, Allah is not in need of you, He likes not disbelief for His slaves. And if you are grateful (by being believers), He is pleased therewith for you. .
[al-Zumar 39:7]
This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion
[al-Maa’idah 5:3]
If they greet us on the occasion of their festivals, we should not respond, because these are not our festivals, and because they are not festivals which are acceptable to Allah. These festivals are innovations in their religions, and even those which may have been prescribed formerly have been abrogated by the religion of Islam, with which Allah sent Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) to the whole of mankind. Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers."
[Al ‘Imran 3:85]
SO MY BROTHER'S AND SISTER'S IN ISLAM,NEW YEAR IS COMING,DON'T CELEBRATE IN ANY FORM,FOLLOW THE COMMANDMENTS OF ALLAH (SWT).
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