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No New Year celebration for Muslims....
Assalamu alaikum rahmathillahi wabarakathuh
Celebrating the New Year ?
Not for Muslims !
Don't Celebrate NEW YEAR.SAVE your EMAN !!!
January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doors and gateways. He was commonly depicted in statues,carvings and paintings as a two headed man with one head facing forward and the other head facing backwards. In 46BC Julius Caesar chose January 1st as the first day of the New Year as Janus symbolically represented the door to the New Year. Wild parties and orgies were held on the night before the NewYear’s Day as a re-enactment of the chaos which Roman mythology depicted as preceding the cosmos orthe ordered world whose organizationwas set by the gods. Furthermore, by that time, Janus had become, inpractice, the highest god receiving the ritual sacrifices of Roman worshippers before the other gods, including the chief god, Jupiter.
Thus, in its essence the celebrations of the New Year on January 1st and New Year’s Eve, the night before, are a partand parcel of pagan religious rituals based on idolatrous beliefs in false gods. Consequently, it is completely Haraam (sinful and forbidden) forMuslims to participate in or adopt any ofits related rituals, customs and symbols. If a non-Muslim greets a Muslim, “HappyNew Year”, the Muslim is not allowed to respond in a similar manner or say,“Same to you.” Instead, in order not to offend or hurt the feelings of non-Muslim friends or acquaintances, one may say instead, “Happy holiday.”As for celebrating the New Year according to the Islamic calendar which begins with the month of Muharram(Hejre calender which followed by Lunar calender),this is also not permissible from a number of perspectives. First and foremost, if one does so believing that itis pleasing to Allah to do so, there by transforming it into an act of worship, itbecomes a Bid‘ah or cursed innovation in the religion about which the Prophet(pbuh) said, “Every innovation in religion is misguidance and allmisguidance leads to the Hellfire.” If one does so merely as a custom, it is still impermissible as it falls under the prohibition of imitation of pagan customs about which the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Whoever imitates apeople becomes one of them.”
Pope Gregory 13th who set the modern calendar, the Gregorian calendar, also officially fixed the first day of the year for Christian Europe as January 1st in 1582.
--by Bilal Philips
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Ameen.
No New Year celebration for Muslims....
Assalamu alaikum rahmathillahi wabarakathuh
Celebrating the New Year ?
Not for Muslims !
Don't Celebrate NEW YEAR.SAVE your EMAN !!!
January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doors and gateways. He was commonly depicted in statues,carvings and paintings as a two headed man with one head facing forward and the other head facing backwards. In 46BC Julius Caesar chose January 1st as the first day of the New Year as Janus symbolically represented the door to the New Year. Wild parties and orgies were held on the night before the NewYear’s Day as a re-enactment of the chaos which Roman mythology depicted as preceding the cosmos orthe ordered world whose organizationwas set by the gods. Furthermore, by that time, Janus had become, inpractice, the highest god receiving the ritual sacrifices of Roman worshippers before the other gods, including the chief god, Jupiter.
Thus, in its essence the celebrations of the New Year on January 1st and New Year’s Eve, the night before, are a partand parcel of pagan religious rituals based on idolatrous beliefs in false gods. Consequently, it is completely Haraam (sinful and forbidden) forMuslims to participate in or adopt any ofits related rituals, customs and symbols. If a non-Muslim greets a Muslim, “HappyNew Year”, the Muslim is not allowed to respond in a similar manner or say,“Same to you.” Instead, in order not to offend or hurt the feelings of non-Muslim friends or acquaintances, one may say instead, “Happy holiday.”As for celebrating the New Year according to the Islamic calendar which begins with the month of Muharram(Hejre calender which followed by Lunar calender),this is also not permissible from a number of perspectives. First and foremost, if one does so believing that itis pleasing to Allah to do so, there by transforming it into an act of worship, itbecomes a Bid‘ah or cursed innovation in the religion about which the Prophet(pbuh) said, “Every innovation in religion is misguidance and allmisguidance leads to the Hellfire.” If one does so merely as a custom, it is still impermissible as it falls under the prohibition of imitation of pagan customs about which the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Whoever imitates apeople becomes one of them.”
Pope Gregory 13th who set the modern calendar, the Gregorian calendar, also officially fixed the first day of the year for Christian Europe as January 1st in 1582.
--by Bilal Philips
Forward this Message to your friends,Its Our responsiblity to share information with peoples….
Forgive me for any mistake,pls informme about mistakes,May Allah guide Muslims on right path!
Ameen.