Assalamu Alaikum, December, which most people refer to as the
month of Christmas.
Christian people celebrate 25th December for the birth of Jesus (pbuh).
Even though Muslims show the greatest respect to Prophet Isa or Jesus (pbuh), there are
some reasons, why Muslims don't celebrate Christmas.
First we need to know the history of the date, December 25th.
Fact no 1: From the beginning of time, people were excited about the powerful Sun, Moon
and stars.
Onetime Satan convinced some of the people to believe that the Sun, Moon and stars are
their gods.
So they started to worship them.
Later some smart people started to learn more about the Sun, Moon and stars and their movements
throughout the year.
Finally they discovered that during December, the daylight became shorter and shorter and
Dec 21st become the shortest daylight of the whole year.
So Satan convinced the people, that the Sun died on this day.
For the next three days, the length of daylight did not change, up until when December 25th
came, the daylight began to get longer again.
So Satan convinced the people that, after 3 days and 3 nights, the sun got its life
back on the 25th of December.
And some of the bad people started to believe in Satan and started to celebrate December
25th as the Sun's birthday.
Fact No. 2: During those olden days, the people who believed in the Sun and the moon as their
gods, they had three main figures for their worship; the father, mother and son.
They believed that the Father was the Sun, which was the god, the mother as the moon
which was the god's wife and for the son it's interesting.
They thought when god wanted to come into this world to help the humans; he had to go
into his wife's belly, so that his wife could become pregnant.
The god stayed in his wife's belly for nine months, and then he came out from his wife's
belly as a little helpless baby.
So they thought that the baby was the son of god and also the main god in a human body.
Once the baby grew up he was unfortunately killed in his young age.
But after 3 days and 3 nights he was born again and said 'hi' to his people then left
the earth and went to heaven.
Fact No. 3: Throughout different places around the earth, somehow, the people worshiping
this idea of the god going inside the wife's belly and coming out as a little baby became
common to several parts of the world, however with different names.
In Egypt the mother would be called Isis and the son would be called Osiris.
In India, they used the different names along with places like China, Japan, Greece, and
Rome as well.
In Babylon the mother’s name was Ishtar, the son’s name was Tammuz and the father
name is Nimrod.
Fact No. 4: Since many of the places had adopted the same story all throughout the world from
those olden days, almost all of their gods birthdays became December 25th.
Fact No. 5: Historians say, that all of these crazy ideas of worshipping sun and moon came
from Nimrod and his wife.
It was the time during prophet Ibrahim (pbuh), and the bad king Nimrod claimed that he was
the Sun and the people's god.
Onetime he even argued with the prophet for that.
You can find that story in the Quran Surah Baqara verse 258.
Fact No. 6: After Nimrod was killed by his enemy, Nimrod's wife started saying that Nimrod
did not die, and he had returned to his own place, the sun.
She started to say that from that point, his name would be "Baal", the sun god.
Later when she gave birth to a son, Tammuz, she told to the people that, her husband Nimrod
was reborn as a human God to save the world.
And his birthday was 25th December.
Fact No.7: Now you might be a little confused since this video was suppose to be about Christmas
and why Muslims don't celebrate it.
But the point is that Christmas falls under the date of December 25th.
So far all we discussed are from Christian historian and researchers.
And they all don't know the real birthday of Prophet Jesus (pbuh).
Some historians say that Isa or Jesus (pbuh) was born in April while others say he was
born in August.
But almost all of the Christian historians agree that Jesus (pbuh) did not born in December.
So then, now we need to know why it is that the people celebrate his birthday on December
25th.
Fact No8: A long time ago the Romans used to celebrate a one week evil festival around
the 25th of December for their Sun god Saturn.
Around 400 years after Prophet Jesus’ (pbuh) birth, Christianity began to control most
of Europe.
The priest did not like the Roman evil festival.
So they made a plan to stop that evil festival.
The Christian priest created a false birthday for Jesus (pbuh), so that the people wouldn't
be celebrating the festival for their Sun god Saturn.
They made it so that the festival would be for the Son or the child of god, Jesus.
May Allah (swt) save us from that evil thinking.
Ordinary people just wanted to have fun and enjoy their time.
For them it was not a big deal whose birthday was celebrated.
And that's how Christmas has started to be celebrated on 25th of December.
Day by day, this newly created festival turned to be a crazy and violent festival.
For thousands of years it was a very scary festival.
Drunk people were on the streets doing the all kinds of bad jobs.
So when the colonists from England came to America for the first time, they ordered people
so that there would be no more Christmas celebrations in the new world of America.
During the 1900s, when a lot of immigrants started to come to America from different
places, they brought with them their different culture, and that is how Christmas slowly
started to become celebrated in America.
And just a little fun fact, Alabama was the first state to approve Christmas to be celebrated
as a public holiday in 1836.
Fact no9.: So because of the old crazy history and Jesus (pbuh)'s made up birthday, there
are many Christians who don't celebrate Christmas as their holiday.
Fact no 10: In Islam, any made up creation in the name of religion is not allowed.
And if people start saying false information in the name of religion, that is completely
forbidden.
So most of the Muslim Scholars try to teach to be careful to involve in manmade religious
festivals.
Muslim don't need any false information to make prophet Jesus (pbuh) great, because he
is already one of the great prophets selected by the one and only God Allah (swt).
Each and every Muslim has to respect Jesus (pbuh) as one of the great prophets and believe
in his miraculous birth and all of the great miracles done by him with the help of the
true God Allah (swt).
And Muslims have to pray for him whenever any Muslim even mentions his name, Jesus (pbuh).
Now, that we know the history behind this date, you should decide for yourself, should
Muslims involve in a celebration with the date of December 25th?