roadrunner
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Today, my Mom is cooking a special "Christmas" dinner.
To me, dinner is dinner, just like any meal, and I live with them, so I have dinner with them pretty much every day,(avoiding the haram foods) Christmas or not.
So, I think I don't have to opt out of this as celebrating Christmas; for me iit is just another meal, for them it is a Christmas meal. Am I right about this?
That was the minor problem. Here is the bigger..
My mom is cooking a haram thing and placing it at the center of the table as the main dish. I'm not going to eat it, of course, but why did she insist on having a
big, disgusting ham smack in the center of the table, instead of a nice lamb? I want to somehow, at least for future meals, drop subtle suggestions into their minds
to convince them that swine is not food and does not belong on the table, but I don't want to do this directly, just want to slowly drop hints, indirectly.
Before I came to be a believer, about three years ago now, I would eat just about anything my Mom cooked and put on the table, not thinking twice about it. IstaghfirAllah.
And I used to eat ham before coming to Islam, istaghfirAllah...I never told my parents that I have reverted, but I have always avoided the haram things on the table, and followed
to the best of my ability, my deen. But, I'm really getting sick and tired of seeing a big ham or pork on the table, and having to act like a little kid and put it all in my napkin when my parents arent looking,
avoiding explaining directly that I don't eat these things and the reasons why.
Today, my Mom is cooking a special "Christmas" dinner.
To me, dinner is dinner, just like any meal, and I live with them, so I have dinner with them pretty much every day,(avoiding the haram foods) Christmas or not.
So, I think I don't have to opt out of this as celebrating Christmas; for me iit is just another meal, for them it is a Christmas meal. Am I right about this?
That was the minor problem. Here is the bigger..
My mom is cooking a haram thing and placing it at the center of the table as the main dish. I'm not going to eat it, of course, but why did she insist on having a
big, disgusting ham smack in the center of the table, instead of a nice lamb? I want to somehow, at least for future meals, drop subtle suggestions into their minds
to convince them that swine is not food and does not belong on the table, but I don't want to do this directly, just want to slowly drop hints, indirectly.
Before I came to be a believer, about three years ago now, I would eat just about anything my Mom cooked and put on the table, not thinking twice about it. IstaghfirAllah.
And I used to eat ham before coming to Islam, istaghfirAllah...I never told my parents that I have reverted, but I have always avoided the haram things on the table, and followed
to the best of my ability, my deen. But, I'm really getting sick and tired of seeing a big ham or pork on the table, and having to act like a little kid and put it all in my napkin when my parents arent looking,
avoiding explaining directly that I don't eat these things and the reasons why.