Let's start this new year with few prayers...

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TheKnowledgeSeeker

A Believer In Heart
Assalam,

I want us all to start the New Year with a pray for our Brothers and Sisters around the world. The Muslim Nations and For peace.

May Allah SWT make the starting of this year the starting of peace and the end of war and violence to all the Muslim Nations, Our brothers and Sisters as well as around the world. Ameen!! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN!

May Allah SWT start this new year as the beginning of peace, good health and Imaan and the end of hunger and suffers to all our brothers and sisters.

May Allah SWT start this year as the beginning of many generations of peace and good health plus Imaan. AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN!

May Allah SWT guide and protect all our Muslim brothers and Sisters. AMEEN!!

May Allah SWT makes us those who follow the foot steps of the Prophet. Ameen!!

May Allah SWT make us those who remember each other in our prayers.

May Allah SWT united us all. Assalam,

I want us all to start the New Year with a pray for our Brothers and Sisters around the world. The Muslim Nations and For peace.

May Allah SWT make the starting of this year the starting of peace and the end of war and violence to all the Muslim Nations, Our brothers and Sisters as well as around the world. Ameen!! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN!

May Allah SWT start this new year as the beginning of peace, good health and Imaan and the end of hunger and suffers to all our brothers and sisters.

May Allah SWT start this year as the beginning of many generations of peace and good health plus Imaan. AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN!

May Allah SWT guide and protect all our Muslim brothers and Sisters. AMEEN!!

May Allah SWT makes us those who follow the foot steps of the Prophet. Ameen!!

May Allah SWT make us those who remember each other in our prayers. Ameen

May Allah SWT united all the Muslim where ever we are. Ameen!!

May Allah SWT guide the members of this website. May Allah SWT reward us all. May Allah SWT make the members of this website those who guide each other. May Allah SWT protect and guide this website and its member from those who wish to harm us. May Allah SWT reward and continue to reward our dear brother Mabsoot for the creations of this website. May Allah SWT reward all of us. AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN!

May Allah SWT guide the members of this website. May Allah SWT reward us all. May Allah SWT make the members of this website those who guide each other. May Allah SWT protect and guide this website and its member from those who wish to harm us. May Allah SWT reward and continue to reward our dear brother Mabsoot for the creations of this website. May Allah SWT reward all of us. AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN! AMEEN!

May we all meet in Jann!!

I wish all of you the best health and Imaan and safe new year.

Happy New Year!!
 

samiha

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Wa alaykum salam,

A few points to mention if i might.

First, it's the new year according to the gregorian calandar, not the Muslim one.

Secondly, this specific day has NO benefit/speciality or ANYTHING that is attributed from Qur'aan and Sunnah, i dont see then why people would go off and do so.

Thirdly, there is also no evidence it is one of the times dua is most accepted, so doing so specifically at this time with this intention may not be correct at all.

Fourthly, it's significance itself was given by the disbelievers and we should not imitate them in their celebrations nor festivities in this manner.

Please read: To you be Your Celebrations, and Me Mine

wasalam
 

IslamIsLight

Islam is my life
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salam aleikum

Question:
Can a muslim celebrate a non muslim holiday like Thanksgiving?

Answer:

Praise be to Allaah.

Greeting the kuffaar on Christmas and other religious holidays of theirs is haraam, by consensus, as Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy on him, said in Ahkaam Ahl al-Dhimmah: "Congratulating the kuffaar on the rituals that belong only to them is haraam by consensus, as is congratulating them on their festivals and fasts by saying ‘A happy festival to you’ or ‘May you enjoy your festival,’ and so on. If the one who says this has been saved from kufr, it is still forbidden. It is like congratulating someone for prostrating to the cross, or even worse than that. It is as great a sin as congratulating someone for drinking wine, or murdering someone, or having illicit sexual relations, and so on. Many of those who have no respect for their religion fall into this error; they do not realize the offensiveness of their actions. Whoever congratulates a person for his disobedience or bid’ah or kufr exposes himself to the wrath and anger of Allaah."

Congratulating the kuffaar on their religious festivals is haraam to the extent described by Ibn al-Qayyim because it implies that one accepts or approves of their rituals of kufr, even if one would not accept those things for oneself. But the Muslim should not aceept the rituals of kufr or congratulate anyone else for them, because Allaah does not accept any of that at all, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):

"If you disbelieve, then verily, Allaah 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 Islaam as your religion . . ."
[al-Maa’idah 5:3]

So congratulating them is forbidden, whether they are one’s colleagues at work or otherwise.

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 Allaah. These festivals are innovations in their religions, and even those which may have been prescribed formerly have been abrogated by the religion of Islaam, with which Allaah sent Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) to the whole of mankind. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Whoever seeks a religion other than Islaam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers." [Aal ‘Imraan 3:85]

It is haraam for a Muslim to accept invitations on such occasions, because this is worse than congratulating them as it implies taking part in their celebrations.

Similarly, Muslims are forbidden to imitate the kuffaar by having parties on such occasions, or exchanging gifts, or giving out sweets or food, or taking time off work, etc., because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Whoever imitates a people is one of them." Shaykh al-Islaam Ibn Taymiyah said in his book Iqtidaa’ al-siraat al-mustaqeem mukhaalifat ashaab al-jaheem: "Imitating them in some of their festivals implies that one is pleased with their false beliefs and practices, and gives them the hope that they may have the opportunity to humiliate and mislead the weak."

Whoever does anything of this sort is a sinner, whether he does it out of politeness or to be friendly, or because he is too shy to refuse, or for whatever other reason, because this is hypocrisy in Islaam, and because it makes the kuffaar feel proud of their religion.

Allaah is the One Whom we ask to make the Muslims feel proud of their religion, to help them adhere steadfastly to it, and to make them victorious over their enemies, for He is the Strong and Omnipotent.


Majmoo’ah Fataawa wa Rasaa’il al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen, 3/369
 
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