Why Muslims Do Not Celebrate Christmas & New Year
Allah تعالى strongly warns against beliefs that associate partners with Him:
﴿تَكَادُ السَّمَاوَاتُ يَتَفَطَّرْنَ مِنْهُ وَتَنشَقُّ الْأَرْضُ وَتَخِرُّ الْجِبَالُ هَدًّا • أَن دَعَوْا لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ وَلَدًا﴾
“The heavens almost rupture, the earth splits open, and the mountains collapse in devastation because they claim that the Most Merciful has taken a son.”
📖 (Qur’an 19:90–91)
And Allah says:
﴿قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ • اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ • لَمْ يَلِدْ وَلَمْ يُولَدْ • وَلَمْ يَكُن لَّهُ كُفُوًا أَحَدٌ﴾
Say: He is Allah, the One. Allah, the Self-Sufficient. He neither begets nor is born. And there is none comparable to Him.”
📖 Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ (112)
The Prophet ﷺ also said:
“مَنْ تَشَبَّهَ بِقَوْمٍ فَهُوَ مِنْهُمْ”
“Whoever imitates a people is one of them.”
📚 (Abu Dawud)
🔹 Christmas is founded upon beliefs that contradict Tawḥīd.
🔹 New Year celebrations often involve imitation of non-Islamic religious customs and actions displeasing to Allah.
🕊️ Islam does not teach hatred, but it teaches clarity of belief and firmness upon truth.
✨ Allah has honored the Muslims with two Eids, which are sufficient and better.
📿 Let us protect our ʿAqīdah, hold firmly to Tawḥīd, and raise our families upon the Qur’an and Sunnah.
