I conducted several surveys on Yahoo! Answers. I thought it might be interesting to see if others were similarly in the dark. I’ve been a Christian for a long time, and I was shocked recently to discover several well-known names in the Bible that I didn’t know were there. What exactly matters is we must intend every action we commit for ALLAH’s pleasure only.We all know that John, David, Matthew, Paul, Mary, Eve, and Rebekah are in the Bible, but here are some names from the Good Book that just might surprise you. But it is actually a matter of individual right to decide when to effect such plan to change. Although we can always begin a change in doing things anytime and any day. The original and pagan connotation about January 1st is no longer as appreciated in our generation but a day for inventorying and starting or expanding to a new business or start implementing a plan in life. But as Muslims, we have to avoid imitating non Muslims’ ways like dancing, drinking wines, and partying wearing spaghiti dress and toxidos attire. One’s gratefulness to ALLAH is not only expressed by uttering ALHAMDULILLAH but also through our behavior – that results to a good product. There is good when a person feels very grateful on the coming of new year day and expresses that feeling by offering thanksgiving, by sharing money, foods or times with others.
The gregorian calendar and new year day are very useful and significant things to the humanity, including us, Muslims.
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Based from your reasoning, governments of today use holiday as free for employees so they can do what they want as they are exempted from reporting to work. But the word HOLIDAY is originally derived from two English words: holy day – defined as the day of a religious festival. Pope Gregory 13 th who set the modern calendar, the Gregorian calendar, also officially fixed the first day of the year for Christian Europe as January 1 st in 1582. First and foremost, if one does so believing that it is pleasing to Allah to do so, thereby transforming it into an act of worship, it becomes a Bid‘ah or cursed innovation in the religion about which the Prophet (pbuh) said, “Every innovation in religion is misguidance and all misguidance 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 a people becomes one of them.” If a non-Muslim greets a Muslim, “Happy New 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.”Īs for celebrating the New Year according to the Islamic calendar which begins with the month of Muharram, this is also not permissible from a number of perspectives. Consequently, it is completely Haraam (sinful and forbidden) for Muslims to participate in or adopt any of its related rituals, customs and symbols. Thus, in its essence the celebrations of the New Year on January 1 stand New Year’s Eve, the night before, are a part and parcel of pagan religious rituals based on idolatrous beliefs in false gods. Furthermore, by that time, Janus had become, in practice, the highest god receiving the ritual sacrifices of Roman worshippers before the other gods, including the chief god, Jupiter. Wild parties and orgies were held on the night before the New Year’s Day as a re-enactment of the chaos which Roman mythology depicted as preceding the cosmos or the ordered world whose organization was set by the gods. In 46BC Julius Caesar chose January 1 st as the first day of the New Year as Janus symbolically represented the door to the New Year. 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. January is named after Janus, the Roman god of doors and gateways.
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