
Muslims and Christmas
Every year close to Christmas you would see forums, blogs, chat rooms full of Muslims talking about how Christmas has nothing to do with Jesus and Christians are wrong to celebrate it, and how it is not mentioned in the Bible.
It is one thing to tell your fellow Muslims not to celebrate Christmas and not to say “Merry Christmas”, but to keep talking about how wrong of the Christians to celebrate this is just ridiculous. Even a Da’wah TV program called “The Deen Show” had an interview with some scholar about the fact that Santa is not in the Bible.
Obviously we cannot get our priorities right. There are far more pressing issues that we Muslims face as a community and on individual levels. Our people are starving, war is destroying our homes, corruption is ruining our countries, yet as soon as Christmas or Easter is close, the same war against Christmas beings.
I frequent a forum that most of the members are Muslim. Every year there are new threads about all or some of the issues such as putting decorative lights up in Christmas, Saying Merry Christmas to Christians, Christmas is pagan holiday, Santa is a marketing scheme, Valentine’s day is Haram, Easter is not Christian in origin and the list goes on.
I am not sure I understand this obsession, but I am certain there are more important things in life. I thought here I’d give a list of activities in no particular order to delve into, instead of wasting your time offending Christians on their festive day:
- Volunteer to clean your local Masjid
- Memorize some verses of Qur’an
- Pray Nawafil
- Organise a social Halal event for Muslims
- Plant a tree
- Collect donation for the needy
- Prepare meal for homeless
- Volunteer at a shelter
- Register for foster parenting (You will be amazed how many Muslim kids need foster parenting)
- Take your parents out for dinner
- Go to YouTube and listen to a lecture
- Update your blog
- Donate to a charity organisation of your choice
- Tutor your younger siblings
- Read a story to little kids
- Prepare a meal for your family
- Recite longer Surrahs in your prayer
- Pick up your phone and call a friend that you haven’t spoken for a while
- Visit your grand parents
- Visit the Blog Etcetera and leave a comment or two.









