01-06-2005, 04:35 PM
Assalamu alaikum
I tried to find a hadith or fatwa concerning this matter (sharing non-muslems their celebrations/muslems celebrations of social or private occasions).I found a fatwa forbid sharing non-muslems the celebration of their religious occasions because this means the acceptance of this occasions).
for social and private celebrations I have a slant, I am not quite sure is it correct or not and I want to share this slant with you.
I know that prophet Muhammed(pbuh) told us that muslemes have two feasts(elfetr and aladha)but I think he did not forbid happiness and celebrations in other days,but bad celebrations are forbidden in the Quran and hadith.
**Refer to Al MU-MINON 1-3
1-Successful has been the outcome achieved by those in whose hearts reigns piety,
2-Who habitually exercise humility and low estimate of them selves when standing before God in spiritual union and devotion.
3-Who refrain from small or idle talk,gossip and slander,
**Refer to Fateh Al Bari there is a hadith means
that prophet Muhammed(pbuh)told some of the sahaba a story about a wolf eaten one of the goats in the day of lion ( this day in which people before islam are celebrating and drinking forgetting their animals so the lions eat some of them)and when the owner of the goat run after the wolf, the wolf look at him and said there is no one to take care of your goats in this day except me.Muhammed(pbuh) said at the end of the story:I believe in that and the sahaba said and we believe in what Muhammed believes.
I saw that this story was a type of education by which prophet Muhammed (pbuh) want to tell us that celebrations which forget us our responsibility are forbidden.
I think that it is not forbidden to celebrate in any occasion if there is no contradiction between this occasion and our believe ,and without talking or doing any forbidden things.
and I think that sharing non-muslems their happiness consider a type of good relations which may lead them to islam.