you know one of the best things about Muslims is that when we do wrong and we do wrong uh but when we do wrong we don't say that we're doing right we don't claim that we're doing the right thing we say yes we're doing this thing and it's wrong but we'll come up with whatever excuse we might have or rationalization for why we're doing it even though we know it's wrong uh this is something that distinguishes us a great deal from other uh people who follow other religions uh other religions tend to uh whatever the
prohibited thing is when it becomes too difficult for them to maintain that prohibition then they decide that it doesn't need to be prohibited anymore and they make it Halal they make it allowed this is something Muslims haven't classically done we've never said that the Haram thing is halal because it's just too hard to avoid it uh uh and that's one of the best things about us like I say when we do wrong we know that it's wrong and we never try to uh pretend that it's right now to be honest I actually forgot that was
Christmas this is one of the benefits of uh not living in the west you can actually forget this uh I know this might seem like a topic that I wouldn't normally talk about on my channel but I think it it's actually quite relevant uh in terms of psychological decolonization and in terms of uh Liberation from Western Centric paradigms overall I've seen some clips of Muslim public figures in the west basically giving FW about how it's fine uh for Muslims to participate in Christmas festivities you know Christmas Gatherings um frankly I I think this is a
very obtuse take on the issue I mean very obviously we are not supposed to validate we're not supposed to endorse and we're not supposed to even turn a blind eye to any occasion that upholds a truly heinous lie against Allah and against Prophet is Jesus peace be upon it now you can argue that Christmas is more or less of a cultural Festival more than a religious one these days uh that's the argument that they make but I think that's very disingenuous I mean Western Christianity itself is really a cultural phenomenon I mean in fact the
the idolatry of the P was largely cultural it was even economically motivated in many in many ways and in many cases just like Christmas you know has become a commercialized Festival of consumption but that doesn't make it any less illegitimate or any less harmful in my opinion I mean Abu jahel uh didn't oppose Islam really on the basis of his Devotion to his idols or his Devotion to idol worship but he he he opposed Islam on the basis of the cultural norms that benefited his clan and Christmas is really a holiday celebrating Western so-called civilization
that's what it is more than anything else and as such appropriately it's based entirely on lie upon lie upon fabrication upon fabrication uh and on the complete mutilation of historical and prophetic reality see Christmas is about upholding the foundational false narratives of the West narratives that have been responsible for the spilling of oceans of blood religiously uh it's a holiday actually in fact it's a holiday celebrating the Triumph of Jesus's enemies who succeed in perverting and corrupting his message and who succeeded in misrepresenting his life and his mission that's what Christmas is and it's a
celebration of uh their uh success in preserving paganism and folklore and mythology and superstitions you know uh primitive rituals by wrapping them up in the cloak of monotheistic belief it's a spiritual NBA it's a catastrophe on your soul you lied about his date of birth and you just kept celebrating a festival that Jesus himself uh would have prohibited you lied about his identity you lied about his uh teachings you li about his message you lied about his death I mean the whole thing the whole thing is a malignant fraud and you celebrate all of that
every year in customs or through customs and through rituals and through activities that would all each and every single one of them each and every single one of them would have been scorned by Jesus himself self because they're all drawn from your primitive Pagan history you know you even lied to your children about some fat man flying through the sky I mean there is absolutely no aspect of this uh holiday uh that's not all about lies all about distortions and of course all about greed all about materialism all about consumption all about extravagance all about
waste I mean religiously it is repugnant and culturally it is grotesque it's a it's a it's a a toxic cocktail of Deceit of paganism of Hedonism a subversion of monotheism and it's a foundational Cornerstone of Western so-called civilization Christmas is to Western Empire where the Fourth of July is to America I mean what year is it and I think it's reprehensible to pretend that Muslims should be fine with any of this rather than telling Muslims in the west that it's okay uh to participate in these gatherings and activities leaders and public figures you know scholar
imams and so forth are supposed to be helping Muslims helping new Muslims helping converts reverts and so on uh helping them to find the strength to withstand the pressure of the society therein to participate and to validate these celebrations of falsehood you're supposed to be helping them to withstand that pressure not teaching them to uh succumb to that pressure but you see a lot of these people Frankly Speaking a lot of these imams a lot of these teachers are immigrants themselves and they have an assum simulationist mentality they have an appeasement uh acquiescent mindset so
for them uh they probably think that it's actually an achievement to even be invited to a Christmas party to be included in those festivities because for them that means social acceptance they think that melting into the Melting Pot is the ultimate success you know and they'll tell converts not to listen to Muslims in the Muslim World they'll say don't listen to those Muslims thousands of miles away when they say that it's not allowed to go to Christmas parties because they'll say that those Muslims in the Muslim world uh don't really understand uh the situation of
Muslims in the diaspora basically trying to drive a wedge between the Muslims in the west and Muslims in the Muslim World meanwhile they themselves these these imams and these uh teachers and so forth they themselves don't actually understand the situation of Muslims in the diaspora properly especially new Muslims reverts because they themselves are people who left the Muslim world and chose to come to the West in the first place they're immigrants and they have a completely different mindset they have a completely different mentality than people who grew up in the west and then embraced Islam
you know born westerners who come to Islam are very different mentally psychologically uh than born Muslims who come to the West that's a fact most reverts in fact in my experience and I I'll count my own experience in that most reverts in the west are absolutely ready to reject Christmas but a lot of these people feel that uh uh uh they themselves feel rejected they feel rejected if they're not invited to Christmas because again they're very interested in belonging in the society whereas westerners who grew up in the society and come to Islam are not
that interested uh in acceptance by the society that they come from we've been in that Society we know how bad it is and we're just grateful for having Islam alhamdulillah so we don't generally care that much about appeasing uh social norms or being accepted or what have you you know we're not that interested in being allowed to participate in secret santa but then you have these I'm sorry again immigrant imams undering the will and the conviction of new Muslims you know telling them that they should go to Christmas dinner because you know they'll rationalize it
and say that you're just going to a Christmas dinner you're just sitting around a Christmas tree and opening presents that doesn't constitute worshiping other than Allah waala as if shik is the only sin as if worshiping other than Allah is the only wrong thing that you can do and everything everything short of worshiping other than Allah is fine and they'll say that you should do that with the Nia of maintaining the ties of kinship because it's a family gathering after all this is when all the family gets together on Christmas so you should do it
but I mean when I was a kid uh we went to Catholic Church as a form of family togetherness it was a family togetherness activity and church attendance is largely a cultural activity for millions and millions of people and like I say Western Christianity itself uh is largely a cultural phenomenon If we're honest which is why you have Western uh atheists Like A Douglas Murray for example and his type of people his whole gang they argue in favor of saying Merry Christmas how important they emphasize how important it is to say Merry Christmas instead of
happy holidays you know because uh uh for them Christmas is a celebration of Western culture and they understand uh Christianity as the official sort of spirituality of Western so-called civilization which is to say uh uh they recognize Christianity as basically a carrying on of ancient European paganism morphed with modern day capitalism so it's all very Western in their in their thinking that's why Christmas is important to them it's all built on the complete sabotage and rejection of the message of Jesus peace be upon him so I mean you could argue that even Church attendance is
just a cultural uh uh activity and it's just as religiously empty as a Christmas party because both activities are only religious really in origin but they're both cultural in practice so now are we going to have a fatwa saying that Muslims can attend church services with their non-muslim family members uh uh on the pretext of uh upholding the ties of kinship no look reverts to Islam want their uh ties of kinship to successfully pull their families to Jenna but you treat it like uh your family members are going to hell anyway so just be nice
to them until that happens just be nice to your family members until they are are dropped into the Hellfire but whatever you do don't rock the boat by insisting on the truth about their Festival of Lies called Christmas that Festival of Lies upon which the entirety of Christian kufur is based and which has not become any less significant by its commercialization you act like uh uh because it's become commercial it doesn't contribute to misguidance anymore I mean you act like it's insignificant now because Christmas is uh a commercial holiday or is more or less of
a commercial holiday you you act like it's significant because it's just a celebration of capitalism a celebration of consumption a celebration of overspending of debt and materialism so you act like since it's only marginally uh a religious observance a religious holiday you say therefore it's fine for Muslims to participate in it and validate it well I think that's treachery it was always cultural Christmas was always cultural it was always uh nothing but uh uh a tradition it was always a custom it's never been based on the teachings of Jesus it doesn't even have a basis
in the Bible everything about it is pre-christian it's nothing but a festival of Western cultural hegemony that's all it is that's what Christmas is it's a commemoration of the Suffocation of the teachings of Jesus by European polytheistic paganism that's what Christmas is and their polytheistic paganism was just like the qur meaning it was never particularly religious in character anyway it was always materialistic it was always uh oriented more towards power and control and it always worshiped Heritage more than anything else I mean do you think that Jesus uh peace be upon him would attend a
Christmas gathering like look look just say Imam so and so whoever gave a fat like this Imam so and so I'm a new muslim okay but my family happens to belong to this weird sect that believes that you Imam so and so they believe that you are the son of Allah subhana wa tala and they're inviting me to go celebrate uh your birthday at their home which they do every year because they think that you are their lord and savior okay of course I don't believe that you're their lord and savior but you know I
hate to upset them so is it okay if I go there to celebrate your birthday with my family you know listen to songs about your Holiness and exchange gifts and so on you know we put up a uh we put up an Imam so and so tree in our house in fact you know IM could you come they'd be thrilled come to come to our gathering in which we say that you're our holy Lord and Savior does that make any sense no it's grotesque and you know it now there is a level of unseriousness that's
actually damaging and I think that appeasing it I think that going along with it uh is actually doing a grave disservice to everyone involved you know it's enough let them have their Christmas you have your Christmas you have your Hanukkah you have your Diwali that's fine you do what you want to do you go ahead and do thing but Muslims don't need to be singing Jingle Bells with you you know and if you come to our you know if you come non-muslims if you come to our Eid uh our Eid Gatherings with the intention of
coercing reciprocation from us when Christmas comes around then don't come that's what tolerance is actually real tolerance you follow your beliefs and I follow my beliefs I won't interfere with yours and you don't interfere with mine no comp him you don't need to come to myar for Ramadan and I don't need to deck your halls with bows of holly can we agree on that and if you do ask me why I don't want to be part of your celebration you know your celebration of Western Pagan Triumph then you best believe I'm going to tell you
because when you insist on distinguishing truth from falsehood you create what they call a teachable moment but if you keep your mouth shut uh and you refuse to distinguish the truth from falsehood because you don't want to you know spoil the festive mood or what have you or because you want to just go along to get along because you want to assimilate because you want to be accepted then I'm sorry you're actually giving your family and your friends and your colleagues the gift of ignorance and misguidance for Christmas and you're actually showing them how much
you don't care about them and you how much you don't care about what's going to happen to them on while pretending that you're doing that uh for the sake of maintaining the ties of kinship no the ties of kinship should never be used uh to tie your mouth shut in speaking the truth
