{"id":11097,"date":"2019-12-24T22:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T05:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11097"},"modified":"2019-12-24T22:38:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T05:38:58","slug":"this-is-the-real-war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11097","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Real “War on Christmas”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFrom a hardcore Muslim Instagrammer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Shaykh Ibn Al Qayyim said “Congratulating the non-muslims on the rituals that belong only to them is haraam by ijm\u00e2 (consensus), as is congratulating them on their festivals and feasts by saying: ‘a happy festival to you’ or ‘may you enjoy your festival,’ and so on. If the one who says this has been saved from disbelief, it is still forbidden. It is like congratulating someone for prostrating to the cross, or even worse than that. It is as great a sin as congratulating someone for drinking wine, or murdering someone, or having illicit sexual relations, and so on. Many of those who have no respect for their religion fall into this error; they do not realize the offensiveness of their actions. Whoever congratulates a person for his disobedience or bid’ah (innovation) or disbelief exposes himself to the wrath and anger of All?h.” [Ahkaam Ahl Al-Thimmah]
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\nSee, Ibn Al Qayyim was a renowned Shaykh of Ahlul Sunnah from over 600 years ago. On top of that, he mentioned this statement with reference to the Ijm\u00e2 (consensus) of that time! An ijm\u00e2 (consensus) is when every single scholar agree on a certain matter and none of them disagree over it, so this is something we haven’t even had for hundreds of years. So if you want to say, “Nah maybe he’s wrong”, surely the other hundreds and thousands were not all wrong!
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\nTell your friend\/family, or Abu Fulan who talks a lot, or your misguided Shaykh who gives you a fatwa for celebrating Christmas; tell them they have no authority to overwrite an ijm\u00e2.<\/p>\n

#tawheedvision #shirkmas #shirk #tawheed #christianity #christmas #carol #jesus #allah #makkah #madinah #polytheism #monotheism Reposted from @tawheedvision<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then you have the monotheists who say, “We all worship the same god.” Somehow, I don’t think that phrase means what you think it means. At least polytheists can say, “Well, maybe Yahweh and Allah are not<\/em> the same god, and we can make room for that, at long as you are not trying to kill us according to the instructions in your holy book.”<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful Yuletide, y’all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a hardcore Muslim Instagrammer: Shaykh Ibn Al Qayyim said “Congratulating the non-muslims on the rituals that belong only to them is haraam by ijm\u00e2 (consensus), as is congratulating them on their festivals and feasts by saying: ‘a happy festival to you’ or ‘may you enjoy your festival,’ and so on. 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