Abdullah Hakim Quick – Is Christmas From Christianity

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The American-ering culture is now separated from its natural world and is now separated from its natural culture. The sun god is important in the winter season and is used to avoid diseases during the winter season. The Christian faith and culture in the northern regions have shifted from the Christian faith to the ancient Greek faith and the use of Jesus's finger to prevent polytheism. The shift in Christmas celebrations is reflected in the way people are greeted at Christmas.

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			And so it is our belief as Muslims. And many historians also take this concept, this belief that
when you look at the religions from the beginning of time, we have to recognize that there was a
constant struggle going on, between those who believed in one God, and those who believed in many
gods, this struggle has always existed with human life.
		
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			We find it more intense at different points in time. But what is important for us to understand is
that in America, today, we are sort of a hodgepodge
		
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			melted down mixture of hundreds of cultures, and we call it American, or we call it Canadian. But
nobody is really sure what it actually means. And now that we're going into the 21st century, it is
important for us to be able to separate the different elements within that culture, and to recognize
the roles that these elements play.
		
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			In this struggle that went on, from the early days of human life, there were people who put their
worship in the natural world. And so those natural objects that were around them, that appeared to
be the strongest objects, they would worship through those objects. So in other words, if people
living in desert areas, in many of these areas, you find a huge rock, or a huge tree. And so many
people would worship the trees, or the rock, or the or they felt they would worship the cosmic
forces through that tree or through that rock. In some countries that had large rivers, such as
those who lived around the Nile in the Nile Valley, or in the Niger River, or the Congo River, or
		
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			the Amazon, those who lived around these powerful forces of water, we find that religion was
developed around the river.
		
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			And in many cases, people would worship manifestations of the river, even some of the animals from
the river itself, hoping to appease the power and the forces in the river itself. Probably the most
common form of worship in the ancient world was the worship of the sun. And that is, for obvious
reasons, the sun is obviously the largest of all of creation. And that when the sun comes out the
power of the sun, it gives light after darkness, it gives heat
		
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			in the cold weather, it brings forth the light, or the life from plants. And so the sun itself, in a
sense, is a life giving form. And so those who are trying to figure out what is the source of our
life, what is the source of the living beings around us, focused on the sun, as the main object and
developed within their religions, a concept based upon the sun. And so we find this concept in all
parts of the world. Contrary to some of the beliefs of people, it was even very strong in Europe. I
mean, up until now, we still count we still have during our week, at the end of our week, we have
Saturday, and then we have sun days, which is the day of the sun.
		
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			And this is a concept that they used to have. And what is important for us to understand, especially
when we're dealing with young people who tend to be caught up Justin images coming at them, that the
images within many of the holidays that we have, have got a number of streams. And especially you
could say two main streams that are coming in, there is a stream of monotheism. And there is a
stream of polytheism of those who worship many gods and those especially who focused on the sun god
in the winter season.
		
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			around December 25, the people celebrated the winter solstice. And those of you who have lived in
the north, I'm coming from Toronto, Canada, there's four seasons, not two or three like you have
here. There's four seasons. And these four seasons in Canada are very distinct seasons, although el
El Nino and La Nina are changing that also. But they're very distinct seasons. And so within the
seasons, there are certain high points or low points. And the solstice time is the time when the
essence of the season comes about. And so the winter solstice would come about somewhere between
December in December from December 21 and it goes all the way to around
		
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			January 6 or so. And so the people of the North would celebrate different holidays have different
occasions, based upon the winter solstice, put yourself in the northern countries. I went to Norway
and spent some time with the Muslims in Oslo, may Allah subhanaw taala help them. They're really far
up north. And also I had the chance to go to Alaska, and there's Muslims in Alaska. Now when we were
there in the summertime, and it was time for salata, mothership, and we looked outside, and the sun
was still out. Somebody looked at his watch, and he said, Well, that's sunsets. And it's time to
make magnetic. So we made celestial mckillip, that is normally made with a sunset according to the
		
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			watch. And the sun was out.
		
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			The time for issue, they looked at their watch again, it's supposed to be darkness of night,
according to the fifth. They looked at their watch, and they said it's time for Asia. We made Isha
and the sun was out.
		
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			around one o'clock at night, I looked at my watch and realize it's time to go to bed, but the sun
was out.
		
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			And so in those parts of the world, you are in a situation where for the Muslims, you make taqdeer.
And the fuqaha have told us that you can use the closest reasonable city for your base, or you can
use Mecca, Tomoko Rama, some different fuqaha have used different positions where I was, they use
Seattle, Washington, as the base of their time where they were in Alaska. What is important, though,
is that in the wintertime, there is a period where there is no light, you are literally in darkness,
24 hours of the day.
		
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			And this stretches for a period of time. Now, could you imagine if you're living in Alaska, or
living in Canada, or living in Norway, and you don't have central heating, and the cold is outside,
it's darkness around you. People are dying from disease. It's a terrible time and every family would
probably lose somebody, or they would know of somebody dying from the cold and disease during that
season. This is the winter solstice. And so when the sun starts to come out,
		
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			the people now are looking at the sun as a life giving force. And so during that time, a number of
ceremonies were held in northern countries. In the far north, was the feast of the 12 knights, which
stretched from December 25 to January 6.
		
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			Also in ancient Greece, there was the Bacchanalia which was held for their god Bacchus, the God of
wine and sport and play. The Romans had the Saturnalia for their gods, Saturn, their main sun, Gods
Saturn. And so you find during these times, that the people held ceremonies in the north, they would
burn bonfires, the light was important the fire, because the fire represents the light, the life
giving force for those who worship nature. Also in the north, they recognize that there was one tree
that even that, despite the cold would still remain alive. The evergreen, the evergreen tree, the
fir tree. And so in some cases, they would take this for a tree, believing that there was powers of
		
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			life within the tree, and they would put it in their homes, set it there and put a light on the top
of it or burn them in the front or they would make a missile toes and put them over their doorways,
or type of what we would call Tyrese or taneema. It is an amulet and they would hang the amulet over
their doors, hang the amulets in their home, hoping that this for a tree that this so called life
giving force would protect them from the danger of the winter.
		
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			And so their ceremonies developed around this. And this went on for hundreds of years. We also find
in the ancient northern countries, we find
		
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			the druids and the druids of the north and they carried out special ceremony surrounding the
mistletoe and surrounding the fir tree and the beliefs and they would meet within circular areas.
And they had a secretive cult that spread throughout the far northern countries. One of the
interesting individuals and you can look this up if you can find it in the dictionaries or
encyclopedias is
		
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			A man called Mithra or mithras. This is a very mysterious character.
		
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			And when you look at history, you find that this individual called Mithra, was born on December 25.
		
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			His day of the week was the seventh day of the week, that we still call Sunday.
		
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			He was supposed to be the son of the of the son God Himself. And they had a special sacrament made
up a bread and wine, and they would make this drink during this time. And supposedly He died for the
sins of the people. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? But when you try to find midterm or midterm in the
encyclopedias, they through through state intervention, erased the name. Why is this? That is
because after the time of Jesus, Isa, Allah Islam, when his followers when the message began to
spread, and they went north, and you see within historical writings, that Barnabas, one of his
disciples met a man named Saul or Paul later called himself Paul. Paul said he saw Jesus on the
		
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			Damascus Road. And he went to the disciples, but the disciples turned against Paul, only Barnabas
stayed with him. But when Paul and Barnabas went into Greece, Barnabas left him. Now, what is the
reason why they all left him?
		
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			What are the concepts coming through Paul, many people say, well, they left him because he was Sol
before and he used to torture, the early followers of Jesus, Allah Islam. But also you can see and
if you look at present day Christianity, that most of the concepts of the trinity
		
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			of the blood sacrifice, the original sin, and most of the concepts, which relate to more than one
God are coming through Paul, the preachers are quoting Paul sometime more than Jesus during their
sermons. And so Barnabas left Paul. And somewhere in the early days in Rome, or Greece, somewhere in
that area, those missionaries who were teaching that the teachings of Jesus Isa la Salaam, met with
this force coming from the north. And so you will see an ancient Roman history that in in some
cases, the Roman Emperor would go out to the Colosseum.
		
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			And the gladiators would be fighting each other. And everybody's cheering for the gladiators sounds
like one of our football games, they would go to the Colosseum, right.
		
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			And the gladiators would fight. And then if one of the gladiators was down, and they would look at
the at the Emperor, should I kill him or not? And if he wanted to kill him, he would say, you go
like that. Right? You know, that sign down? If he said, keep him alive. He goes like this. You know,
we use it today. Yes. Okay. It gives that sign. Okay.
		
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			One of the terrible things happening during these rituals at the Colosseum, is that they would bring
the Christians out, literally men, women and children and feed them to hungry animals. They would
take a hyena, or Wolf, or lion, and get it hungry and crazy and beat it, and throw raw meat at it.
And then send it out on the people and they would literally cheer and watch as the animal rip the
bodies apart. This is a terrible culture, tear the bodies apart. And so somewhere along the line,
somebody who couldn't take the torture, who felt that maybe we can win these people over, made a
compromise. And you start to see changes going on. From the early part of the Christian era. In
		
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			southern Europe, where the the major ceremonies held by the nature worshipping people are combined
with Christian names and Christian ceremonies. And therefore what comes forth to us is a mixture
with the two streams coming together, where you get a monotheistic name, or a monotheistic character
with a pagan ceremony.
		
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			And so the mixture of this together is what is giving us the present day holidays that we see.
Number one, we understand that Isa alayhi salam, according to the different reports of the different
scholars in many religions, he was not born in the cold weather. History shows us that he was born
during the warm weather.
		
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			Even in even in the Christian traditions, they have the belief that the shepherds were tending their
flocks outside
		
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			And in Palestine, you cannot keep your flocks outside.
		
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			In the wintertime in the evening you bring them in, because it's cool at night. And so it was the
warm weather. It was also the time of the taxes in the north.
		
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			In the story coming in the Quran, when we see the mention in chapter 19, and verses 24 to 25. And we
see the mention of the story of Mary, because it is the belief of the Muslims, that Miriam may Allah
be pleased with her,
		
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			was a virgin, and she had dedicated her life, to the worship of one God, prayer and fasting, and by
the power of Allah that the creator breathed His Spirit into her. And she conceived Jesus he said Be
and it is she can see Jesus, he saw a solemn without a father, without a man. That is a belief of
Islam. It is also a belief that when she felt the pain of the pregnancy, that that the angel came to
her and told her to go outside of the city, she went outside of the city to a remote area. And then
she found a palm tree, and she found water. And it was speaking about roots of Geneva, it was
speaking about a type of rooftop or a type of dates. And those who know who have lived in the desert
		
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			area know that when the dates become right, when you start to see the color of the dates change,
because dates are not Brown, you know, dates are originally red and the yellow there are other
colors, but they turn the brown. It's it's at the height of the heat, that the dates become ripe.
And so it's at that time that she gave birth Isa al Islam. So from different points of view,
different historical points of view and different religions. We understand that Isa Ali Salam was
not born during the winter season. He was born in the warm weather. So who was it that was born in
the winter season? What is that who is that character? Now? Let us become detectives and try to find
		
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			out the answer to this problem. Number one, you have to understand this concept of Saturn.
		
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			The concept of Baucus when they are portrayed by the different artists to drew pictures of them
other sculptures, they're usually portrayed as a heavyset man with a white beard.
		
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			And when in the Sistine Chapel chapel, Michelangelo drew his picture you can see the long flowing
beard and there are actually pictures of this man on a sled being drawn by snakes with wings.
		
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			Snakes with wings, snakes do not normally fly.
		
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			But in this case, the snakes have wings and the heavyset man is on a sled being drawn by these
flying animals sound familiar to you now doesn't it? He's being drawn by the flying animals. He's
before performing miracles.
		
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			He's coming out on December 25, which is not the birthday of SLA so that has nothing to do with
Christianity. It is the title of the of the Bacchanalia and and the Saturnalia and he is
representing riotous fun, drunken revelry. And so what happens on Christmas, the Christmas season,
especially in America, people today are not even thinking about e salesianum. They're not even
thinking about Jesus. They look and how they can get drunk on Christmas, what is going on in the
Caribbean, and many parts if they offer you a Christmas pudding, or Christmas pie, or Christmas
drink, watch out. Because it's probably laced with rum or wine. That's the spirit of the season.
		
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			Now this riotous occasion that was going on, went so far
		
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			that the Christian church banned it and the Church of England, according to historical sources,
actually banded all the way to 1647. It was prohibited in England to celebrate Christmas because
they saw Christmas as being a pagan holiday. This is an official position taken by the Christian
Church. The Church of England were known at that time as Puritans. What happened was an individual
was super imposed, a name was super imposed. We hear about the name of St. Nicholas St. Nicholas.
Now, according to some historical reports, St. Nicholas was a Christian Bishop, who lived in the
fourth century in Asia Minor which is now known as
		
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			Turkey. He was a very thin man, very austere, used to spend this time in prayer and fasting. And he
loved children. And he spent his time dealing with children.
		
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			And because of this now, his name, some belief was imposed upon that day, and St. Nicholas or St.
Nick comes into that position as being the main man of the day. There's another concept, which is
even deeper than that. And that is that St. Nicholas himself is actually coming from the ancient
writings of Bill Wolfe. And in these writings, which are done in the Scandinavian region, we find
the name Nic or nickel, or Nikkor, he was known as a demon, the demon of the North. He was known as
the evil spirit of the North, the name of Odin, the evil principle. And so, in Germany, and in many
of the northern countries, the people actually looked upon this so called St. Nick, as being an evil
		
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			force and they would tell their children in the wintertime, don't go outside because if you do,
Nikolas will come along, Nicole will come along, he'll capture you put you in his bag and take you
away.
		
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			And so they used it as a negative concept in Isaiah, in what is left of the Bible in chapter 14 in
1413. The devil is known as the prince of darkness, and it is an understanding that his throne, the
seat of his power is in the north, somewhere in the North is the seat of power of this evil. And so,
the Germans also when they depict it, this Nicholas or this Pels, nickel, as they would say Pels,
nickel in German, it means a fairy devil.
		
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			When they when they depicted him, they depicted him as a man with red for he had red fur coat.
		
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			And he was his base was in the north, and he was the essence of evil.
		
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			And the Church of England till 1647 took the position that this celebration could not go on. So what
we are actually seeing is that the the Christmas occasion was actually the time of evil.
		
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			It was the time of the belief in the Saturnalia, and the Bacchanalia. And because of this, they
shifted the occasion to New Year's Eve. They shifted all of their feelings and their merriment and
their evil to New Year's Eve. Now, before we go to that, looking back back at Christmas, what is
happening now and Christmas season? I don't know what goes on in Miami. But in the northern cities,
on Christmas occasion, they put lights around and Santa Claus parades Do you have a Santa Claus
parade if they have Santa Claus parades and St. Nicholas is outside, and he's in the streets and
everybody's talking about St. Nicholas. And the poor children are taught that St. Nicholas is going
		
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			to come down your chimney. Most people don't have chimneys in Miami anyway. But a 350 pound man is
going to come down your chimney and bring you presence and keep his clothes white and red.
		
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			And go to all of the homes in the area and put our presence in your stockings and and put our
presence under your tree and then fly back out into space. And the Father, the poor father who sweat
and toiled all year to get you the presence gets no credit for the present given to the child. St.
Nicholas comes down the chimney gives you this present flies off into the night.
		
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			And many of us were raised, thinking believing in this. Some of us would sneak into the night and
look and see our father putting the president of the tree. We knew what he was doing anyway. But you
went along with it. And the people say well, you know it's Christmas. Don't you like to have fun?
You want to stop the children from having fun? What kind of people are you? But what is the what are
you teaching the children? You are using the name of Jesus using the name of Isa alayhi salam, and
you are using a figure who historically is the devil's the devil himself when he has a villa.
		
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			They are using his figure and he has now taken over the Christmas season. Christmas now to most
people means materialism. You have to buy presents for your cousins and your friends and you got to
buy about 34 presents. And you find that most American people are in debt for six months after
Christmas.
		
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			Now where is Jesus, you get drunk. You fight. You lose all your money. The stores raise their
prices.
		
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			Isa Li Salaam is described as a very humble person.
		
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			Most of the time you didn't wear shoes, only one or two changes of clothing are very simple person
eating very simple food fasting most of the time. You see what is going on. There are two streams
now a stream of polytheism, a stream of monotheism. And now the polytheism the materialism is
overtaking the monotheism
		
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			and standing in the way and taking over our society.
		
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			We're still out. Somebody looked at his watch. And he said, Well, that's sunsets. And it's time to
make magnetic. So we made a lot of money that is normally made with a sunset according to the watch.
And the sun was out.
		
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			The time for issue, they looked at their watch again, it's supposed to be darkness of night,
according to the fifth. They looked at their watch, and they said it's time for Asia. We made Isha
and the sun was out.
		
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			around one o'clock at night, I looked at my watch and realize it's time to go to bed, but the sun
was out.
		
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			And so in those parts of the world, you are in a situation where for the Muslims, you make DS, and
the fuqaha have told us that you can use the closest reasonable city for your base, or you can use
Mecca, Tomoko Rama, and some different fuqaha have used different positions where I was, they use
Seattle, Washington, as the base of their time where they were in Alaska. What is important, though,
is that in the wintertime, there is a period where there is no light, you are literally in darkness,
24 hours of the day.
		
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			And this stretches for a period of time. Now, could you imagine if you're living in Alaska, or
living in Canada, or living in Norway, and you don't have central heating, and the cold is outside,
it's darkness around you. People are dying from disease. It's a terrible time and every family would
probably lose somebody, or they would know of somebody dying from the cold and disease during that
season. This is the winter solstice. And so when the sun starts to come out,
		
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			the people now are looking at the sun as a life giving force. And so during that time, a number of
ceremonies were held in northern countries. In the far north, was the feast of the 12 nights, which
stretched from December 25, to January 6.
		
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			Also in ancient Greece, there was the Bacchanalia which was held for their god Bacchus, the God of
wine and sport and play. The Romans had the Saturnalia, for their God, Saturn, their main sun, God,
Saturn. And so you find during these times, that the people held ceremonies in the north, they would
burn bonfires, the light was important the fire, because the fire represents the light, the life
giving force for those who worship nature. Also in the north, they recognize that there was one tree
that even that, despite the cold would still remain alive. The evergreen, the evergreen tree, the
tree. And so in some cases, they would take this for a tree, believing that there was powers of life
		
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			within the tree, and they would put it in their homes, set it there and put a light on the top of it
or burn them in the front or they would make a mistletoes and put them over there doorways are type
of what we would call tire wheels, or taneema. It is an amulet and they would hang the amulet over
their doors, hang the amulets in their home, hoping that this for a tree that this so called life
giving force would protect them from the danger of the winter.
		
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			And so there are ceremonies developed around this. And this went on for hundreds of years. We also
find in the ancient northern countries, we find
		
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			the druids and the druids of the north and they carried out special ceremony surrounding the
mistletoe and surrounding the fir tree and the beliefs and they
		
00:30:00 --> 00:30:21
			wouldn't meet within circular areas. And they had a secretive cult that spread throughout the far
northern countries. One of the interesting individuals and you can look this up, if you can find it
in the dictionaries or encyclopedias, is a man called Mithra or mithras. This is a very mysterious
character.
		
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			And when you look at history, you find that this individual called Mithra, was born on December 25.
		
00:30:33 --> 00:30:39
			His day of the week was the seventh day of the week, that we still call Sunday.
		
00:30:40 --> 00:31:28
			He was supposed to be the son of the son God Himself. And they had a special sacrament made up a
bread and wine, and they would make this drink during this time. And supposedly, he died for the
sins of the people. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? But when you try to find midterm or midterm in the
encyclopedias, they through through state intervention, erased the name? Why is this? That is
because after the time of Jesus, Isa alessa, when his followers are when the message began to
spread, and they went north, and you see within historical writings, that Barnabas, one of his
disciples met a man named Saul or Paul, later columns of Paul, Paul said he saw Jesus on the
		
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			Damascus Road. And he went to the disciples, but the disciples turned against Paul, only Barnabas
stayed with him. But when Paul and Barnabas went into Greece, Barnabas left him. Now, what is the
reason why they all left him?
		
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			What are the concepts coming through Paul, many people say, well, they left him because he was solid
before and it used to torture in the early followers of G salicylic. But also you can see, and if
you look at present day Christianity, that most of the concepts of the trinity
		
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			of the blood sacrifice, the original sin, and most of the concepts, which relate to more than one
God are coming through Paul, the preachers are quoting Paul sometime more than Jesus during their
sermons. And so Barnabas left Paul. And somewhere in the early days in Rome, or Greece, somewhere in
that area, those missionaries who were teaching that the teachings of Jesus Isa la Salaam, met with
this force coming from the north. And so you will see an ancient Roman history, that in some cases,
the Roman Emperor would go out to the Coliseum.
		
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			And the gladiators would be fighting each other. And everybody's cheering for the gladiators sounds
like one of our football games, they would go to the Coliseum, right.
		
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			And the gladiators would fight. And then if one of the gladiators was down, and they would look at
the at the Emperor, should I kill them or not? And if he wanted to kill him, he would say, you go
like that. Right? You know, that sign down? If he said, keep him alive, he goes like this. You know,
we use it today. Yes. Okay, he gives that sign. Okay.
		
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			One of the terrible things happening during these rituals at the Colosseum, is that they would bring
the Christians out, literally men, women and children and feed them to hungry animals. They would
take a hyena, or a wolf, or a lion, and get hungry and crazy and beat it, and throw raw meat at it.
And then send it out on the people and they would literally chair and watch as the animal rip the
bodies apart. This is a terrible culture, tear the bodies apart. And so somewhere along the line,
somebody who couldn't take the torture, who felt that maybe we can win these people over, made a
compromise. And you start to see changes going on. From the early part of the Christian era. In
		
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			southern Europe, where the the major ceremonies held by the nature worshipping people are combined
with Christian names and Christian ceremonies. And therefore what comes forth to us is a mixture
with the two streams coming together, where you get a monotheistic name, or a monotheistic character
with a pagan ceremony.
		
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			And so the mixture of this together is what is giving us the present day holidays that we see.
Number one, we understand that Isa alayhi salam, according to the different reports of the different
scholars in many religions, he was not born in the cold weather
		
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			History shows us that he was born during the warm weather.
		
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			Even in even in the Christian traditions, they have the belief that the shepherds were tending their
flocks outside. And in Palestine, you cannot keep your flocks outside.
		
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			In the wintertime in the evening, you bring them in, because it's cool at night. And so it was the
warm weather. It was also the time of the taxes in the north.
		
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			In the story coming in the Quran, when we see the mentioned in chapter 19, and verses 24 to 25. And
we see the mention of the story of Mary, because it is the belief of the Muslims, that Miriam may
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			was a virgin, and she had dedicated her life to the worship of one God, prayer and fasting and by
the power of Allah that the creator breathed His Spirit into her. And she she conceived Jesus, he
said Be and it is she conceived Jesus, he said a solemn without a father without a man. That is a
belief of Islam. It is also a belief that when she felt the pain of the pregnancy, that the angel
came to her and told her to go outside of the city, she went outside of the city to a remote area.
And then she found a palm tree and she found water. And it was speaking about roots of Junya it was
speaking about a type of job or a type of dates. And those who know who have lived in the desert
		
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			area know that when the dates become ripe, when you start to see the color of the dates change,
because dates are not Brown, you know, dates are originally red and the yellow there are other
colors, but they turn the brown it's it's at the height of the heat, that the dates become ripe. And
so it's at that time that she gave birth to Isa Elisa. So from different points of view, different
historical points of view in different religions. We understand that Isa Ali Salaam was not born
during the winter season. He was born in the warm weather. So who was it that was born in the winter
season? What is that who is that character? Now? Let us become detectives and try to find out the
		
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			answer to this problem. Number one, you have to understand this concept of Saturn.
		
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			The concept of Baucus, when they are portrayed by the different artists to drew pictures of them are
the sculptures. They're usually portrayed as a heavyset man with a white beard.
		
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			And when in the Sistine Chapel chapel, Michelangelo drew his picture you can see the long flowing
beard and there are actually pictures of this man on a sled being drawn by snakes with wings.
		
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			Snakes with wings, snakes do not normally fly.
		
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			But in this case, the snakes have wings, and the heavyset man is on his sled being drawn by these
flying animals sound familiar to you now, doesn't it? He's being drawn by the flying animals. He's
before performing miracles.
		
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			He's coming out on December 25, which is not the birthday of East La Silla has nothing to do with
Christianity. It is the time of the of the Bacchanalia and and the Saturnalia and he is representing
riotous fun, drunken revelry. And so what happens on Christmas the Christmas season, especially in
America, people today I'm not even thinking about Isa lace now. They're not even thinking about
Jesus. They look and how they can get drunk on Christmas, what is going on in the Caribbean, and
many parts if they offer you a Christmas pudding, or Christmas pie, or Christmas drink, watch out.
Because it's probably laced with rum or wine. That's the spirit of the season.
		
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			Now this riotous occasion that was going on, went so far
		
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			that the Christian church banned it, and the Church of England, according to historical sources,
actually banded all the way to 1647. It was prohibited in England to celebrate Christmas because
they saw Christmas as being a pagan holiday. This is an official position taken by the Christian
Church. The Church of England were known at that time as Puritans. What happened was an individual
was super imposed, a name was super imposed. We
		
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			hear about the name of St. Nicholas, St. Nicholas. Now, according to some historical reports, St.
Nicholas was a Christian Bishop, who lived in the fourth century in Asia Minor, which is now known
as Turkey. He was a very thin man, very austere, used to spend this time in prayer and fasting. And
he loved children. And he spent his time dealing with children.
		
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			And because of this now, his name, some belief was imposed upon that day, and St. Nicholas or St.
Nick comes into that position as being the main man of the day. There's another concept, which is
even deeper than that. And that is that St. Nicholas himself is actually coming from the ancient
writings of Beowulf. And in these writings, which are done in the Scandinavian region, we find the
name Nic, or nickel, or Nikkor, he was known as a demon, the demon of the North. He was known as the
evil spirit of the North, the name of Odin, the evil principle. And so in Germany, and in many of
the northern countries, the people actually looked upon this so called St. Nick, as being an evil
		
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			force and they would tell their children in the wintertime, don't go outside, because if you do,
Nicholas will come along, Nicola will come along, he'll capture you, put you in his bag and take you
away.
		
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			And so they used it as a negative concept in Isaiah, in what is left of the Bible in chapter 14 in
1413. The devil is known as the prince of darkness, and it is an understanding that his throne, the
seat of his power is in the north, somewhere in the North is the seat of power of this evil. And so,
the Germans also when they depict it, this Nicolas or this Pels, nickel, as they would say Pels,
nickel in German, it means a fairy devil.
		
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			When they, when they depicted him, they depicted him as a man with red fur. He had red fur coat,
		
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			and he was his base was in the north, and he was the essence of evil.
		
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			And the Church of England till 1647 took the position that this celebration could not go on. So what
we are actually seeing is that the Christmas occasion was actually the time of evil.
		
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			It was the time of the belief in the Saturnalia, and the Bacchanalia. And because of this, they
shifted the occasion to New Year's Eve. They shifted all of their feelings and their merriment and
their evil to New Year's Eve. Now, before we go to that, looking back back at Christmas, what is
happening now and Christmas season. I don't know what goes on in Miami. But in the northern cities,
on Christmas occasion, they put lights around and Santa Claus parades Do you have a Santa Claus
parade here? They have Santa Claus parades and St. Nicholas is outside. And he's in the streets and
everybody's talking about St. Nicholas. And the poor children are taught that St. Nicholas is going
		
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			to come down your chimney. Most people don't have chimneys in Miami anyway. But a 350 pound man is
going to come down your chimney and bring you presence and keep his clothes white and red.
		
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			And go to all of the homes in the area and put our presence in your stockings and and put our
presence under your tree and then fly back out into space. And the Father, the poor father who sweat
and toiled all year to get you the presence gets no credit for the present given to the child. Saint
Nicholas comes down the chimney gives you this present flies off into the night.
		
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			And many of us were raised, thinking believing in this. Some of us would sneak into the night and
look and see our father putting the president of the tree. We knew what he was doing anyway. But you
went along with it and the people say well, you know it's Christmas. Don't you like to have fun? You
want to stop the children from having fun? What kind of people are you? But what is the what are you
teaching the children? You are using the name of Jesus using the name of Isa Allah Islam and you are
using a figure who historically is the devil's the devil himself when he has a villa.
		
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			They are using his finger and he has now taken over the Christmas season. Christmas now to most
people means materialism. You have to buy presents for your cousins and your friends and you got to
buy about
		
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			34 presidents, and you find that most American people are in debt for six months after Christmas.
		
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			Now where is Jesus, you get drunk, you fight. You lose all your money, the stores raise their
prices.
		
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			Isa Lee Salaam is described as a very humble person.
		
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			Most of the time he didn't wear shoes, only one or two changes of clothing. A very simple person
eating very simple food fasting most of the time. You see what is going on. There are two streams
now a stream of polytheism a stream of monotheism and now the polytheism the materialism is
overtaking the monotheism and standing in the way and taking over our society.