Abdullah Hakim Quick – The Origins Of Christmas

			In the winter season,
		

			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 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 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 lava tube, 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 it up. So we made a lot of
money that is normally made with the sunset according to the watch. And the sun was out.
		

			The time for Isha. They looked at their watch again. It's supposed to be darkness of night,
according to the phip. They looked at their watch, and they said it's time for Isha. We made Isha
and the sun was out.
		

			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.
		

			And so in those parts of the world, you are in a situation where for the Muslims, you make taqdeer
and the fukuhara 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.
		

			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,
its 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,
		

			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.
		

			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
		

			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.
A 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.
		

			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
		

			the druids, and the druids of the North, and they carried out special ceremony surrounding the
mistletoe, and surrounding the 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 a
man called Mithra or mithras. This is a very mysterious character.
		

			And when you look at history, you find that this individual called Misra was born on December 25.
		

			His day of the week was the seventh day of the week, that we still call Sunday.
		

			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 threw 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 columns of Paul, Paul said he saw Jesus on the 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?
		

			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 G de la sala. But also you can see, and if you
look at present day Christianity, that most of the concepts of the trinity
		

			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 the teachings of Jesus, Isa Ali 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 Colosseum.
		

			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.
		

			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.
		

			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 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 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
		

			southern Europe, where the the major ceremonies, held by the nature worshipping people
		

			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.
		

			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 alehissalaam. 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.
		

			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.
		

			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.
		

			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
		

			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 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 lots 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
		

			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 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 out the answer to this problem. Number one, you have to understand this concept of Saturn.
		

			The concept of Baucus when they are portrayed by the different artists who drew pictures of them
other sculptures, they're usually portrayed as a heavyset man with a white beard.
		

			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.
		

			Snakes with wings, snakes do not normally fly.
		

			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.
		

			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 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 a 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.
		

			Now this riotous occasion that was going on.
		

			went so far
		

			that the Christian church banned it. And the Church of England, according to historical sources,
actually banned it all the way to 1647. It was prohibited in England to celebrate Christmas, because
they saw Christmas as being a pagan holidays. This is an official position taken by the Christian
Church, the Church of England who are known at that time, as Puritans. What happened was an
individual was super imposed, a name was superimposed. 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 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 this
time dealing with children.
		

			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 anxious
writings of Bill wolf. 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 Saint Nick, as being an evil
		

			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.
		

			And so they use it as a negative concept in Isaiah, in what is left of the Bible in chapter four in
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.
		

			When they when they depicted him, they depicted him as a man with red fur. He had red fur coat,
		

			and he was his base was in the north, and he was the essence of evil.
		

			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.
		

			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 on Christmas season? I don't know what goes on in Miami. But in the northern cities,
on Christmas occasion, they put lights around 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 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.
		

			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.
		

			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 alayhis
salaam. And you are using a figure who historically is the devil's the devil himself when he has a
Billa
		

			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 presidents, and you find that most American people are in debt for six months after
Christmas.
		

			Now where is Jesus, you get drunk, you fight. You lose all your money, the stores raise their prices
		

			is Ali Salaam is described as a very humble person.
		

			Most of the time you 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. And some foolish Muslims coming along from
outside of in their country say, Well, I just want to be an American. I want a tree too. So I said
one of the brothers said he had a Christmas tree in his house he came for I said, Brother, do you
know what the tree stands for? He said no. Okay, I'll get a palm tree with dates.
		

			I'll make it halau a halau Christmas tree. But brother You have to understand what it means. You
have to understand what it means. Number one, the properties of Islam when he spoke about he talked
about a Rukia what Tamar him what to Allah. He said all of these things are sure
		

			that if you hang amulets, thinking that this tower wheeze or this airman is going to protect you
from something, then you are actually giving power to the creation of Allah and taking it away from
the Creator. If you think that by making some spells going to a magician, and asking them to put a
spell on someone, you want to get married. So you go to the site here and say, put a spell on Ali, I
want to marry him. put a spell on Xena. What kind of marriage Are you going to have if you go to the
magician?
		

			And so the Prophet peace be upon him name all of these things, the superstitions, the amulets, all
of these type of things are the other stream which goes away from monotheism from the belief in one
God and takes you into another religion.