Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Q&A Birthdays, Mother and Fathers Days, Islamic

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What is the Islamic ruling on celebrating Father's Day, Mother's

Day, birthdays, etc? What I want to say about these things is that

it's quite simple, right? If something the ruling is that if

something is established from another religion, so it's a

salient feature of another religion than to emulate that

would be completely haram. Maybe even tougher in some cases, but it

would be complete haram. Right? However, these things is birthday

and Mother's Day, at least Mother's Day and Father's Day,

they're not from another religion, there's something that has been

stipulated that has been established through community,

right? People, people have come up with these ideas. Personally, I

think it's

I, you know, I'm not a conspiracy person. But I just think it's

capitalist, right, trying to capitalize on these days, because

then they can sell all of these gifts for Mother's Day and, you

know, add a bit of revenue, generate a bit of revenue, and so

on. So what I personally think is that really, like if you look at

birthdays, for example, whether it's halal or haram to celebrate

them is another story, right? The main thing is that what should we

really be doing? I mean, what did we do to become 15 years old, or

20 years old, or 30 years old, right? We didn't fuel ourselves. I

mean, at the end of the day, we're just living our life and we

enjoying our life. Right? So I don't see the point of

celebration. Yes, if we've achieved something within a

certain time, then you can celebrate your achievement and 100

Maybe the chief something good in this life, you know, you've

accomplished some kind of study, you've written something, you've

produced something, you've established something, you know,

you've done something really like spectacular, then absolutely. Go

ahead. And, you know, go ahead and celebrate it if it's a good thing,

but I just don't see this kind of celebration every Oh, you're,

you're five years old. Now. You're six years old, I just don't see

the point of that. Maybe, you know, you can think that I'm

really, you know, thinking another way, or whatever the case is. I

just don't see the point of that. Really, because at the end of the

day, isn't it a time that we should think that have? Have we

done better in the last year for ourselves? Right? Are we better

Muslims? Are we closer to Allah? subhanaw taala? Because every year

that passes, and every birthday that comes up, aren't we that much

closer to our death? Right, really, and we that much closer to

our death. So that's really what I would be thinking about during

this time. Right? Father's Day, Mother's Day, I really think that

to just specify one day, you know, for doing this kind of thing.

That's not very Islamic, because Islam is really pushing for

respect of fathers and mothers all the time. And if we kind of just

leave it for one day, then I just don't see the point. I mean, you

could make your father's and mother's day eat day, for example,

right or any other day like that, that you know, you give them an

extra gift or something like that. I don't see why you have to do it

on this particular day as such. So that's, you know, that's about

Mother's Day and Father's Day

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