Tom Facchine – Should Muslims Celebrate Halloween
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The speaker discusses the importance of protecting one's deen and being recognized for it in important celebrations like Halloween, Valentine's Day, and graduation. They stress the need to be mindful of one's deeds and stay away from Halloween in order to avoid damaging their deen.
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Halloween is coming up and I want you
to ask yourself one simple question.
Do you have enough self-respect to be
different?
Do you have enough self-respect to stick
out?
Do you have enough love for Allah's deen
to not care if you look like everybody
else and you do what everybody else does?
Are you comfortable with being different?
Because there's a bigger problem at play if
you think that you just have to let
your kids celebrate Halloween just because they want
to fit in, just because that's what everybody
else is doing, just because they're going to
have some sort of uncomfortable conversations in school
if they don't do that.
That entire mentality, that entire attitude that you're
teaching your children is an attitude that's going
to absolutely obliterate their Islam and that is
a bigger deal than whether this particular holiday
is permissible, that particular holiday or any sort
of particular individual remembrance.
The attitude that you give them of loving
and cherishing and leaning into being different, that
being proud to follow Allah's deen and being
content with what Allah's deen gave us, to
get away from the inferiority complex or the
mentality that we just have to be like
everybody else and be accepted and be likeable,
that's really what success is.
That's not what success is.
Allah doesn't tell us anywhere in the Quran
that success is in being liked by other
people or being accepted by other people.
Allah says the opposite, that if you don't
uphold this deen, if you don't protect this
deen, if you don't take it as a
banner and as a torch and carry it
forth and bring it to the people and
show them the beauty of it, Allah will
replace you.
Allah will replace you with other people that
love him and he loves them and one
of the characteristics that Allah mentions, and they
don't even care if they're blamed, they don't
even care if people make fun of them,
they don't even care if people want to
laugh and say, oh this guy's weird or
look at all the things that Who cares?
Are you after the approval of the people
or are you after the approval of Allah?
And that's really what it comes down to
when it comes to Halloween or Valentine's Day
or any of these other celebrations.
It's a symptom of a much larger disease
and that larger disease is trying to find
the approval of other people that don't love
you anyway for your deen.
Don't concern yourself with the love of the
people, concern yourself with the love of Allah.
You know the scholars, they say that taqwa,
having piety and conscientiousness and having concern and
awareness of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is
like walking on eggshells.
It's like waqaya, it's like walking through a
thorny field.
It's something where you are going to walk
very carefully because you're concerned about what your
Lord thinks about you.
Now tell me, letting your kids celebrate Halloween,
is that demonstrating an attitude where you care
what your Lord thinks about you or is
it rather demonstrating an attitude where you care
what your neighbor thinks about you, whether you
care what your boss thinks about you?
Answer that question for yourself and stay away
from Halloween.