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