{"id":1263,"date":"2019-06-21T09:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2019-06-21T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T07:46:47","slug":"decorating-ones-business-with-christmas-tress-and-santa-clause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=1263","title":{"rendered":"Decorating ones business with Christmas tress and Santa clause"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Decorating ones business with Christmas tress and Santa clause<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Q. Can Muslim businessman decorate their shops with Christmas trees, santa clause for business?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>By decorating ones shop\/business with Christmas features (Christmas trees, Santa clause etc.), one will be adopting the salient features of Christmas which stems from Christianity. In doing so, there is a great fear of one losing his\/her Imaam as Islam is averse to the beliefs and salient features of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>It is not permissible to decorate ones shop\/business with Christmas trees, Santa clause etc. even for business purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allah Ta\u2019ala Knows Best<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mufti Ismaeel Bassa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>themufti.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decorating ones business with Christmas tress and Santa clause Q. Can Muslim businessman decorate their shops with Christmas trees, santa clause for business? A. By decorating<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqidah","category-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}