{"id":2245,"date":"2019-10-24T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2019-10-24T15:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:15:23","slug":"wishing-non-muslims-with-merry-christmas-and-attending-christmas-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Wishing non-Muslims with Merry Christmas and attending Christmas functions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>Wishing non-Muslims with Merry Christmas and attending Christmas functions<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Q. Is it allowed to wish non-Muslims &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;? <\/strong><strong>Are we allowed to attend Christmas functions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A. <\/strong>It is not permissible for a Muslim to say \u2018merry christmas\u2019 to a non-Muslim or even attend Christmas gatherings and functions.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the Fuqaaha (jurists) have stated that such acts could take one out of the fold of Islam. <strong>(Taatarkhaaniyyah)<\/strong><\/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>Wishing non-Muslims with Merry Christmas and attending Christmas functions Q. Is it allowed to wish non-Muslims &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;? Are we allowed to attend Christmas functions? A.<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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aqidah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","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=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themufti.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}