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shehzads
PAKISTAN
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Topic initiated on Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 1:12 PM
Eid Miladun Nabi
Every society needs to celebrate and socialize, have entertainment and time out. Allah has already decreed two Eids on Muslims to full fill this need. Besides that events keep coming in families, colonies, tribes and groups like Marriage, Aqeeqa on child birth, seeing off and welcoming Hajis and so on. Adding other things like eid Miladun nabi, Meraj celebration, Basant celebration, Engagement celebrations, Ameen ceremonies, Puberty ceremonies, special and extravagant birthday ceremonies, Anniversaries and Wedding celebrations for 7 and 10 days with Mehandi, Ubtan and so on over the top and many others are over-doing and being obsessed about fun and celebration and Entertainment rather than concentrating on other important aspects and duties as well as spending time and money in the right way in life.
Women have a very important role to play in all this. In our culture its still men who are mainly responsible for earning and other main matters of the family, women use their time planning and organizing many unnecessary occasions and events, can be done well without which.
Instead they need to spread out their hours in more planned ways keeping their education and involvement in more beneficial and supportive activities for their families, extended families, Schools, Mosques and other such community places. Due to the new technologies they can do many favors to the family and others living around or even globally by just sitting in the safe and secure environment of their homes |
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hkhan
UNITED KINGDOM
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Posted - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 9:08 AM
thx shehzads. (just to remind that the two eid celebrations were initiated in the prophet's sws sunnah. they are not directly mentioned in Qur'an.) |
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safimera
CANADA
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Posted - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 4:54 PM
some conflicts have become irreconcilableamong different muslim factions.
If we would try to remove it totally from their beliefs, it is impossible.And we can learn from history and islamic history that this is a normal phenomena.
To be united we should try to keep our conflicts as close as our own belief.
For example! now this is impossible that ever all muslim stop celebrating eid meladunnabi OR all muslims start to endorse it... but what we can do that we could insist to bring it near to main islamic concept.... as 1)do not consider it a MUST PART OF islam, 2) AVOID some non islamic practice during celebration 3) Why only 12th rabiullAWAL, we will celebrate the whole month and together with SALAM ritual we will discuss seerat of prophet also etc etc.
MAy GOD help us to resolve our differences with wisdom and good behavior.
BY the way!! I do not know "the puberty ceremony" which u mentioned above??? what is it?? |
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shehzads
PAKISTAN
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Posted - Friday, March 12, 2010 - 10:33 AM
Yes you are right but we have to see that people are aware of the facts about these ceremonies. When and where did they originate from and what is the religious value. Puberty ceremony is very common in places like India and Sri lanka but as we copy many other things blindly, it can be seen in Pakistan here and there. |
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aboosait
INDIA
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Posted - Friday, April 16, 2010 - 6:18 PM
quote: Yes you are right but we have to see that people are aware of the facts about these ceremonies.....
Here is a copy of an e-mail I recieved recently.
Subject: Need to learn from the Mistakes quote: In Hyderabad (India) this year Meelad-un-Nabi was celebrated with special gusto and pomp.
Ask why?? They made models of the Ka’aba and the green dome on the Rawdah of Rasoolullah (SAS) and paraded them all through the old city.
At many places they had these models near cross roads with loud speakers blaring Qawwalis (Nasheeds with all sorts of shirk words) blaring late into the night. Green flags with the crescent moon, as you can see in the picture, were strung up all across the roads and the whole old city turned green.
Young men on motorcycles roamed the city all through the day and night, wearing green turbans and waving flags with pictures of swords and the Kalima written on them.
In the picture below as well you can see one man with a plastic sword replica in his hand standing next to the model of the Ka’aba.
People who passed by these models did so reverentially and paid homage to them in various gestures of worship.
These young Muslim men who roamed the streets, stopped people at will and rubbed green color on their faces.
During recent visit of Acharya Dhirender to Hyderabad who held meeting of Hindus and provocated hindus to show Hindu's strength during Sriramnavami and Hanuman Jayanthi celebrations to counter the show putup of Muslims during Meelad-un-Nabi.
Then came Sriramnavarmi and Hanuman Jayanti a few days later and the Hindus decided to celebrate this with equal and more splendor.
They tried to take down the green flags to put up their saffron flags and small clashes developed.
How can Muslims allow their green flags to be removed? What we put up has to remain there till the Day of Judgment (Qayamath).
Then on the day of the festival the Hindus took out a huge procession (after all there are more Hindus than Muslims – 80-20) and damaged the walls and minarets of some old masaajid and burnt some prayer mats and attacked Muslim shops and burnt them and so on.
The police clamped a curfew and issued shoot at sight orders to bring matters under control – which was a very good thing otherwise matters would have become even more grave.
However the curfew naturally caused a lot of distress and trouble to people in the old city where it was in effect and the majority there are Muslim.
Is celebrating Meelad-un-Nabi in this way, causing all kinds of public nuisance and disturbance, necessary? Does ‘demonstrating strength’ mean only to cause problems for people? And if so what kind of strength is that and what image does it create for us?
How about demonstrating strength by feeding poor people or holding medical camps or starting schools or cleaning the horribly filthy streets and so on? It takes much more strength to do those things than to string up silly flags and make sujood to plastic and cardboard models of the Ka’aba and the green dome.
Ah!! Our leaders and our brainless public................ We do not know when we will stop baseless, cropped up and show putup festivals of islam and rituals like Meelad-un-Nabi celerations etc..
http://www.siasat.com/video/hyderaba...nabi-hyderabad
This was our Muslim action in Hyderabad which is totally against Quran and Hadith. THE RESULTS ARE BELOW
-- Regards Sayeed
(Sorry, I am unable to upload the pictures - aboo.) |
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shehzads
PAKISTAN
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Posted - Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 10:42 AM
I think the writer has come up with some very good points here, only if we consider practicing. |
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