From Islam QA:
It is not permissible to congratulate the kuffaar on their festivals in any way whatsoever
What is the ruling on eating the food (rice, meat, chicken or cake) that is given to us by a Christian friend that he made for his birthday or for Christmas or the Christian New Year? What is your opinion on congratulating him by saying, “Insha Allaah you will continue to do well this year” so as to avoid saying Kull ‘aam wa antum bi khayr (approx. “season’s greetings”) or “Happy New Year” etc?.
Praise be to Allaah.It is not permissible for a Muslim to eat things that the Jews and Christians make on their festivals, or what they give him as a gift on their festivals, because that is cooperating with them and joining in with them in this evil, as is explained in question no. 12666.
It is not permissible for him to congratulate them on their festivals in any way whatsoever, because that implies approval of their festival and not denouncing them, and helping them to manifest their symbols and propagate their innovation, and sharing their happiness during their festivals, which are innovated festivals that are connected to false beliefs that are not approved of in Islam. See also question no. 47322.
And Allaah knows best.
“‘Wishing “Merry #Christmas” to #Christians is worst evil’, scholar tells Muslims,” by Inemesit Udodiong, Pulse, December 26, 2016:
Dr. Zakir Abdul Karim Naik has revealed an interesting theory on Christmas and Muslims, who offer season greetings to Christians.
The Indian Islamic preacher says that wishing ‘Merry Christmas’ to Christians is a huge sin that must be avoided by Muslims.
Using his Twitter account on December 24, 2016, he wrote, “Wishing ‘Merry Christmas‘ to Christians is Worst Evil, Worse Than Fornication or Murder.
Astagfirullah… (Please Share)”
“Please avoid it my dear Muslim brothers and sisters.. It’s a big sin…. Please RT this and spread the message”, he added.
His argument for this statement is that doing this means Muslims agree that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th, which is Christmas day.
According to the scholar, this makes saying ‘Merry Christmas’ a SHIRK (the worship of anyone or anything other than Allah.)
“SHIRK IS THE GREATEST & THE ONLY UNFORGIVABLE SIN!!!” he added….


Champ says
“Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” — Matthew 7:6
Question: “What did Jesus mean when He said to not cast your pearls before swine (Matthew 7:6)?”
Answer: https://www.gotquestions.org/pearls-before-swine.html
Silas Praygood says
Champ,
Thanks for sighting this passage from the Bible; perfection! Of course the answer to the question you raise is the common translation, ‘Jesus is saying to US ‘do not persist in offering what is sacred or of value to those who have no appreciation for it, because your gift will not only become contaminated and be despised, your generous efforts could also be rebuffed and perhaps even openly attacked.’ and this is exactly what this Muslim preacher Zakir Naik is doing. Very prophetic Champ:)
Champ says
You’re welcome, Silas Praygood. Jesus’ words will always be relevant and they’re particularly fitting here. Take care.
davej says
“Allah knows best”. No, Allah is an imaginary being who knows nothing and you are an unsociable, resentful brute.
Merry Christmas anyway. BTW, do you expect us to respect your festivals, dress and food preferences?
maghan says
But dimwitted liberals are always bleating that non-Muslims should wish Muslims “Blessed Ramadan” and their various Eids.
jj says
islam is a cancer on humanity.there will never be peace as long as islam exists!
mortimer says
Disagree. Islam is an ideology, rather than a physical disease. It doesn’t help to be imprecise. Islam is 51% political. The rest is cultural and religious. If anything, Islam is a form of the Stockholm syndrome and is therefore a form of mental confusion.
Mong says
Where are you getting the 51% from? As the Koran is 64% about the kafir, I’d say 64% would be a good starting figure (as exercising control over people uninvolved is about the distribution of power in a society) but how have you arrived at 51%? Genuinely interested.
balam says
I agree . ISLAM IS A MENTAL DISEASE. Sir. Winston Churchill wrote that ISLAM IN A MUSLIM WAS LIKE RABIES IN A DOG. How TRUE!!!
A Harris USA says
balam, you get in right!! I think DJ Trump will be as truthful about Islam, as Churchill was.. We in western nations need to pull out of the UN, and support settlements in Israel, and throw these bum Imams OUT!!!
Mary says
Love this they become mad dogs! Just like the mad Obama and May in the UK. We do not want Mad dogs here. Let them stay with other mad dogs!
Tradiguy says
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mortimer says
Muslims say they ‘honor Jesus’, but clearly they do not. They DIS-honor Jesus. Most Muslims have never read the New Testament or attended a church services or brought Christian friends into their homes. They think as little about Jesus as possible.
Angemon says
“Muslims say they ‘honor Jesus’, but clearly they do not.”
Indeed – they honour “Isa”, the islamic knock-off version of Jesus. If you come across a muslim claiming to honour or love Jesus as much or more than any Christian, ask him if he believes that Jesus:
a) is the son of God,
b) died on the cross,
c) came back from the dead.
I can assure you that the answer will be a “No” to all three. If not, then the muslim is lying (shocker, I know).
maghan says
Yet the plagiarizing imbeciles name their sons Issa and Issaka–without compunction. And what about Yusuf and Mariama?
A Harris USA says
mortimer, The only time they think about us, is how to kill us!! Jesus is only a target to them..
More Ham Ed says
(Sung to the tune of We Wish You A Merry Christmas)
We wish you would give up Islam
We wish you would give up Islam
We wish you would give up Islam
Leave Islam this year
Good cooking we bring
Good cooking of cheer
Eat a-nother ham sand-wich
Leave Islam this year
We wish you would give up Islam
We wish you would give up Islam
We wish you would give up Islam
For a Happy New Year!
Cecilia Elis says
Awesome, More Ham Ed! ?
Silas Praygood says
Thanks Ed
LOL! LOL! LOL!
Martin says
Nice!
lagitane says
Encore! Would love to hear your rendition of “Jingle Bells” or “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen . . .”
Rob says
Da’esh-ing through the slow
In a truck we stole today
Over infidels we go,
Laughing all the way
Allahu Akhbar screams the man
And Infidels take flight
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A Muslim song tonight.
Oh….
Islam smells, ne’er-do-wells hate YOU in every way
Oh what fun it is to kill a Christian every day
The Quran says – that it’s right; and Infidel’s don’t say “nay”
If every Muslim does his bit
The Caliphate will hold sway…
……
A day or two ago,
I thought I’d take a ride,
Through the Christmas festival
With Allah by my side;
The truck was a surprise
Misfortune seemed their lot
We got it through our tricks and lies,
And tried to kill the lot…
Oh
Islam smells, ne’er-do-wells hate YOU in every way
Oh what fun it is to kill a Christian every day
The Quran says – that it’s right; and Infidel’s don’t say “nay”
If every Muslim does his bit
The Caliphate will hold sway…
…..
And now the ground is red
With Unbelievers’ blood
Take the kafir girls to bed
Or rape them in the mud
Just get a truck and drive
at its max-i-mum speed
Don’t let kafirs survive – Dead
…bodies are our need
Oh
Islam smells, ne’er-fo-wells, hate YOU in every way
Oh what fun it is to kill a Christian every day
The Quran says it’s the right, and – Infidel’s don’t say “nay”
If every Muslim does his bit
The Caliphate will hold sway…
Noah T says
Of course it worse than fornication and murder! Fornication and murder are permissible in Islam so long as it’s directed at the non-Muslims. Look at all the Muslim migrants sexually assaulting women in Europe. Look at all the murderous Islamic Terrorist attacks over the last 20 years like almost 30,000 since 9/11. It’s about time the Kuffar in the Western World wakes up and finally sends back the Islamic Supremacists to Saudi Arabia and Iran where they belong. Soon it might be too late!
Tradiguy says
When they finally break the PC drug that they have been fed for the last 30 yrs that might wake up and realise what has happened.
maghan says
“Supremacists”? Like a mad man who thinks he’s sane or a fool who thinks he’s wise.
Glenn Wilson says
If Muslims talk badly about Christmas, they should give back the Christmas bonus if they are the few Muslims with jobs.
Bradthefuzz says
Muhammad is in hell. Allah is a demon. Jesus Christ is Creator, Savior, and Lord.
overman says
This is what Naik says:
“It is not permissible for him to congratulate them on their festivals in any way whatsoever, because that implies approval of their festival and not denouncing them, and helping them to manifest their symbols and propagate their innovation, and sharing their happiness during their festivals, which are innovated festivals that are connected to false beliefs that are not approved of in Islam”
Now look at what a famous lndian Guru says:
“Union and goodwill upon earth.
Behind the rigidity of the outward celebrations there is a living symbol;
it is this that we must remember.
Peace and goodwill to all.
Unless a break is made with the habits and the beliefs of the past,
there is little hope of advancing rapidly towards the future.”
Blangwort says
Contrast this with what a Rabbi would say: “And for you as well!” He cares what the intention of the greeting was, not the possibility of an insult.
It is pretty clear this idiot Imam doesn’t play nice with others.
Jerry says
It is not permissible to congratulate the kuffaar on their festivals in any way whatsoever.
Islam and the muslims who live it are manifestly dumber than dumb. Here’s a so called religion that pretends to be divine revelation, yet has the mentality of a violent, retarded child. It has no wisdom, and any goodwill it contains is narcissistic and self-serving. It murders where it should tolerate, it threatens where it should be kind, it hates where it should love. It’s demented. And this gumba here with his idiotic bigoted message proves my point. There’s no divine goodness or love for humanity in this kind of hate, even a child knows this. But these muslim idiots stand before the whole world and pronounce their sick islamic anachronisms with head held high. Islam offers nothing good for the future of humanity, it is a ball and chain on the human soul and condition. If we can’t rid the world of islam then we must at least rid America of islam. At least then there’d be one good nation on earth where peace and humanitarian ideals have a chance to live and grow free of islam’s system of tyranny and terror.
maghan says
QED.
AuthorLee says
Help one understand Muslims.
gravenimage says
Popular Muslim preacher Zakir Naik: “Wishing ‘Merry Christmas’ to Christians is Worst Evil, Worse Than Fornication or Murder”
……………………………
Could you imagine any Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Agnostics, or Atheists saying such a thing? Of course not.
And fornication and murder–as long as the victims are Infidels–are actually considered praiseworthy by Muslims.
God, I hate Islam.
And a belated Merry Christmas! to all who celebrate the holiday, both religious and secular.
JW_reader says
In one of his sessions, a women asked Naik, if Mother Teresa would go to heaven or not. Naik replied that there are four conditions to be met to go to heaven, as per Quran.
Mother Teresa met only one of four of these conditions. So, that is what Islam is. You strap a vest with bombs and blow yourself up in a school bus full of little kids – you go to heaven. You devote your life in helping other human being, you are not!!
Cecilia Elis says
Excellent comment, JW_reader!
epistemology says
Merry Christmas and happy Hanukkah to everybody here. It’s far better to celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah, Easter and Pessach than to slaughter animals in corridors as the primitive Muslims do when they celebrate their moon idol holidays.
They can shag their goats and sheep but not in civilized countries.
No Fear says
Unfortunately Naik has been making videos for years. Every time I see the man’s face I get nauseous.
Martin says
Where do you see anyone else but Muslims displaying this type of naked intolerance? It’s insanity that’d we’d let people from this culture immigrate into Western countries. They haven’t cultivated any type of meaningful liberalism or secularism in any Muslim majority country. There are therefore no grounds to believe that Muslims would ever successfully assimilate into western cultures. It all amounts to leftist wishful thinking at absolute best.
Ashley says
So a Muslim wishing a Christian a “Merry Christmas” eclipses fornication and murder, eh?
There is ridiculous…and then there is absurd. This gem falls in the latter category.
Although we choose not to “celebrate” Christmas, I embrace this season of goodwill. Neighbors deliver cookies. Warm clothing is gathered for the homeless. Meals are delivered to shut-ins. Our local food pantry overflows with donations. The Christmas classics air on TV.
We may not do the tree and gift-exchanging routine, but we DO bask in the spirit of the holiday. Every day should be Christmas, IMO.
But I don’t think my proposal would go over too well with Mr. Naik…
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL REGARDLESS OF YOUR FAITH!!!
Champ says
Merry Christmas All!
Enjoy …
tgusa says
So this popular teleimam is firmly against Christmas, a date that represents peace on Earth and good will towards all men. Ok.
I assume he speaks for quite a lot of others.
Good to know.
Sheikh Ali says
I was a Muslim and embarrassed and had a guilty feeling that I was following a death cult. But abandoning that cult means death. Fortunately through a friend I came to overcome my dilemma and began living a civilized life. For those who want to follow me see http://ilovesanatanadharma.blogspot.in/
Real McCoy says
Lunatic Zakir Naik, it is not permissible for a Muslim to eat things that the Jews and Christians make on their festivals. What about the social security payment? they are from the Christian too, is this HARRAM for Muslims too.
Marty says
In the UK we had a very popular mohammedan shopkeeper called Asad Shah
His corner shop was a centre of “interfaith dialogue” & he
wished his Christian, Jewish, Sikh customers well on their resoective festivals.
Devout mohammedan Tanveer Ahmed stabbed him repeatedly & kicked
his brains out
The killer got a very mild 27 years minimum in one of our soft muslim friendly
prisons, while his family nearly rioted at the courthouse & set up a facebook page
in his honour.
The family were not accused of “hate speach” a new, Orwellian, concept in the UK
& the facebook page is very popular with devout mohammedans.
Don Foss says
This Islamists, Anjem Chaudary, ISIS, Boko Haram, Al Queda, Al Shabaab, Hamas, et all, represent honest and true Islam. Only one reading of the Qur’an confirms that, not to mention Ahadeeth and sharia as agreed upon by all 4 Islamic jurisprudences. I have always believed in a God…a Creaor or Desighner of Life on Earth. I never did believe in a Devil though. I am rethinking that, and considering that the Bible’s warnings of a “false prophet” may just be true…and Muhammad was him and inspired by an evil entity quite opposite – maybe in competition with – the God that the rest of humanity knows.
Renee says
Merry Christmas to you too Dr Zakir Abdul Karim Naik.
And very happy 2017 AD
Renee says
O yes, and as for the sugar feast: you can have your cake and eat it too.
eur says
They usually offer cookies at their parties, they go out to the street with plates full of cookies … they do not to be friendly or to encourage coexistence. They do it to make Islam visible. They do not tolerate the traditions of others but demand that theirs become established. When they are kind they are really doing religious proselytism. They do not participate in carnivals, they do not let their children celebrate birthdays, they do not go to traditional celebrations … they see everything from a religious point of view .. and to societies of Christian tradition … they hate us, Islam first of all is Anti-Jewish and anti-Christian. As a child and going to Mass I never heard anything about Islam and Muslims, yet Muslim children grow up denying Christianity and abhorring it. In Mass I never heard anything bad about Judaism .. never, it is more Jesus was a Jew (according to Islam was Muslim ….. bufff). Now as an adult and not a believer I see the difference between Christianity and Islam and I have to say that Islam is an insult. Christianity does not deny Judaism simply thinks that Jews are stubborn and deny what happened with the arrival of Jesus. Islam denies, insults and threatens both Judaism and Christianity.
Florida Jim says
Tell me again about moderate muslims I am confused.
Dacritic says
A Muslim friend actually did wish me “Merry Christmas, all the best”. So according to Zakir Naik, my friend has actually committed a sin. I wished him back Merry Christmas and told him to enjoy his weekend, I don’t care if he is Muslim. And honestly I’m praying for him. A father of three grown-up children, who is perhaps among his own family the most receptive to the Christian message. I can somehow sense it in his heart.
Mong says
This guy is a block of turd. A total, unmentionable block of turd. Imagine how disturbing his dreams are. Can you imagine? What a disturbing man, so full of Mohammad’s bent ways. His brain is a pollutant and shut be shut down under health and safety regulations. I went to see him once and saw him chewing a table of dirt whilst stupid men gathered around to hold his warm garbage.
Keys says
“SHIRK IS THE GREATEST & THE ONLY UNFORGIVABLE SIN!!!” he ( Dr. Zakir Abdul Karim Naik) added….
Well then, shirk you !
Richard says
I thought his real name was Zakir Naik-Umu
Guest says
There is no Allah. Only God and his son Christ.
Real McCoy says
RCH in Arabic the meaning of Naik mean Fuck.