Question
Is it permissible to make give gifts to non-Muslims on their Christmas and Diwali days? Some say that by exchanging gifts we are only displaying courtesy with out fellow human beings.
Answer
Whoever emulates a people is one of them according to the Hadith. Whoever practises the kuffaar act of exchanging gifts on their holy/festival days is like these kuffaar. It is not permissible to show such "courtesy to fellow human beings" which violates the Shariah. Courtesy should be firstly shown to the Shariah.
Refusing to eat the haraam food of a non-Muslim is 'rude' in their opinion. Should one show 'courtesy' to them by devouring their pork and poison and consuming their liquor and their cow's urine with which they sprinkle their diwali foods?
- Source
- themajlis.co.za
- Published in
- The Majlis Vol 22 No 12
- PDF page
- 3
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