This night (31 December), the Musjid I attended had a program to keep kids away from new year's celebrations.

Answer

Those who are trapped in the snare of Iblees organize such haraam programs. Haraam cannot be combatted by adopting the haraam ways of the kuffaar. What the stupid organizers have done was to emulate the kuffaar. The only difference is the difference in the type of celebrations. Both groups celebrated the kuffaar new year.

The method of Islam is education- ta'leem. In this satanic program organized at the Musjid, nafsaani merrymaking is the primary ingredient. It is haraam to indulge in wasteful programs and even in lawful worldly talk of an unnecessary kind after Isha. Rasulullah (Sa lla ll ahu al a yh i wasallam) specifically forbade wiling away the time after Isha' in conversation. Merrymaking and programs are worse.

The Imaam of the Musjid should engage in Ta'leem and Amr Bil- Ma'roof, not in kuffaar style programs. These programs will not prevent the stupid youth from indulgence in haraam. As long as Taqwa is not inculcated in them, merrymaking in the name of the Deen and with superficial deeni colours will be of no avail. Only fear for Allah Ta'ala deters from Haraam, nothing else. The organizers of the haraam program are morons and follow in the footsteps of shaitaan. Just as the kuffaar pass the night in their stupid celebrations, so too are these Muslims who have stupidly adopted to substitute the haraam new year's celebrations for their type of merrymaking. They dwell in selfdeception.

(Arabic passage, page 9 of the original PDF)