Christmas is a festival that is celebrated by followers of Jesus in the month of december. In our society we are so much obsessed with religion that we think it is our duty to make others follow our version of religion. We used to had a society before the advent of jihadi era in which everyone used to respect and protect others religious sentiments but now our religiosity is tearing apart the vary social fabric of society.
Now i will try to analyze a religious ritual as a student of social science, christ birthday is a religious ritual in one of the biggest religion of the world, we will not go into the debate of exact birth date.
Religion is something which was socially constructed by humans in order to serve their unconscious fears, firstly people started to follow different object to over come their fears but as societies got developed and evolved human race moved from polytheist version of religion to monotheist. Christianity also falls under the same category of monotheist religion, Jesus pbuh was born after Mosa pbuh, he was follower of same divine code which Mosa pbuh brought. Jesus used to tell people who their creator is and people should prepare themselves for life after death. Till the time Jesus was alive, he only preached oneness of creator, God lifted him up towards skies alive. When jesus pubh was no more people like John paul started to preach concept of trinity, which had nothing to do with real teaching of Jesus pbuh. So christmas has nothing to do with Shirk and it is not haram to wish birthdays as far as my understanding of religion is. We common citizens have nothing to do with what John paul had added in real teachings of christ similary we have nothing to do with hate that molvis teaches in masjids about other sects and religions.
Culturally aspect of christmas, some rituals got embedded in our society, same is the case with christmas. It is celebrated more of cultural ritual than religious. Muslims also celebrate Eid e Milad, means birthday of mohammad pbuh. Extremism has reached its new heights,religious interpreters are trying to destroy traditional norms and values which the common people holds. Same is the case with christmas that is more of festival for meeting friends and family than for spreading religious hate among masses.
Our society became so much intolerant after this jihadi era that even we can not acknowledge the traditional norms and values which our society used to hold, people used to had peace and affection for each other rather than spreading their verdicts of halal and harams. This mind set is the breeding ground for Peshawar like incidents, Kot radha kishan and killing of innocent people of pakistan. We as society are so much radicalized that it will take generations to neutralize. Islam is a complete code of life but people of pakistan wants to implement that islam at state level but not at individual spheres. With the blood of thousands of innocent people you can not make pakistan progressive and tolerant country, even islam has nothing to do with such interpretations.
Now i will try to analyze a religious ritual as a student of social science, christ birthday is a religious ritual in one of the biggest religion of the world, we will not go into the debate of exact birth date.
Religion is something which was socially constructed by humans in order to serve their unconscious fears, firstly people started to follow different object to over come their fears but as societies got developed and evolved human race moved from polytheist version of religion to monotheist. Christianity also falls under the same category of monotheist religion, Jesus pbuh was born after Mosa pbuh, he was follower of same divine code which Mosa pbuh brought. Jesus used to tell people who their creator is and people should prepare themselves for life after death. Till the time Jesus was alive, he only preached oneness of creator, God lifted him up towards skies alive. When jesus pubh was no more people like John paul started to preach concept of trinity, which had nothing to do with real teaching of Jesus pbuh. So christmas has nothing to do with Shirk and it is not haram to wish birthdays as far as my understanding of religion is. We common citizens have nothing to do with what John paul had added in real teachings of christ similary we have nothing to do with hate that molvis teaches in masjids about other sects and religions.
Culturally aspect of christmas, some rituals got embedded in our society, same is the case with christmas. It is celebrated more of cultural ritual than religious. Muslims also celebrate Eid e Milad, means birthday of mohammad pbuh. Extremism has reached its new heights,religious interpreters are trying to destroy traditional norms and values which the common people holds. Same is the case with christmas that is more of festival for meeting friends and family than for spreading religious hate among masses.
Our society became so much intolerant after this jihadi era that even we can not acknowledge the traditional norms and values which our society used to hold, people used to had peace and affection for each other rather than spreading their verdicts of halal and harams. This mind set is the breeding ground for Peshawar like incidents, Kot radha kishan and killing of innocent people of pakistan. We as society are so much radicalized that it will take generations to neutralize. Islam is a complete code of life but people of pakistan wants to implement that islam at state level but not at individual spheres. With the blood of thousands of innocent people you can not make pakistan progressive and tolerant country, even islam has nothing to do with such interpretations.
