24/12/2024
*Regardless of whatsoever, waiting for that 25th Christmas chicken, since Allah already said:*
"This day [all] good foods have been made lawful, and the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you (i.e., the Christians and Jews), and your food is lawful for them...." (Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:5)
Wait, don’t tell me you’re for real?
On a normal day, like a day in March, if a Christian cooks food or boils meat, maybe as your neighbor, family member, or someone you know, Islam permits you to accept and consume the food, provided it adheres to halal standards. Likewise, even if you are the one cooking, you can offer your food to your Christian neighbors.
I can eat in a canteen owned by Christians. If I am sent food from a Christian nikkah (wedding), I can eat it.
These instances are permissible, as long as they do not involve anything explicitly haram.
However, all these instances are very different from Christmas foods.
For you as a Muslim, Christmas food is something you should intentionally avoid. It is haram for you to consume it, just like pig meat served for by a Christian doesn't make the pork anywhere halal for you.
Why? Did Allah say that too?
Christmas meat is fundamentally different from the normal chicken your Christian neighbor fries. This is a chicken killed, prepared, and intended specifically for a celebration.
It's clear...
In Islam, celebrations are a form of worship, and this principle applies to Christians as well, for whom Christmas is the celebration of the birth of God (Jesus) or the Son of God.
"And they say, 'The Most Merciful has taken [for Himself] a son.' You have done an horrible thing. (Because of this) the heavens almost rupture therefrom, and the earth splits open, and the mountains collapse in devastation." (Surah Maryam, 19:88-90)
Is that what you want to eat, when Allah calls the intention behind the celebration horrible?
"And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression. An