{"id":6148,"date":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/new-year-celebrations\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:42:30","slug":"new-year-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/new-year-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>One of my friends shared a post on face book which suggest  that celebrating new year is prohibited in Islam. In support of this  argument follwoing Hadith is qouted:<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet (sws) arrived in Madeenah while people were  celebrating two particular festivals, so He (sws) asked: What is (the  significance of) these two days? Some people replied: They  are days which we used to celebrate during the pre-Islamic era. So the  Messenger (PBUH) replied: ALLAH has replaced them for you with two days  which are better, the day of Eed Al-Fitr and Eed Al-Adhhaa. [Abu  Daawood]. <\/p>\n<p>Would you please clarify this matter?<\/p>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>The  Eids which the people of Madinah were celebrating before Islam were  religious festivals. Islam also introduced and established two religious  festivals. New year celebrations are not religious celebrations. They  are social festivals. Therefore, we do not believe there is any  connection between the example given and the new year celebrations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2014-12-31<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6148\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my friends shared a post on face book which suggest  that celebrating new year is prohibited in Islam. In support of this  argument follwoing Hadith is qouted:<\/p>\n<p>The Prophet (sws) arrived in Madeenah while people were  celebrating two particular festivals, so He (sws) asked: What is (the  significance of) these two days? Some people replied: They  are days which we used to celebrate during the pre-Islamic era. So the  Messenger (PBUH) replied: ALLAH has replaced them for you with two days  which are better, the day of Eed Al-Fitr and Eed Al-Adhhaa. [Abu  Daawood]. <\/p>\n<p>Would you please clarify this matter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1162],"tags":[1180,1897,1899,1896,1898],"class_list":["post-6148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-issues","tag-celebration","tag-happy","tag-jollification","tag-merrymaking","tag-new-year"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Year Celebrations - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/new-year-celebrations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Year Celebrations - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of my friends shared a post on face book which suggest that celebrating new year is prohibited in Islam. 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