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Holidays and their impact on Muslims

الأعياد وأثرها على المسلمين

Author: سليمان بن سالم السحيمي

About this work

هذا كتاب في بيان حقيقة الأعياد في الإسلام وموقفها من أعياد غير المسلمين، يبدأ باستعراض أعياد اليهود والنصارى والمجوس والعرب في الجاهلية وعاداتهم فيها، ثم ينتقل إلى بيان مشروعية مخالفة الكفار والأدلة على تحريم التشبه بهم في أعيادهم، ويختتم بتحديد الأعياد الشرعية الزمانية والمكانية في الإسلام وبيان ما اشتملت عليه من خصال حميدة تغني المسلمين عن غيرها.

Translation

This is a book explaining the truth about the holidays in Islam and its position on the holidays of non-Muslims. It begins by reviewing the holidays of the Jews, Christians, Magians, and Arabs in pre-Islamic times and their customs therein. Then it moves on to explaining the legitimacy of disobeying the infidels and the evidence for the prohibition of imitating them in their holidays. It concludes by specifying the legal holidays in time and place in Islam and explaining the good qualities they contain that enrich Muslims over others.

Topics covered

introduction
Introduction
Chapter One: Holidays of the infidels and Arabs in pre-Islamic times
Chapter One: Jewish holidays and their customs
Chapter Two: Christian holidays and their customs
Chapter Three: The feasts of the Magi and their customs therein
Chapter Four: Arab holidays in pre-Islamic times and their customs therein
The first topic: The prevailing religion among the Arabs in pre-Islamic times
The second topic: Spatial holidays among the Arabs in pre-Islamic times
The third topic: temporal holidays among the Arabs in pre-Islamic times
Part Two: The legitimacy of disobeying the infidels
Chapter One: Prohibition of imitating the infidels
The first topic: Definition of imitation in language and terminology
The second section: Evidence for the prohibition of imitating infidels
Section Four: The effect of imitating the infidels
Chapter Two: Imitating the infidels in their holidays
The first topic: Evidence for the prohibition of imitating the infidels on their holidays
The second topic: Examples of similarities occurring during the holidays of the infidels
The third topic: The effect of imitating the infidels in their holidays
Chapter Three: The legitimate holidays and their praiseworthy effects
Chapter One: Determining the legal holidays
The first topic: the legal holidays
The first requirement: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha
Third requirement: Friday
The second topic: Sharia spatial holidays

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