Can Muslims Celebrate Thanksgiving? (100% Correct Answer)
The question concerning the holiday Thanksgiving: there’s a number of questions about that. It says, “I don’t agree with it; however, some of my Muslim relatives practice it.”
What About Thanksgiving?
Well, there is some discussion of the fact that the native people here in this part of the world did have some gathering that they had at some point during that time.
In the northern countries, there’s, during that season, the time when the plants are getting ripe and the harvest is there. People normally would take time out and thank the Creator. They would have some sort of ritual during that time of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving and Islam: No Rituals Involved
For Muslims, we don’t follow any particular ceremonies to actually be following the day as a ceremony itself because that would then put us into, that would be an innovation. So, we don’t actually follow the ceremonies itself.
Gratitude to the Creator
However, thanking the Creator—we do that. We try to do that every time you eat. You should make Dua before that and thank Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala for giving you the risk or giving you the provisions of the food He has provided for you.
Attending a Thanksgiving Dinner
To the people who are carrying this ceremony out, if somebody attends and the family is just having food, it’s not really a ritual. Somebody just comes over to eat food and see the family. There’s nothing wrong with that.
What We Are Against
What we are against is being involved in the ritual things of giving gifts, taking gifts, the trees, and whatever. Just coming over for a dinner itself, there’s nothing really wrong with that.
