Assalamu Alaykum,
Although the school is private, I would not say it is "elite." There are other schools in Egypt with much higher tuition and larger student populations, etc. While the families are considered "upper class" I don't think it's in any way, shape or form elite. It is not common in Egypt for Muslims to celebrate Halloween; even my own (Egyptian) husband did not know the history of the day or what it is all about. The populations that participate are predominately in International schools where the western culture is (in my opinion) being promoted. Seems even after leaving America behind, I still can't escape the madness!!!!
Salaam,
Debi
Assalmu alaikum
Sister we live in a world which went through western christian colonisation. Many brave Muslim brothers and sisters lost their lives fighting the invading western armies of europe. Only Allah knows how many millionsof Muslims died during western invasions of Muslim lands and then during the decades and even centuries resistance.
I often used to imagine what it the area of Afghanistan and Muslim India (Pkaistan, India and bangladesh) would have been like during the 100-200 years of Westren rule. How did the Muslims resist. How did they feel when they found 1000's of their best people hanged onto tries inorder to put terror in their hearts. The other massacres and torture that was done by the west to the Muslims and non Muslims of that part of the world which comprismises of 40 percent of the whole Muslim world. Then I turned my mind to the otehr Muslim countries the west had invaded. From north africa all the way to indonesia.
I also thought how can some of my own relatives have joined the westren armies to fight western wars. That made me disgusted at some of my own relatives whom we had thought so highly of when we were young.
We see christian westren culture in most countries that were invaded and then colonised by western countries. Especially in the upper class socities of these Muslim countries.
The reason being is that these invaders started a educational process to brain wash a certain percentage of the Muslim those countries to think like them. To look down upon their own Islamic culture and the Muslim masses and to look up to the Kaffirs of the west.
Then during 1940's Allah causes them to fight amongst themselves in what they call world war 2. Their lands were devastated and many millions of their people and soldiers killed, The Muslim resistance had also become stronger and the mass's of poeple had woken up and brave enough to force them to leave.
Eventually they did leave but they left behind their brain washed immitators. Who would make the look down on the masses and lopok upo to the non Muslims of the west. One British guy in Muslim India said we are going to produce a class of people who are brown yet inside they are English (ie that they have English values and culture and have left Muslim values and culture)
I herd one such Pakistani immitator on Pakistani TV saying that Paksitanis are sub human and that the western people are human. And inorder for us to become human we must become like west. He cleverly tried to prove this and many believed him that brown, black and yellow races were sub human. He thinks he is human because he thinks like a western man. Most likely , if he was in england the non Muslim English would make fun of his accent.
From what I heard of him, he is either a very poor anylst who arrogently thinks he is a superb anylst. Yet does not know what kind of things Muslims invented or he is just a lier.
Most likely he is a lier as he lied about Islam.
So alough we got rid of the westren non Muslim, Islam hating babaric invaders who ravaged the Muslim lands . We failed to get rid of their influence.
Infact we just ended up replacing the westren non Muslims by westren minded Dumb Muslim or westren minded Munafics.
Today we see what you have mentioned. Muslims celbrating kaffir festivals which can take them out of Islam as they are not only Bidda (made up) but many of them are also shirk (polothiestic). Thus such festivals and even thinking is leading maybe Muslims to loose their Islam.
Secoundly we no longer have to imagine what the world was like when the non Muslim westren nations invaded teh Muslim countries. We see before our eyes the murder of men, women and children, torture, rape of Muslim females. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Then we see what happens when they buy of Muslim or what their Brainwshed Munafics are orderded to attack the Muslims. We just have to look at Pakistan. The Brain washed and bought of Pakistiani Generals and Politicians are slaughtering Muslims in western Pakistan. The have told each other that they are Modern (ie westren) and educated and the Pathan of Westren Pakistan are inferior human beings because their are not westren and do not have westren education (because they have Local or Islamic culture and they read quran rather than books glorfying fornication and that they always wear Islamic clothing rather than Suits and ties). So these Pakistani Munafic Military thinks that these poeple are sub human and their houses can be bombed with Artillary and their markets bombed with helicopter gunships.
This is exactly what they are doing. A Pakistani Pathan was saying that they herd a Pakistani helicopter so they all got out of their cars and raised their hands up in a surrender style. This is what teh Pakistani Army has told the residents of westren part of Pakistan to do when they see military in their area. So they obeyed the instrution and they all got out fo their vehicles. The Pakistani helicipter gunship came. Looked at them and started to fly away. Some poeple said to this health worker, lets get in teh car now. The helicopters gone. He said no. It may come back. I am not taking the chance of geting killed. So they decided to stay out of their vehicles so that they could be safe. A short while latter. The Pakistani Army helicopter came and fired missles at them killing or wonding 40 of the 41 defensless Muslim Pathans. He said I loved Pakistan and i would strange anyone who talks bad about Pakistan but how do I get my self to love Pakistan when my 6 year old sons has lost both his legs. Was he a terrorist.
This is the mentality of people who have been brain washed into thinking that one has to be westerenised/ Modernised to be human. Otherise the person is a vermin and needs to be erradicated.
This is the how far a persons can go against his own people when he is brain is westrenised. He will think that a Muslim who sticks to Islam should not be alive. He should be dead. This is soemthing thats happening right now. Something we could not ahve imagined.
The torture and killing of religious Muslim by these westrenised Muslims is happening in so many Muslim countries. They want to toture and terrorise them to become westerenised and leave more and more of their Islam.
So this isnt a light issue as many of us thought previously. We are now seeing the fruits of this so called modernity in some Muslim countries and in future in many others.
What you should do is make leaflets and explain clearly what the origins of holloween are and how it can lead a person out of Islam. Then hand them to the parrents. It is best to try to get firstly some of the parents to your side and soem teachers whom you think will not mind your dawah. After that the parrenst may themslves complain about this to the school and have them abandon such kufr practise in a Muslim school.
Alos you must understand in this world there is a lot to learn. There are things which you know from your past culture that a Muslim form a born Muslim fmaily may not know. We cannot get angry at people who do not know, A sister told me that she started practsing Islam and was never taught much Islam by her parents. All she knew was that Muslim girls wore a hijab on their head. So thats what she did. Rest was jeans and so on. How can we go to a Arab or Pakistani sister whom we have never known and who is wearing sexy jeans and sexy t shirts and a hijab on her head and start saying to her your doing haram you shamless woman?
The fact is that there are some sisters who need help learning that this is not Islamic hijab because they may not have been taught at home.
If we have Muslims who do not even know the history of Islamic events and rulings, then how can we expect them to know the history of things that are foreign. Such as Halloween. So as Muslim we are helpers of each other, If one of us knows in a community that Halloween is haram we must produce as much evidance as possible to prove that it is Haram especially for those who are reluctant to leave bad things. Some after just being given small bits of daleel, will leave the haram, Others will require attacking the same topic from multiple angles and a few stubern minority will never believe no matter what daleel (evidance) you present to them.
Even many of us who have been born or brought up in the west did not know about the origins of halloween and other non Muslim festivals untill recently because we just thought the kaffirs do certain things during november time and thought no more of it.
In dawah we should not feel disheartned because people may not listen to us. Our job is to tell in the best manner possible. We cant force people to change. The Prophet Noah did dawah for Many hundreds of years and in that time maybe only 1 person listened to him.
It is the effort that we make that is counted.
the following link explain why we cannot celebrate non Muslim festivals
http://muslimconverts.com/christmas/index.htm
InshaAllah in the future i will try and make a detailed article on halloween and add it to the website.
Take care
walaikum salam
AbuUbaida
For More Information on Islam please visit http://www.muslimconverts.com
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comment: This is from an e-mail that I got from: "MuslimconvertsDotCom".
It is from a Pakistani brother who is living in England. He makes some excellent comments about colonialism and how it is effecting the Islamic practice of many Muslims.
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