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Executive wrote:PO

Adiga diin ma haaysata maarka dad magacyo ku sheegeysid??

Enlightened~Sista wrote:Imam Yalaxoow Happy New Year!!

Perfect_Order wrote: the wahabi crew will murtid him

Executive wrote:

BlackVelvet wrote:^^ That is a very good point actually.

If it's wrong to celebrate New Year's is it also wrong to celebrate independence days? What about bank holidays seeing as the haddith is in reference to 'days of rest'?

So celebrating independence day is supposedly Islamic too now? I have never seen or heard of muslims celebrating bank holidays, even if a muslim celebrates a bank holiday such as Christmas or good Friday it doesn't make it right or halal. Just cause your school or place of work is closed during Christmas doesn't mean you are observing that festivity. A lot of people have days of during the week, particularly during the weekend. Does that mean they are celebrating the weekend too?

From the hadith it seems very clear to me that it is referring to the two Eids.

Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came [to Madeenah] and they had two days in which they would (relax and) play. He said, “What are these two days?” They said, “We used to play (on these two days) during the Jaahiliyyah.” The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah has given you something better instead of them: Yawm al-Duhaa[Eid al-Adha] and Yawm al-Fitr[Eid al-Fitr].” (Reported by Abu Dawood).

We have 2 Eids that we celebrate year on year, Its also permissible to celebrate certain occasions such as marriage and the birth of a child for example, as long as this doesn't turn into repeated celebrations i.e wedding anniversaries and birthdays. Otherwise it would constitute as an eid, and there are plenty of examples from the sunnah that those type of celebrations are permissible.