Christmasand 25th of DecemberManyChristians are unaware that the true spirit of reverence which Muslims display
towards Jesus and his mother Mary spring from the fountainhead of their faith
as prescribed in the Holy Quran. Most do not know that a Muslim does not take
the name of Jesus , without saying Eesa alai-hiss-salaam i.e. (Jesus peace be
upon him). Jesusis commonly considered to have been born on the 25th of December. However, it
is common knowledge among Christian scholars that he was not born on this day.
It is well known that the first Christian churches held their festival in May,
April, or January. Scholars of the first two centuries AD even differ in which
year he was born. Some believing that he was born fully twenty years before the
current accepted date. So how was the 25th of December selected as the birthday
of Jesus ? Grolier'sencyclopedia says: "Christmas is the feast of the birth of Jesus Christ,
celebrated on December 25 ... Despite the beliefs about Christ that the birth
stories expressed, the church did not observe a festival for the celebration of
the event until the 4th century.... since 274, under the emperor Aurelian, Rome
had celebrated the feast of the "Invincible Sun" on December 25. In
the Eastern Church, January 6, a day also associated with the winter solstice,
was initially preferred. In course of time, however, the West added the Eastern
date as the Feast of the Epiphany, and the East added the Western date of
Christmas". So whoelse celebrated the 25th of December as the birth day of their gods before it
was agreed upon as the birth day of Jesus ? Well, there are the people of India who
rejoice, decorate their houses with garlands, and give presents to their
friends on this day. The people of China also celebrate this day and
close their shops. Buddha is believed to have been born on this day. The great
savior and god of the Persians, Mithras, is also believed to have been born on
the 25th of December long before the coming of Jesus . TheEgyptians celebrated this day as the birth day of their great savior Horus, the
Egyptian god of light and the son of the "virgin mother" and
"queen of the heavens" Isis. Osiris, god of the dead and the
underworld in Egypt,
the son of "the holy virgin", again was believed to have been born on
the 25th of December. TheGreeks celebrated the 25th of December as the birthday of Hercules, the son of
the supreme god of the Greeks, Zeus, through the mortal woman Alcmene Bacchus,
the god of wine and revelry among the Romans (known among the Greeks as
Dionysus) was also born on this day. Adonis,revered as a "dying-and-rising god" among the Greeks, miraculously
was also born on the 25th of December. His worshipers held him a yearly
festival representing his death and resurrection, in midsummer. The ceremonies
of his birthday are recorded to have taken place in the same cave in Bethlehem which is claimed
to have been the birth place of Jesus. TheScandinavians celebrated the 25th of December as the birthday of their god
Freyr, the son of their supreme god of the heavens, Odin. TheRomans observed this day as the birthday of the god of the sun, Natalis Solis
Invicti ("Birthday of Sol the invincible"). There was great rejoicing
and all shops were closed. There was illumination and public games. Presents
were exchanged, and the slaves were indulged in great liberties. These are the
same Romans who would later preside over the council of Nicea (325 CE) which
lead to the official Christian recognition of the "Trinity" as the
"true" nature of God, and the "fact" that Jesus was born on
the 25th of December too. InDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Gibbon says: "The Roman Christians,
ignorant of his (Christ's) birth, fixed the solemn festival to the 25th of
December, the Brumalia, or Winter Solstice, when the Pagans annually celebrated
the birth of Sol " vol. ii, p. 383. Christiansopposed to Christmas Thereare several Christian groups who are opposed to Christmas. For example, they
take the verse from the Bible in Jeremiah 10:2-4 as an admonition against
decorating Christmas trees. TheKing James Version reads: "Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the
heathen.... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out
of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it
with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it
move not." Inorder to understand this subject, it is helpful to trace some of the history of
Christmas avoidance, particularly its roots in Puritanism. ThePuritans believed that the first-century church modeled a Christianity that
modern Christians should copy. They attempted to base their faith and practice
solely on the New Testament, and their position on Christmas reflected their
commitment to practice a pure, scriptural form of Christianity. Puritans argued
that God reserved to himself the determination of all proper forms of worship,
and that he disapproved of any human innovations - even innovations that
celebrated the great events of salvation. The name Christmas also alienated
many Puritans. Christmas,after all, meant "the mass of Christ." The mass was despised as a
Roman Catholic institution that undermined the Protestant concept of Christ,
who offered himself once for all. The Puritans' passionate avoidance of any
practice that was associated with papal Rome
caused them to overlook the fact that in many countries the name for the day
had nothing to do with the Catholic mass, but focused instead on Jesus' birth.
The mass did not evolve into the form abhorred by Protestants until long after
Christmas was widely observed. The two customs had separate, though
interconnected, histories. Asardent Protestants, Puritans identified the embracing of Christianity by the
Roman Emperor Constantine in the early 300s CE as the starting point of the
degeneration and corruption of the church. They believed the corruption of the
church was brought on by the interweaving of the church with the pagan Roman
state. To Puritans, Christmas was impure because it entered the Roman Church
sometime in this period. No one knows the exact year or under what
circumstances Roman Christians began to celebrate the birth of their Lord, but
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