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Sister, I don't know how to pronounce this Marilii,

Marilii from Finland emails,

my shala we have people watching in Finland. I've never been to Finland, but we have a sister from

Finland saying that she is the only Muslim convert in her family and all of her family

gathers on Christmas and is the only time of the year that her family meets.

She is the only convert, apparently from what I understand she doesn't have a large community or whatever and she goes online to do her fatwas and she finds a website I'm not going to mention it but it is a website that I'm not too fond of in particular.

So she goes on to this website and she says the scholar sitting 5,000 miles away in the land

very far from Finland has said that it is sinful for a convert to go to her family or his family whatever on the day of

Christmas because it is a pagan festival.

And she is saying, if I don't go go I will be very sad because my family has accepted my Islam and

is the only time I can meet the extended family.

And if I do go I'm going to feel guilty because this fatwa has said that I'm sinful for going.

And she has emailed me asking what is my opinion on this. the response to this question

to this question what is prohibited in our religion is to worship other than

Allah Subhana what a Allah. Right?

Allah Ahmad al-A-Uwala and to a-dunama Abu-A-Budunamabad. What is prohibited is to

worship other than Allah Subhana Wataala.

Those Fatawa that you're referencing in those websites

with the respect that they deserve,

they don't understand what exactly a family gathering at

Christmas is. They have never interacted with a Christian civilization. They are living in a very different world than the ones

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