Christmas gift

Question

Salams my wife’s employer has offered £20 allowance to order biryani (which from a halal source) and also 1 hour time off as a good will gesture to celebrate Christmas is the food and time unlawful in our faith
Please give guidance on this Jazakallah



Answer

If a non-Muslim offers gifts around the time of their celebrations, it will be permissible to accept the gifts provided the gifts are halal in and of themselves. A Muslim receiving the gifts should not receive them with the intention of venerating the non-Muslim’s celebration, rather, they should accept the gifts as part of a social custom.

الدر المختار وحاشية ابن عابدين (رد المحتار) (6/ 754)
والإعطاء باسم النيروز والمهرجان لا يجوز) أي الهدايا باسم هذين اليومين حرام (وإن قصد تعظيمه) كما يعظمه المشركون (يكفر) قال أبو حفص الكبير: لو أن رجلا عبد الله خمسين سنة ثم أهدى لمشرك يوم النيروز بيضة يريد تعظيم اليوم فقد كفر وحبط عمله اهـ ولو أهدى لمسلم ولم يرد تعظيم اليوم بل جرى على عادة الناس لا يكفر وينبغي أن يفعله قبله أو بعده نفيا للشبهة

Fatawa Darul Ulum Zakariyyah 5:597

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Answered by:
Ifta Research Fellow

Checked & Approved by:
Mufti Abdul Rahman Mangera
Mufti Zubair Patel

Source:

https://fatwacentre.org/aqidah-belief/christmas-gift/

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