{"id":153692,"date":"2025-12-16T17:19:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=153692"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:19:27","slug":"what-is-christmas-and-why-dont-muslims-celebrate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/12\/16\/what-is-christmas-and-why-dont-muslims-celebrate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Christmas, and why don\u2019t Muslims celebrate it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Source: Al Hakam, London.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The streets are glowing with Christmas decorations; the familiar colours of the season spread across shop windows and city centres. Joy and smiles fill people\u2019s faces, and of course, you can\u2019t ignore the Christmas sales and advertisements. A single visit to Central London, or any busy London street, makes it clear that Christmas has arrived.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what&nbsp;<em>is<\/em>&nbsp;Christmas? What exactly is being celebrated? Do Muslims celebrate it, and if not, why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Text&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alhakam.org\/what-is-christmas-why-dont-muslims-celebrate-it\/\">https:\/\/www.alhakam.org\/what-is-christmas-why-dont-muslims-celebrate-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Al Hakam, London. The streets are glowing with Christmas decorations; the familiar colours of the season spread across shop windows and city centres. Joy and smiles fill people\u2019s faces, and of course, you can\u2019t ignore the Christmas sales and advertisements. A single visit to Central London, or any busy London street, makes it clear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ahmadi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153693,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153692\/revisions\/153693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}