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What is the ruling on eating food prepared for Christian holidays, and what is the ruling on accepting their invitations to their celebrations of the birth of the Messiah?

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It is not permissible to celebrate innovated holidays like Christmas, nor to eat from their food, nor to accept invitations to them; because that is an encouragement and an affirmation of these innovations, and a cause for the ignorant to be deceived.

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