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Does celebrating Christmas and Halloween or other religiously impermissible holidays expel a Muslim from the faith and render him an infidel, or not?

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It was previously explained that it is forbidden to celebrate the holidays of the disbelievers, and whoever does so commits a sin. However, they do not commit disbelief unless they know the meanings of disbelief inherent in these holidays and approve of them, or they do so out of veneration for the days of disbelief. Holidays are part of the laws and methodologies, and conforming to them is conforming to disbelief, or a branch thereof. Conforming to the most specific laws of disbelief and its most overt rituals may lead to disbelief, given its conditions, and its least state is disobedience. Whoever gifts an egg to a polytheist on Nowruz out of veneration for the day has disbelieved. And whoever buys something or gives a gift on it with the intention of venerating the day, like the disbelievers, has disbelieved. But if it is with the intention of enjoyment or fostering love, it is not disbelief, but rather disliked due to the resemblance.

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