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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:41 pm


There is no reason for us muslims to clebrate april fools. It's history is unclear.

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http://www.muftisays.com/viewarticle.php?article=aprilfools

As April draws near, non believers around the globe celebrate a holiday on the first of the month known as April Fool’s Day. The traditional practice of this day is to play some sort of practical joke on someone and make him the “April Fool”.

Pranks performed on this day range form the simple, (such as saying, “your shoes are untied!”) to the elaborate. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, “April fool!”

The history of April Fool’s Day is not totally clear. No exact date can be found pinpointing the first official celebration of the holiday. There are, however, many narrations regarding the reason the tradition is practiced. One narration states that it is a day the Spanish celebrate in remembrance of the day that they defeated the Muslims and swept them from power in lower Spain. According to this narration, the Christian army could not conquer the Muslims there and sent spies to discover why. They discovered that the Muslims were strong on faith and obedient to Allah. The tradition goes on saying that the Christians sent in alcohol and tobacco, which the Muslims used and became the means in which they lost their obedience to Allah. Then the Christian army invaded lower Spain and conquered the Muslims on the first of April and began celebrating April Fool’s Day ever since. As this story has been circulating between our Muslim brothers strengthening their beliefs about the history of this day I deemed it appropriate to clarify a few points about the history of April Fool’s Day. The truth of the matter is that this story is not true in many aspects.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:29 pm


No offense to you, but I dont believe that at all.

I was taught that April Fools' roots mainly come from France and has NOTHING to do with the Muslims.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:08 am


I heard of the story that on April fools day Muslims were killed by non-Muslims army even though they were promised a safe passageway.When the Muslims were defeated they were told to board a ship and be away safely but then the ship on which the Muslims were was burned down.This was the history i heard of :l
PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 5:20 am


Lewpy Von Cakes
I heard of the story that on April fools day Muslims were killed by non-Muslims army even though they were promised a safe passageway.When the Muslims were defeated they were told to board a ship and be away safely but then the ship on which the Muslims were was burned down.This was the history i heard of :l
me too =)

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 7:28 am


oh really ? confused
i had not heared about it rolleyes
PostPosted: Mon Apr 19, 2010 8:05 am


Lets look at the last line of the OP's post

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The truth of the matter is that this story is not true in many aspects.


I highly doubt it has any negative or agressive stories with it's conception.

Muslim scholars and community's seem to be so completely xenophobic of every little tradition and cultural practice, that is not arabic or Islamic in origin, to the extent that a lot of lies and hatred are spread by Muslims to try and dis-credit harmless cultural traditions.

April's fools day is harmless, regardless of what it may or may not have been originally celebrated for, the fact of the matter is that no one alive celebrates it for any other reason than good humour.

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