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Originally Posted by Kona_Silat

Christmas recognized in Indonesia as national holiday, where their constitution stresses belief in one God (the God of Abraham for Muslims and Christians). It is a secular country where Muslims and Christians fought togehtor against the Dutch colonialist. In Malaysia where the offical religion is Islam, Christmas is also acknowledged as well as the Hindu and Buddhist holidays of its minority population. I think Albania and Bosnia recognizes xmas.

Albania and Bosnia are not Muslim countries. Albania is an ex communist country..now I think its secular.

I didn't realise Malaysians recognised Xmas..its cool to see some diversity in Muslims countries! After doing some research it seems that this is a throwback to the colonial period.

[Aryan_]

Originally Posted by Arabesque

I'm not exactly sure about that, Aryan.

I remember coming across several hadiths (of which I was able to find one) describing the Prophet's (sAaw) clothing, and the turban is usually said to be black. (Sometimes white).

In fact, if you look at the scholars of the Shia madhhab, you'll find that those who claim to be asyaad (descendants of the Prophet) wear only black turbans.



I heard that the Prophet's (sAaw) favourite colour was green. But there's nothing to prove this, I think.

In the desserts of Arabia, the green turban was exclusive only to the Sharifs of Mecca, the descendants of the Prophet. Only those who had performed Hajj, and hence visited them could be worthy of donning the green turban. This was before aviation when hajjis were measured in thousands and not millions. I read it in Sir Richard Burton's book on Hajj.
sharif, or sharaf, or sharif (Arabic title) --*Britannica Online Encyclopedia

The ayatollahs and the black turban different.

[AbuAbdullah]

imam abdul malik talked about these things in his lecture at one of the conferences. they invite muslims at white house to break fast and say islam is peace and its not a war on islam while they go and imprison tens of thousands of muslims injustly without a single charge and drop bombs and other chemicals in iraq and afghanistan. and support israel with arms and bulldozers and money to destroy Palestinian homes and kill them. this stunt is just lip service in my eyes.