The Reality of Halloween

(adapted from an article on the Internet)

Knock, Knock, Knock..... 

You open the door and there stands one or more children standing in some sort of costume, highly excited and all screaming at the top of their lungs...."TRICK or TREAT", without knowing the meaning of what they are saying or doing. 

Most kids in America grow up trick or treating and never know what it is all about. 

All they want to do is get as much candy as they can and do whatever they have to do to get it!! 

As an adult, do you know what Halloween represents? 

🔺Where did it begin?

It began over 2000 yrs ago with people known as the Celtics. They lived in what is today England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This was also the beginning of the Celtic new year, a time to give thanks to the sun god for the harvest.

🔺What is it all about?

Halloween, All saints day, All hallows eve or All souls day was a festival held to honor Samhain the so called "lord of death". 

It was a Druidical belief that on the eve of this festival, Samhain, lord of death, called together the wicked spirits that within the past 12 months had been condemned to inhabit the bodies of animals.

It was a pagan belief that on one night of the year, the souls of the dead return to their original homes. If they were not given food and shelter, these evil spirits would cast spells and create havoc in the lives of all those who didn’t offer these “treats” to them.

In modern day Satanism and Witchcraft covens, this is the day when Satan himself comes to "fellowship" with his followers.

Many changes have occurred over the centuries, but one thing has stayed the same, and that is the practice of giving an "offering" or “treat”.

Need I go on further?!

🔺The Christian Connection

This day was also celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church and was known as All Saints' Day to honor all the “hallowed saints”.

The day was officially authorized in 835 by Pope Gregory IV after it was moved to November 1 to coincide with Samhain. It began on the evening of October 31, which was called All Hallows Eve.

Thus, without forcing the pagans to drop their pagan practices and accept Christianity, the Roman Catholic church simply accommodated these satanic rituals.

🔺Jack-O-Lanterns

The word jack-o-Lantern is actually an abbreviation of "Jack of the Lantern."

Jack is another name for joker or Satan.

According to the Irish tale, a man named Jack was fond of playing tricks on the devil. 

Satan got annoyed and tossed a burning coal from hell towards Jack.

With the coal in his "lantern" Jack was condemned to walk the earth forever searching for rest.

People would place the jack-o-lantern on their doorsteps and windows to ward off the spirits of the dead on Halloween.

Thus the jack-o-lantern is a Halloween idol that keeps alive an ancient symbol of demonic superstition.

🔺 Witches and Black Cats

Halloween is regarded as the high "Sabbath" for practicing witches today.

And we all know that witches are magicians and anything to do with magic is haraam.

Cats have been closely associated with a mystery religion from the Egyptians to the Norse. 

But the Celts had a particular fear of cats, believing they were humans who had been changed into feline form by evil powers. 

The black cat particularly was connected to demonic powers.

Black cats are the chief idol of the goddess of Wicca, Diana. 

In legend, she turns into a black cat to commit incest with her brother, Lucifer. 

Eventually the Druids themselves came to be regarded as witches. Witch hunting during Halloween became almost a national pastime in the colonial years of the US.

🔺Orange and Black colors

Orange, black, and red, the supposed to be the “devil's” colors, and are the colors associated with Halloween. 

Black represents black magic and demonic power.

We all know that the black of night is when forces of evil are busiest, using the cover of darkness for their sinister works.

And that’s why we are supposed to seek Allaah’s protection from the evil of the darkness in Surah al-Falaq.

‎وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ

"And from the evil of the darkening (night) as it comes with its darkness.” (Surah al-Falaq: 3)

🔺 Skulls and Skeletons

The skull is the symbol of death and the skeleton is a form of the god of the dead, the witches' "horned god." 

The Dictionary of Satanism by Wade Baskin says this about skulls and skeletons under "skull worship": 

"Skulls play an important role as sacred relics and as objects of worship among primitives. 

Among Polynesians and Melanesians, skulls of ancestors are worshiped in order to establish connections with the spirits of the dead. 

Like the head of Osiris in Egypt, the skulls of ancestors may also serve as tutelar deities. 

The head or its parts, each of which may stand for the whole, can be used as magical food or as a means of increasing the fertility of the soil."

🔺 Fire Rites

Ghosts and witches feared fire, it was thought, and so fire became the best weapon against evil spirits. 

Witchcraft was punished by burning at the stake, fire being used as a means purification. 

The light that fires gave off was a sign of sacredness.

🔺Apple Bobbing

Apple bobbing is popular at Halloween parties.

It was a means of divination among the Druids and was originally a fertility rite where the apple was a considered a “love charm” as a selection for a “mate”.

🔺Is Halloween a TRICK or TREAT?

Most absolutely a TRICK. 

As you can see from all the above the real meaning of Halloween has been watered down. 

It is Satan's objective to get all to worship him. 

Allaah tells us to not have any thing to do with this.

Is it not our duty as responsible Muslims to follow what Allaah and HIS Prophet ﷺ  Sal Allaahu Alayhi wa Sallam taught us to do? 

HE taught us what is right and what is wrong. 

He has left the choice upon us to make. 

Has it not been mentioned time and time again in the Qur’aan that the Shaytaan is our enemy?

‎يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ادْخُلُوا فِي السِّلْمِ كَافَّةً وَلَا تَتَّبِعُوا خُطُوَاتِ الشَّيْطَانِ إِنَّهُ لَكُمْ عَدُوٌّ مُّبِينٌ

“O you who believe! 

Enter perfectly in Islaam (by obeying all the rules and regulations of the Islamic religion) and follow not the footsteps of Shaytaan.

Verily! He is to you a plain enemy.”

(Surah al-Baqarah:208)

If you are a Muslim, you have no reason to be part of this 'holy' day of Satan.

May Allaah protect us from the Shaytaan and from all that is evil.

And Allaah knows best.