Thanksgiving Day (thank you day), often shortened to Thanksgiving, is a national holiday in the United States and Canada that says thank you (traditionally to God) for the harvest and for all kinds of other good things by the non native population

In the United States, thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November. In Canada, where the harvest ends earlier in the year, it is celebrated on the second Monday in October.

We will explain the reason why Muslims should not celebrate it after explaining more about thanksgiving

When is thanks giving ?

The following tables gives the dates of when is thanksgiving in 2025, 2026,2027, 2028,2029, 2030

Dates of Thanksgiving Day

It is tradition for families to get together and to eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day and this day is referred to as Turkey Day.

Since John Kennedy presidency it is custom for the president of USA to pardoning a living turkey, the National Thanksgiving Turkey.

Traditional side dishes are mashed potatoes, filling, sweet potatoes , green beans, cranberries, cranberries and peacan pie and pumpkin pie.

Some Europeans known as Pilgrims who came on Mayflower from Europe, took over land of the people of that region. In November 1621, these Europeans celebrated a feast of thanksgiving which became known in the 19th century as “The First thanksgiving..

It is said that many descendants of the original inhabitants of North America do not see the holiday today as a day when one should be grateful, but consider it the beginning of a tragic process in which they lost their land and their population was decimated. Every year on Thanksgiving Day, Wampanoags and other tribes gather in Plymouth in Massachusetts to commemorate their “national mourning day.”

Christian Europeans committed the largest genocide in history and even today American, Britain and other Europeans support the genocide in Palestine were children, women and elderly are targeted and killed. A Turkish retired Admiral said the Americans brought and Aircraft carrier with f22’s and f35’s and a large number of ships in this sea to deter Turkey and Egypt from coming to the aid of the Palestinians. we don’t have the planes to take them on(when they will fight Turkey for going to the aid of Palestinians).

Day after Thanksgiving Day

The Friday after Thanksgiving is called black Friday in the USA. shopping for Christmas. It is therefore the busiest day in the year for the shopkeepers.

Ruling on Muslims Celebrating thanksgiving

Thanks giving: A story of celebration and Genocide for this alone it must be avoided by Muslims.

Sheik Uthameen said

Praise be to Allah.

Greeting the kuffaar on Christmas and other religious holidays of theirs is haraam, by consensus, as Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy on him, said in Ahkaam Ahl al-Dhimmah: “Congratulating the kuffaar on the rituals that belong only to them is haram by consensus, as is congratulating them on their festivals and fasts by saying “A happy festival to you” or “May you enjoy your festival”, and so on. If the one who says this has been saved from kufr, it is still forbidden. It is like congratulating someone for prostrating to the cross, or even worse than that. It is as great a sin as congratulating someone for drinking wine, or murdering someone, or having illicit sexual relations, and so on. Many of those who have no respect for their religion fall into this error; they do not realize the offensiveness of their actions. Whoever congratulates a person for his disobedience or bidah or kufr exposes himself to the wrath and anger of Allah.”

Congratulating the kuffaar on their religious festivals is haraam to the extent described by Ibn al-Qayyim because it implies that one accepts or approves of their rituals of kufr, even if one would not accept those things for oneself. But the Muslim should not accept the rituals of kufr or congratulate anyone else for them, because Allaah does not accept any of that at all, as He says (interpretation of the meaning):

“If you disbelieve, then verily, Allaah is not in need of you, He likes not disbelief for His slaves. And if you are grateful (by being believers), He is pleased therewith for you. . .”
[al-Zumar 39:7]

“. . . This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion . .”
[al-Maaidah 5:3]

So congratulating them is forbidden, whether they are one’s colleagues at work or otherwise.

If they greet us on the occasion of their festivals, we should not respond, because these are not our festivals, and because they are not festivals which are acceptable to Allah. These festivals are innovations in their religions, and even those which may have been prescribed formerly have been abrogated by the religion of Islam, with which Allah sent Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) to the whole of mankind. Allah says :
“Whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers.” [Aal Imraan 3:85]

It is haraam for a Muslim to accept invitations on such occasions, because this is worse than congratulating them as it implies taking part in their celebrations.

Similarly, Muslims are forbidden to imitate the kuffaar by having parties on such occasions, or exchanging gifts, or giving out sweets or food, or taking time off work, etc., because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.”

Shaykh al-Islaam Ibn Taymiyah said in his book Iqtidaa al-siraat al-mustaqeem mukhaalifat ashaab al-jaheem: “Imitating them in some of their festivals implies that one is pleased with their false beliefs and practices, and gives them the hope that they may have the opportunity to humiliate and mislead the weak.”

Whoever does anything of this sort is a sinner, whether he does it out of politeness or to be friendly, or because he is too shy to refuse, or for whatever other reason, because this is hypocrisy in Islaam, and because it makes the kuffaar feel proud of their religion.

Allah is the One Whom we ask to make the Muslims feel proud of their religion, to help them adhere steadfastly to it, and to make them victorious over their enemies, for He is the Strong and Omnipotent.

Majmooah Fataawa wa Rasaail al-Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen, 3/369)