"April Fool" is the inhuman according to me so I never celebrates, why...???

This is strange to me. Are you saying you would be weaker in your faith, if you celebrated April 1st? How would that weaken your faith? Is Islam so weak, that one single day in the year, can harm your faith? I don't think so. And no, April 1st is not about killing Muslims. Never was. I don't know where you get your information from, but April Fool's day, was based on a Roman Festival of Hilaria. In Europe, they created a festival called "The Feast of Fools", which was equal to the Roman Festival of Hilaria. Later there was a widely popularly book Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, in which Chaucer was tricked by a fox. However, a copy error said that this happened on March 32, which of course is April 1st. People began celebrating April 1st, in the 1700s. The Islamic rule of Spain ended in the 1400s. April 1st has nothing to do with Islam.

It is the international day of atheism. "the fool says in his heart there is no God"

Nobody is asking you to celebrate a day which is part of neither your Pakistani nor your Muslim heritage. April Fools Day has absolutely NOTHING to do with killings and mass murders (and you might also have mentioned 9/11 along with the Jews in Germany and the Spanish Muslims). First of all, the WHOLE of this story is a fabrication from beginning to end. In other words, it is a pack of lies written by some malicious or ignorant person (undoubtedly someone calling himself a Muslim) in order to hoax Muslims and, very likely, to further stir up hatred against the Western world and Christianity. You can read the whole catalogue of the lies that this story tells here: http://www.themodernreligion.com/misc/hoax/april-fool.html in an article written by Yusuf Estes, National [American] Chaplain to the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. In brief: 1) The last Muslim leader, Muhammad XII surrendered complete control of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella on January 2, 1492. 2) The origin of April Fools day is either in customs dating back to Roman times an earlier OR to almost 100 years AFTER the fall of Granada. Many countries traditionally have some kind of association of jokes being played on people on this day but Spain is a notable exception. The day associated with tomfoolery in Spain and much of Latin America is December 28, Christian day of celebration of the "Day of the Holy Innocents". (The word 'innocent' may also means 'foolish' or 'gullible' but the "Holy Innocents" of the Christian festival are NOT assumed to be so!). In any case, there is absolutely NO association of April Fools Day with the fall of Grenada. By believing and retelling this story, you yourself - and Muslims in general - are made to look foolish.

Hmm. For me, it's just a dumb day I don't get. How is it that people can still be tricked so easily on that day when they already know its the day of pranks?

Assalamualikum, brother Tushavi. From what i read April's fool is a day based from ancient Roman pagan festival, Hilaria to honor Cybele the mother of gods. So i never heard that festival is meant to mocked us Muslems because Grenada was conquered?

The article I read on the subject didn't mention anything about Muslims as the reason April Fool's Day got started but I have found that many nationalities have their own version as to how it got started just like all the stories about the origin of Christmas and Easter, which you probably don't celebrate either. I don't really pay any attention to it as well as Saint Patrick's Day. I did, when I remembered it while working, just to be sure I had green on so I wouldn't get pinched. It is an interesting story about your countrymen.

Where did you get this story my friend?

I have never heard how April Fools came about. It wouldn't matter though, because I've never cared for the day.

Muhammad and Allah is the best of schemers." .....I think he played April fools day all the time. Muhammad clearly used deception when he signed a 10-year treaty with the Meccans that allowed him access to their city while he secretly prepared his own forces for a takeover. The unsuspecting residents were conquered in easy fashion after he broke the treaty two years later, and some of the people in the city who had trusted him at his word were executed. Another example of lying is when Muhammad used deception to trick his personal enemies into letting down their guard and exposing themselves to slaughter by pretending to seek peace. This happened in the case of Ka'b bin al-Ashraf (as previously noted) and again later against Usayr ibn Zarim, a surviving leader of the Banu Nadir tribe, which had been evicted from their home in Medina by the Muslims. Muslims are allowed to lie to unbelievers in order to defeat them. The two forms are: Taqiyya - Saying something that isn't true. Kitman - Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills "it shall be as if he had killed all mankind") while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of "corruption" and "mischief." The word "Taqiyya" literally means: "Concealing, precaution, guarding.” It is employed in disguising one's beliefs, intentions, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions or strategies. In practical terms it is manifested as dissimulation, lying, deceiving, vexing and confounding with the intention of deflecting attention, foiling or pre-emptive blocking. It is currently employed in fending off and neutralising any criticism of Islam or Muslims. Falsehoods told to prevent the denigration of Islam, to protect oneself, or to promote the cause of Islam are sanctioned in the Qur'an and Sunna, including lying under oath in testimony before a court, deceiving by making distorted statements to the media such as the claim that Islam is a “religion of peace”. A Muslim is even permitted to deny or denounce his faith if, in so doing, he protects or furthers the interests of Islam, so long as he remains faithful to Islam in his heart Qur'an (16:106) - Establishes that there are circumstances that can "compel" a Muslim to tell a lie. Qur'an (3:54) - "And they (the disbelievers) schemed, and Allah schemed (against them): and Allah is the best of schemers." The Arabic word used here for scheme (or plot) is makara, which literally means deceit. If Allah is deceitful toward unbelievers, then there is little basis for denying that Muslims are allowed to do the same. (See also 8:30 and 10:21) Taken collectively these verses are interpreted to mean that there are circumstances when a Muslim may be "compelled" to deceive others for a greater purpose.

I am not sure where you got this information, but here in the United States April Fools Day is a day where we play practical jokes on each other. One year I called my best friend and told her that Randy and I had eloped (which we did not) and one year I told my sister it was snowing outside (we lived in Southern California) and she believed me.

Hi, I don't celebrate April fool or participate in its chicanery anyway. Your post added to the information though, whether it is true or not, it shed light to this bizarre phenomenon.

What is TOQWA? Who are celebrating April fools? and How do they celebrate it?

I didn't even know about that. Wow. I do understand it. It would be a disgrace if a self-called true Muslim celebrated April Fool's Day just for the fun. Actually, I liked it as a silly kid, but nowadays, I don't see the gist of it. I mean, why is it so funny to make fun of someone or deceive them? OK, some of the news on the Internet are funny in a cute way, but I don't see how for example pouring a bucket of water on someone's head who's not paying attention is funny.

Here in the Philippines (or just here in our place) April 1st is just an ordinary day.

I can understand why April 1 is a day of sadness for Islam. We all have many days like that, most of which we've forgotten because we don't pay attention to history anymore. Maybe that's a good thing, in a way--we have less reason to hate others if we forget battles with wins and defeats. I remember that as a young girl I hated the British because their policies years and years ago starved my Irish ancestors and tried to forcibly crush the religion favored by most of the country. But then as I matured I realized that it was in the past and people have changed as generations have come and gone. I'm glad to be rid of that hatred and replace it with friendship for the present generation. I will not hate but will never forget the cruelty and injustices borne by my ancestors. I don't celebrate April Fool's day and even as a child I thought it was a stupid way to act just because it was the first day of April. I have a sense of humor but the pranks people play on this day are not only silly, many of them are cruel and humiliating. So I ignore the day and treat it like any other.

This is the first time I've heard that story. In the US, April first is just a day for playing pranks on each other.

I Am not so sure about April fool! I thought this is the day the christians call the day of the innocents? I have to say I never take notice of it as I do not have any religion prejudice...but at the same time I have to say you muslins take it too far!

I don't really know the history about this but one thing for sure that it can be annoy other even we meant it to make a jokes, but if other see it is not funny at all then we went to the wrong direction to entertain other

interesting, not sure about the story but it is a day some make it as lies..maybe they should had called it lieing day. . but to me I do not celeabrate that day but I think more of it as joke day...to make another smile...they should had called it JOKE DAY...

Tushavi my friend, I think that the version of the origin of the April Fool's day you mentioned is not correct. I did a searching in the Internet, and the materials that came up say that the origin of the April Fool's day is most likely a result of some calendar change in the 1500's or earlier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day Below is another article: http://www.april-fools.us/history-april-fools.htm The history of April Fool's Day or All Fool's Day is uncertain, but the current thinking is that it began around 1582 in France with the reform of the calendar under Charles IX. The Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved from March 25 - April 1 (new year's week) to January 1. Communication traveled slowly in those days and some people were only informed of the change several years later. Still others, who were more rebellious refused to acknowledge the change and continued to celebrate on the last day of the former celebration, April 1. These people were labeled "fools" by the general populace, were subject to ridicule and sent on "fool errands," sent invitations to nonexistent parties and had other practical jokes played upon them. The butts of these pranks became known as a "poisson d'avril" or "April fish" because a young naive fish is easily caught. In addition, one common practice was to hook a paper fish on the back of someone as a joke.