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Salamu alaikum wr wb,

Im not sure what to make of this article, I don't want to be too quick to draw conclusions with out enough knowledge on the subject:

http://www.whyislam.org/submission/c...reciative-one/

When I saw the blurb on the homepage of whyislam.org I thought it would be about the fact that we should not single out just one day which Allah had not singled out to be extremely thankful to Allah, but we should be thankful all year round. Instead, it was sort of celebrating the federal holiday called "Thanksgiving" It did talk about thankfulness to Allah swt in a beautiful way, but it was all based around Thanksgiving, which I'm a bit perplexed by. I listened to many lectures about celebrating eids outside of the two eids which Allah gave the Muslims, and I had the understanding that we dont celebrate these other holidays because Allah didnt make them Eids for the Muslims and because of their origins (Christmas based pagan/christian practices of worshiping other than Allah, Thanksgiving based on singling out one day in November to give thanks to God, and so on...)
Any thoughts on this article??