Christmas trees in houses of Sikhs

[PAL 07]

rather than a star on top of the tree which is a representation of the sign of Isa's birth, why don't we replace this with a Khanda? Is that ok to do - any thoughts.

Back in the 80's or 90's there was a Singh in Birmingham UK who had a khanda put on his mercedes, replacing the mercedes sign. When the Police saw it they told him to take it off LOL

[Raaj.Karega.Khalsa]

Back in the 80's or 90's there was a Singh in Birmingham UK who had a khanda put on his mercedes, replacing the mercedes sign. When the Police saw it they told him to take it off LOL

Really? What would've been to reason to ask them to take off? Disrespect to Mercedes?

[PAL 07]

no they said if you were to hit a pedestrian, you would probably kill him

[Singh559]

Really? What would've been to reason to ask them to take off? Disrespect to Mercedes?

I think it's a legal issue, but I'm not sure.

no they said if you were to hit a pedestrian, you would probably kill him

hahahah what? So the impact from the weight of the car wouldn't, but that would?

[simran345]

We not gettin a tree this year, waste of money n time puttin up then down again.

The real ones make a mess, and the artificial ones look cheap, and then u got to pay for th tinsel, balls, this that and what not, and they take up space in th house, so u cant see th tv.

Was goin to get a little make it urself foam one from ryman, par main nai £2.99 laune dho hareh peele rang de tukrea de..

and its to do with th pagan thingy majingy, whatever it is....and its only for kids like decoration th colours look nice to them.

So instead i bought somethin for my vase like one of those twig branches thingys from sainsburys, that i can use all year and it matches th colour in my cushions.

evi ineh paise dunia laundi christmas chrusmas teh, jad koi church nu janda v nai, rang barange rasiyaa buubhereh jehe tanglende shahth te, te happy happy hojanda sara kuch...

oh and i forgot, when my grandma was alive, we used to sing "happy chresmass to joo, to jooo" with th happy birthday tune, coz we didnt know wat else to sing. so its not exactly as if we were celebratin xmas for a reason, just coz everybody else was doin it.

[Hammertime007]

Christmas to non Chritians is just as a a end of year celebration and holiday that ends the year.

Time of work and good stuff on tv

[VanHelsingh]

Christmas to non Chritians is just as a a end of year celebration and holiday that ends the year.

Time of work and good stuff on tv

Yes, that's true.

I find that as a person becomes aware of the historical significance of these days in terms of what happened in Sikh history, there is no joy to be found during the next few weeks. It's not about being miserable or begrudging the rest of the world the chance to eat and be merry. But in terms of this month and the various shaheedi smagams it's very difficult to be even appear to be joyous. It's a solemn period of time for Sikhs and I'd like more of us (not necessarily folk like us but the broader Sikh community) to be aware of the hardships experienced by, for example, the Sahibzaade, etc.

[Jonny101]

It is not befitting of a Sikh of the Guru to put up a Christmas tree in his/her house. Firstly we are not Christians that we need to celebrate this holyday of Yasoo Masee. Secondly if your excuse is that you are celebrating it because it is a European pagan holyday, then please do your self a favour and look at yourself in the mirror and see for yourself, YOU ARE NOT A GORA! so stop trying to act like a coconut because that's exactly what you are if you celebrate Christmas by putting up a tree.

A Sikh should be very careful living in the west. If you celebrate these non Sikh holydays with your family what kind of sanskaars are you giving to your children? you are basically confusing your children who will grow up thinking it is perfectly okay to celebrate Christmas and by extention Hanakah and even Eid! then we wonder where we went wrong when our confused girls grow up marrying Muslims and Christians.

December is not a month for us to celebrate. Our Sahibzadas and Mata Gujri Ji were Shaheed in this month. This is a HUGE tragady. So remember these Shaheedis before cheerfully celebrating Christian holydays. TORA SHARAM KARO!!

[Not2Cool2Argue]

I find that as a person becomes aware of the historical significance of these days in terms of what happened in Sikh history, there is no joy to be found during the next few weeks. It's not about being miserable or begrudging the rest of the world the chance to eat and be merry. But in terms of this month and the various shaheedi smagams it's very difficult to be even appear to be joyous. It's a solemn period of time for Sikhs and I'd like more of us (not necessarily folk like us but the broader Sikh community) to be aware of the hardships experienced by, for example, the Sahibzaade, etc.

So true. Just the other day my mom was telling us that in the old days, there used to be no weddings in the month of 'Poh' because nobody wanted to create a 'mohaul' or environment of joy and celebration, in remembrance of the Sahibzadey.

And I was like, but the Sahibzadeys got married, don't they always say, 'larhi moth viahi'.......she said Sikhs view it as a sacrifice......

[N30S1NGH]

Good post Johnny Veer, I also made similar post in the past regarding Christmas topic.

We Sikhs have so much enrich, emotional, moving history/ events such as gurpurb of ten guru's, gurgaddi, shaheedi-divas of singh, singhanis, sants/murida barsi through out the whole year yet i don't understand how could we get time(let alone desire) to indulge in outside events let alone outdated capitalist pagan ritual..!!

I be honest my sister bought a Christmas tree last year for kids i was disappointed i told her not next time, this year so no christmas tree but with that being said my wife still has to come in terms with her obsession of celebrating halloween, she has been consistently celebrating Halloween party for kids ( also my nieces and nephew) for past 5 years..i go nuts when that happens every year but at this year i just let it go, sometimes within marriage, you just gotta take back seat, zoom out and watch maharaj lella..!!