The custom of playing tricks on friends on April 1st is believed to have originated in France in the middle 1500s.
Before that time, one calendar was used throughout Europe. Under this calendar, each new year began on April 1st. On that day, people celebrated by exchanging gifts and visiting each other.
Then in 1564, King Charles IX of France adopted a new calendar and decreed that each new year was to begin on January 1st. However, while most people followed their king’s decree, there were some who did not like the idea of the change and refused to accept the new New Year’s Day.
These people soon became the butt of jokes and tricks by their friends and neighbors because they continued to observe April 1st as New Year’s Day.
These friends and neighbors sent mock gifts, invited these people to fake parties, and played tricks on them because they were “April Fools,” people who clung to their April New Year’s Day.
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Many people celebrate APRIL FOOL day every year and make a fool to each other. But how many of us know the bitter facts hidden behind it. It was around a THOUSAND YEARS ago when MUSLIMS RULED SPAIN . And the Muslim power in Spain was so strong that it couldn’t be destroyed. The Christians of the west wished to wipe out Islam from all parts of the world and they did succeed to quite an extent. But when they tried to eliminate Islam in Spain and conquer it, they failed. They tried several times but never succeeded.
The unbelievers then sent their spies in Spain to study the Muslims there and find out what was the power they possessed and they found that their power was TAQWA. The Muslims of Spain were not just Muslims but they were practicing Muslims. They not only read the Qur’an but also acted upon it.
When the Christians found the power of the Muslims they started thinking of strategies to break this power. So they started sending alcohol and cigarettes to Spain free of cost. This technique of the west worked out and it started weakening the faith of the Muslims in particular the young generation of Spain .
The result was that the Catholics of the west wiped out Islam and conquered the entire Spain bringing an end to the EIGHT HUNDRED LONG YEARS’ RULE OF THE MUSLIMS in Spain . The last fort of the Muslims to fall was GRENADA (GHARNATAH) , which was on the 1ST OF APRIL .
From that year onwards, every year they celebrate APRIL FOOLS day on the 1ST OF APRIL, celebrating the day, they made a fool Muslims. They did not make a fool of the Muslim army at Gharnatah only, but of the whole Muslim Ummah. We, the Muslims were fooled by them, therefore they have the reason to celebrate April fool day , to keep up the spirit.
Dear brothers and sisters, when we join in this celebration, we do so out of ignorance. If we had known about it, we would never have celebrated our own downfall.
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Its dangerous to spread some news about Islam which you yourself are not sure about…One just receives an e-mail from someone & forward it to everybody…This kind of chain mails are just plain emails. They never carry any supplementary scientific and historical proofs, any fatwa from any renown Islamic scholars, ulema, never give any links to the source website where this was first reported. They never give any foundations on which to confirm its authencity. Plz understand. Read the true story behind this email by Yusuf Estes. He’s an Islamic orator on peace TV. Please you Muslims don’t help the conspirators make a fool of our own people. use reason and education…and read full story below… and plz fwd this truth as u have forwarded the foolish message.
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