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Jesus (Isa) features in the Quran as the prophet prior to Muhammad.
Celebrating the birth of one of God's prophets is probably still a good thing. I'll defer to an expert though.
Also, your landlady is probably just a nice person.
It depends. Jesus is certainly as important as Mohammed to Muslims and it's not prohibited to celebrate his birth but some would never participate simply because it's a Christian tradition. Also the ban of images makes all the customs around Christmas a little tricky. In Turkey for example a lot of Muslims do celebrate but you won't find nativity scenes or stuff like that there, only images of Noel Baba ("Christmas Dad" = Santa) who is modeled after Saint Nicholas but himself not a religious figure.
Ironic, since St Nick is Turkish.
He isn't. He's greek. He lived in anatolia before the turks did.
90larda hic kimse noel kutlamazdi. Ne kutlanislar varsa Islam'la alakasi yok. Hristiyanlar noelde isa mesih, yani allah'in oglunun dogum gününü kutlar. Kesinlikle 100% haram.
Jesus is the most important figure in Islam, and is believed to be the Messiah. But Muslims don't believe that Jesus was born on December 25th.
However many Muslim-majority cultures of course celebrate the winter solstice (Yalda Night has Zoroastrian roots).
He wasn't, not even in december. The church's selection of december was to coopt the existing saturnalia festival.