What's in a pumpkin? It's just a pumpkin! Have you heard that one before, just around the time of Halloween?
So here's what's in the pumpkin: The Jack o' Lantern.
If you're freaked out by this picture, good.
You should be!
This is the least of your worries if you practice carving and keeping Jack O' Lanterns.
"Verily! Joining others in worship with Allah is a great Zulm (wrong) indeed. Quran 31:13"
"Those who reject (Truth), among the People of the Book and among the Polytheists, will be in Hell-fire, to dwell therein (for aye). They are the worst of creatures." (al-Bayyina, 98/6).
The story starts in Ireland, and the legend tells of a miserly thief called Stingy Jack. Jack made a pact with the devil to avoid going to hell. Jack needed a drink; as in alcohol. So, at death's door, he met up with the devil one night and promised to go to hell if he could have a drink. The devil turned into a penny for him to buy his drink with. But he tricked the devil putting the coin in his pocket, and kept on going. Eventually the stingy man died, and heaven would not accept him of course. But, neither would hell, because the story goes, it wasn't his time. So he was destined to roam the darkness forever.
So Jack asked the Devil for a light to see by, and the Devil gave him a coal from hell, which he placed into a pumpkin (some stories say a turnip) and he "carries it around with him to this day to light his way to this day"
Personally, I don't think that any more needs to be said about this; just maybe a question begs asking: Do you really, really want to light the way for this evil spirit, to your home? Or, if you don't believe he's still roaming, do you really, really want to celebrate this story which is the ONLY origin of the Jack o' Lantern? Or, if you know this is the origin of the story and still don't care, do you still call yourself a muslim?
It's insane, to my mind, that any person who in any way is either Christian, Jewish or Muslim would want to participate in such a thing.
And the answer is: What's in the pumpkin? - Oh, just a stone from hell itself to light the way to a miserable soul. On the other hand, maybe its just the story of a man who sold his soul to the devil and you're just "imitating" him, like the "good follower" that you are!
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