Christmas was Not a Pagan Holiday

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

Every year, we have the same situation where some Muslim will say that Christians celebrating Christmas on the 25^th of December is wrong because it was the date of a pagan festival.  There are so many levels of idiocy in this statement. 

Firstly, there will likely always have been some pagan festival on any one date.  Humanity has been around a long time.  When we consider the shift of dates as calendars adjusted to the movement of celestial bodies, dates actually becomes quite irrelevant. 

Secondly, the festival of Saturnalia and the winter solstice was actually celebrated on the 21^st December, not the 25^th. 

And finally, the 25^th of December was chosen because the early Church believed in the integral doctrine, that Jesus (a.s.) was conceived on the day he was crucified.  Taking its lead from Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, they traditionally ascribed the date of the Crucifixion to the 25^th March.  Based on the integral doctrine, the date of conception must have been on the same date; nine months from that date is the 25^th December.  And that was how they got the date for Christmas.