Milad An-Nabiyy An Iridescence of Bliss_part one FOREWORD This compilation called Milad An-Nabiyy An Iridescence of Bliss is a humble selection from the writings and sayings of some of the great scholars of the People of Truth, Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama^ah, among the Ash^ariyys and the Maturidiyys, and is primarily based on the work of His Eminence, Shaykh ^Abdullah abu ^abdirrahman Ashshayby. Most Muslims today are Ash^ariyys who are the followers of Imam Abu Al-Hasan Al-Ash^ariyy and they are of the Shafi^yy school of thought. A significant number of Muslims are Maturidiyys who are the followers of Imam Abu Mansur Al-Maturidiyy and they are of the Hanafiyy school of thought. Both schools reflect the one and same creed of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama^ah. Sine 1150 years the astute scholars and knights of knowledge of the People of Truth, Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama^ah, have been among the Ash^ariyys, primarily, and the Maturidiyys. The purpose of selecting and translating this work is to highlight to the English reader the scholars’ support for the practice of celebrating the birth of the Prophet, their reasons for judging it as a good and rewardable innovation, and that they are the authority upon which Muslims at large--in the East and the West--rely in implementing this honorable practice. Contrary to the vast majority of Muslims, scholars and laypeople alike, the Wahhabi faction—just a handful of 1.5M supporters among 1.3B Muslims worldwide-- deem such honorable practice as devious and grounds for blasphemy. Yet the Wahhabies have no way of attempting to transmit the knowledge of the religion except through the narrations and reports of the Ash^ariyy and the Maturidiyy scholars. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Forward……………………………………………….……............3 Table of Contents……………………………………………..........5 INTRODUCTION.................................................................... 6 Innovations: Meaning and Judgment........................................... 12 Examples of Good Innovations.................................................. 17 Examples of Bad Innovations Related to the Creed...................... 23 Examples of Bad Innovations Related to the Practice................... 24 Hadiths Mentioning Innovation (Bid^ah) And Their Meanings..................................................... 26 Celebrating the Mawlid And the Proof of its Permissibility................................. 29 Verses of the Qur’an that Honor Prophet Muhammad................ 35 The Honorable Genealogy of the Prophet.................................. 38 Aminah’s Pregnancy with Prophet Muhammad.......................... 40 The Honorable Birth of the Prophet.......................................... 41 The Signs that Accompanied the Prophet’s Birth....................... 44 The Time and Place of the Prophet’s Birth............................... 46 The Names and Distinguished Epithets of the Prophet............... 47 The Story of the Nursing of the Prophet And the Splitting Open of His Chest............................ 50 A Glance at the Prophet’s Genuine Attributes, Honorable Merits, and Pure Manners.......................... 55 Warning Against Some Works Authored In the Name of the Mawlid (For the Misguidance Contained Therein)...................................................... 60 SUPPLICATION................................................................. 67 ENDNOTES....................................................................... 68 INTRODUCTION I begin with the name of Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. I praise Him and I seek His generosity and forgiveness. I humbly ask Him to raise the rank of Prophet Muhammad and protect his nation from what he feared for them. I profess that no one is God except Allah, and I reaffirm my belief about Allah as beautifully stated by the famous Shafi^iyy scholar, Shaykh Fakhrud-Din Ibn ^Asakir, who died in 620 AH: Allah is the only God in His Dominion. He created the entire world, the upper and lower, the ^Arsh and Kursiyy, the heavens and earth, and what is in them and in between them. All the creation is subjugated by His Power. No speck moves except by His will. He has no manager for the creation with Him, and has no partner in Dominion. He is attributed with Life and His Existence does not come to an end (al‑Qayyum). He is not seized by somnolence or sleep. He is the One Who knows about the unforeseen and what is evidenced by His creation. Nothing on earth or in heaven is hidden from Him. He knows what is on land and in the sea. Not a leaf does fall but He knows about it. There is no grain in the darkness of earth, or anything that is moist or dry except which is inscribed in a clear Book. His Knowledge encompasses everything. He knows the count of all things. He does whatever He wills. He has the power to do whatever He wills. To Him is the Dominion and He needs none; To Him belong the Glory and Everlastingness. To Him are the Ruling and the Creating (al‑Qada). He has the Names of Perfection. No one hinders what He decreed. No one prevents what He gives. He does in His dominion whatever He wills. He rules His creation with whatever He wills. He does not hope for reward and does not fear punishment. There is no right on Him that is binding, and no one exercises rule over Him. Every endowment from Him is due to His Generosity and every punishment from Him is just. He is not questioned about what He does, but they are questioned. He existed before the creation. He is not attributed with a before or an after, an above or a below, a right or a left, an in front of or a behind, a whole or a part. It must not be said: When was He? Or Where was He? Or How is He? He exists without a place. He created the universe and willed for the existence of time. He is not bound to time and is not designated with place. His management of one matter does not distract Him from another. Delusions do not apply to Him, and He is not encompassed by the mind. He is not conceivable in the mind. He is not imagined in the self nor pictured in delusions. He is not grasped with delusions or thoughts. {لَيْسَ كَمِثْلِهِ شَىْءٌ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْبَصِيرُ} This ayah means: [Absolutely nothing is like Him and He is attributed with Hearing and Sight.] I profess that Muhammad is the slave and messenger of Allah and I confirm my conviction about Muhammad and the prophets before him, may Allah raise their ranks, as profoundly elucidated in the Mutamimah of Ibn ^Asakir: Know, may Allah be merciful to you by guiding you to the acceptable deeds, that our Master Muhammad, the son of ^Abdullah, the son of ^Abdul Muttalib, the son of Hashim, the son of ^Abdu Manaf, the son of Qusayy, the son of Kilab, the son of Murrah, the son of Ka^b, the son of Luayy, the son of Ghalib, the son of Fihr, the son of Malik, the son of an‑Nadr, the son of Kinanah, the son of Khuzaymah, the son of Mudrikah, the son of Ilyas, the son of Mudar, the son of Nizar, the son of Ma^add, the son of ^Adnan—is the slave of Allah, His Messenger, His Prophet, and His Khalil. He is the best of the entire creation, and the leader of his followers who will have shining faces and illuminated upper arms and lower legs on the Day of Judgment. His Lord sent him to the humans and jinn as a luminous lantern—giving good tidings and warnings, and calling to worship Allah by His Will. He received the Revelation through the entrusted Jibril who is the head of the honored angels. Allah created them from light. Obedience is inherent in them, and Allah gave them the strength to obey. They do not sleep and they do not get tired. They do not eat or drink. They do not disobey Allah, but rather they perform all what Allah ordered them to do. His Book is the Wise Dhikr.[1] His laws are straight, truthful, and easy. His nation is the best of the nations. No human has a higher status than his, and no creature can attain his status. He is the last of the Prophets and their leader, the most knowledgeable among them and the highest in status, the most articulate and the strongest, the most beautiful, brave, courageous, and generous. He had the most signs among them and the most outstanding miracles. All the prophets were people of merit and patience, belief and certainty, truthfulness and religiosity, chastity and impeccability, intelligence and brilliance, trustworthiness; and conveyance of the Message. The prophets were numerous—the first of them was Adam, peace be upon him, who was created from clay as an unimpaired human in the best of forms. After him among his progeny are: Shith, Idriss, Nuh, Hud, Salih, Shu^ayb, Ibrahim, Lut, Isma^il, Ishaq, Ya^qub, Yusuf, Musa, Harun, Yusha^, Yunus, Ayyub, Dhu-l-Kifl, Ilyas, al-Yasa^, Dawud, Sulayman, Zakariyya, Yahya, ^Isa, al‑Khadir, and many others. Their religion is one—Islam. They are the best of Allahs creations. They are alive, praying in their graves. They are al‑wasilah, they intercede on the Day of Judgment, and the intercession of our prophet is the greatest. The summation of all what was mentioned is included in the hadith of the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam: > This hadith is sahih, related by Muslim. Without a doubt, our beloved Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam, the Trustworthy, conveyed the full message from Allah. He delivered to the nation what grants it success in this life and everlasting winning in the Hereafter. May Allah reward him greatly for the prolific benefits he delivered to us. Thereafter, every year when the month of Rabi^ al-Awwal appears, it brings with it the fragrant tones and shades of the memory of the honorable birth of Prophet Muhammad, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam. The birth of the last prophet and best of all creations was a beacon of light shining in the vast desert, spreading throughout the entire world. His birth turned the sun-scorched desert into a garden that leads to Paradise, providing the world with the glittering brilliance of Islam. His message altered the course of the world from prevailing dungeons of ignorance into sparkling gardens of knowledge and belief. Those who followed his message were raised from the pits of sinfulness to the proud peaks of obedience. Those who genuinely follow his message shall be bestowed with the everlasting enjoyments of Paradise. Celebrating the birth of our Master Muhammad is sound, gratifying, and rewarding practice, for it reflects our delight for the birth of the one whom Allah sent as a mercy for us. Among its merits are such rewardable practices as joining with other Muslims in remembering Allah, praising the Prophet and recalling the events of his honorable life story and learning rich lessons from them, feeding the poor, and reciting verses of the Qur’an. In performing these and other good deeds one is hopeful to be rewarded by Allah. The reputable Muslim scholars of the East and the West regarded the practice of celebrating the Mawlid as honorable, good, and rewardable. Many of them authored books to praise and highlight the legitimacy of this practice.[2] This compilation is a humble selection from the writings and sayings of some of the great scholars of the People of Truth, Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jama^ah, among the Ash^ariyys and the Maturidiyys, and is primarily based on the work of his Eminence, Shaykh ^Abdullah al-Harariyy entitled: Ar-Rawa’ih Az-Zakiyyah Fi Mawlid Khayr Al-Bariyyah (The Beauteous Fragrances of Celebrating the Birth of the Best of the Creations). The purpose of selecting and translating this work is to highlight to the English readers the scholars’ support for the practice of celebrating the birth of the Prophet and their reasons for judging it as a good and rewardable innovation. We encourage those Muslims who celebrate the birth of the Prophet to continue their practice and to encourage others to do so. We hope to convince those who have been deluded and who are doubtful about the legitimacy of this practice, to listen to the words of the reputable scholars on this issue and to stop depriving themselves (and others) of the rewards they otherwise might earn.
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