REASONS WHY WE CAN NOT CELEBRATE THE BIRTHDAY OF PROPHET MUHAMMED SALALLAHO ALAIHI WASALLAM. 1] Who has given the right to innovate a new 3rd Eid for the Ummah when niether Prophet (PBUH) legislated it nor any of his companions did. 2] How can Muslim ummah take 12 Rabiul awwal as the day of Eid, Jashn (partying, fun and frolicking), and celebra- tion when our beloved Prophet (PBUH) passed away from this world and Sahaba and their families were sad and aggrieved this on day. 3] Historians disagree regarding the month in which our belovbed Prophet (PBUH) was born. Some said it was Ramadan, some said it was Sha’baan, but most of scholars said it was Rabiul Awwal. Further, they also differed about his date of birth. 4] Birthday-celebration has pagan origin and many pagan superstiti- ons and rituals are connected to it. Know that it was discarded even by early Christ ians but then shaitaan gradually misled them and they started celebrating birthdays. 5] Concept of annual birthday parties and celebrations was unknown to early Muslims until 600years after the demise ofProphet (PBUH) when misguided Shia Fatimid state in Egypt borrowed this concept from misguided Christians. They had invented six annual birthdays celebrations; for The Prophet (PBUH), Ali, Fatima, Al Hassan and Al Hussein, (May Allah be pleased with them all) and a birthday for their present monarch as well. These annual celebrations lasted until were invalidated by Al Afadal Ben Amier Al Jiyosh , before they were restored again at the reign of Al- Hakim Bin Amr in around 6th century Hijri. It was still an unknown concept for majority of Muslims but it all changed during the period of British colon ization and it was made a universal concept through them. 6] The celebration of Mawlid [(Birthday of Prophet (PBUH)] is neither from the Sunnah of Allahs Messenger nor his Companions:Anything that is not from these, cannot be a partof religion. Allahs Messenger (SAAWS) said: Stick to my Sunnah and the Sunnah of my rightly guided Caliphs, cling to it firmly with your molar teeth. Beware of newly invented matters, for every new matter is an innovation and every innovation is misleading. [Musnad Ahmad (4/126) and At+ Tirmidhee (2676)] Whosoever performs an act with the intention of achieving closeness to Allah while such an act was neither performed or commanded by Allahs Messenger nor by his Caliphs after him. Then performing such an act constitutes accusing theMessenger of not (correctly/completely) explaining the Deen to the people.Performing this act also amounts to belying the statement of Allah, This day, I have perfected your religion for you. [Surah al-Maidah (5): 3] Such is because (by performing an innova ted act) one comes up with something supple mentary claiming that it is from Islam while Allahs Messenger did not order us to do it. 7] Celebrating Mawlid (birthday) of Allahs Messenger is an imita tion of the Christians in their celebrating the birthday of Prophet Eesa ,whereas imita ting them specially in matters of their religion - is strictly prohibited, and differ ing from them is prescribed in the Ahadeeth of Allahs Messenger (PBUH). The Prophet (PBUH) said, Whoever imitates /resembles a people is one of them. [Musnad Ahmad (2/05) and Abu Dawood (4/314)] Be different from the Mushrikeen (those who associate partners with Allah).[Saheeh Muslim] 8] Apart from being a Bidah (innovation) and Tashbeeh (imitation) of the Christians - and both of them are prohibited; those who participate in this celebration call upon the Prophet , seek his help and chant poems of Shirk in his praise, like Qasidah al-Burdah, and its like. Allahs Messenger (PBUH) has prohibited all such forms of ghulu (exaggeration). The Prophet (PBUH) said,Do not exaggerate in me, as the Christians exaggerated about the son of Maryam. I am only a slave, so say the slave of Allah and the Messenger of Allah. [Saheeh al-Bukharee (4/142 -3445)] This Hadeeth means, do not exaggerate in praising and honoring me like the Christians, who exaggerated in honoring and praising Eesa (A.S) such that they ended up worship ping him. Allah forbade the Christians from worshiping Eesa saying, O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Do not exceed the limits in your religion, nor say of Allah anything but the truth. The Messiah Eesa, son of Maryam, was (no more than) a Messengerof Allah and His Word, (Be! - and he was) which He bestowed on Maryam and a spirit (Ruh) created by Him. [Surah an-Nisa (4): 171] Allahs Messenger prohibited us from exaggeration fearing that we might be effected by that same Shirk which the Christ ians were effected with. He said, Beware of exaggeration for those before were destroyed due to exaggeration.” [Saheeh Sunan an-Nisaee (2863)]. Unfortunately, those groups of people who celebrate Birthday of Prophet (PBUH) have done the same exagge ration as Christians did with Jesus (PBUH) by invoking Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) for help, instead of ALLAH. Just as Christian says ‘O Jesus, help me’ these sets of people say ‘O Muhammad, help me’, grant me this, grant me that. 9] Celebrating the Bidah of Mawlid opens the door to other innovations and diverts people towards it. We thus find those who iparticipate in such innovations active in reviving the Bidah and lazy in performing the Sunnah, and enraged at the people of Sunnah until all their religion revolves around innovated memories and birthdays. They split up in groups - each group preserving the reminiscences of their scholars birth days, like the Mawlid of Badawi, Ibn Arabi, ad-Dasookand Shazali - in this way, they do not free themselves from one Mawlid and get busy with another celebration/ carnival of birthdays of religious figureheads. They can only think of celebratio n and get addicted to it to the extent that for them nothing is more meaningful than celebrations. They overlook all teachings and even overlook all the trials and afflict ions that the Muslim Ummah is going through and just enjoy busying them-selves with celebrations by anyhow giving it a religious flavor. Such birthday celebration of religious personalities results in exaggeration (in the honor and praise) of the deceased and gradually cause them to invoke their religious personalities besides Allah. Astaghfirullah. These people are like those of Jahiliyah (ignorance) concerning whom Allah said, They worship besides Allah things, that hurt them not, nor profit them, and they say, These are our intercessors with Allah. [Sura Yunus (10): 18] Those who take Awliya (protectors and helpers) besides Him (say), We worship them only that they may bring us near to Allah. [Surah Az Zumar (39): 3] Sahih Bukhari - Volume 1, Book 2, Number 49: Narrated An-Numan bin Bashir: I heard Allahs Apostle saying, Both legal and illegal things are evident but in between them there are doubtful (suspicious) things and most of the people have no knowledge about them. So whoever saves himself from these suspicious things saves his religion and his honor. And whoever indulges in these suspicious things is like a shepherd who grazes (his animals) near the Hima (private pasture) of someone else and at any moment he is liable to get in it. (O people!) Beware! Every king has a Hima and the Hima of Allah on the earth is His illegal (forbidden) things. Beware! There is a piece of flesh in the body if it becomes good (reformed) the whole body becomes good but if it gets spoilt the whole body gets spoilt and that is the heart.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 14:39:58 +0000