Re: Eid-e-Milad-ul-Nabi Mubarak
Peace Brother LLK
You have misunderstood my contention … Would you call going to the mosque in a car an innovation or an addition to the Deen? No … So why do you say that those who do Mawlid have added to the Deen? … Only until you hear them say that Mawlid is added to the affairs of RasoolAllah (SAW) … But as argued before it is not added as a Fard, Sunnah or Wajib or Mustahab … It is mubah … Permissible to perform it and although the form is not the same the idea is not new … The prophet (SAW) used to observe his birthday through fasting … If form was important then we would never be able to do wudu with new taps, go to masjid in cars and wear our new clothes designs in our religious matters. So the form started perhaps many years later … But so did the schools of aqidah and fiqh are technically innovations too … But why were they set-up? They were set up to preserve the Deen … Likewise the early Muslims had the most love for RasoolAllah (SAW) and people started to lose this love … These practices can help preserve and return us to the love that the earlier communities had … Time and history changed so things were set-up to counter the change that took place. The hearts changed so why criticise the act that re-aligns the hearts back to making RasoolAllah (SAW) more important to us than our own selves?
Mawlid is not an innovation … To understand this you need to understand innovation first. Nobody believes that having a school of aqeedah or fiqh is a bid’ah … But what if I were to say that we should not have such schools … That is okay … Do away with the schools … But don’t do away with the ideas from the schools … Because they are part of the Deen … Just like it is part of our Deen to love RasoolAllah (SAW) more than ourselves … If you want to do away with Mawlid so be it … But just like having a school it facilitates the fiqh to be preserved in the same way Mawlid helps to preserve the sentiments of the hearts to remain aligned with loving RasoolAllah (SAW).