Eid Milad un Nabi Festivities

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Re: Eid Milad un Nabi Festivities

@TLK

Ok I am only going to tell you the reason why some consider it a biddah, so don’t kill me.

1. There is no prove of sending salaam on prophet from hundred of miles away, unless you are standing at his roza. Some uelma call it a fabricated practice, hence biddah.
2. Prophet in his life time disliked the fact of sahaba standing for him when he entered the mosque. When salaam and durood is sent on prophet in mehfil e milad, people do it while standing. How can you pay respect to someone by doing exactly what he asked you not to do?
3. Unfortunately, the durood that is recited in mehfil e milad is not the durood that prophet taught us. It was fabricated later on. So somehow the durood told us by prophet is not good enough for us to send to him, so we had to invent our own?

These are some of the concerns that ulema have about ritual of milad.

Thats the topic under Religion forum, but the wording of Durood e Ibrahimi (read in Namaz) is for Prophet and his family who are miles away from us, so this seems to be fabricated allegation of Bidah to me. Darood e Ibrahimi is not ayat e Qurani, so there is possibility that it was not taught by Prophet. You see when there is a suspicion then there is no limit to it. People have raised fingers on many ahadees mentioned in Saha Sitta as well. There are recognised school of thoughts who don’t accept ahadees (like Parvezi, etc).

As far as the question of respecting the Prophet is concerned, Surah e Hujraat is enough evidence about it. Do not raise your voice over Prophet’s voice. Don’t call him from outside Hujraat until he comes to you himself. At other place of Quran, it is said that Prophet does hayaa and don’t say many things to you (but Allah doesn’t do hayaa to state what is burdensome to the Prophet). There is famous incident of Makka’s or some other delegation visiting Prophet (SAW) and the delegation informing their people that they have seen Qaisar o Kisra courts and their pompousness, but the way sahaba treat / respects prophet (SAW) is out of the world.. They try to get drops of water which was used by the Prophet (SAW) for wazoo.

There is a hadis that Prophets don’t leave behind turka (which lead to controversial event of Fidak), but many ahadees books mentions distribution of Prophet’s hair and nails at the time of Hajjat ul wida and placing of Mo’ay mubarak in different museums and masajids tells the level of respect Muslims gave and Prophet didn’t object to those acts. These incidents are more than just standing, when Prophet entered mosque. Otherwise, we do read in different ahadees that Prophet himself used to stand when his beloved daughetr Hazrat Fatima (RA) visited him. That was a norm in Arab society (I would say Asian culture) to show respect and concern for elders and people you loved.