Eid milad un nabi is biddat - Saudi mufti

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Re: Eid milad un nabi is biddat - Saudi mufti

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Wa’alaikumuSalam brother Ibn Sadique

You probably are aware of my position but for the sake of the rest … I have always thought that the celebration of Mawlid on the 12th of Rabi’ulAwwal as an event that finishes with food as an innovation, but my take on innovation is less black and white than some people. As long as we do not deem the collective event of mawlid as part of Islam then we cannot be accused of bidd’a at least according to the criteria of the Saudis, because if that were true then they would fall over in many of the things they themselves do. As long as it can be determined that the specific aspects within the mawlid are either fard, sunnah, mustahab, then they will qualify as fulfilling those separate requirements. My friends and I celebrate Mawlid every month sometimes it is on a Thursday and sometimes on a Monday or any available day. Out of convenience we believe we need to keep the flame of love of RasoolAllah (SAW) alive in our hearts and mawlid is like a resuscitation of this … and it works - empirical evidence is present in my own example. This is why I always argue for it being permissibile (mub’ah) and that means it carries no religious value - it is hence not “eid” in Islam in that sense. “Eidain” are specifically linked to an Islamic date.

I do not celebrate anything like national days for any country because I believe their causes are futile, but to celebrate RasoolAllah (SAW) is a noble cause and it does inculcate love in our hearts. So it is no wonder that we are on remarkable synchronous understandings on this issue.

We need to learn to become people of wide tolerances some people favour caution and others favour seeking blessings.

I object to you referring to 1. Mawlid as jaiz [mubah] and saying it carries no religious value - it is actually Mustahab and that is clear. It can provide a person substitute Farz
2. Milad un Nabi is a day of celebration and aka an eid [Eid Milad un Nabi].
3. Some people who favour caution? I think you mean those who refer to Mawlid as a Bidah Dalala, I’ll let Sister Hareem’s Tariqat [who i think this article emanates from] do the talking: ..someone who persists in rejecting the permissibility of Mawlid after all the above evidence, which is based on Qur’an, Sunna, and the derivations of ahkam (rulings) from the relevant dala’il (proof-texts), can only be a blind-follower of his own ignorant and stubborn opinion. “They will pass through the religion the way the arrow passes clean through its quarry” (Bukhari and Muslim). Allah knows best, and Allah guides whomever He will

Meaning they are khawarij!