Eid Milad

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Re: Eid Milad

@ButtSb

So there is an element of uncertainity with respect to the date of Birth…but no doubt as to the date of death.Basically celebrating on the death day…Its not a designated eid either…What is left then? You pretty much agree that it needs not be ‘celebrated’ as an ‘Eid’ on ‘Birthday’…Nobody can deny the importance of rememberance and expression of love… but what could be better way than what was prescribed by the prophet SW himself?? Why the need to create new things to achieve the same objective?

Your first sentence is not correct or incomplete … Who in their right mind celebrates death? Look to see what their intent is … Don’t be fixated on dates … That is a deliberate distraction you are putting yourself in. If the complaint is the date I have already answered it by saying it is done throughout the year, no more issue. And even if it was done on his death … And the life was being celebrated this again is no cause for concern … Mourning in Islam is for three days … Not every year but just once the time when it happens.

The prophet (SAW) prescribed some things to us … And other things were advised and instructed without prescription … Loving him (SAW) is a must … And as explained before different times demand different things because time itself has changed to maintain the sameness of the past we must adjust with time.

There are many things we all do today that would qualify as ‘doing new things’ but they are done in order to go back to the sameness of the early Muslims. Modernity has us diminish the stature and importance of RasoolAllah (SAW) … The mawlid is the counter-balance to that.

If you watch those videos I posted you will see … We look at the outcomes … there is an objective fact in the difference of the people who remember RasoolAllah (SAW) from those who only pay it lip service and spend more of their time stopping people from remembering him (SAW).

The way it is done and is being done is the correct way … The use of song and melody in human life accesses our emotive centres, poetry and singing in praise of RasoolAllah (SAW) was done in his lifetime and accepted by him (SAW) … Reading Seerah and Hadith is also done by all people, so why not over this particular subject of his character and mercy and beauty?

Giving food is a noble charity and it is done to increase love between people … How can these be bad? They are not bad … One merely needs to look at and discern what is good and what is bad without closing their minds to what is in plain sight and instead choose to follow the voices of the people who declare themselves as custodians of the faith yet do not embody the character of RasoolAllah (SAW) … Which was kindness, mildness towards all people.