Re: Milad-un-Nabiy - Yes, we can celebrate the birth of the Prophet!
How do you explain compilation of Quran in the period of Hazrat Abu Bakr and Hazrat Usman? When it was decided to compile revealed ayath, the Sahibee who was accorded this responsibility said that the Prophet never asked us or to do such a thing, answer given to him to him was that it is for the better. Now this is Hazrat Abu Bakr and Hazrat Umer who were the first people to do Ijtihad andintroduce a new practice which was not their in the Holy Prophet time. There are other examples also, but those who have read Islamic history and are aware how the current form of Quran came into existence are fully aware of the decisions taken by the Muslims of that time and how ‘new’ ideas were permissable.