Ali Ataie – Should We Celebrate the Prophet’s Birthday (The Mawlid anNabi Debate)

The prophet

in Medina in the

hadith literature,

hadith that's in the Mustadrak of Imam al

Hakim, Imam al Bayh Haqqi also records the

hadith. He performed his own aqqiqah in Medina,

and Imam Suyuti says in his fatwa and

his fatawa

that this was to celebrate his motive.

The prophet celebrated

his motive. This is the opinion of Jalal

ad Dinas Suyuti,

who was a great, great scholar.

Right?

In the Sahihayn,

why are you fasting? We know the hadith.

That This is the day in which I

was born

and the day in which the Quran was

revealed to me

in the sunun of Imam al Nasai, a

sound hadith

from,

Abu Saeed al Khudri, he says that

he says that the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

one time came and he saw his Sahaba

in a holocaust

sitting in a holocaust.

And he said,

Why are you sitting in the circle? What

has brought you out here? Why are you

sitting in this majlis?

And they responded to the prophet, sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam. They said,

He said, they said to him,

to,

we are calling on Allah

which is what we're doing

here,

and we're,

we're, praising Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to guiding

us to Islam.

Okay?

And force and the blessing of you

and the blessing of you, You Rasulullah.

Right? So what are the Sahaba

doing?

What we're doing.

That's exactly what we're doing.

Right?

And then the prophet, salallahu alaihi wasalam, he

said, I'm not asking you to rebuke you.

Read the entire hadith.

He said, I'm asking you because I was

informed

that that Allah

is boasting to the angels about you right

now

because of what you're doing. So what were

the Sahaba do? They were sitting around.

They were

supplicating to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, they were

praising Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala,

and they were recounting the blessing of of

of Allah sending them the prophet Muhammad

So

celebration of modid

is indispensable.

Every Muslim has to celebrate the modin. In

other words, every Muslim has to be happy

that Allah

sent the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. If you're

not happy that Allah sent the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wasallam, then there's something wrong with your

Aqidah.

That's an Aqidah issue. On the day in

which you do that, that's a 5th issue.

That's not an Aqidah issue. You do it

one day,

today,

in the masjid, somewhere else, that's that's not

an Aqidah issue. But but expressing joy for

the birth of the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam,

this is something that is indispensable.

This is this is the hallmark of a

Muslim. The Christians say, la ilaha illallah.

I've heard them say it, Arab Christians.

Jews, they say that too. What makes the

difference? They said, what what makes the difference

for us? Muhammad.

Muhammad.

He's the messenger of God, the final messenger

of God.