Suhaib Webb – Enough Is Enough Ending Mawlid Divisions

You know, the month of Rabia Al Awal

is upon us, alhamdulillah,

and we know that for the majority of

Muslims they celebrate

the Mawlid of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam,

and there is a minority of Muslims who

don't

celebrate the birth of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

I want to remind you

that both groups have their evidences,

and both groups have scholarly support from the

earliest days of Islam.

In fact, Imam Asiyuti

mentions, of course, the hadith led by Imam

al Bayhafi in Suna Al Qubra, and there

is some dispute about the authenticity of this

Hadith.

But Sayna Imam Asayuthika Mutus Sahilan, he considered

it Sahih

and he said that the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi

wa Salam.

At the Prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam, he made

the Aqika for himself in Madina after we

know

that his grandfather made Aqika for him 7

days after he was born.

Alayhi salatu wasalam.

So Sayna Asiyuti

said, This is a proof

that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam made the

Apeakah the second time

to teach us the honor and nobility

and blessings

around the name, the birth of the Messenger

of

Allah.

Also, the hadith that many people use to

fast Ashura.

When the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam came to

Medina, and he found the Jews, they were

fasting,

and he asked them, why are you fasting

at this time? And they said, this is

the day that Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala saved

us from Firaun.

So out of thankfulness and shukr,

the prophet SallAllahu Alaihi Wasallam said, we have

a greater right to observe these things than

you do. So some ulama, they said this

is a general evidence

that allows the Muslim

to exercise thankfulness and gratitude

to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for any great

day

in the history of the Imaan.

As Allah says,

Ibrahim,

remind them of the days of Allah.

And the third evidence is the narration

of Sayna Imam al Bukhari and Sayna Imam

Muslim

that the Prophet

said I was born on Monday, so I

fast on Monday.

We know also that the other

brothers and sisters, they have evidences

as to why they don't,

recognize the celebration of the Prophet's birth

that

this was not a practice done by a

large number of the Sahaba.

This was not a practice that was done

by,

a good considerable number of the early Muslims

and so on and so forth.

So the point I'm trying to make is

we need to stop fighting about this issue.

Like, are we really fighting over people loving

Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam?

Those who observe the mawlid, they do it

out of love.

Those who don't observe the mawlid, they do

it out of love. Fakunu muhibbeen Alhamdulillah.

So that means everybody's a lover,

but how can you destroy the lovers that

you cause them to hate?

And year after year after year, aren't we

tired of the same record being played?

So my advice and my training in Islamic

law is to say that you should not

say this is Bida,

this is innovation

because both have evidence.

And also we should not say that those

people who don't

celebrate this, that they're bad Muslims

or that they're out of Islam or they're

not part of the community. This is ridiculous

because both groups have evidence,

and when both groups have evidences and they

differ over those evidences, we say this is.

This is an issue of difference, not bidah.

So we need to be thoughtful and responsible,

and we need to be measured,

and we need to hold our emotions

and not allow ourselves to wreck

the

fledgling unity of the Muslim community. The the

Wigda of the Ummah, as we're gonna talk

about later,

is Fard Ayn.

The unity of the Muslims is an obligation.