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Al Madnai Bro, innovations do not necessarily mean Milaad Un Nabi. We are celebrating the birth of the Prophet Sallallaahu Alaihi Wa Aalihi Wassalam, but reciting nasheeds and naats. How can that be considered wrong?
Am not attcking you btw, just wanted to know what your sources are for not 'celebrating' Milaad Un Nabi.
Sister,
The innovation is when they seperate a day from the others and hold their gatherings and sing and dance and do their innovated group dhikrs. As Shaykh Yasir Qadhi said:
When you understand the meaning and psychology of 'ibaadah (love, hope and fear), you will find that practicioners of the mawlid demonstrate all of these emotions far more perfectly during these innovated acts than they do in their salat and du'aa to Allah, but unfortunately during their ceremonies these emotions are not being directed to Allah. And this one issue, in and of itself, is enough of an indication of the dangers of the mawlid.
Secondly, as a rule, no act of worship is acceptable in form or substance unless it conforms with the Sunnah. As the words of Imam Barbaharee advised us to ask whenever we see anything in the religion:
'Did any of the Companions of the Prophet (sallallaahu ’alayhi wa sallam) speak about it, or any of the (early) Scholars?' And if we don't find anything from them regarding this, we do not do it. We stop where they stopped, and what sufficed them in the religion suffices us. We have been commanded by the Imams of the Sunnah to stick to the narrations and not to go beyond them.
Hudhayfah ibn al-Yamaan (R) said:
"Do not perform any act of worship that was not practiced by the Companions of the Messenger of Allah, for the earlier generation did not leave any room for the latter to add anything (to the religion). Fear Allah, O' readers, seekers of knowledge, and follow the patho of those who came before you."
Narrated by Ibn Battah in Al-Ibaanah.
And the fact that they did not celebrate the Milad is enough of an indication for us not to take it specifically as a day of I'd.
Our job is to simply follow the Salaf because it is as Ibn Mas'ud said:
"Follow and do not innovate, for everything has been taken care of, and you must follow the ancient way (i.e., of the Salaf)."
Ad-Daarimi in his Sunan.
So we go and see, did they take the day of Milad (and there is even a difference of opinion on the exact date of the Milad as Ibn Taymiyyah points out) as a day where they did extra deeds? So when they haven't done it, we should not either.
We love the Messenger, but what is the better form of loving him? To set out one day for him, singing nasheeds and naats and slack for the rest of the year? Or to try and implement the Sunnah everyday in every aspect of your life? Which is the greater form of honoring the Messenger? Indeed the latter is more closer to the truth. It is as Ibn Taymiyyah says as quoted before:
For indeed this (celebration) was not done by the salaf, despite the existence of factors that would necessitate it and the lack of any factors that would prevent them from doing so if it were indeed good. And if this was genuinely good or preferable then the salaf, may Allaah be pleased with them, would have more right to doing so then us, for they had more severe love and honour of the Prophet (sallallaahu `alaihi wasallam) in following him, obeying him, and following his command, and reviving his sunnah inwardly and outwardly, and spreading that which he was sent with, and performing jihaad for this in the heart, with the hand and upon the tongue. So indeed this was the way of the Saabiqeen al-Awwaleen from the Muhajiroon and the Ansaar, and those that followed them in good.
And some people claim that it is to increase their love for the Messenger, but the Messenger has told us how to increase our love for him:
“Whoever wants to to love Allah and His Messenger, then let him read the Mushaf.''
[’Sahih al-Jami”; # 6289]
So if we indeed want the love of the Messenger in our hearts, let us open the Qur'an and read that because that is what the Messenger has told us to do. He did not tell us that taking a day out for his birthday is the way to increase our love for him. There is one more Hadith that I want to show you, the Messenger said:
"I have not left anything which Allah ordered you with, except that I have ordered you with it, nor anything that Allah forbade you, except that I forbade you from it."
[Saheeh, al-Baihaqee 7:76]
And there are no narrations that tell us that the Messenger ordered us to take the day of his birth as an I'd.
And lastly the saying of Imam Malik:
He said: 'Whoever introduces an innovation into Islam thinking that it is good is implying that Muhammad betrayed his mission, because Allah (SWT) says:
{...This day, I have perfected your religion for you...} (Qur'an 5:3)
So, whatever was not part of the religion on that day, cannot be part of the religion today.'"
Al-I'tisaam by Imam Ash-Shaatibi.
Insha'Allaah that clears up the matter Sister
to all bros and sisters..
