👉 Celebrations in commemoration of the birth (Al-Mawlid) of Prophet MuHammad, whom Allah sent as mercy, by way of reciting the Qur’an and by way of remembering the honorable traits
and characteristics of the Prophet is a blessed matter of immense goodness, as long as the celebrations do not immerse in any types of hideous innovations which our Religion rejects.

👉 Moreover, it should be made clear that the act of passing rules in Religion for new matters that appear in life is the function of the top Scholars of Islam (Mujtahidin) such as Imam Malik, Ash-Sh afi`iyy, Abu Hanifah and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal may Allah be pleased with them and with all the righteous Salaf.

👉 It is not the job of any person that has authored a small book or even large volumes to take on the role of the Imams of the Salaf and Khalaf in ruling religious edicts without referring back to the scholars, whose knowledge has been witnessed to by many.

👉 The person that renders unlawful the recitation of the Qur’an or the joining in remembrance of the honorable characteristics of the Prophet on the day of his birth with the excuse that the Prophet did not do it, is responded to with the following questions: ‘Do you object to the presence of Maharib (prayer niches) in the Mosques believing that it is an innovation of misguidance?!

🤔 or ‘Do you reject the assembling of the chapters of the Holy Qur’an (Suwar) in the present order and the putting of the dots under and above some of its Arabic letters with the excuse that the Prophet did not do it?!’

👉 If you illegitimatize this then you are imposing constraints, that Allah has relieved us from, on all innovations and acts of goodness that did not prevail in the time of the Prophet.

👉 Imam Muslim related in his Sahih that Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said what means: “The one who innovates a good innovation in Islam receives its reward and a reward similar to that of all those who practice with it after him ​​without any lessening in their reward”.

👉 Our righteous leader Imam `Umar ibn Al-Kha ttab, may Allah be pleased with him, said after he gathered the people to be lead by one Imam during the Tarawih prayer: “Praised is this innovation” (related by Imam Bukhariyy in his Sahih).

🤲 I ask Allah to raise the rank of Prophet MuHammad