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Indeed all praisaes are due to Allah,we praise him and we seek his

assistance and forgiveness, and we seek refuge in Allah from the evil
of ourselves and our bad deeds, whoever Allah guides there is none who
can misguide him and whoever is lead astray there is none that can
guide him, and I bear witness there is no God other than Allah, He has
no partners, and I bear witness that Muhummed is his Servant and Final
Messenger(peace be upon him);
Thereafter,
This is in response to your article on legality of celebration of
birthday of our beloved Prophet(SAW) in GK. Before I discuss anything
more on the issue I would like to make following comments in general:
1.I write this keeping in view the following relationship amongst the believers:
"The believers are brothers"
Al- Quran (49:10).
2. I was delighted to see in your write up that you hold the Quran and
authentic Sunnah as the source of final guidance in the matters of
dispute. In fact this is expected of believers as Allah says,
"If you differ in anything among yourselves,refer it to Allah and His
Messenger if you believe in Allah and the Last day:that is best and
most suitable for final determination"
Al-Quran(4:59).
I wrote these few introductory words keeping in view the condition
prevalent in the muslim world. Any voice of dissent is looked upon
with suspicion and thus rejected.
Now let us turn systematically towards the evidence that you have
compiled from the Sacred Texts in favor of Meelaad.You have quoted
following two verses from Sura Maryam.The first quoted you say talks
about Allah celebrating the Meelaad of Yahya(A.S.) and second one
about Isa(A.S.) celebrating his own.
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The peace is on Him the day when he was born and the day when he will
die and the day when he will be raised alive."
(Sura Al-Maryam, Verse 15)
"And the same peace on me the day I was born and the day I will die
and the day I would be raised alive."
(Sura Al Maryam, Verse 33)
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In the begining of the Sura in question Allah says that
Zakarriyah(A.S.) asked for a son and Allah gives it to him in
spite of his old age.Allah goes on to say further:
12.(Allah said),"O Yahya,take the Scripture with determination."And We
gave him judgement(while yet) a boy.
13.And affection from us and purity,and he was fearing of Allah
14.And dutiful to his parents, and he was not a disobedient tyrant.
15.And peace be upon him the day he was born and the day he dies and
the day he is raised alive.
16.And mention,(O Muhummed),in the Book(the story of)Mary,when she
withdrew from her family to a place toward the east
In the subsequent verses Allah narrates the event of birth of Jesus
and then says
that he spoke to people while in cradle:
30.(Jesus)said,"Indeed, I am the servant of Allah. He has given me the
Scripture and made me a Prophet.
31. And He has made me blessed whereever I am and has enjoined upon me
prayer and Zakah as long as I remain alive
32. And made me dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me a wretched tyrant.
33. And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and
the day I am raised alive.
Allah goes on to mention the Jesus in next verses and the overpraise
of him by christians who wrongly took him as Allah's son. Then Allah
summarises the lesson for us in verse 39:
39. And warn them,(O Muhummed) of the Day of Regret, when the matter
will be concluded,and(yet)they are in heedlessness,and they do not
believe.
From above it is crystal clear that Allah revealed to his Prophet(SAW)
aspects related of birth of two of his former Prophets. Of Yahya(A.
S.) who was born to old aged parents mother being barren in addition
to that. And of Isa(A.S.) who was born to his mother without a father
and spoke to people in the cradle. In the verses 15 and 33 it is
mentioned that the birth,death and the resurrection of these two is
blessed by Allah. This is of course the case with all of the Prophets.
Further we know it from knowledge of Quran that Isa(A.S.) is yet to
come a second time and then die. There is not a slightest indication
from these verses that they refer to birthday celebrations of these
Prophets. How have you arrived at this tafseer I may question?Is there
any other verse in the Quran on which you have based your opinion?Or a
Prophets authentic tradition? Or that of Sahabah who say that this
refers to Meelaad of these Prophets. If the words
"Peace be upon me on the day I am born"
can be taken to mean birthday celebration.....then by the extension of
your analogy doesn't the phrase
"on the day I die" be taken to mean a licence to celebrate-God
forbid-the death of these Prophets. Can the verses not be extended to
mean celebrating their resurrection-which would be ridiculous.
After that you have quoted following verse :
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"Then remember the bounties of Allah and wander not in the earth
spreading mischief."
(Sura Araf, Verse 74)
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Let us now look at the verse 73 and 74 of Sura Araf

Let us now look at the verse 73 and 74 of Sura Araf


73. And to the Thamud(We sent) their brother Salih. He said,"O my
people,worship Allah;you have no deity other than Him. There has come
to you clear evidence from your Lord. This is the she-camel of
Allah(sent)to you as a sign. So leave her to eat within Allah's land
and do not touch her with harm, lest there seize you a painful
punishment.
74. And remember when He made you successors after the Aad and settled
you in the land, (and) you take for yourselves palaces from its plains
and carve from the mountains,homes. Then remember the favors of Allah
and do not commit abuse on the earth,spreading corruption.
(7:73-74)
The above verses are abundantly clear as to their meaning,but if
somebody wants to prove Meelaad out of them....what can be done?
You also quote the following passage in your favor:
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"And publicize well the favor of your lord"
(Sura Al Duha, Verse 11)
The companion of the Holy Prophet (SAW) Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Abbas
(Allah is well pleased with Him) explained the word favors. He says
here, In this verse favor signifies the prophet hood and
Islam.(Tafseer Ibne Abbas, Sure Al Duha, Page 651).
So in the light of the given explanation by the cousin of the Holy
Prophet (SAW), we can say that Allah Almighty orders us to remember
Holy Prophet (SAW) in our gatherings between the people, in our mosque
between the worshiper and in our houses between our families and
Meelad un Nabi (SAW), as I have written is a best way for this
Qur'anic purpose.
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The whole sura is as below:
1. By the morning brightness
2. And the night when it covers with darkness
3. Your Lord has not forsaken you,(O Muhummed),nor has He detested( you)
4. And the hereafter is better for you than the first(life).
5. And your Lord is going to give you,and you will be satisfied.
6. Did he not find you an orphan and give(you) refuge?
7. And He found you lost and guided (you),
8. And He found you poor and made(you)self-sufficient.
9. So as for the orphan, do not oppress (him)
10. And as for the petitioner,do not repel (him).
11. But as for the favor of your Lord,report (it).
It is evident from above sura that Allah is comforting the
Prophet(SAW) over the maltreatment met out to him by the Makkans. Then
he recounts some of His favors over him and commands him to do good
and report his favor. Ibn Abbas's(r.a.) statement qualifies its
meaning to mean that preach Islam to people-Allah's Tawheed and
Messengerhood of Muhummed(SAW). It does not constitute a proof for
celebration of Prophet's birthday.
Besides this you quote a number of other verses and from all these you
draw following two conclusions:
a. That the greatest blessing of Allah to mankind is His Messenger(SAW).
b. That the best way to thank Allah for his favor is to celebrate the
birthday of His Messenger(SAW).
The first statement is correct without an iota of doubt. For your
conclusion you have no authority from Allah or His Messenger(SAW).
I will turn to it later on but let me first deal with the Hadith
evidence presented by you. You write:
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Imam Bukhari Rahmatullah Alaih narrates that Abu Lahab would be
punished lightly in the hell on Monday. Because he rejoiced and freed
his handmaid indicating by his finger, when the Prophet of Allah
Almighty (SAW) took birth. So as a reward of happiness on Meelad un
Nabi (SAW) he would be given water by his finger. (Saheehul Bukhari
Vol. 2, Page 764)
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Following is the hadith alluded to by you:
Narrated Um Habiba
I said ,"O Allah's Apostle!marry my sister,the daughter of Abu
Sufyan".The Prophet said,"Do you like that?"I said,"Yes,for even now I
am not your only wife and I like that my sister should share the good
with me". The Prophet said ,"But that is not lawful for me."I said
that we have heard that you want to marry the daughter of Abu
Salama.He said ,"(you mean)the daughter of Um Salama."I said,"Yes". He
said,"Even if she were not my step-daughter, she would be unlawful to
me, for she is my foster niece. I and Abu Salama were suckled by
Thuwaiba.So you should not present to me your daughters or your
sisters in marriage."
Narrated Ursa:Thuwaibah was the freed slave girl of Abu Lahb whom he
had manumitted and then she had suckled the Prophet. When Abu Lahb
died one of his relatives saw him in a very bad state and asked him,"
What have you encountered?"Abu Lahb said," I have not found any rest
since I left you, except that I have been given water to drink in
this(the space between the thumb and his other fingers) and that is
because of my manumitting Thuwaiba"
Sahi Al Bukhari Vol 7 book 62 no 38
Above hadith in no way provides any basis for celebration of Prophet's birthday.
Then you referred to the hadith of fast on monday which is:
Abu Qatada Ansari narrated:Allah's Messenger (SAW)was asked about
fasting on Monday.Whereupon he said," It is when I was born and when
revelation was sent down to me"We will deal with it shortly in detail but let us have a look at
following hadeeth.
Abu Hurraiyrah(r.a.) related Allah's Messenger(SAW) as saying: "The
best day on which sun has risen is Friday;on it Adam was created,on it
he was made to enter paradise,on it he was expelled from it"
(Sahi Muslim Book 4 no 1856)
As you can see, friday is Adam's(A.S.) birthday and the best day. Yet
Prophet expressly forbade fasting on friday(see Sahi Muslim
Book 6 no2543 and 2545). What do you infer now? Shouldn't We rejoice
over the birth of a man who is the reason of our existence(by Allah's
will) and the first of his Honourable Messengers. Yes , we should
thank Allah for that. But what is it that Messenger(SAW) forbids us
fasting on fridays?. He infact says that you have to fast then fast on
thursday or sat along. Does he thus lessen the importance of
Adam(A.S.)- God forbid. No not at all. He is teaching us an important
lesson. We should not imitate the people of the book in religious
matters.
Loving the Messenger without a shadow of doubt is a part of faith.
This has been clearly laid down in hissaying, "None of you will have
faith till he loves me more than his father,his children and whole
mankind." (Sahi Bukhari vol 1no 14).But we must understand and keep in
mind that we are not free to express our love the way we like.The
method must be correct.We must also bear in mind that every sincere
act is not correct in itself.For it to be correct it must have a
precedence in the Sunnah of our beloved Messenger(pbuh).He never told
anybody to celebrate his birthday.
You keep on insisting throughout your write up that the evidences you
have quoted ask us to celebrate Prophet's birthday.
Did He forget us to tell that?.What aboutAbu Bakr (r. a .)?He loved
the Prophet(saw) most. Was he unable to draw such conclusion from
these verses? Can you or me claim to love the Messenger(SAW) more than
him?And what about Umar(r.a.)?And other Sahabah(With whom Allah is
satisfied)?All of them loved Prophet(SAW) more than us. They were
praised by Allah for all that and by Prophet himself.Yet none of them
celebrated the Prophet's birthday.In fact Prophet (saws) expressly
prohibited us from following into the footsteps of Christians when he
said,"You will follow the ways of the nations before you inch by inch
and foot by foot to such a degree that if they entered a lizard
hole,you would go in after them" When asked if former nations meant
Jews and Christians,he replied,"Who else could it be?" (Bukhari and
Muslim).He also warned us against excessive praise of him so that the
distinction between the Lord and His Messenger (pbuh) is not lost.He
said
"Do not praise me as the Christians did Eessa ibn Maryam,verily I am
only a slave,so call me instead the slave of Allah and His
Messenger.(Sahi Bukhari vol 4 no 635)Celebrating the Prophet's
birthday is not like any ordinary mans,it is a matter of religious
devotion. It would thus be prohibited because the default ruling in
the matters of worship and devotion is prohibition unless expressly
permitted by a text from Quran and/or authentic Sunnah. Ayesha
(r.a.),the mother of faithful reported that Allah's Messenger said,
"Whoever innovates in this affair of ours something which doesn't
belong in it will be rejected."(Sahi Bukhari vol 3 no 861)
While we say so we are fully aware that those of our muslim brothers
who celebrate it do so out of love for the Messenger.But it is our
duty to inform them that the correct way of expressing that love is to
follow the Message of our Prophet.O Allah send your blessings upon
Muhummed and his family as you sent over Ibraheem and his
family(Aameen).
Dear brother, I appeal to your "Eyes of justice"!Will you not see?--
(Sahi Muslim
book :6, no: 2606)
This hadeeth shows that it is Sunnah to fast on monday and not that we
should celebrate Prophet's birthday every year in Rabi ul Awal making
it a new day for worship.
We will deal with it shortly in detail but let us have a look at
following hadeeth.

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