المورد في عمل المولد
By
الإمام أبو حفص تاج الدين الفاكهاني
Imaam Aboo Hafs Taaj ad-Deen al-Faakihaanee
[d. 734 AH]
[May Allaah have Mercy on him]
[May Allaah have Mercy on him]
All Praise is due to Allaah, who Guided us to follow the Leader of the Prophets, He Helped us with His Guidance to be steadfast on His Religion and He made it easy for us to be upon the path of the righteous Salaf until our hearts were filled with light, the knowledge of the Shariah and the evidence promoting the clear truth. He purified us from being unclean and being polluted with innovations in the religion.
Praise Him for favouring us with the certain truth. I thank Him for aiding us to hold onto the firm rope. I bear witness that there is no God worthy of worship except Allaah, with no partner and that Muhammad is His Slave and Messenger, the leader of the earlier ones and the latter ones, May the Peace and Blessings of Allaah be upon him, his family, his companions, his pure wives and the believers. Peace and Blessings upon him until the Last Day.
To Begin:
I am constantly asked in our blessed gatherings about some people who take the month of Rabee al-Awwal as a special month and they do this on a particular day calling it Mawlid, some of these questions are as follows;
Is there precedence or a foundation in our Shariah for this?
Or is it an innovation that has been introduced into the religion?
We are hoping for a clear answer on this subject.
So I Say, with the strength from Allaah:
I don’t know any precedence or foundation in Mawlid from the Kitaab and the Sunnah. It has not been narrated from any of the scholars of Islaam either, those who have a status in this religion. These are the scholars who stuck to the narrations of those who came before them, thus this action is an innovation. It has been introduced by those who are upon falsehood. They follow their desires, eat and drink and waste their time.
The proof to refute them is that we are bound by the Ahkam al-Khams [These are the five rulings within our Shariah, Fard, Sunnah, Mubaah, Makrooh and Haraam], so we say;
Either this act is Fard [obligatory] or Sunnah [recommended] or Mubaah [permissible] or Makrooh [disliked] or Haraam [prohibited].
This act is not Waajib and the scholars have consensus on this and it is not Sunnan either. This is because in reality an act that is Sunnah for us to follow within the Shariah, is something that we won't get punished if we leave it and something we will be rewarded for if we perform it. Therefore regarding this act, we have no permission from the Shariah to do this, nor from the Companions [May Allaah be Pleased with them all] nor Tabieen [May Allaah have Mercy on them all] nor from the firmly grounded scholars, as we know, thus this is my answer regarding this issue in front of Allaah, the Most High, if I am asked about this issue.
It is still not permissible even if we say it is Mubaah because it is innovated into the religion, thus it can't be something Mubaah for us to do, with the consensus of the Muslims [as it is connected to matters of religious affairs not our worldly affairs].
Therefore, all that remains is for us to say that it is either Makrooh or Haraam. This needs a further detailed discussion. We can split this discussion into two parts which are based on two topics;
Firstly, if a person acts upon Mawlid, with his efforts, his wealth, his family and his companions we say this is not permissible. For example, if one calls people to gather on this day to eat together, even if he doesn’t condone any acts of disobedience to Allaah (such as singing or dancing etc.) then we will still describe this as being an innovation, a disliked and disgusting one. A person who obeys Allaah will never do such a thing, those who have knowledge of Islaam, its favoured scholars, those who preserve their time and benefit wherever they are.
Secondly, celebrating the Mawlid forces people to contribute in this crime as he takes special care in partaking, until one gives from the best of his wealth and he goes out of his way to help. However, he is being harmed and his heart will be pained once he realises that he has been wronged and oppressed (as he is seeking to please the people and is cooperating in doing this sin). The scholars [May Allaah have Mercy on them all] have a saying; ‘If you take the wealth of someone using modesty then it is like you have taken his wealth with a sword.’ This is especially the case if this taking of wealth is added by the fact that stomachs will be full of desires based upon falsehood. This includes beating of drums by young girls. Men gather with beardless youths or young girls dancing and women gather to sing on this occasion. These gatherings at times can be mixed between the genders and at times they can be conducted with a large audience. These gatherings sometimes have people dancing in groups and all of this are the various types of idle forgetfulness of the Feared Day.
Likewise, when women gather on this day, they raise their voices in rhythm and they sing choruses of Nasheeds. This all contradicts and displays absentmindedness of the rulings of recitation of the Quraan or Dhikr and it also goes against what is customary for our gatherings. They are ignorant of the statement of Allaah, the Most High;
"Verily, your Lord is Ever Watchful (over them)."
[Surah al-Fajr 89: 14]
The ruling of it being forbidden doesn’t change for different people, so if a person is rich and is pious it will still be prohibited for him, as these are cause for ones heart to die and it doesn’t free a person from sinning or disobeying Allaah. However, some increase in these activities because they think they are doing acts of worship, they don’t think they are doing anything disliked not forbidden
To Allaah we belong and to him we shall return. Islam began as something strange and it shall return how it began. And by Allah, how good a man our Shaykh is, Shaykh al-Qushayree [better known as Ibn Daqeeq al-'Eid (d.702)], May Allaah have Mercy on him, who said (in poetry);
To know the Munkar and to Ma'roof in our days is difficult,
All of the people of knowledge are suppressed,
The people of ignorance are raised,
They misguide the people from the truth,
They deviate from the truth and they have became dominant,
They prevail over the truth in large numbers,
So I said to the pious, those who have Taqwa and knowledge,
When they are feeling suppressed and full of sorrow,
Do not disregard your state as you have been given status and honour in times of strangeness.
And Imaam Aboo ‘Amr ibn Alaa [d. 154 AH], May Allaah have mercy on him, did well when he said;
The people will not cease to be upon good as long as they are surprised by the things that surprise.
And Allaah Knows Best
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