What is the guidance for school students who have been influenced by the innovation of the Prophet's birthday celebration?
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Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am studying in one of the schools, and a student came to me informing me that last Friday was the birthday of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The question is: What is my position toward this student? And with what guidance should I guide him? Because many of our students are of different nationalities, and they are influenced by these innovations?
Answer:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was born, without doubt, and he was born on a Monday, without doubt, (peace and blessings be upon him), and he passed away on a Monday (peace and blessings be upon him). As for whether it was the twelfth of Rabi' al-Awwal or the ninth, there is no evidence for specifying the day of the birth from the months. There is no evidence for it. He was only born on a Monday, but on which day of the month? Allah knows best. We have no interest in that. If we had an interest in it, this would have been clarified for us. Since we have no interest in it, it was not clarified for us.
And celebrating the birthday is an innovation. It is a manifest innovation[An-Najm 53:23]. In itself, it is an innovation.
But there occurs in it a great deal of shirk (associating partners with Allah), disbelief, and corruption, such as supplicating to the Messenger and calling for aid through the Messenger, or complaining of their state to him, or they claim that the Messenger attends their celebration, and for that reason they stand up for him to receive him and he sits among them, as they claim. These are among the falsehoods and lies that[An-Najm 53:23]. Yes.
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This questioner says: I am studying in one of the schools, and a student came to me informing me that last Friday was the birthday of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him). The question is: What is my position toward this student? And with what guidance should I guide him? Because many of our students are of different nationalities, and they are influenced by these innovations?
Answer:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was born, without doubt, and he was born on a Monday, without doubt, (peace and blessings be upon him), and he passed away on a Monday (peace and blessings be upon him). As for whether it was the twelfth of Rabi' al-Awwal or the ninth, there is no evidence for specifying the day of the birth from the months. There is no evidence for it. He was only born on a Monday, but on which day of the month? Allah knows best. We have no interest in that. If we had an interest in it, this would have been clarified for us. Since we have no interest in it, it was not clarified for us.
And celebrating the birthday is an innovation. It is a manifest innovation
for which Allah has sent down no authority
مَّا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَانٍBut there occurs in it a great deal of shirk (associating partners with Allah), disbelief, and corruption, such as supplicating to the Messenger and calling for aid through the Messenger, or complaining of their state to him, or they claim that the Messenger attends their celebration, and for that reason they stand up for him to receive him and he sits among them, as they claim. These are among the falsehoods and lies that
for which Allah has sent down no authority
مَّا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ بِهَا مِن سُلْطَانٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [93 -858] ما التوجيه لطلاب المدارس الذين تأثروا ببدعة المولد النبوي؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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