The Ruling on Celebrating Birthdays
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A phenomenon has appeared, which is the celebration of birthdays by some people for their children, and this is due to a fatwa by some of them permitting it.
Answer:
Who is the one issuing a fatwa permitting it? Is he from the people of fatwa? No one from the scholars of knowledge issues a fatwa on this, as for the pretenders to knowledge, there is no harm in mentioning them, and as for the ignorant, there is no harm in mentioning them, but the recognized people of fatwa do not issue a fatwa on this. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: A phenomenon has appeared, which is the celebration of birthdays by some people for their children, and this is due to a fatwa by some of them permitting it.
Answer:
Who is the one issuing a fatwa permitting it? Is he from the people of fatwa? No one from the scholars of knowledge issues a fatwa on this, as for the pretenders to knowledge, there is no harm in mentioning them, and as for the ignorant, there is no harm in mentioning them, but the recognized people of fatwa do not issue a fatwa on this. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان، إغاثة اللهفان من مصايد الشيطان 19-05-1434هـ — alfawzan.live (1:02:19)
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