The Ruling on Celebrating the Prophet's Birthday

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, what is the ruling on celebrating the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) birthday, especially since the upcoming days will mark the date of the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) birth? He was the first to adopt this framework: Abu Sa'id al-Malik al-Muzaffar al-Kufatari. He was a king of Irdan, not a scholar.

Answer:
And you know, for example, if the Sultan is restrained or wants something to be rejected, and as happened with certain matters, if the Sultan is corrected by Allah, the community is corrected, and if he is preserved, the community is preserved. So they considered this a sultanic matter, and it became a matter for the ignorant. The Imams have continued to point out the novelty of this Mawlid. Imam al-Shatibi pointed it out in *Al-I'tisam*, noting that this is a bid'ah (religious innovation) and that it is not permissible. He also pointed it out with respect to Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, and others have pointed it out as well, may Allah the Exalted be praised.
So some of them wrote books and small treatises on it, and some wrote about it within the context of larger works. The claim is that this is a royal matter, and the scholars continue to denounce it, but the ignorant and the malicious persist in it, and no one responds to the denunciation except with a stronger adherence to it. This is the Sunnah of Allah in His creation, Glorified and Exalted is He. As for falsehood, it has supporters in every time and place, but, praise be to Allah, the truth still has those who support it, those who spread it, and those who call to it. Evil has those who spread it and prevent it from being known. The argument stands, praise be to Allah. Whoever wants guidance has what he has chosen for himself. Allah.