What is your advice for those who celebrate the Prophet's birthday?

Question:
The questioner asks: Is there any advice you would direct to those who are preparing to celebrate the Prophet's birthday?

Answer:
We advise them to fear Allah and to abandon the religious innovation (bid'ah). This is a bid'ah. Celebrating the Prophet's birthday is a bid'ah. How is it a bid'ah? What is a bid'ah, O servants of Allah? The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) defined the bid'ah by saying, "Whoever does a deed for which we have no command from us, it is rejected," and by saying, "Beware of newly invented matters, for every newly invented matter is a bid'ah, and every bid'ah is misguidance." Among these is the Mawlid. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do it, nor did he order it, nor did the Companions do it. Especially the Rightly Guided Caliphs did not do it, nor did the four preferred generations about which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) spoke well. This indicates that it is a bid'ah, because it did not occur except after the preferred generations. It falls under his saying , and it falls under his saying, "Beware of newly invented matters, for every newly invented matter is a bid'ah, and every bid'ah is misguidance." So we advise the Muslims to abandon this bid'ah, because it is evil. Bid'ahs are evil, and there is no good in them.
Every bid'ah is misguidance. The bid'ah is misguidance, so it is evil. Those who do this and think that they are doing good—no, they are doing misguidance. This is the saying of the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him).
This is the saying of the Messenger: "Every bid'ah is misguidance." Celebrating the Mawlid is a bid'ah, so it is misguidance and not good. The Muslim seeks good and looks for good, and does not flatter or imitate people who are on no evidence and on no guidance. This is the obligatory duty upon the Muslims: to revive the Sunnah and to kill the bid'ahs. This is the obligatory duty upon every Muslim.