The ruling on eating from the Prophet's birthday sweets and participating in the celebration

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: In our country, we celebrate the Prophet's birthday, and the symbol of the celebration is sweets they call "Mawlid sweets." His question is: Is it permissible for us to eat from these sweets at this time?

Answer:
It is not permissible for you to participate in the celebration, even if there are no sweets. It is not permissible for you to eat from the food prepared for it or the sweets, because this is imitating the Christians in the celebration of the birth of Jesus, which they invented and claimed. Allah has cleared Jesus of this. Therefore, this is not permissible, and it must be denounced and prevented. It must be made clear to the people that this is not permissible, that it is a religious innovation (bid'ah), that it is imitating the Christians, and so on. Yes.