How to respond to the extremists of the Sufis regarding the doubt of celebrating the Mawlid
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If the extremists of the Sufis and their like claim that the virtue of Monday is that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded fasting on it and explained its virtue, and that celebrating his memory annually is even more so, what do we respond to them?The Shaykh: I say, if they want to celebrate Monday, it is obligatory weekly.
Why single it out?The questioner: For the virtue of Monday, because he was born in it.
The Shaykh: Do you mean the Mawlid?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: He stated it explicitly.
The questioner: No, the Shaykh said: They say: The Messenger said: (That is the day I was born in) This indicates the exaltation of the day he was born in, not Monday; because the birth of the Messenger was not on Monday, it will be (12) Rabi' according to what they believe,But we say: If the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), assuming he exalted the day he was born in, by what did he exalt it? By fasting. Did he exalt it with this reprehensible celebration? This is an argument against them, not for them,We say: If you are truthful in following the Messenger, exalt it by what he exalted it with, which is fasting.
Then the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not intend to exalt the day he was born in, but he intended to clarify that Allah the Exalted placed in this day important things for the children of Adam, which are: that he was born in it, and he was sent in it, and it was revealed to him in it.
And I say to them: So establish the mourning and the funeral, because the Messenger died on Monday.
Why single it out?The questioner: For the virtue of Monday, because he was born in it.
The Shaykh: Do you mean the Mawlid?The questioner: Yes.
The Shaykh: He stated it explicitly.
The questioner: No, the Shaykh said: They say: The Messenger said: (That is the day I was born in) This indicates the exaltation of the day he was born in, not Monday; because the birth of the Messenger was not on Monday, it will be (12) Rabi' according to what they believe,But we say: If the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), assuming he exalted the day he was born in, by what did he exalt it? By fasting. Did he exalt it with this reprehensible celebration? This is an argument against them, not for them,We say: If you are truthful in following the Messenger, exalt it by what he exalted it with, which is fasting.
Then the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not intend to exalt the day he was born in, but he intended to clarify that Allah the Exalted placed in this day important things for the children of Adam, which are: that he was born in it, and he was sent in it, and it was revealed to him in it.
And I say to them: So establish the mourning and the funeral, because the Messenger died on Monday.