Ruling on Holding Mawlid Celebrations and Reciting Praise of the Prophet

Also, a listener from Hadramawt says: The mawlid in the mosques on the night of every Friday, there is a book called al-Mawlid al-Dabbi or al-Rabii. It contains several poems praising the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and it is full of sending blessings upon the Prophet, praising him, and describing his biography from his birth to his death. We ask for clarification of this with evidence?
Answer: As for celebrating the mawlid, this has no basis, there is no evidence for it, and the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) did not do it in his life, nor did his Rightly Guided Caliphs (may Allah be pleased with them), who were the most knowledgeable people about him and the most loving people toward him (peace and blessings be upon him). Likewise, the rest of the Companions did not do it, nor did the Successors in all the blessed centuries. This indicates that it is a religious innovation. However, studying the Prophetic biography, where a scholar studies the biography among people at any time, at night or during the day, once a week or twice or more or less, all of this is good. Studying the biography, explaining the biography of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and what he was like in his travels and his residence, and explaining his morals and his deeds (peace and blessings be upon him), this is the truth so that people may emulate him. As for focusing on poems that contain exaggeration and over-praise, and setting a specific time for this mawlid in Rabi' al-Awwal, on the twelfth or otherwise, with the intention of studying this mawlid from the time he was born (peace and blessings be upon him), and bringing in shirk-based poems such as al-Burda and others, this is reprehensible and has no basis. What is prescribed is to bring in the Shari'ah lessons that people read in homes or in mosques, like other lessons, to explain his biography (peace and blessings be upon him) and what he was like, how he was born, how he lived, and then after his mission. And the important thing, the important thing, is his deeds after the mission, how were his deeds, how was his biography, so that the believers may emulate him and so that they may benefit.
As for what people have become accustomed to, which is establishing a mawlid to be celebrated in Rabi' al-Awwal, where sacrifices are slaughtered, feasts are held, and poems containing over-praise and exaggeration are brought in, and people stand at a specific time saying that he (peace and blessings be upon him) has arrived, and they stand for him, all of this has no basis. It is all from the reprehensible innovations and from the means of shirk, because sometimes they fall into much exaggeration and over-praise, where they call upon the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) for aid and ask him for help and victory, among other things. And perhaps fabricated, false hadiths with no basis occur in that. And in some countries, there is mixing between men and women, and reprehensible things occur in the gathering and celebration in some countries. So one must be cautious of that, and it is not permissible to hold these mawlid celebrations and these festivities because they are contrary to what Allah (Mighty and Majestic) has prescribed, and because if they had been good, the Companions of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and those who followed them with excellence would have preceded us to them. Rather, the Fatimids introduced it in the fourth century, and then it spread after them. So it is not befitting for a person of intellect to be deceived by the Fatimids, who are known for Rafidah and Shi'ism, and for them to be the leaders in this matter. We ask Allah for guidance for everyone. Yes.