WHY CELEBRATE PROPHET’S 
BIRTHDAY
Go through the names of email group members and you will easily identify those for it and those against it.
In doing so, you will at a glance identify the group who is deliberating on this issue of celebration very vigorously.
What are they trying to achieve by such means.?
Is it to make Islam more popular or make financial gains by such means, or
As they say SEEKING BARAKAH. ( prosperity, good health. peace, avoid punishments in graves, attain firdouse, etc.,)
So – We take the case of seeking barakah- expecting that the Prophet would grant them favours through Allah. Isn’t it ? This is what they profess.
Now the question arises whether this is the correct way. The best way to find an answer to this is to refer to the QURAN ! Leave everything aside and see what the Quran has to say about this. Hence let me start quoting some Surahs from the Quran. Sure, there cannot be any disputes, or disagreements over them.
. Any action (of worship) which is performed without the command of
Allaah or His Messenger (sallallaahu-alahi-wasallam) will be
rejected. Any action which is performed in a manner other than that of
Messenger (sallallaahu-alaihi-wasallam) will be rejected.
4296 The righteous man will find Allah enough for all the protection he needs, all the rest and peace he craves for, and all the happiness he can imagine. If Satans wish to frighten him with false gods, he knows that that is mere superstition. In the case of idols to whom worship is paid, this is easily intelligible. But there are other false gods which men worship,-wealth, position, power, science, selfish desire, and so on. The idea may occur to them: "this is the right course, but what will men say?" or "shall I lose my case if I tell the truth?" or "will it ruin my chances if I denounce sin in high places?" All such false gods will only mislead and leave their victims in the lurch. The worship of them will lose them the Mercy of Allah, which wants to guide and comfort all who seek Allah. (39.36)
[Yusufali 22:73] O men! Here is a parable set forth! listen to it! Those on whom, besides Allah, ye call, cannot create (even) a fly, if they all met together for the purpose! and if the fly should snatch away anything from them, they would have no power to release it from the fly. Feeble are those who petition and those whom they petition!
Surah Al-Baqara - 2:186 - When my servants ask thee concerning Me I am indeed close (to them); I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calleth on Me; let them also with a will listen to My call and believe in Me; that they may walk in the right way. 194
2:214 - Ah! verily the help of Allah is (always) near!
Surah Al-Anfal - 8:40 - Allah is your protector the best to protect and the best to help.
Surah Al-Israa - 17:56 - Say: "Call on those besides Him whom ye fancy: they have neither the power to remove your troubles from you nor to change them." 2242
2242 Men's suspicions of each or of the prophets have been condemned in the previous verses. We now have the strongest condemnation of all, that of imagining any other being as being equal or in the same category with One true God. Allah has all power: they have no power. They cannot remove men's troubles. They cannot even mitigate or change them so as to afford the least relief. Why indulge in false worship? (17.56)
Surah Al-Israa 17:57 - Those whom they call upon do desire (for themselves) means of access to their Lord even those who are nearest: they hope for His Mercy and fear His Wrath: for the Wrath of thy Lord is something to take heed of. 2243
2243 Where men or heroes, or prophets or angels are worshipped, the worship is futile; because (1) even if they are good and holy, and ever so near to Allah, yet the nearest of them have need to seek means of access to Allah, and they do seek such means, viz.: the hope of Allah's Grace; (2) though by their very nature it is impossible for us to suppose that they will incur the Wrath of Allah, yet they are but creatures and are subject to the law of personal responsibility. (17.57)
But the Quran says :this about the Prophet: “Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.”
Surah Al-Gashiya - 88:21- 22 - Therefore do thou give admonition for thou art one to admonish.
Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 6107
6107 The Prophet of Allah is sent to teach and direct people on the way. He is not sent to force their will, or to punish them, except in so far as he may receive authority to do so. Punishment belongs to Allah alone. And Punishment is certain in the Hereafter, when true values will be restored. (88.22)
Surah Al-Kahf -18:110 - Say: "I am but a man like yourselves (but) the inspiration has come to me that your Allah is one Allah: whoever expects to meet his Lord let him work righteousness and in the worship of his Lord admit no one as partner." 2454
Righteousness and true respect for Allah-which excludes the worship of anything else, whether idols, or deified men, or forces of nature, or faculties of man, or Self-these are the criteria of true worship. (18.110)
Surah Al-Mu'min - 40.60 – And your Lord says: "Call on Me; I will answer your (Prayer): But those who are too arrogant to serve Me will surely find themselves in Hell in humiliation!" 4434
4434 As this life is not the end of all things, and we are to have its fulfilment in the Hereafter: we have only to pray to the Lord of the Present and the Hereafter, and He will hear us, forgive us, guide us, and make our Path smooth. But Pride will have its fall,-and its humiliating Punishment: 18. (40.60)
Surah Al-Hajj -22.78 - hold fast to Allah! He is your Protector the Best to protect and the Best to help!
Surah Al-i'Imran -3:80 - Nor would he instruct you to take angels and prophets for Lords and Patrons. What! Would he bid you to unbelief after ye have bowed your will (to Allah in Islam)? Surah
Surah Ha-Mim -41.40 - Those who pervert the Truth in Our Signs are not hidden from Us. Which is better? He that is cast into the Fire or he that comes safe through on the Day of Judgement? Do what ye will: Verily He seeth (clearly) all that ye do. 4512
4310 - Let alone worship, men should not rely upon any power or person other than Allah to help them out or intercede for them. When it is idols, they are poor lifeless things which have obviously neither power nor intelligence. But even prophets or saints or heroes have no power to intercede except as Allah wills and permits.
Surah Al-A'raf - 7.192 - No aid can they give them nor can they aid themselves!
Surah Al-An'am -6:148 - Those who give partners to Allah will say "If Allah had wished we should not have given partners to Him nor would our father; nor should we have had any taboos." So did their ancestors argue falsely until they tasted of Our wrath. Say: "Have ye any (certain) Knowledge? If so produce it before us. Ye follow nothing but conjecture: Ye do nothing but lie." 972
Surah Al-Maida --5:119 - Allah will say: "This is a day on which the truthful will profit from their truth: theirs are Gardens with rivers flowing beneath their eternal home: Allah well-pleased with them and they with Allah: that is the great Salvation (the fulfillment of all desires). 833
Surah Al-Ankabut - 29:55- On the Day that the Punishment shall cover them from above them and from below them and (a Voice) shall say: "Taste ye (the fruits) of your deeds!" 3487 3488
3488 This is not merely a reproach, but a justification of the Punishment. "It is you who brought it on yourselves by your evil deeds: blame none but yourselves. Allah's Mercy gave you many chances: His Justice has now overtaken you!" (29.55)
Surah As-Sajda - 32:13 If We had so willed We could certainly have brought every soul its true guidance: but the Word from Me will come true. "I will fill Hell with Jinns and men all together." 3644 3645
3644 - Could evil have been avoided? Certainly everything is in Allah's power. If it had been His Will and Plan, He could have created a world in which there would have been no choice or will in any of His creatures. But that was not His Will and Plan. In the world as we see it, man has a certain amount of choice and free-will. That being so, He has provided Signs and means of instruction for man, in order that man's will may be straight and pure.
A necessary corollary will be Punishment for the infraction of His Law. That Punishment must come to pass, for Allah's Word is true and must be fulfilled. (32.13)
Shouldn’t we avoid introducing innovations into the religion so as to avoid Allah’s wrath. The world is now in turmoil .
A purge has to be made now, as the great Flood made it.
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