For 23 years after Prophethood, ALLAH’s messenger (pbuh) never celebrated the mawlid, neither did Abubakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali (May Allah be pleased with them), or any other sahaba, or tabi’een, taba tabi’een, or the 4 imams after them….Surely, none can or did love Allah’s messenger more then the sahaba…who sacrificed their lives, money, time, family, and every worldly possession for the sake of Allah’s messenger (PBUH), therefore by celebrating the mawlid, are we stating that the deen which reached sahaba was Nauzubillah incomplete in any manner, shape or form?

As Muslims we need to wake up from this slumber, ALLAH’s help and assistance will only reach us if we abstain from all forms of shirk and biddah, the ummah has lost its direction, and unfortunately, many of our scholars who should guide us towards the Quran and Sunnah, our leading us astray by creating doubts and misconceptions.

I pray to Allah for guidance and truth.

Salaam all,
Taken from a website, unfortunately I do not haeve the exact link to it…
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Wahhabi Mawlids

It is widely believed that Wahhabi/”Salafi”/Deobandis are against the idea of holding celebrations of Mawlid. But that’s not true. They celebrate not one, but many Mawlids. Here are some of the Wahhabi/”Salafi”/Deobandi Mawlids we have witnessed.

1) Mawlid of Shaykh Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Wahhab, Shaykh-an-Najdi (Also, the title which was given to Shaytan), Shaykh al-Islam of “Salafis”/Wahhabis, founder of the deviant Wahhabi sect

Every year at the anniversary date of Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Wahhab’s death, a great feast is held at the Ibn Sa`ud University in Riyad (in Najd) at which time they praise the unparalleled magnificence of their beloved religious leader, listing his qualities and reciting new poetry about his greatness. All over the world, their embassies also fulfill this important communal obligation (fard kifaya).

2) Mawlid of the State, known as National Day:
This Mawlid, similar to Independence Day, Flag Day, and Army Day, is celebrated every year in the country with international gala festivities, fanfare, parades, army reviews, podiums and thrones, and also, of course, new poems of praise and Madih recitations for the State founders and current rulers, all at colossal cost, but whatever means leads to fulfilling an obligation (fard), is itself an obligation.

3) Mawlid of the Nation’s Century:
This was a gigantic and truly new Mawlid, the like of which was never seen before. We all witnessed the great celebrations whose main slogan was “100 years KSA” and the establishment of the Wahhabi Kingdom. On this occasion thousands of shiny and colorful lights, new constructions, inventive and tasteful decorations, posters, banners, placards, and other graphic art productions were displayed in public places and broadcast over the media with orchestral music, poems, and commentary of self-praise and glorification that filled the heart with warmth, love of dunya, and national pride. All Mawlids should be like this!

4) Mawlid of the Mufti:
At the recent passing of the Grand Mufti of the Wahhabiyya Sect, Bin Baz, it was decided by the Mawlid Celebration Board to issue a special commemorative glossy publication praising his greatness, listing his achievements and merits, and deploring his demise with big tears of sadness. In fact, the magazine cover showed a delightful, artistic painting of a series of big tears stringed together like dhikr-beads, and inside each tear there was a small Ka`ba.

5) Mawlid of the Ministers:
From time to time, public sessions of high praise are held for certain ministers according to worldly (dunya) merit. In a recent incident one witnessed a TV program in Madina sharif during Hajj 1999, in which one of the Ministers was lavishly praised (madih) by a 7-year old schoolboy dressed in a formal army suit, reciting poetry he had innovated for him. The boy was called to the podium (`arsh) and asked by that minister what he would like to receive for praising him so much. The boy said on the spot: “Half a million Ryals.” The Minister happily granted his wish. (Jazak Allahu Khayran for such a generous, noble gesture on National TV during Hajj, so that everyone young and old should learn to praise and magnify government officials instead!) The brother who witnessed this event on TV, as he was pleased with the Best of Creation – the Prophet (SAWS) – went to the Prophet’s Mosque and, standing at Bab Gibril in front of the blessed Green Dome (with other brothers who were also obsessed with Akhira), started passionately obeying the command of the Qur’an to invoke blessings and abundant greetings on the Holy Prophet (Sallalaho alayhi wassalam) and recite Qasida in his praise. Immediately, the guards of the “Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques” went on Red Alert (special guards from the elite Tala`al Badru Emergency Alert Unit) as they noticed that the brothers were committing an act of love and respect for the Beloved of Allah azzawajal (sallalaho alayhi wassalam), something known in their legal police code as SHIRK,KUFR,BID`A (which only they can pronounce correctly). So the elite, frowning paratroopers yelled at the brothers to stop immediately this violation of the National Mawlid Law, manhandled them, and threatened them with arrest and jail unless they stopped their crime. Moral: If only those brothers had used their intellects to recite Mawlid for a State Minister instead of Rahmatan lil-Alamin (Sallalaho alayhi wassalam), they would have been several million Ryals richer today!

6) Mawlid of Monuments and Inscriptions:
Unlike the preceding Mawlids which are seasonal or according to special circumstances, this Mawlid is a permanent Mawlid in Madina, steps away from the Prophet’s Mosque in the ritzy Dar al-Tayba square. It consists in a 15-foot monument in the shape of a globe topped by a dome similar to the Prophet’s dome, flanked by a flag, in the middle of a waterfall. Below, an inscription says: “In appreciation to the King for services rendered to Islam.” This Mawlid of Monuments and Inscriptions fulfills two important functions. First, it is most suitable for photography as a memento of His Majesty the King in the City of the Holy Prophet (salalaho alayhi wassalam) as, unfortunately, pictures of the real Dome are prohibited but happily, pictures of this dunya monument are welcome.

Second, just like the inscription acknowledging His Majesty the King at the bottom of the door of the Ka`ba in Mecca (for every pilgrim to remember and commemorate) this monument and inscription fills the vacuum created – in the last century – by the destruction of the graves of of the great past Muslim figures who contributed over 1,000 years to the greatness of Islam. Figures such as Hazrat `Uthman ibn `Affan who used to ride on a donkey and sleep on the mosque floor when he was caliph; Hazrat `Uthman ibn Mazun whose grave the Holy Prophet (sallalaho alayhi wassalam) personally built up; Hazrat Malik ibn Anas who walked barefoot in Madina out of respect for Rasulullah (sallalaho alayhi wassalam); our mothers the Prophet’s wives; his daughters, uncles, cousins, and thousands of Sahaba (May Allah azzawajjal be please with them all) are all left without one sign courtesy of the bulldozers by the najdis – i.e. monument or inscription – reminding of their existence or “services rendered to Islam.”

7) To celebrate 100 years of the establishment of Dar ul Uloom Deoband, a massive birthday celebration of the deobandi darululoom was held, and Indira Gandhi was invited and came to deliver a speech to all of the big deobandi leaders who gave her garlands of flowers.

Conclusion:
It is hoped that this brief description will help dispel the false and unjust notion that no Mawlid of any kind is celebrated in the Wahhabi/”Salafi”/Deobandi world today. Yes, they celebrate Mawlid, rejoice and remember like everybody else – but in their own special way, and always forbid celebrating the Milaad of Sweet Rasoolallah sallalaho alayhi wassalam. As Allah (azzawajjal) said: “Every party rejoices in what they have.” And the Holy Prophet (sallalaho alayhi wassalam) said: “When someone loves something, they make abundant remembrance of it.”

Bear this one thing in mind: These wahhabi/deobandis/salafis/najdis have the cheeks to say that Milad-un-Nabi (Sall Allahu alaihi wa Aalihi wa Sallim) is Shirk & Bid’ah, yet celebrating the birthdays and anniversaries of their own leaders and innovated institutes is acceptable to them.

La’natullah ‘alaa-l-kaadhibeen wa alaa-l-munafiqeen!

As Imam Gazali says, you cannot deny what you have not experienced.

I would rather play it safe and celebrate it, because it is these extra measures of love that we show that will make all the difference on the Day of Judgment when the best of creation (SAAW) will let us into paradise. The mawlid does not elevate him beyond his status as a Prophet to a deity, and nor does it involve practises not normally allowed by Islamic law. So, all that’s left to it is love. Last I checked, we had to love him more than ourselves. I’d like to know how else people expect to grow closer to him, and what else they want to prohibit or decry in the effort to grow close to a man we never lived with (while the Sahaba did) and have never known except through the currents of the heart.

To the brother who said that milaad is like praying 3 rakat instead of two rakat for tahiyatul masjid . Brother wrong analogy, its like praying 2 rakat nafl after fard prayers , not because its fard but to get extra good deeds.

People do haram sinful stuff to celebrate Eid also, so should we stop celebrating Eid ? (Before any one jumps on me, I am not comparing Eid with milaad, just saying haram actions are haram no matter when they are done)

If Milaad is haram then I guess halaqas are haram too. Doing zikr and reading seerat un Nabi is not wrong. I dont know anyone who says celebrating Milaad is fard.

Wasalam

Sorry to be up front but brothers and sisters, I find it very funny that people are celebrating the prophet (saw) birthday in many many sinful ways.

If people want to follow the Sunnah and they have so much love for the prophet (saw) than they should FIRST FOLLOW HIM.

It goes like this:

KNOW MUHAMMAD (SAW)
LOVE MUHAMMAD (SAW)
FOLLOW MUHAMMAD (SAW)

Brothers should follow his commands by growing their beards and acting upon the righteous acts of his–NOT JUST HIS BIRTHDAY. This is hypocritical, you love him but you don’t follow him but than you do a birthday celebration.

May Allah (swt) guide us all and favor us among the rightly guided slaves. Ameen.