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Visit our YouTube channel for more Question: When did the innovation of [celebrating] the birthday [of the Prophet ﷺ] appear Shaykh Muhammad? Response: [It first appeared] in the 4th century [after the hijrah]; meaning, the [first] three virtuous centuries had passed and no-one had established it (i.e. the celebration of the Prophet’s ﷺ birthday). […]
Visit our YouTube channel for more Questioner: What is the ruling…[regarding] the birthday…celebrating the birthday of the Prophet? Shaykh: Celebrating the birthday of the Prophet is also an innovation. If it was [something] good, then the companions رضي الله عنهم would have done it; so where are they [who celebrate the birthday of the […]
Is it permissible to eat from the meat which has been slaughtered for the occasion of [celebrating] the birthday of the Prophet ﷺ?
They say they want to venerate the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ; so how is true veneration of the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ to be done?
So if we [really] want to defend [the honour of] the Messenger ﷺ, then we should defend him within ourselves first [and foremost].
We have a man with us at work who approves of the celebration of the birthday [of the Prophet ﷺ ], and advocates and insists upon this.
What are “newly invented (introduced) matters” and what is the meaning of this?
Is it permissible to raise one’s head up [towards the sky] to look at the Sun during the Eclipse prayer?
What is the reason behind solar and lunar eclipses?
What is the ruling about having shares in companies and banks’?
