On Celebrating the Birth of Prophet

100 Pages·2022·2.834 MB·English

by  Sayyid Muhammad b. Alawi b. Abbas al-Maliki al-Hasani

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of the people of Iman and dacwah, Allah opened his heart
to recommit to Islam. From there, he began his study of
the Arabic language, the Holy Qur’an and Islamic Sciences
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'p: Hadramout, Yemen. He currently resides in Toronto with
his wife and daughter and delivers lectures and sermons in
various mosques in the GTA.
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ON CELEBRATING THE BIRTH
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ON CELEBRATING THE
BIRTH OF THE PROPHET
Compiled by
Sayyid ‘Allamah Doctor
Muhammad b. ‘Alawi b. ‘Abbas
al-Malikl al-Hasani
Translation & Notes
Rashad Jameer
Imam Ghazali
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Title: On Celebrating the Birth of the Prophet &
ISBN: 978-0-578-17440-2
First Edition
Author: Muhammad b. ‘Alawi b. ‘Abbas al-Maliki al-Hasani
Translator: Rashad Jameer ♦ Wasila Press
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For the Qutb ofTawadu,
the noble Shaykh Shukri al-Luhafi al-Hanafi
“Forget the good that you’ve done for others
but don’t ever forget the good that others have
done for you”
Shaykh Shukri al-Luhafi

Contents
Foreword 9
Publisher’s Message 13
Translator’s Introduction 15
Shaykh Muhammad al-cAlawi al-Maliki al-Hasani 17
On Celebrating The Birth of the Prophet & 31
Acknowledgments 33
Author’s Introduction 35
Preface 37
The Proofs of the Permissibility of Celebrating the 39
Birth of the Prophet £
Five Categories of Innovation 44
The Opinion of Ibn Taymiyya on the Mawlid 49
The Understanding of the Mawlid in my Opinion 51
Standing in the Mawlid 53
The Scholars Deeming the Standing in the Mawlid to 55
be Good and Explaining the Reasoning Behind it
The Reasons Behind Deeming Standing to be Good 57
Books Authored on this Topic 59
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