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Why would Mawlid, which is respecting and loving the Prophet, be Haram??
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Why would Mawlid, which is respecting and loving the Prophet, be Haram??
WN.com - Articles related to Evgeni Plushenko stripped of eligibility, out of 2014 Olympics 2010
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Why would Mawlid, which is respecting and loving the Prophet, be Haram??
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For these scholars, the very existence of the universe is a celebration of the birth of Prophet Muhammad, so they find even the suggestion of not celebrating Mawlid appalling.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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For nearly a thousand years, a minority of Muslim orthodoxy, including some jurists and more recently the followers of Wahhabi Islam from Saudi Arabia, insist that celebrating Mawlid is a bid'ah, or innovation.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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Last month we saw the occasion of the Mawlid, celebrated by many Pakistanis as the Birth of the Prophet, whom Muslims consider "Rahmatul-lil-Alameen," a Mercy to all the worlds.
Taha Gaya: The Case for a Pluralistic Pakistan: A Pakistani-American Perspective Taha Gaya 2011
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Last month we saw the occasion of the Mawlid, celebrated by many Pakistanis as the Birth of the Prophet, whom Muslims consider "Rahmatul-lil-Alameen," a Mercy to all the worlds.
Taha Gaya: The Case for a Pluralistic Pakistan: A Pakistani-American Perspective Taha Gaya 2011
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For nearly a thousand years, a minority of Muslim orthodoxy, including some jurists and more recently the followers of Wahhabi Islam from Saudi Arabia, insist that celebrating Mawlid is a bid'ah, or innovation.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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There are many who do not celebrate Mawlid but they do not frown upon those who do, and many of those who do celebrate it, but in a low key fashion.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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Based on the above sources and other hadith that forbid innovation, a minority of Muslims not only do not celebrate the Mawlid, but also condemn the celebration as un-Islamic and celebrators as those destined to go to hell.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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