Eid Milad-un-Nabi Mubarak: Mawlid celebrations
Eid Milad-un-Nabi / Mawlid Mubarak
Mawlid (Eid Milad an Nabi) (also knonwn as Mawlid or Mevlid) is a term used to refer to the observance of the birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad which occurs in Rabi’ al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.
Timing
Mawlid falls in the month of Rabi’ al-awwal in the Islamic calendar. Sunnis observe the event on the 12th of the month, while Shias observe the event on the 17th coinciding with the birth date of their sixth Imam, Ja’far al-Sadiq.
As the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, the corresponding date in the Gregorian calendar varies each year.
Sufi Muslims march in Al Azhar district to celebrate Eid Milad-un-Nabi in old Cairo, 2008.
Observances
Where Mawlid is celebrated in a carnival manner, large street processions are held and homes or mosques are decorated. Charity and food is distributed, and stories about the life of Muhammad are narrated with recitation of poetry by children.
Scholars and poets celebrate by reciting Qaṣīda al-Burda Sharif, the famous poem by 13th century Arabic Sufi Busiri.
Mawlid is celebrated in most Muslim majority countries, and in other countries where Muslims have a presence, such as India, Britain, and Canada. Saudi Arabia is the only Muslim country where Mawlid is not an official public holiday, but some elite Hijazi families have revived the mawlid there. Participation in the ritual celebration of popular Islamic holidays is seen as an expression of the Islamic revival.
Among non-Muslim countries, India is noted for its Mawlid festivities. The relics of the Muhammed are displayed after the morning prayers in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir at Hazratbal shrine, on the outskirts of Srinagar. Shab-khawani night-long prayers held at the Hazratbal shrine are attended by thousands.
During Pakistan’s Mawlid celebration, the national flag is hoisted on all public buildings, and a 31 gun salute in the federal capital and a 21 gun salute at the provincial headquarters are fired at dawn. The cinemas shows religious rather than secular films on 11th and 12th Rabi-ul-Awwal.
Article at Minhaj-ul-Quran
Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi in the light of the Quran & the Hadith.
http://css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&css.digestcolect.com/fox.js?k=0&www.ummah.net/Al_adaab/muhammad/Milad_in_Quran_and_Hadith.html
Gul az rukhat aamokhta – Naat recited by Umme Habibah
Comments
Shaheryar Ali said:
After extending my greetings to Muslims friends on the festivities of Milad. i like to point out the criminal silence Pakistani intellectuals and media have maintained on ban on Milad festivities Wahabi kingdom of Saudi Arabai as well by Taliban in the areas they control.
Its an abuse of fundamental human rights that Muslims are forced to not celebrate the birthday of their prophet.
Muslims can be killed if they do celebrate Milad. [Nishter Park incident is a proof]
Carnage on Rabiul Awwal 12 averted?: 3 alleged LJ men held for plotting terror attack
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: The Sindh police’s Crime Investigation Department (CID) Friday claimed to have apprehended three terrorists belonging to the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi who were planning to carry out a major terrorist activity in the city on Saturday, Rabiul Awwal 12.
The CID also said they seized RDX and C-4 explosives from their possession. The three arrested men were identified as Ismail, son of Mohammad Khan, Yousuf Chandio, son of Junaid Khan and Abdul Baqi alias Talha, son of Abdul Hakeem Durrani Pathan.
According to CID officials, they arrested these men during a raid at a hideout near Jamshed Road without any gunfire and seized three TT pistols, 20-kg ammonium nitrate mixed with RDX, 500 grams of C-4 explosives, six detonators, two mortar rockets, and wires from their possession.
The officials further said the arrested men were planning to target the Sunni leadership in Nisthar Park and also assassinate other personalities in the coming days.
“These men are associated with Qari Hussain Mehsud, the mastermind of the suicide bomber squad of the Tehreek-Taliban Pakistan who is presently running a training camp in Wana,” CID (Operations) SSP Fayyaz Khan told Daily Times.
“These men are being questioned as to whether they had direct links with the Taliban leadership or were only affiliated with their group commander in Karachi, Hakeem Khan alias Hakeem Chohto,” the officer explained.
Khan said Hakeem Khan, who is still at large, had planned to carry out a major terror activity in Karachi on the occasion of Rabiul Awwal 12 in collaboration with Qari Hussain Mehsud.
The officer said during the initial course of interrogation, the arrested men have disclosed that had bought a motorcycle so that they could plant a bomb on it and park it on a road to target the participants of the Nishtar Park procession in case they couldn’t target the Sunni leadership inside the park.
At least a dozen people of their group planned to wear a ‘green turban’ to enter the par for this purpose.
“We are looking for Hakeem Khan and it believed his group has various suicide jackets and arms. They are present in the city in large numbers, and some of them have escaped from Swat and Waziristan,” Khan said.
The three arrested LJ members are residents of Shah Faisal Colony, Malir and Jamshed Town areas. Two of them are Sindhi and one is Pukhtoon.
No criminal background of the three men their group leader is available with the CID, but Khan said the culprits have confessed to robbing banks and others places for funding their organisation.
The officer further said that his team had earlier arrested five of this group’s members in a raid in Orangi Town last year and also recovered a huge cache of explosives from their possession.
Khan said the LJ was also involved in the bombing at Nishtar Park in 2006, in which 50 people were killed including the leadership of Sunni Tehreek. Members of the Qari Iqbal Mehsud group were behind that attack and some of them have been arrested, the officer said.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20102\27\story_27-2-2010_pg12_1
LUBP archive on Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny)
http://criticalppp.com/archives/tag/prophet-muhammad
A day of blessings
Tanveer Shahid
http://express.com.pk/epaper/PoPupwindow.aspx?newsID=1101171546&Issue=NP_LHE&Date=20110216
Muhammad Rafi live ‘Naat Sharif’agar mil gayi mujhko raahe Medina…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX_h2oJXQ00
Muhammad Rafi Sings Darood-o-Salaam at Eid Maild-u-Nabi (SAW) FULL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_BQIWO9IMQ
Dear Abdul Nishapuri @ Can you please tell us that when this event was started…why this event wan not celeberated during the life time of HOLLIEST MAN(peace and Blessing of ALLAH BE UPON HIM) THIS EARTH HAS EVER SEEN and will never see again ..?? Why this day was not celeberated during first few centuries of ISLAM..? Who has started this this event….? were they not those christian who conveted to Islam and had braught few ugly traditions (tradition which use to support pappiat) from Christianity..? Is it not necessory for us being Muslim to observe this day to make a promiss with our self that we will become Muslim by CHARACTER not by hollow words of mouth like these MULLAHS to me these MULLAHS are not MUslim by CHARATOR instead they are Muslim by WORDS….
@Ahmed Baloch
There is a diversity of opinion on this topic within Islam and Muslims. While some Muslims do not celebrate the Mawlid, others do. Both groups have their own historical and sharia based arguments. This difference deserves to be respected and considered.
I totally agree with your comments about Mullahs.