Bdays

[Muslimah]

Bismillah


as salam alykom


Jazaki Allah khairan Jennifer for the explanation.


I d like before I add to ask Rock which kind of social occaisons u refer to when u say we are allowed to celebrate social occaisons. For instance, if u mean wedding anniversaries, this has nothing to do with Islam.


before we continue, what u said is very much correct about everything is allowed unless other wise indicated by Quran or Sunnah. But we have an important rule that actually covers this area. Which is that we are commanded by a hadeeth to go in contrary with what the Mushrekeen do. Under this rule, we are not allowed to celebrate their social or religious occaisons inlcuding christmas, New years eve, wedding anniversaryies..etc. What is even more dangerous is that we dont see such things as harmful, we say we are just looking for fun. I m trying to stay on topic. But take wedding parties for example in Muslim countries, starting from the wedding march, to cutting the cake, to throwing away the bouquet of flowers, has nothing to do with Islam, but all is well rooted in western culture.


hope i made some sense.


As for the Messenger salla Allah a`lyhee wa sallam, he never celebrated his own birthday in the manner that is taking place currently. But rather he used to fast Mon and Thus of every week. When he was asked why, he said Mon is the day on which I was born and I like to thank Allah, and Thus is a day on which deeds are taking up to Allah and I like that my deeds to be takien up while i m fasting.


Thus, he used to fast every Mon in gratitude to Allah, not have a cake and presents from people.