Assalamu'alaykum borthers and sisters,
Keifel hal? (How are you?) I hope all of you are in good health under the care of Allah Azzawajal. If you're not in good health then Salamtak (get well soon). This time i want to share with you about a topic known to many and celebrated by many, that is birthdays. I don't have elaborate much further as the subject speaks itself.
I have come acrossed a lecture by our Lebanon-Australian brother who have given a lecture on a topic called Forbidden Lecture. Masya Allah i wish i can share it with you and make you realise how far we have been deviated from the straight path, without us knowing Astaghfirullah. But for this particular topic on "Birthdays" i have managed to extract the part where he talks about birthdays. So without wasting any much of your time i have uploaded it to youtube. Enjoy and May Allah guide you Insya Allah. Ittaqillah (Fear of Allah).
Salam. I don't think there is anything wrong with birthday celebration, it depends on how you celebrate it and our niat. Birthday party simply with doa selamat and some food cant be labelled as haram.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you at some point but then if you think about it..but then again you have to refer back to the hadith by Imam Bukhari and Muslim, "Allah says be distinctive from the kuffar (non-muslim). Book of Ahmad also mentioned "Whoever imitates them he is one of them".
ReplyDeleteAnother example if i may, you try wearing a cross on your necklace, but your niat is just to wear it out of fun, what do you think of hukum of this?
If everything depends all to niat, then that means we can do anything then as long as the niat is nowhere close to bad intentions.
Wearing a cross, even if it is just for fun, it's an absolutely HARAM and can be considered as MURTAD.
ReplyDeleteIf we have a good intention, but what we do is 'yang dilarang agama', still it is 'berdosa'. For example, 'mencuri' to help our mother or to go Haji. The action 'mencuri' and our good intentions are two different things.
We are all in a new era, there is no harm if we follow what others do, as long as our 'niat' is still baik.. in other word, tidak salah dari sisi agama..
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm no 'ulama..but thats just my view point. But you have to be careful with your statement "there is no harm if we follow what others do, as long as our niat is still baik". Bid'ah is one of the major sins brother and you are right we are all in a new era, (bukan zaman Rasulullah lagi) and you have no idea how far we have deviated from the Straight Path.
ReplyDeleteOh brother please do not take things for granted for what we do, we must reflect back to what our Rasulullah has taught us. You will never find in any hadith about Rasulullah celebrating birthdays. Have you?
I have backed up my points here from my previous post. Thats the Dalil. Our guidance are only from Kalamullah (Al-Quran) and Sunnah. Other than that is Bid'ah astaghfirullah haladzim.
We are so deviated that birthdays is a norm for us. Ask yourself this, what would Rasulullah do during Birthdays.
I will cover more on Bid'ah for my next topic that is more towards our malay tradition marriage on how we have also taken granted our tradition, which contradicts with our Islamic Ruling.
Assalamualaikum..
ReplyDeleteIf I may correct, I did mention 'tidak salah dari sisi agama'. Bid'ah is absolutely forbidden in Islam.
To my knowledge, Al-Quran and Hadith never mention celebrating Birthday is Haram. Even more, when we celebrate our birthdays, we do not do anything beyond our agama. We celebrate with doa selamat and solat hajat. We gather with our beloved families. Is that forbidden in agama? Is that what you call Bid'ah?
What I'm trying to say here is, as long as our niat is good then indeed what we get is insyaAllah baik.
"Celebrating Birthday is HARAM" this statement -I believe- is only a personal view.
Apa yang baik, kita ambil, namun apa yang tidak baik, kita tinggalkan.
Wa'alaykumsalam. Indeed you are right (from my limited knowledge) that there is no Surah in Quran or riwayah mengatakan that Birthday is Haram and also there is no mentioning about Birthday at all. That means Rasulullah never did it. Correct me if i'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteAnother one i want to point out (again based on my limited knowledge) that when you mentioned "We celebrate with doa selamat and solat hajat". This is your personal view. What Shaykh Feiz Muhammad mentioned is Birthday Parties..and i'm sure you have attended at least once in your life time to be fair. With all the cakes, baloons, singing, dancing, let alone the gathering of women and men in the same room or area. This is what he's trying to point out.
Of course baca doa selamat and solat hajat is recommended and the Shaykh did not say anything at all about these two things are forbidden (haram). You are right as long as our niat is correct that is to praise the Almighty and thanking him for having to live another day.
But think about this..people celebrate birthday during a person's one year anniversary but we can argue..aren't everyday is a gift? aren't we suppose to be thankful each day that today that we're still here on this earth and given any day to live and to worship Him?
Jangan tah jauh..when we celebrate Mother's day for example, aren't everyday is a Mother's day? you don't have to wait for a year to remind our self how much they have sacrificed for us since we were born? so what's the difference with Birthday?
Masha Allah. I hope Allah will guide us and may Allah forgive me if anything i say is against His ruling. But then again i'm still learning, we all are still learning and need to keep this up and talk about matters related to Islam everyday to strengthen our Imaan.
Jazakallah
Assalamualaikum...
ReplyDeleteAlhamdulillah... it is a positive sign that we are starting to make constructive discussions on Islam. InshaAllah we can learn from each other, increase our awareness and strengthen our weakness together.
Discussing about Bid'ah can sometimes be very uncomfortable for people because most of the acts of Bid'ah are already part of our life. It might be difficult for some people to accept it but nonetheless we have to talk about it if we are going to follow the straight path InshaAllah.
One such act is birthdays. Here you discussed abt celebrating our birthdays and I agree with you that as far as my knowledge this is not permissible from some of the hadith you quoted. There are many more hadith, but let us stop there. Let us think abt this question, how abt celebrating the Prophet Muhammad birthday (Maulud Nabi)? Is it permissible?
If we think abt it, this is a very good intention and act to do. This is to show our love for the prophet. And there are many other reasons we can think of to celebrate it, Right?
But we know that the prophet companions love him much more than ourself. And we know also that the companions didn't celebrate the prophet birthday although they love him so much. For sure, if the prophet had said anything abt this, they would be the first one to do it.
The concept of celebrating the prophet birthday was introduced in Egypt so that we can show our respect and love to prophet like the christians did earlier by celebrating christmas to celebrate Prophet Isa birthday and if you are interested in reading more, you can google it.
On the authority of Abu Najih Al-Erbadh bin Sariah, The messenger of Allah gave a sermon: "Any among you who live will see much disagreement, so you must hold to my Sunna and the Sunna of the rightly-guided khalifs. Hold onto it with your teeth stubbornly. Beware of newly invented matters, for every invented matter is an innovation (Bid'ah) and every innovation is a misguidance, and every misguidance is in Hell-fire."
(Innovations in terms of religion or doing acts to be closer to Allah)
(Rightly guided khalifs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali)
Let us share many things about Islam together and may we all benefit from this :) Amin...
JazakAllahu khair
Abdullah
Alhamdulillah, I believe we all are in the same path -insyaAllah-
ReplyDeleteI agree that birthday parties -nowadays- are much deviated from the right path.. however, the statement celebrating birthday is HARAM may somehow change people mind about it. People will directly think that birthday celebration is totally Haram when it isn't at all.
It is indeed a good act to share information that you just discovered with all of us -alhamdulillah and jazakallhu khairan-
It will be good if you could first elaborate the issue more because the statement celebrating birthday is HARAM -in my view- is very general.
Thank you again and I hope we all get benefits from it. Amin
-Ammatullah
Assalamualaikum,
ReplyDeleteI was looking around on YouTube and stumbled upon this leacture by Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki. It is a short clip, less than 3 mins long on Celebrating Birthday in Islam. Hope this will be useful and may Allah guide us to the straight path Amin...
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRKDCYAPHPc
Abdullah
It is definitely a disaster when people who have very little knowledge dare and discuss legal matters of the Deen as it is obvious from some comments here especially those who misunderstand the 'niat' and its relevance to deeds. Birthdays are undoubtedly not an Islamic practice. This would have been obvious to all if many had been humble enough to ask and learn (with daleel) from those who have knowledge. Allah Subhanahu wa Taalaa says:
ReplyDeleteولا تقف ما ليس لك به علم ان السمع و البصر و الفؤاد كل ذلك كان عنه مسؤولا
Assalamu alaikum....please dont label the birthday celebration as haram. Terlalu umum penghukuman biskita atu.Sedangkan semua perkara atu asalnya harus kecuali kalau berlanggar dgn syara' jadilah haram....thank you
ReplyDeleteAssalamu 'alaikum,
ReplyDeleteSekadar berkongsi pengetahuan....
Abi Qatadah menceritakan bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w. ditanya tentang puasa hari Isnin. Baginda menjawab; “Itulah hari aku dilahirkan dan hari aku diutuskan (menjadi Nabi) atau hari diturunkan wahyu kepadaku” (Hadis riwayat Imam Muslim)
Pernah terbaca arah satu kitab, yang pertama menyambut hari lahir Baginda adalah Baginda Sallallahu 'alaihi wasallam....dan antara dalilnya yang di atas.
Wallahu a'lam
what is maulidur rasul? isnt it celebrating kelahiran nabi muhammad?
ReplyDeletetotally agreed,not haram at all but of course nyanyi lagu 'happy birthday' dan tiup lilin itu berdosa,kan bagus birthday disambut dengan doa selamat/kenduri selamat.