The Importance of Mawlid

As-Salāmu ‘Alaykum wa RaḥmatuLlāhi wa Barakātuh. A‘ūdhu BiLlāhi Minash-shayṭāni r-rajīm. BismiLlāhi r-Raḥmāni r-Raḥīm. Wa ṣ-Salātu wa s-Salāmu ‘alá Rasūlinā Muḥammadin Sayyidi l-Awwalīna wa l-Akhirīn. Madad yā RasūlAllāh, Madad yā Sādāti Aṣḥābi RasūliLlāh, Madad yā Mashāyikhinā, Dastūr Mawlana Sheikh Abdullāh al-Fā’iz ad-Dāghistāni, Sheikh Muḥammad Nāẓim al- Ḥaqqānī. Madad. Ṭarīqatunā aṣ-Suḥbah wa l-Khayru fi l-Jam‘iyyah.

It is the holy month of Rabih ul-Awwal, the holy month of the birth of our Holy Prophet ﷺ. It is the month of Mawlid. To honor it is to honor our Holy Prophet ﷺ and to honor Allah ﷻ. They used to recite Mawlids in this month in old times. And it is still going on all over the world, Shukr to Allah ﷻ.

In some places, they don’t respect him ﷺ. In addition to not showing respect, they make Fatwas saying it is not permissible. Why should it not be permissible? What is it that we are doing? People are gathering for the pleasure of Allah ﷻ. Mawlid tells about the beautiful moment of the birth of our Holy Prophet ﷺ and the situations before it. All of these are the things that had taken place. It is recited in order to strengthen the Iman of people and in order to increase their love.

In some places, they want to prohibit it by saying it is Bid’ah, or there are many shaytans who want to mess with people’s minds. There are places where Islam is very weak within the Islamic world. Only Mawlid of our Holy Prophet ﷺ has remained there. Mawlid tells about how Islam came. And they want to prohibit it to people and leave nothing of Islam. This is it.

With the permission of Allah ﷻ, the biggest source of Iman is our Holy Prophet salla Llāhu ‘alayhi wa-sallam. And there are many people whose love increases by listening to Mawlid. There are many people whose Iman grows in their hearts and who come to the right way. Therefore, shaytan and his followers don’t want it. They go against it. They want to prohibit it. Shukr to Allah ﷻ, truth will show itself eventually. Falsehood and false ones will perish. May Allah ﷻ protect us.

People who call themselves Muslim but go against these practiced beautiful things are not doing the good thing. They are the people with weak Iman or no Iman at all. We ask that Allah ﷻ gives guidance to them, because Muslims wish for goodness and nothing else. We ask that Allah ﷻ gives them mind and understanding. May Allah ﷻ give Iman to all of us insha’Allah. May this month be blessed. May its Barakah be upon us insha’Allah. May we attain the intercession of our Holy Prophet ﷺ insha’Allah.

Wa min Allah at-Tawfiq. Al-Fatiha.

Mawlana Sheikh Muhammad Adil ar-Rabbani 04 October 2023/ 19 Rabih Al-Awwal 1445 Fajr Prayer, Akbaba Dergah