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Celebrating the birthday of the Prophet is a Bid’ah

Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān (may Allah preserve him) said:

“Celebrating the birthday of the Messenger ﷺ is false and prohibited for several reasons:

It is an innovation (bidʿah) in the religion. Every innovation is misguidance, and those who permit celebrating it will never be able to establish any proof from the Sharīʿah for it.
It is imitation of the Christians in their celebration of the birth of al-Masīḥ (Jesus, peace be upon him), and we have been forbidden from resembling them.
It often involves evil practices and prohibited matters, the gravest of them being shirk with Allah — such as calling upon the Messenger ﷺ, seeking help from him, and reciting poems of shirk in his praise, like the Burdah and others similar to it.
In Islam, there are only two ʿĪds: ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā and ʿĪd al-Fiṭr. Whoever introduces a third ʿĪd has brought into Islam that which does not belong to it.”

Al-Khuṭab al-Minbariyyah (Vol. 1)