Birthday of Prophet Muhammad SAW

Birthday of Prophet Muhammad SAW is the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad, which in Indonesia, the celebration falls on each of 12 Rabiul Awal in the Hijri calendar. Birthday or milad said in Arabic means the day of birth. Celebration of Birthday of Prophet is a tradition that flourished in Islamic society long after the Prophet Muhammad died. In substance, this warning is an expression of joy and reverence to the Prophet Muhammad.

Celebration of Birthday of Prophet predicted first introduced by Abu Said al-Qakburi, a governor of Irbil, in Iraq during the reign of Sultan Salahuddin Al-Ayyubi (1138-1193). There is also an opinion that the idea actually came from the Sultan Salahuddin own. The aim is to arouse the love of the Prophet Muhammad, and to improve the morale of the Muslims at the time, which is engaged in a crusade against the Christian forces of Europe in an effort to fight the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings.

There are a number of scholars who are sensible Salafis and Wahhabis who do not celebrate it because it considers the celebration of Birthday of Prophet is an innovation, ie activities which are not the teachings of Prophet Muhammad. They argue that the Muslims who celebrate it so wrong in interpreting it out of the essence of its activity. However, there are also scholars who argue that the Prophet warning is not heresy, because it is a revelation of love to the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

  

Source: various sources