Clarifying Light

Sayyidatunā Umm ʿAmmārah al-Anṣāriyyah (Nusaybah bint Kaʿb) states that the Beloved Prophet ﷺ once came to her, so she presented some food to him. The Beloved Prophet ﷺ said, “ You eat also .” She replied, “ I am fasting .” The Beloved Prophet ﷺ then said, “ For as long as food is eaten in front of a fasting person, th…

Sayyidunā Abū Qatādah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ was asked about fasting on Mondays, to which he ﷺ replied: 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗜 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗻, and the day on which revelation was sent down to me. [Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, no. 1162] Here we learn that the Prophet ﷺ would single out the day …

The noble Ṣaḥābah did not need a Mawlid in the way we speak of it today, because their lives were immersed in the presence of the Mawlūd ﷺ. Yet what we find in their lives is precisely the kind of love, reverence, and joy that we seek to express when remembering his blessed birth ﷺ, but we Will never come close to that…

The most effective cure to drive away sadness is to send abundant Ṣalawāt upon the leader of the Ummah, Nabī Muḥammad ﷺ. — Shaykh Sayyid Muḥammad ibn ʿAlawī al-Mālikī رحمه الله (the great Muḥaddith of Makkah and the authority of Ḥijāz amongst the Sunnīs)

If the Mawlid [celebration/gathering] includes anything that must be condemned, such as the mixing of men and women, committing prohibited acts, or excessive extravagance that the noble one whose birth is being commemorated [ﷺ] would not approve of, then there is no doubt that it is prohibited and must be prevented due…