Advice for the Muslim

love Allah’s pious servants.”
Rasûlullâh (sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam) used to give a feast
to as-Sahâbat al-kirâm on the Mawlid nights and narrate the
events that had happened when he honoured the world and
during his childhood. Hadrat Abu Bakr, when he was the Caliph,
used to call as-Sahâbat al-kirâm to assemble on the Mawlid
nights, and they used to talk about the miraculous events that
happened when Rasûlullâh honoured the world. Christians
learned and adopted celebrating birthdays from Muslims.
Muslims all over the world have read the books about Rasûlullâh,
felt happy and celebrated that honourable night on which he
honoured the world as he and as-Sahâbat al-kirâm did on that
night. The ’ulamâ’ of Islam have paid much attention to this
night. All creatures, angels, genies, animals and non-living
substances feel joyful and give one another the good news of the
arrival of this night on which Fakhr al-’âlam (Honour of all
creatures) honoured the world. Mawlânâ Jalâl ad-dîn Rûmî
revealed that the places where a mawlid was read would be safe
from disasters and difficulties. It is more effective and beneficial
to recite a mawlid in verse.
The ’ulamâ’ of Islam have written books in every language to
explain the blessings of reciting a mawlid, the way of reciting it and
that reciting it is an ’ibâda. As listed in Mustafâ Kâtib Chelebî’s
(rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih) book Kashf az-zunûn and its appendix, ten
of these books are:
1) The Turkish mawlid eulogy of Sulaimân Chelebî of Bursa
has won great fame. He was the imâm [at ritual prayers] of
Ottoman Sultan Yildirim Bâyezîd Khan (rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih)
and passed away in 800 A.H. (1398). It has been loved and recited
everywhere in Turkey as it was throughout the Ottoman Empire.
Its original title was Wasîlat an-najât.
2) The mawlid eulogy written by Hamdullâh Effendi (rahmat-
Allâhi ’alaih), who was the son of Ak Shams ad-dîn Effendi.
3) Another mawlid was written by Molla Hasan al-Basrî
(rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih), who passed away in 994 A.H. (1586).
4) That written by Wâiz Muhammad ibn Hamza.
5) Another one was written by Shams ad-dîn as-Siwâsî
(rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih), who passed away in 1006 A.H. (1598).
6) Jâmi’ al-âsâr fî mawlidi ’l-muhtâr by Hâfiz ibn Nâsir ad-dîn
ad-Dimishkî (rahmat-Allâhi ’alaih).
7) At-ta’rîf bi ’l-mawlidi ’sh-sharîf by Ibn Asîr Muhammad al-
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