Celebrating Mawlid/ Meelad un Nabee & Imaam Allaamah Ibne Jauzi the Famous Scholar of Baghdad

 Celebrating Mawlid/ Meelad un Nabee & Imaam Allaamah Ibne Jauzi  the Famous Scholar of Baghdad Shareef

Imam ibne Jauzi


Let’s read what the famous authority on hadees, Hazrat Allamah Abdur Rahman Ibne Jauzi, [Rahmatul Laah Alaieh] has to say on this subject of celebrating Meelad un Nabee.

His father died when he was only three years old, so he was brought up as an orphan. But he was so painstaking and studious that he would not leave his home except for Jum'ah prayers. Once while lecturing from the pulpit, he said that he had calligraphic 2000 books by his own hands, that he had authored over 250 books, that he did not let any of his time go waste and writing four chapters a day was a routine for him. 

The quality of his teaching was such that the number of his pupils at any one time is said to be more than 100,000 and rich people and ministers and even kings used to attend his lectures. According to Ibne Jauzi [Rahmatul Laah Alaieh] himself, 100,000 persons owed spiritual allegiance to him, and he converted more than 20,000 to Islaam.

Ibne Jauzi has devoted a whole book to Meelaad, which is called "Meelaad-ul-Uroos". On page 9 of "Meelaad-ul-Uroos", Allamah Ibne Jauzi says:

 

Mawlid, milad

"Waja'ala Liman Fariha Bi Maulidihi Hijaabam Minan Naari Wasitra, Waman Anfaaqa Fi Maulidihi Dirhaman Kaanal Mustafaa Sallal Laahu Alaiehi Wa Sallama Laahu Shaafi'an Wa-Mustafaa"

And whosoever rejoices at the birth of our beloved Holy Prophet [Sallal Laahu 'Alaiehi Wa Sallam], this rejoicing by him will turn the fire away, and whosoever spends even a dirham on the occasion of the Meelaad of the Prophet of ALLAAH he [Sallal Laahu Alaiehi wa Sallam] will intercede on his behalf and his intercession will be accepted.

And on page 28,in his Famous Book Meelaad ul Uroos

dedicated just to this subject says

 

Ya Maulidal Mukhtaari kam Laka Min Sana.

Wa Madaa'ihin Ta'lu Wa Zikrin Yuhmadu.

Ya Laita Toolad Dahri Indi Zikruhu.

Ya Laita Toolad Dahri Indi Mauladu.

"O Meelaad of the Prophet [Sallal Laahu Alaiehi wa Sallam]! You are mightily praised, and the praise is such that it is the loftiest and the remembrance is such that it is the most excellent; How I wish the remembrance of the Holy Prophet [Sallal Laahu Alaiehi wa Sallam] shall be with me for a long time! 

How I wish his Meelaad shall be with me for a long time!" At the end of his booklet, Ibne Jauzi says:

"Fala Zaala Ahlul Haramainish Shareefain Wal Misr, Wal Yemen, Wash Shaam Wa Saa'iri Bilaadil Arabi Minal Mashriqi Wal Maghribi Yahtafiloona Bimajlisi Maulidin Nabiyyi Alaihis Salaatu Was Salaam Wa Yafrahoona Biqudoomi Hilaali Rabi'il Awwali Biharkati Maulidin Nabiyyi”

[Sallal Laahu Alaiehi wa Sallam]

Excerpt Islaam's First Eid


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