13. Other Types of Evidences

Because there is no specific evidence in the Sunnah for celebrating the mawlid and everyone with honesty and integrity is agreed that this action is indeed a bidʿah in the religion with no precedence - a large number of weak and far-fetched evidences are brought together to make a large pile so as to impress the onlooker that this practice is from the very foundations of the religion and whoever opposes it is an enemy to the Prophet (). We shall mention some of these other evidences below and note how these arguments violate the agreed upon points that were mentioned at the very beginning of this treatise. They include: 1. That some of the rulers such as Muẓaffar al-Dīn al-Kawkbūrī (d. 630H) of Irbil first celebrated the mawlid (in the early seventh century) and because they were righteous rulers, their action is acceptable. This is invalidated by firmly established evidence that disbelievers, the offspring of ʿUbayd al-Qaddāḥ of PersianMagian-Jewish origin. Further, it is not factually correct that alMuẓaffar was the first to celebrate the mawlid as he was preceded by ʿUmar bin Muḥammad al-Mullā - a Ṣufī - whose example he followed.133 133 (p. 13). bidah.com  page 95