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Mother’s Day – an historical overview and the scholars’ rulings on this holiday

Praise be to Allaah and blessings and peace be upon the Messenger of Allaah.

Intoduction:

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) told us that his ummah would follow the previous nations, the Jews, Christians and Persians, but this was undoubtedly not praise for their actions, rather it is by way of condemnation and a warning. It was narrated from Abu Sa’eed (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “You will certainly follow the ways of those who came before you, handspan by handspan, cubit by cubit, until even if they entered the hole of a lizard, you will do so too.” We asked, “O Messenger of Allaah, (do you mean) the Jews and the Christians?” He said, “Who else?” (Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 3269; Muslim, 2669).

It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until my ummah follows in the footsteps of those who came before it, handspan by handspan, cubit by cubit.” It was asked, “O Messenger of Allaah, like the Persians and Romans?” He said, “Those are the people?”

(Narrated by al-Bukhaari, 6888)

The ignorant among this ummah, and the innovators and heretics have followed the previous nations, the Jews, Christians and Persians, in their beliefs, ways, manners and dress. Our concern here is to point out in these days their following and imitation of them through the innovation of “Mother’s Day” or “Family Day”, which is a day that the Christians innovated to honour mothers, or so they claim. This then became a day that was venerated, when government departments would be shut and people would get in touch with their mothers or send them gifts and loving messages. But when the day was over, things would go back to the way they were, with people being cut off from their mothers and disobeying them.

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When we think of rejection, usually the first thing that comes to mind is marriage! No one likes to get rejected, even the arrogant ones who think they wont get ever get rejected are afraid of it. Aside from when we’re excited to complete the second half of your deen, its still possible to be rejected in a way far worse, with far more consequences..We always worry about getting rejected by potential spouses or job applications or the football team or being rejected from the rejection club,  but what about getting rejected by Allah [subhanahu wa ta3la]

Narrated from the mother of the believers, Aisha [radiAllahu anha] that the Messenger of Allah (saw) said:

“He who innovates something in this matter of ours that is not of it, will have it rejected” [Bukharee]

Rejection in the deen is worse than rejection for marriage. Its sad that we are so worried to get rejected in matters of dunya but when it comes to the akhirah, we’re more than happy to invent something without worrying about rejection from our creator, Allah [aza wajal]. No ones saying dont invent, actually go invent all you want, just not in matters of the deen. When you get a new idea that you think will be good for the deen, go ring up the inventors society and talk to them about it. The religion  of Islam is complete and perfected by Allah [aza wajal] so lets avoid bringing in new matters otherwise we’ll definately be facing rejection *smiles*