The Verdict of Holding a Celebration for the Birth Anniversary of the Holy Prophet PBUH from the Sunni Perspective

One of the issues of disagreement among Sunni scholars, which some have considered heresy, is the celebration of the birth anniversary of the holy prophet PBUH. The question that the present study is going to answer is that whether the holding of a celebration for the birth anniversary of the holy prophet PBUH is a canonical heresy and forbidden or not? The current research paper tries finding an answer to the foresaid question using library resources in the light of describing and analyzing the resources from all the four Sunni denominations and it will be concluded that the majority of the Sunnis grant permission to the holding of a birthday celebration of the prophet PBUH, and reasons for not allowing a birthday celebration are weak, rejectable and blemished, and reasons for permitting a birthday celebration, even if considered blemished, as well, can be summed up into a single proof that is the necessity for revoking unity between the Islamic nation one actualization way of which is holding a birthday celebration for the prophet PBUH in Islamic territories around the globe.