Ruling Concerning Celebrating Mother's Day

[Mr Tickle]

Question: Every year we have a holiday on a particular day and it is called Mother's Day. It occurs on March 21. All the people gather and celebrate that day. Is this permissible or forbidden?

Response: Every holiday or celebration that differs from the shariah celebrations is a newly-invented innovation that was not known during the time of the Pious Predecessors. Furthermore, it may have begun as an imitation of the non-Muslims. Therefore, in addition to it being an innovation, it may also be an act of resembling the enemies of Allah.

The shariah holidays are well-known among the Muslims. These are the Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adhha and the weekly Eid [Fridays]. There is no holiday or festival in Islam other than those three. Every holiday that is invented besides them is to be rejected as an innovation and falsehood in the shariah. This is because the Prophet (peace be upon him) said,

"Every deed introduced into our affair that does not belong to it is rejected."1

That is, it is rejected from that person and it will not be accepted by Allah. Another wording of the hadith states,

"Whoever does a deed that is not what our affair is upon, will have it rejected."2

Since that is clear, the holiday that is mentioned by the questioner, known as Mother's Day, is not allowed. It is not allowed to have during such a day any kind of public display and celebration, happiness, giving of presents and so forth.

It is obligatory upon a Muslim to have pride and honor in his religion. He should also limit himself to what Allah and His Messenger (peace be upon him) have restricted this upright religion to. This is the religion that Allah is pleased to have His servants follow. There can be no addition or subtraction from this religion.

Furthermore, a Muslim should not be a kind of weak person that follows every Tom, **** and Harry. Instead, his personality should be that defined by the Law of Allah, such that he is followed and not a follower, such that he becomes an example and not a disciple. This should be the case because the law of Allah, praise be to Allah, is complete and perfect in all aspects. Allah says in the Quran,

"This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My favor upon you and have chosen for you Islam as your religion" (al-Maidah 3).

Furthermore, the mother has much more right than to have just one day in the year as a celebration for her. In fact, the woman has a right upon her children, that they will care for her, look after her, obey her in anything which is not sinful, during all times and at all places.

Shaikh Ibn Uthaimin

[abu Suleiman]

Thank u Im very pleased.
alhado llilah rbi alalameen.

[Mr Tickle]

there have been many things that have been invented since the 7th century

I presume that you should ignore them all as you would be copying the Kuffar - why do you have cars?

[abu Suleiman]

My dear it seems that u r swinging.
U dont know that Islam deos not block the way since they r for good use.
Dont u remember that our Prophet Mohamed PBUH has accepted a present from al- Moqawqis (Leader of Egypt).
Bying a car by your maney is diffrent from acting copycating a kafer in his different life activities such u mentioned before eid al um.

[Mr Tickle]

Kuffars created cars

why are you copying them?

[Enjoy Ur Death]

salam for all muslims and dame be on all who works against islam

1st
the simple reason for no mother day in islam is that we believe that this basic thing + all days r mother days + if she is not pleased from u then ur works will gain u nothing ... so, i don't think that islam also should remind u that u have to breath air as it is spontaneous thing , however, this was invited in westren societies as their social relations r losr + many aggresive familial relations started where mother were beaten and sometimes used by their sons, thus they started to think about a way which makes families remind the importance of the mother who works outisde all the day and doesn't see her children.

2nd, not all imitations from kuffar r forbidden, only those which r against islam r forbidden, so i can breath as u r doing so and as any other doing so :wink:

[abu Suleiman]

Why Islam didnt appointed a day for the mother?
Islam has order his follower to look after his parents if he realy follows Islam.
You find this in the Holy Quran: Allah Has judged that not to worship accept Allah and do good to parents...
this ayah in surat al isra verses from 23 to 30.
We have to look after our mothers every minute not in one day in a year, my dear!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also as u said that u r a catholic bring me an order from your bible tells u to make eid for your mother in one day in a year and to call it eid al um (mother day), bring come on.
Islam for peace but your riligion is not for peace as its mentioned in your bible by your christ. By the why we respect the Christ PBUH and u dont respect our Prophet Mohamed PBUH.
You dont want to forget that u r a catholic, ok but read your bible see what your bible say about Prophets, see how your bible says bad to them.

[Mr Tickle]

you are not allowed to imitate the enemies of Islam

you are therefore not allowed to drive

it must be nice to be able to pick and choose what you like and don't like

[sanwin25]

Celebrating Mother's day does not mean you should be fogetting them the rest of the year. It just means that you should show even more appreciation to your mother on that one day.

There is no religious significance. It is just a nice gesture. Don't your parents celebrate your birthday ? Why ? Do they not love you the rest of the year ?

Why do you celebrate National day every year ? Do you not love your country and the ruler the rest of the year ?

[abu Suleiman]

Of course Muslims have their own personality.
Dont mix up.
Our God Allah said:
And He creats things that you dont know (in futrue).

As I told u before Islam encourages trading, encourages civilisation in things that strengthen Islam and muslims not weaken them.
The Idea of mother day was started ther in your countries when ur people found the parents are left behind.
We have gone to west I we found this in real that many parents live alone!!!!!!

[sanwin25]

How does having a special day to honour your mother weaken Islam ?

And do you celebrate your children's birthday ?

[Enjoy Ur Death]

salam for all muslims

1st lets us talk from the westren point of view. people there believe in the freedeome which can be in religion, spectulations and practice ..... if we asume that celebrating mother's days is forbidden or at least not practiced then we r free in our religion, the way we think and they way we practice things or don't practice them ...

2nd, is it necessary for us to do as u r doing to be developed or up to date ??!! i don't think this is necessary

3rd

it must be nice to be able to pick and choose what you like and don't like ... said by mr pinnochio
yes mr pinnochio i absolutely think that it is nice to have this ability which is provided in islam ... in fact, in islam we r ordered to see what other civilisations do and select whatever will benifit us and whatever is not against our islamic rules and islamic guides and i think this is logic in which we all human believe and practice and i am sure that during ur life u had to choose between things which looks similar and u choosed according to what u r convienced in or what the law says or according to the logic and maybe according to ur religion as well .. this is also done in all scientific fields and the international committes where they set policies and run every thing according to those policies ...

thanks for reading :)