Mother Day

The Sharee'ah viewpoint concerning Mother's Day

Islam has no need of things that are innovated by others, be it Mother's Day or anything else. Its teachings on the honoring of mothers mean that it has no need for an innovated Mother's Day.

Fatwas of the Scholars

1. The scholars of the Standing Committee said:

Firstly: 'Eed is a name given to a recurring occasion on which people come together, whether it is annual or monthly or weekly and so on. 'Eed combines a number of things: a day which recurs, such as 'Eed al-Fitr and Friday (Jumu'ah); gathering on that day; acts or worship and customs which are done on that day.

Secondly: whatever is done on that day as a ritual, act of worship or act of veneration that is done in order to seek reward, or that involves imitating non-Muslims is a forbidden act of innovation (Bid'ah) and is included in the general meaning of the Hadeeth in which the Prophet, salallaahu alayhi wa sallam, said: "Whoever innovates something in this matter of ours (Islam) that is not part of it will have it rejected." [Al-Bukhaari and Muslim]

Examples of that include celebrating the Mawlid (Prophet's birthday), Mother's Day, and national days, because in the first case (Prophet's birthday) that means worshipping in a manner that Allaah has not prescribed, and because it involves imitating the Christians and other non-Muslims, and in the second and third cases (Mother's Day and national holidays) it means imitating the non-Muslims.

2. Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan said: Matters which involve imitation of the non-Muslims include imitating them in matters of worship, such as matters of polytheism like erecting structures and shrines over graves and exaggerating concerning them. The Prophet salallaahu alayhi wa sallam said: "May the curse of Allaah be upon the Jews and the Christians, for they have taken the graves of their Prophets as places of worship." And he said that if a righteous man among them died, they would build a place of worship over his grave and put images in it, and they are the most evil of mankind. There occur many actions which are tantamount to major polytheism because of exaggeration concerning graves, because of that imitation of the Jews and Christians.

That also includes imitating them in innovated festivals, such as the Mawlid celebrations on the birthday of the Messenger salallaahu alayhi wa sallam or the birthdays of presidents and kings. Some of these innovated festivals may be known as "days" or "weeks", such as the National Day or Mother's Day or Cleanliness Week and so on. All of these occasions have been imported to the Muslims from the non-Muslims, because in Islam there are only two festivals: 'Eed al-Fitr and 'Eed al-Adh'haa. Everything else is an innovation (Bid'ah) and imitation of the non-Muslims.
The Muslims must beware of that and not be influenced by the large numbers of so-called Muslims who do that and are ignorant of the true teachings of Islam, and who do such things because of ignorance, or who are not ignorant of the true teachings of Islam but do these things deliberately, in which case the matter is more serious.

Allaah Almighty Says (what means): "There has certainly been for you in the Messenger of Allaah an excellent pattern for anyone whose hope is in Allaah and the Last Day and [who] remembers Allaah often." [Quran 33:21]

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Al-Kafiroon
Dengan nama Allah, Yang Maha Pemurah, lagi Maha Mengasihani
Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad): Wahai orang-orang kafir! (1) Aku tidak akan menyembah apa yang kamu sembah. (2) Dan kamu tidak mahu menyembah (Allah) yang aku sembah. (3) Dan aku tidak akan beribadat secara kamu beribadat. (4) Dan kamu pula tidak mahu beribadat secara aku beribadat. (5) Bagi kamu agama kamu dan bagiku agamaku. / (6)

Bagi aku adalah agamaku dan bagimu adalah agamamu. Sejak konsep trinity dalam Kristian difahami, secara peribadi tidak bersetuju dengan sambutan Hari Bapa dan Hari Ibu. Ianya perayaan yang dimodenkan oleh pihak gereja. Tapi masyarakat kita tanpa faham asal dan usulnya kebiasaannya akan mengikutnya, dan turut menyambutnya. Termasuk aku pada tahun 2008, aku pernah sekali seumur hidup hantar kad kepada arwah mak. Cukuplah sekali. Aku hendak sayang mak dan bapak setiap hari dengan mensedekahkan fatihah kepada mereka setiap kali lepas sembahyang. Semoga Allah sentiasa mengampun dosa mak dan bapak.

Sila (peringatan untuk diri sendiri juga) kaji budaya luar yang telah dianggap biasa atau boleh diterima oleh masyarakat kita, walaupun niatnya baik tapi nilai asalnya tiada? Ajarlah anak2 budaya yang boleh diterima oleh Islam atau tidak. Sukarkan dalam dunia moden ini sehingga kita sukar hendak membeza yang datangnya drp Islam dan drp sumber2 lain. Niatnya seolah2 baik tapi makna tersurat amatlah payah untuk difahami.