The Blessings of Joy for the Mawlid
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Shams ad-Din Muhammad ibn Naswir ad-Din ad-Dimashqi ( r.a. ) wrote, in his Mawrid asw-Swadi fi Mawlid al-Hadi : “If this is a kafir whose Damnation has been Proclaimed, With, ‘Perish the hands,’ in the Hellfire for eternity; It has been transmitted to us that on Mondays always, His Punishment is Made lighter for his joy with Ahmad. What does one think, then, of the servant whose whole life Is made joyful by Ahmad and he dies as a monotheist?” Abu Lahab ‘Abd al-‘Uzza ibn ‘Abd al-Muththalib was Explicitly Condemned in the Qur’an: سُوۡرَةُ لهب / المَسَد بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ تَبَّتۡ يَدَآ أَبِى لَهَبٍ۬ وَتَبَّ (١) مَآ أَغۡنَىٰ عَنۡهُ مَالُهُ ۥ وَمَا ڪَسَبَ (٢) سَيَصۡلَىٰ نَارً۬ا ذَاتَ لَهَبٍ (٣) In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Perish the hands of the Father of Flame! Perish he! No profit to him from all his wealth, and all his gai...