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For nearly a thousand years, a minority of Muslim orthodoxy, including some jurists and more recently the followers of Wahhabi Islam from Saudi Arabia, insist that celebrating Mawlid is a bid'ah, or innovation.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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I agree with the anti-party group, that adding anything to Islam is a bid'ah, and that it violates and compromises the sanctity of divine revelations.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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They will scowl, frown, fume, and they will mutter bid'ah, bid'ah bid'ah ... innovation at those who partake in Mawlid.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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I am not comfortable with these sanctimonious double standards on bid'ah.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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I am not comfortable with these sanctimonious double standards on bid'ah.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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They will scowl, frown, fume, and they will mutter bid'ah, bid'ah bid'ah ... innovation at those who partake in Mawlid.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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Thus, any new practice, or ritual addition to the faith is innovation bid'ah and therefore must be rejected.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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For nearly a thousand years, a minority of Muslim orthodoxy, including some jurists and more recently the followers of Wahhabi Islam from Saudi Arabia, insist that celebrating Mawlid is a bid'ah, or innovation.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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The defense that the second Caliph Umar may Allah be pleased with him deemed it bid'ah Hasanah -- the beautiful innovation -- complicates the matter further.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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Thus, any new practice, or ritual addition to the faith is innovation bid'ah and therefore must be rejected.
Muqtedar Khan: Prophet Muhammad's Birthday: To Celebrate or Not to Celebrate Muqtedar Khan 2012
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