the controversy over Mawlid<\/a> before so won’t rehash it here, but suffice to say that Islam has its share of Grinches, too. <\/p>\nLet’s put the Mohammed SAW back in Mawlid. Milad Mubarak! Merry Mawlid to all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mawlid, also known as Milad al-Nabi, is the celebration of the birth of the Prophet Mohammed SAW. In celebrating Mawlid, Muslims express their love for the Prophet SAW, with recitation of salawat, processions, and congregating with family and friends, as well as the tradition of Na’at, devotional poetry and hymns that praise the Prophet’s SAW…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[24,386,436],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-pillars-of-faith","tag-islam","tag-milad","tag-mohammed-saw"],"yoast_head":"\n
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