Tuesday 02/Sep/2025 – 02:28 PM
The Heritage Investigation Center in the Central Administration of Scientific Centers at the Books and Documentation House held today an educational symposium entitled aspects of celebration The Prophet’s birthday Al -Sharif in Islamic heritage.
There is a difference on determining the day of the Prophet’s birth accurately
The symposium spoke at the symposium: Dr. Khaled Hussein Mahmoud, Professor of Islamic History and Head of the Department of History at the Faculty of Arts – Ain Shams University and dealt with the topic of the Prophet’s birthday and the mission’s signs.
He said that the mission’s signs lasted 40 years from the birth of the Messenger until his mission, in order to prepare it to bear the trust, and those districts were identified with the task of humans in the earth in terms of worshiping God and the reconstruction of the earth.
Despite the historians agreed on the day of the death of the Messenger, they differed on the accuracy of his birthday, and reviewed the pictures of the place of birth in Makkah, which was built in place of a library, and the re -digging the well of Zamzam was from the mourners of the Prophet’s birth, where Abdul -Muttalib re -drilled it after seeing his indication of the place of the well, which the tribe of their dragon had brought him back before it left Mecca after its conflict with the Khuza’a tribe, He comes out of it to illuminate the Earth. The star of Ahmed was dawn in the sky on the night of his birth from the important signs.
Those signs remained inherent to the Prophet until the revelation came down and the Prophet received the first assignment from Gabriel Iqra, and the invitation began a secret from the son of Ibn Al -Arqam in Mecca before the migration to the city to spread the religion of Islam throughout the earth after less than 100 years on the mission and the Islamic civilization.
Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Professor of Islamic History at the Faculty of Arts, Beni Suef University, dealt with the subject of the Fatimids and the Prophet’s birthday, explaining that the official celebration of the Prophet’s birth began under the auspices of the state in the Fatimid era, for more than one reason, the first of which is popular acquisition in Egypt because of the nature of the Egyptian people who love the celebrations, and the Fatimids celebrated the Islamic and Coptic holidays alike, as they wanted through the celebration of the Prophet Their lineage to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.
He continued: The Dar Al -Fitrah was established in the era of the Caliph Al -Aziz, which was making all types of sweets for celebrations from a dry dessert that is distributed in the special scenes of the family of Al -Bayt and Al -Azhar Mosque, and the celebrations reached their climax during the reign of the caliph commanding the rulings of God, which is the period that historians spoke about in detail, such as Al -Khashkanani, which is now known as baklava.
The princes and senior statesmen were competing with the feasts to celebrate the birth, and specific sums were allocated to the state for the purposes of the celebration, and the caliph was keen to participate and get out of people from the view to see the celebration and see it.
