Celebrating the Prophet is not, as Wahhabis and Salafis assert, the celebration of a man like any other. But it is celebrating the one who tradition says was “a prophet before Adam was between water and clay”. It is not to celebrate an individual, however exceptional, but the Principle of which this individual was the representative at a given time. Likewise, celebrating his birthday is not an idolatrous commemoration but, on the contrary, an opportunity for the community of believers to turn to God whose messenger he is. Suyuti here bases her argument on the verses of the Koran speaking of the Prophet and the traditions of the companions of the first generations of Islam. When it comes to the Prophet, the reader must not forget that his historical reality always refers to his principle Reality. It shows that far from being a blameworthy innovation as the Salafists maintain, Suyuti shows that historically, far from being a blameworthy innovation, the celebration of the Prophet's birthday dates back to the early times of Islam. The volume is completed by another text, also very important, on the defense of the Prophet's parents.

About the author: Al Suyuti

Suyuti (1445-1505), undisputed Egyptian spiritual authority, is the author of nearly a thousand treatises. He is known for having advocated the complementarity between exotericism and Sufism as well as the balance between the Sacred Law and the spiritual path.