How do we respond to those who cite the permissibility of celebrating "Mother's Day" on the grounds that it is a day of loyalty and appreciation for mothers, not a religious holiday, and does not contradict the Sharia's command to treat mothers kindly, as in His Almighty's saying: (Give thanks to Me and to your parents; to Me is the final destination) and the hadith: "Your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father," and that it is not among the prohibited forms of imitation, and that wisdom is the believer's lost property, and by analogy with the fasting of Ashura, and that the intent of prohibiting following the ways of those before us is following them in everything?
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Mother's Day is considered an Eid because it combines the characteristics of a legitimate Eid, which are: a recurring day, people gathering on it, and the practice of specific acts. It is an innovated Bid'ah (innovation) that has no basis in Islam. If it were good, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would have guided us to it. Furthermore, celebrating it is considered an imitation of the disbelievers, which is blameworthy in Islamic law. Scholars have explicitly stated that it is a Bid'ah and an imitation.
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