Kuwait City, 19th October 2020:
The Civil Service Commission in Kuwait announced that 29th October, 2020, Thursday, will be a public holiday on the occasion of the anniversary of the Prophet’s Birthday.
The work in all ministries, government agencies and public institutions will resume on 1st November, Sunday.
Thursday, Oct 29 Off For Prophet’s Birthday
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) announced that Thursday the 29th of October as a holiday on the occasion of Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) birthday 1442H, all state bodies & agencies will resume work on Sunday, Nov. 1st, 2020.
Mawlid or Mawlid al-Nabi al-Sharif (Arabic: مَولِد النَّبِي, romanized: mawlidu n-nabiyyi, lit. ‘Birth of the Prophet’, sometimes simply called in colloquial Arabic مولد, mawlid, mevlid, mevlit, mulud, among other vernacular pronunciations; sometimes ميلاد, mīlād) is the observance of the birthday of Islamic prophet Muhammad which is commemorated in Rabi’ al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.[6] 12th Rabi’ al-awwal[7] is the accepted date among most of the Sunni scholars, while Shi’a scholars regard 17th Rabi’ al-awwal as the accepted date.
The history of this celebration goes back to the early days of Islam when some of the Tabi‘un began to hold sessions in which poetry and songs composed to honour Muhammad were recited and sung to the crowds.[8] It has been said that the first Muslim ruler to officially celebrate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad in an impressive ceremony was Muzaffar al-Din Gökböri (d. 630/1233).[9] The Ottomans declared it an official holiday in 1588,[10] known as Mevlid Kandil.[11] The term Mawlid is also used in some parts of the world, such as Egypt, as a generic term for the birthday celebrations of other historical religious figures such as Sufi saints.[12]
Most denominations of Islam approve of the commemoration of Muhammad’s birthday;[13][14] however, with the emergence of Wahhabism/Salafism and the Ahmadiyya,[15] many Muslims began to disapprove its commemoration, considering it an illicit religious innovation (bid’ah or bidat).[16][17] Mawlid is recognized as a national holiday in most of the Muslim-majority countries of the world with the exception of Saudi Arabia and Qatar which are officially Wahhabi/Salafi.[18][19][20] Some non-Muslim majority countries with large Muslim populations such as India also recognise it as a public holiday.[21]
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