Today in the UK it is Mother’s Day,others around the world celebrate it on different days (see wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_day)
I saw on a forum someone asking what the Islamic ruling was on Mother’s Day. Now, not being a scholar, I don’t want to comment on the fiqh (despite the title of post, that was just to lure you in). Instead, the following train of thought occurred.
Scenario 1: You celebrate Mother’s Day, are happy to, and thus your Mother is happy.
Scenario 2: You celebrate Mother’s Day in a clandestine fashion, and the air of guilt tempers any pleasure gained from honouring your Mother (heaven lies under her feet….)
Scenario 3: Mother’s Day is an innovation, and you have no need as every day is Mother’s Day.
I occurred to me the least satisfactory of these positions is Scenario 2. If I wanted to celebrate Mother’s Day, I would do it properly, with happiness and joy (hopefully).
If you follow Scenario 3, well, have a good day being generically good (without any change for today) to your Mother. I suspect you are not known for your jolly temperament, but that is just speculation on my part.
On a final note, will the grammer police (sic) please observe I have tried my best with the apostrophe thing in this post, and to take this into consideration when reporting future and past transgressions.
your inconsistency, vis-a-vis apostrophes, is troubling and borderline reprehensible (witnesses are asked to note the title and the post’s content). one is tempted to ask why you didn’t just go ahead and wish us all a Happy Mothers’ Day and be done with it, hell and damnation forsooth.
Does the grammar police also handle spelling offenses? If so, your misspelling of ‘grammar’ will be considered far more reprehensible.
It’s ‘grammar’, dolt.
Your apostrophes are more ambiguous than your celebration options!
Mr. Moo has three positions on apostrophes for Mother’s day:
1. Mothers Day
2. Mother’s Day
3 Mothers’ Day
No. 2 is the one to go for, but I will forgive you this solecism, as long as you produce one blog per week without fail as penance. In perpetuity.
Yikes, thanks everyone. I have updated the post to reflect consistent placing of apostrophe, but the term ‘grammer’ was intentional, and i have added a (sic).
The moral of the story is: Don’t flag up things to the grammer police unless you have a clean entry.
The original, unworthy spelling, is here
http://www.mooslim.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bad_spelling.png
Salaam Alaikum,
It’s been too long since I’ve visited this blog. Brilliant, masha Allah, especially “I suspect you are not known for your jolly temperament”.
I fear mine own unjollity being exposed here, alas.