Mother’s Day from an Islamic Perspective

Question and Answer Details Name of Questioner Dalia   - Saudi Arabia Title Mother’s Day from an Islamic Perspective Question Dear scholars, as-Salamu `alaykum. What is the Islamic stance on celebrating Mother’s Day; is there anything wrong in it according to Shari`ah? Date 20/Mar/2007 Name of Counsellor `Abdul-Fattah `Ashoor, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Faysal Mawlawi Topic Customs & Traditions Answer Wa `alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. All praise and thanks are due to Allah, and peace and blessings be upon His Messenger. First of all, it goes without saying that every committed Muslim is supposed to pay his parents, especially his mother, due respect. One should try to show dutifulness to one’s parents, even if they happened to be non-Muslims, let alone being Muslims. What Islam goes against is to imitate non-Muslims by marking a special occasion such as celebrating the Mother’s Day in a way that shows that mothers do not deserve due respect and care save on this very day. If we are going to make the whole year a Mother’s Day, then Islam welcomes celebrating the occasion with open arms. Indeed, Muslim scholars have maintained various opinions regarding the issue. Here below we will attempt to furnish you with Juristic views as regard this issue: First of all, Sheikh Faysal Mawlawi, deputy chairman of the European Council for Fatwa and Research, states:

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Mother's Day : From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The modern Mother's Day is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in May, though also celebrated in March in some countries, as a day to honour mothers and motherhood. In the UK and Ireland it follows the old traditions of Mothering Sunday, celebrated in March/April.

Father's Day is a corresponding day honoring fathers.
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Historical antecedents

Lamberts thought[who?] this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece, which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of Greek gods.{Encyclopædia Britannica|(1959)Vol.15,p. 849} This festival was held around the Vernal Equinox around Asia Minor and eventually in Rome itself from the Ides of March (15 March) to 18 March.

The ancient Romans also had another holiday, Matronalia, that was dedicated to Juno, though mothers were usually given gifts on this day.

In Europe there were several long standing traditions where a specific Sunday was set aside to honor motherhood and mothers such as Mothering Sunday. Mothering Sunday celebrations are part of the liturgical calendar in several Christian denominations, including Anglicans, and in the Catholic calendar is marked as Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent to honour the Virgin Mary and your "mother" church (the main church of the area). Historians think that children who served in houses were given a day off on that date so they could visit their families. The children would pick wild flowers along the way to place them on the church or to give them to their mothers as gifts.[1]

International Women's Day was celebrated for the first time in 28 February 1909, in the US,[2] by which time Anna Jarvis had already begun her national campaign in the US. It is now celebrated in many countries on March 8.

The "Mother's Day Proclamation" by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother's Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe's feminist belief that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level.
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In 1912, Anna Jarvis trademarked the phrases "second Sunday in May" and "Mother's Day", and created the Mother's Day International Association.[3][4]

    "She was specific about the location of the apostrophe; it was to be a singular possessive, for each family to honour their mother, not a plural possessive commemorating all mothers in the world."[3]

This is also the spelling used by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the law making official the holiday in the U.S., by the U.S. Congress on bills,[5][6] and by other U.S. presidents on their declarations.[7]

Common usage in English language also dictates that the ostensibly singular possessive "Mother's Day" is the preferred spelling, although "Mothers' Day" (plural possessive) is not unheard of.
Dates around the world

As the US holiday was adopted by other countries and cultures, the date was changed to fit already existing celebrations honouring motherhood, like Mothering Sunday in the UK or the Orthodox celebration of Jesus in the temple in Greece. In some countries it was changed to dates that were significant to the majority religion, like the Virgin Mary day in Catholic countries, or the birthday of the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic countries. Other countries changed it to historical dates, like Bolivia using the date of a certain battle where women participated.[8] See the "International history and traditions" section for the complete list.

Note: Countries that celebrate the International Women's Day instead of Mother's Day are marked with a dagger '†'.[clarification needed]
Gregorian calendar
Occurrence     Dates     Country

Second Sunday of February
  

February 8, 2009
February 14, 2010
February 13, 2011
  

Norway Norway

March 3
      

Georgia (country) Georgia

March 8
      

Afghanistan Afghanistan
AlbaniaAlbania†
Armenia Armenia
  

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan
Belarus Belarus†
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina†
  

Bulgaria Bulgaria†
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan†
Laos Laos
  

Republic of Macedonia Macedonia†
Romania Romania
Moldova Moldova
Montenegro Montenegro†
  

Russia Russia†*
Serbia Serbia†
Ukraine Ukraine
Vietnam Vietnam†*

Fourth Sunday in Lent
  

March 22, 2009
March 14, 2010
April 3, 2011
  

Republic of Ireland Ireland
Nigeria Nigeria
  

United Kingdom United Kingdom

March 21
(vernal equinox)
      

Bahrain Bahrain
Egypt Egypt
Jordan Jordan
Kuwait Kuwait
Libya Libya
  

Lebanon Lebanon
Oman Oman
Palestinian territories Palestinian Territories
Israel Israeli Arabs [9]
  

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia
Sudan Sudan
Syria Syria
  

United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates
Yemen Yemen (All Arab League Arab countries in general)
Iraq Iraq [10]

March 25
      

Slovenia Slovenia

April 7
      

Armenia Armenia

First Sunday in May
  

May 3, 2009
May 2, 2010
May 1, 2011
  

Hungary Hungary
Lithuania Lithuania
  

Mozambique Mozambique
Portugal Portugal
  

Spain Spain

May 8
      

Albania Albania (Parents' Day)
South Korea South Korea (Parents' Day)

May 10
      

El Salvador El Salvador
Guatemala Guatemala
  

Mexico Mexico

Second Sunday of May
  

May 10, 2009
May 9, 2010
May 8, 2011
  

Anguilla Anguilla
Aruba Aruba
Australia Australia
Austria Austria
The Bahamas Bahamas
Bangladesh Bangladesh
Barbados Barbados
Belgium Belgium
Belize Belize
Bermuda Bermuda
Bonaire Bonaire
Brazil Brazil
Brunei Brunei
Bulgaria Bulgaria
  

Canada Canada
Chile Chile
People's Republic of China People's Republic of China†[11]
Colombia Colombia
Croatia Croatia
Cuba Cuba[12]
Curaçao Curaçao
Cyprus Cyprus
Czech Republic Czech Republic[13]
Denmark Denmark
  

Dominica Dominica