Legitimacy of Holding Rituals and Celebrations

This article entitled “Legitimacy of Holding Rituals and Celebrations, "focuses on one of the disputed issues between Wahhabis and other Muslims. This sect, with seemingly religious excuses and weak doubts, is seeking to excommunicate Muslims, especially Shiites and regarding the holding of Mohammad prophet (PBUH) and his family’s birth celebration as polytheism and innovation, introduces the other Muslims as atheists. The present paper investigate to answer this question that, what are reasons for legitimacy of holding rituals and ceremonies? This research ultimately has specified that holding rituals in various occasions, such as birthday celebrations and Islamic holidays due to its happy and blessing, have been the old customs and habits of Muslims and due to reasons in Quran and hadith for legitimacy in the words of Imams and Muslim in the early times of Islam, is good to be heeded and obeyed and holding the event, is the practice of Islam and expressly approved by the Holy Quran. Various narration has confirmed having sacrificing and etc. Muslim’s actions, throughout history, endorsed it and reason also considers it desirable and popular. As a result, Wahhabi's doubts has not been supported by intellectual and religious and consequently all their reasons are rejected. The research method is notes taking and library-based and descriptive-analytical research method.