The Bible’s stance on birthdays is very clear, and yet birthday celebrations are almost universally accepted by Christians, such that their biggest holiday, Christmas, is a birthday celebration.

There are two birthday celebrations mentioned in the bible. One is by Fir’awn, and the other is by the evil Jewish king Herod, where he kills Yahya, alaihi asalam.

Birthday celebrations were also widespread among the pagan Romans.

Jews actually adopted some elements of Roman birthday celebrations into their religious rituals.

A Roman birthday tradition was for the host of a birthday party to serve one cup of wine for each letter in his name. So Marcus would serve 6 cups of wine, Quintus 7, and so forth.

Today, when many Jews celebrate Passover, they serve 4 cups of wine. This is because the feast is in the honor of Allah, who according to the Jewish tradition is named YWHW, which has 4 letters.

It’s very cursed to adopt a pagan ritual into an originally monotheistic tradition.

It’s especially cursed to apply it to the One who is al Awwal and al Akhir, subhanahu wa t’ala, considering the connection to birth.

The societies and cultures where birthdays are most widespread are those with the highest levels of egoism, selfishness, and wastefulness.

In the modern era, birthday celebrations first became widespread in the corrupt upper classes of the West, and spread from there.

One of the evidences of the righteousness and truthfulness of the sahaba, radhi Allahu anhum, is that they never went near such celebrations.

It’s natural that humans like to celebrate, but if we would obey Allah’s command and fight in His path, we would not have as much need to indulge in wretched, innovated celebrations that cause us to resemble the worst of creation.

If we fought, it would result in being cut off from the Orwellian dystopia of modernity, such that marrying early and having lots of children would make economic sense, as opposed to delaying marriage to integrate into ever more complex and specialized professions.

More children being born and marrying earlier would mean more celebrations of birth (‘aqiqa) and marriage (walima).

Also, Allah taking shuhada from among the Muslims would cause polygyny to become much more common, resulting in even more frequent marriages.

A continuous high rate of birth and death vitalizes a society in the same way proper cupping (with blood letting) vitalizes the body. Releasing blood stimulates the generation of fresh, young, and more energetic blood cells.

Given that birthdays have such a strong historic connection to so many disgraced and debased enemies of Allah, they should be considered as dishonorable.

Therefore, we should keep such dishonorable celebrations far away from the most honorable Messenger ﷺ.