Some scholars argue that not all new practices of ibaadat are prohibited bid'ah.

Answer

These so-called 'scholars' are juhala (ignoramuses). They are ignorant of the meaning of bid'ah hasanah and the principles of the Shariah in this regard. Bid'ah – evil and haraam bid'ah – refers to practices which have the outward form of worship and which are included into the Deen or it (the innovation) displaces a practice of the Deen or it alters a practice of the Deen. The three examples of 'bid'ah hasanah'

mentioned in the question whilst technically 'innovation' are not evil bid'ah. These practices are integral parts of the Deen because the Sahaabah, especially the Khulafa-e-Raashideen were empowered by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) to introduce such practices. The innovations of the Sahaabah have been equated to the Sunnah by Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) himself. Since, Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Make incumbent on you my Sunnah and the Sunnah of my Khulafa-e-Raashideen…", it follows logically and Islamically that all three practices mentioned above are the Sunnah of Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). If such innovations are described as bid'ah hasanah' which are permissible, in fact Waajib, it is understandable and acceptable.

However, the innovators of moulood, urs, halqah thikr, etc., were not Sahaabah nor the Taabieen, nor the Tab-e-Taabieen. In fact, Hadhrat Abd u l l a h I b n M a s ' o o d (radhiyallahu anhu) had branded those who made halqah thikr in the Musjid as bid'atis, and he had them expelled from the Musjid. They have no rights such as the Sahaabah enjoyed. Any act cloaked with the form of ibaadat, but which had not existed in the time of Khairul Quroon, is an evil and haraam bid'ah, which may not be designated bid'ah hasanah'. It will be bid'ah sayyiah (evil bid'ah) which comes within the purview of the Hadith: "Every bid'ah is dhalaalah (deviation), and every bid'ah will be in the Fire."

Hadhrat Umar's introduction of 20 raka'ts Taraaweeh Salaat is not a basis for the moulood bid'ah of the grave-worshippers. Similarly, all practices given the form of ibaadat after the age of Khairul

Quroon may not be argued on the basis of the bid'ah hasanah of the Sahaabah. They had all the authority to institute practices of ibaadat. The morons and deviates of later times are wallowing in gross jahaalat by hallucinating that they too have the powers of the Khulafa -e-Raashideen.

Celebrating

Rasulullah's birthday

(moulood)

is a haraam bid'ah sayyiah. No one loved

Rasululla h (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) more than his devotees, the Sahaabah. They would have been the first to have instituted moulood if there was any merit in it. Furthermore, a host of evils are attached to moulood practices. There is no scope in Islam for all these evil and stupid innovations which miscreants and short-sighted 'scholars' have elevated to the status of ibaadat. Rasulullah (sallallahu alayhi wasallam) said: "Allah deprives every man of bid'ah, from Taubah."