Mawlid

Maulidur Rasul parade in Putrajaya, Malaysia

Mawlid (Arabic: مَولِد النَّبِي‎ mawlidu n-nabiyyi, "Birth o the Prophet", sometimes simply cried in colloquial Arabic مولد mawlid, mevlid, mevlit, mulud amang ither vernacular pronunciations; sometimes ميلاد mīlād) is the observance o the birthday o the Islamic prophet Muhammad which occurs on the 12t day o Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar.