To further deepen our love and connection with the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, many hadith masters and scholars considered it worthwhile to take every opportunity – after fulfilling one’s obligations and the Sunna – to make mention of Allah and His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. This includes the recommended practice of gathering to celebrate the birth of the Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. Such celebration ”entails gathering with people, reading a portion of the Qur’an, citing the narrations about the precursors to the Prophet’s mission and the wondrous signs that took place during his birth, and then eating a bit of food and leaving” – nothing more, and without this manner of gathering being considered leagally required in the shari’ah.