Haris Ubaidillah Reveals The Reasons For Holding The Prophet's Birthday Event, Touching On Other Associations

ILLUSTRATION / RIZIEQ SHIHAB (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The head of the committee for the Prophet's birthday, Haris Ubaidillah, said the reason for holding the Prophet's birthday on November 14, 2020 was because many similar events were already running. Although the event stirred up a crowd.

Haris conveyed this confession, alluding to the reason why as the committee chairman dared to take the risk of holding events during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"There is a question why I dare to take the risk of taking the Maulid commemoration, because at that time as much information I got that groups like this already existed long before the anniversary event which we held so we were brave enough to hold the Prophet's Birthday," said Haris. at the trial at the East Jakarta District Court, Monday, May 3.

Although explaining the reason, Haris did not mention the gathering which was used as a comparison. He emphasized that during the Prophet's birthday there was already an emphasis on always implementing health protocols.

In fact, the Prophet's birthday event was decided to end sooner than usual. In fact, if you reflect on previous events, the Prophet's Birthday activities are always completed at around 04.30 WIB.

"At that time all the committee agreed to close the event earlier than usual. Because usually FPI is having a maulid event until dawn, because if we finish it at 2 o'clock it will be late at dawn," he said.

Besides that, another reason to end the event earlier was because of the large number of people. So, it is feared that unwanted things could happen, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"But because yesterday the commemoration of the maulid event had exploded beyond our expectations, we finally decided that the event was dissolved early," he said.