Is a Baby Shower Haram?

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The aqiqah

The Sunnah is to celebrate a birth with an aqiqah (sacrificing an animal and sharing the meat), usually on the seventh day.

Baby showers

Many scholars see no harm in a modest gathering with gifts. Others avoid it as imitation or because of superstitions sometimes attached to it.

Aqiqah and baby showers

Aqiqah is the sunnah of sacrificing sheep or goats on the seventh day after birth, naming the baby and shaving the baby's head. Meat is shared with family and the poor.

Gifts to a new mother are encouraged. Scholars who discourage baby showers do so because it is a custom adopted from others, not because gifts are wrong.

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