Should I celebrate a holiday I don't believe in..?

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On December 23 is a Muslim holiday called mawlid an nabi (birthday of the prophet Muhammad) but alot of Muslims, especially salafis, dont believe in it because Muhammad never told anyone to celebrate this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bid%E2%80%98ah

I personally don't believe in it, but since I go to alternative school, this is one of my few chances at socializing with others, so if I choose not to go, ill get lonely.... what should I do?

What advice are you expecting?

Personally I don't go to church on Christmas Day or Eve becuase I'm an atheist. But then again this holiday has nothing to do with early Christianity. It is certainly not actually Jesus's birthday.

Do you celebrate you own birthday?

No i dont celebrate my own birthday anymore... the advice im asking is... should i go?

can you go while still acknowledging your disbelief in the specific celebration? I can't speak for your religious attitude, but I participate in Jewish rituals and celebrations despite not being truly religious because I think Judaism is as much a culture as it is a religion, and I want to preserve that connection. If you want to think about the mawlid an nabi celebration in the same way I think you should take the opportunity to go and make connections, even if they are somewhat disparate from your own beliefs, they are still Muslim.

Jewish folks in America go to "holiday season office parties" which are really "Christmas parties" even though Jews arent christian, and dont celebrate Christmas.

Do you just "not believe" in this holiday?

Or do you actively oppose this holiday?

Then...just put it down on your busy social calender between any and all of the other "holiday season" parties you're invited to around that time of December even thought you dont celebrate either Christmas or Hannukka either!

Happy Holidays!
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December 23rd?

To change the subject slightly: that's interesting that on top of the fact there is a supposed date for the birth Mohammed (that you are either supposed to observe,OR are supposed to NOT observe because its heresy ), but that someone in ancient times somehow came to the conclusion that Mohammed just happen to have been born the same week as Christ was supposed to have been born, and that they both were born around the same week that all of the Sun gods of the earlier Pagan Mediterranean World were also born (around the time of the Winter Solstice). Lol! Interesting coincidence.

Only about 600 years later

Even if you don't believe in this particular celebration, you can still partake for the social interaction, if that's important to you.

okay, ill be sure to go then.. thanks, guys...