Celebrating  daughter’s reaching adolescence
Question

                Im a young muslim women and i was wondering is it bad to have a sweet 16 for your young girl. A sweet 16 is a big party that you give to your girl when she reachs the age 16, thats when she becomes a teen. so pls write back.
Praise be to Allah.It is not prescribed to 
    celebrate this occasion, which is a girl’s reaching the age of sixteen, 
    because that is imitating the kuffaar who hold such parties. The Prophet 
     (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever imitates a 
    people is one of them.” Narrated by Abu Dawood (3512); classed as saheeh by 
    al-Albaani. 
This age does not mean 
    anything in our religion. A girl reaches puberty and becomes accountable 
    when certain signs appear, but reaching the age of sixteen is not one of 
    them. 
The signs of puberty are: 
    menstruation, wet dreams, growth of coarse hair around the private part or 
    reaching the age of fifteen. 
The Prophet  (peace and 
    blessings of Allaah be upon him) did not prescribe celebrating the reaching 
    of a certain age, such as puberty or youth etc, for either males or 
    females. 
Some people nowadays 
    celebrate the child’s first birthday, then they celebrate when he begins to 
    walk, then when he begins to speak. But there is no basis for that in Islam, 
    rather these are customs that have been taken from non-Muslims. 
We should beware of 
    imitating the kuffaar and we should preserve our Islamic identity, and avoid 
    blind imitation of others. 
There is nothing wrong, 
    when a child reaches puberty according to the signs mentioned, with pointing 
    out the importance of that in his life in general terms, and pointing out 
    that his Hereafter is strongly connected to his reaching puberty, because he 
    has now become responsible for his actions and accountable for his words and 
    deeds. 
“So whosoever does good 
    equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant) shall see it.
8. And whosoever does 
    evil equal to the weight of an atom (or a small ant) shall see it”
[al-Zalzalah 99:8-9]
May Allaah help us all to 
    do that which He loves and which pleases Him. 
And Allaah knows best.