Celebrating Valentine’s Day
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Praise be to Allaah,
the Lord of the Worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad
and upon all his family and companions.
Allaah has chosen for us Islam as our religion and He will
not accept any other religion from anyone, as He says (interpretation of the
meaning):
“And whoever seeks a religion other than Islam, it will
never be accepted of him, and in the Hereafter he will be one of the losers
[Aal ‘Imraan 3:85]
And the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
told us that groups of his ummah would follow the enemies of Allah in some of
their rituals and customs, as it says in the hadeeth of Abu Sa’eed al-Khudri
(may Allah be pleased with him), who narrated that the Prophet (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “You will certainly follow the ways of
those who came before you, span by span, cubit by cubit, until even if they
were to enter a lizard’s hole, you would follow them.” We said, “O Messenger of
Allaah, (do you mean) the Jews and Christians?” He said, “Who else?!”
(Narrated by al-Bukhaari in al-I’tisaam bi’l-Kitaab
wa’l-Sunnah, Baab Qawl al-Nabi (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) La
tattabi’unna Sanan man kaana qablakum, 8/151; and by Muslim in Kitaab al-‘Ilm,
Baab Ittibaa’ Sanan al-Yahood wa’l-Nasaara, 4/2054)
What the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)
spoke of has indeed come to pass and has become widespread in recent times, in
many of the Muslim countries. Many of the Muslims follow the enemies of Allaah
in many of their customs and ways of behaving, and imitate them in some of
their rituals and in celebrating their holidays.
The matter has been made even worse by the opening up of
mass communications between peoples, whereby the rituals and customs of the
kuffaar are now transmitted with the glamorous adornment of sound and image
from their countries into the Muslim countries, via satellite TV and the World
Wide Web (Internet). Many Muslims have been deceived by their glamour.
In recent years, a new phenomenon has spread among the
Muslim youth – males and females alike – which does not bode well. This is
manifested in their imitation of the Christians in their celebration of the
Valentine’s Day, which has led the scholars and daa’iyahs to explain the
rulings of sharee’ah concerning that, out of sincerity towards Allaah, His
Messenger, the leaders of the Muslims and their common folk, so that Muslims
may have a clear understanding of this issue and so that they will not fall into
that which will undermine the belief ( ‘aqeedah) with which Allaah has blessed
them.
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