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Yes your right, Valentine's day is ha ram indeed:
Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his family and companions. Allah 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 Allah be upon him) told us that groups of his Emma would follow the enemies of Allah in some of their rituals and customs, as it says in the Hadlee of Abu Sa?Ede AL-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him), who narrated that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah 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 Allah, (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 Allah 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 Allah 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 Allah 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 Allah, 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 Allah has blessed them. This is a brief discussion of the origins, development and purpose of this holiday, and what the Muslim should do with regard to it.
The Festival of Love was one of the festivals of the pagan Romans, when paganism was the prevalent religion of the Romans more than seventeen centuries ago. In the pagan Roman concept, it was an expression of ?spiritual love?. There were myths associated with this pagan festival of the Romans, which persisted with their Christian heirs. Among the most famous of these myths was the Roman belief that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was suckled one day by a she-wolf, which gave him strength and wisdom. The Romans used to celebrate this event in mid-February each year with a big festival. One of the rituals of this festival was the sacrifice of a dog and a goat. Two strong and muscular youths would daub the blood of the dog and goat onto their bodies, then they would wash the blood away with milk. After that there would be a great parade, with these two youths at its head, which would go about the streets. The two youths would have pieces of leather with which they would hit everyone who crossed their path. The Roman women would welcome these blows, because they believed that they could prevent or cure infertility.
The connection between Saint Valentine and this festival
Saint Valentine is a name which is given to two of the ancient ?martyrs? of the Christian Church. It was said that there were two of them, or that there was only one, who died in Rome as the result of the persecution of the Gothic leader Claudius, c. 296 CE. In 350 CE, a church was built in Rome on the site of the place where he died, to perpetuate his memory.
* Valentine's day celebrated by muslim couples who are not married supports the idea of lust/love and infactuation of an individual. According to the Qur'an and hadiths, all Muslims should be Modest, lower their gaze and stay away from aspects that invite Shaytan such as lust, pre-marital sex etc. May Allah guide people towards of the right path, away from the mischief of Shaytan. Ameen.
Is Valentine's Day HARAAM in Islam?
