We Are Muslims! Absolute 'NO' to Saint Valentines Day!!
The Pagan Romans used to celebrate this event in mid-February each year with a big festival named as Lupercalia. In Roman mythology, Lupercus is a god of shepherd; sometimes identified with the Roman god Faunus. A festival in his name was celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of his temple on mid-February, and was called the Lupercalia.
At this time many of the youths and of the magistrates ran up and down through the city naked, for sport and laughter striking those they meet with shaggy thongs. And many women of rank used to purposely get in their way, and children at school too used to present their hands to be struck, believing that the pregnant will thus be helped in delivery, and the barren to pregnancy.
Other satanic action connected with this festival was that the names of all girls who had reached marriageable age would be written on small rolls of paper and placed in a dish on a table. Then the young men who wished to get married or to have fun would be called, and each of them would pick a piece of paper. He would put himself at the service of the girl whose name he had drawn for one year, so that they could find out about one another. Then they would get married, or they would repeat the same process again on the day of the festival in the following year.
The Connection Between Saint Valentine and This Festival (Lupercalia).
Roman emperor Claudius II decreed in the third century CE that soldiers should not get married, because marriage would distract them from the wars they used to fight. This decree was opposed by Saint Valentine. Consequently, he was killed by the Roman Emperor on this day of Lupercalia (Feast of love) on 14 th Feb. A church was built in Rome on the site of the place where he died, to perpetuate his memory.
So, when the Romans embraced Christianity, they continued to celebrate the Feast of Love i.e. Lupercalia, but they changed it's name to ‘Saint Valentines Day’ and followed it with some minor changes.
The Pope Gelasius designated this day of the death of Saint Valentine, February 14, 270 CE, as a festival of love which in actual is a festival of lust and lewdness.
Dear Brothers and Sisters, say NO to this jaahili (waywardness of days of ignorance), evil, Pagan, and Christian celebration of Saint Valentines Day.
We are Muslim and we do not bear witness to falsehood or evil, let alone the thought of being part of it.
In recent times this disease of celebration of immoral and licentious Valentine’s Day has become widespread amongst Muslims. It is a an evil Christian festival having roman pagan roots laced with evil and promiscuous activities where people dress completely in red, including clothes and shoes, and exchange red flowers and gifts with wanton desires and actions. So brothers and sisters say NO to being part of evil jaahiliyah celebration of this Saint Valentines Day in any form.
ALLAH SWT Says regarding believers:
"And those who do not bear witness to falsehood, and if they pass by some evil play or evil talk, they pass by it with dignity." [Surah Furqan; 025:072]
ALLAH Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala cautions us from following Satan and Disbelievers
“O you who believe! Follow not the footsteps of Shaitân (Satan). And whosoever follows the footsteps of Shaitân (Satan), then, verily, he commands Al-Fahshâ' [i.e. to commit indecency (illegal sexual intercourse)], and Al-Munkar [disbelief and polytheism (i.e. to do evil and wicked deeds; and to speak or to do what is forbidden in Islâm)]. And had it not been for the Grace of Allâh and His Mercy on you, not one of you would ever have been pure from sins. But Allâh purifies (guides to Islâm) whom He wills, and Allâh is All-Hearer, All-Knower.” [Surah Noor; (024:021)]
“Verily, those who like that (the crime of) illegal sexual conduct should be propagated among those who believe, they will have a painful torment in this world and in the Hereafter. And Allâh knows and you know not.” [Surah Noor; (024:019)]
“…And whoever takes Shaitân (Satan) as a Walî (intimate friend, protector or helper) instead of Allâh, has surely suffered a manifest loss. He [Shaitân (Satan)] makes promises to them, and arouses in them false desires; and Shaitân's (Satân) promises are nothing but deceptions. The dwelling of such (people) is Hell, and they will find no way of escape from it.” [Surah Nisaa; 004: 119 to 121]
"And do not obey him whose heart We have made to be neglectful of Our remembrance, one who follows his own whims and desires and whose affairs have gone beyond bounds and whose deeds have been lost." [Surah al Kahf; 18:28]
"Allâh wishes to accept your repentance, but those who follow their lusts, wish that you (believers) should deviate tremendously away (from the Right Path)." [Quraan, Surah Nisaa, 004:027]
"Is he who is on a clear proof from his Lord, like those for whom their evil deeds that they do are beautified for them, while they follow their own lusts (evil desires)?" [Quraan, Surah Muhammad, 047:014]
"That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood, while those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus does Allâh set forth for mankind their parables." [Quraan, Surah Muhammad 047:003]
ALLAH Subhaanahu wa Ta’ala forbids us and strictly warn us from following or imitating Disbelievers
“..And you should not follow the vain desires of such as treat Our Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) as falsehoods, and such as believe not in the Hereafter, and they hold others as equal (in worship) with their Lord.” [006:150]
“…And if you were to follow their desires after what you have received of Knowledge (i.e. the Qur'ân), then you would have against Allâh neither any Walî (protector or guardian) nor any helper.” [002: 120]
Prophet (PBUH) said: “The one who imitates people other than us is not from us..” (Tirmidhi)
Prophet (PBUH) said: “Whoever imitates a people (i.e. kuffaars) is one of them."(Narrated by Abu Dawood, 1204; Ahmad, 2/05. Saheeh in Jamee’ al-Saheeh, 5206).
Imitation, which is strictly prohibited, is effected in one of the following two ways:
a) One does something with the intention of imitating the Kuffar, meaning one does so because one wants to be like a particular kaafir (non-believer) or non-believers.
b) Doing something that is unique and exclusive to the non-believers it being part of their faith (religion).
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (rahimahullah) said: “This hadeeth at the very least implies that it is haraam to imitate them, even if it is only in external appearance, and it implies that the one who imitates them is a kaafir, as Allaah says: ‘And if any amongst you takes them (as Auliyâ’), then surely, he is one of them’ [al-Maa’idah 5:51].” (al-Iqtidaa’, 1/732).
Al-San’aani (rahimahullah) said: “If a person imitates the kaafir in his dress, and believes that by doing so he will be like him, then he is a kaafir. If he does not believe this, then there is a difference of opinion among the fuqahaa’ in this case. Some of them say that he is a kaafir, which is the apparent meaning of the hadeeth; (and most) others say that he is not a kaafir, but he should be disciplined.” (Subul al-Salaam, 8/842).
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (rahimahullah) said: “The reason why the religion of Allaah is getting subdued and its pillars is vanishing, and kufr and sin are prevailing, is because Muslims are imitating the kaafireen (disblievers) …“ (al-Iqtidaa’, 1/413).
