Blasting the cult of Valentine's Day; What Holy Prophet s.a.ww orders about it?

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Background / History of Valentine's Day

One of the authentic suggestion about Valentine refers him as a priest. This priest served Rome during the third century. At that time, Emperor Claudius II was ruling over Rome who once ordered his kingdom to join army but the response from the men of his kingdom was very bleak due to their deep concern and propensity towards their family and loved ones.

The Emperor, in the wake of repercussion, decided that unmarried soldiers are better than the married ones. Thus he outlawed marriage for young soldiers. Valentine realized this injustice and performed marriages in secret for the young lovers. But as Claudius came to know this, Valentine was put to death. So people now celebrate Valentine's Day in memory of that priest.

What Islam Says About Valentine's Day

According to Islamic teachings, Celebrating Valentine's Day is strictly prohibited and strenuously decried. But we people celebrate it like an event tandem to our Eid. Today our market represents a mammoth on the fake occasion of  Valentine's Day. Young boys and girls use this day to pave ways for new friendships  which is totally unIslamic, leading our youth towards a stalemate.

Our Islamic teachings are disguised in this superficial modernization that is aggravating the condition of Islamic countries. Today we need to mull, This is not the way MUSLIMS were. If we dig out the history of Muslims, It was glorious. But due to our own mistakes we tormented the teachings of our religion and became intertwined with the evil. This contemporary world is just a cliche and divine is Allah.

• "The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who copies any people is one of them." - Sunan Abu-Dawud, Book 32, #4020 - Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar.
• "Whoever imitates a people, belongs to that people."
  *has been derived from two famous books of ahadeeth 'Mishkaat' and 'Abu Dawood' and is narrated by Hadhrat Ibn Umar (R.A).
• "Whoever /imitates/resembles a people/nation is one of them."
  *Liqa’ al-Baab al-Maftooh, q. 1085.
  *Recorded by Abu Dawud
  *Reported by Imaam Ahmad
  *Musnad Ahmad vol. 2, no. 50. Authenticated by Shaikh al-Albanee in Saheeh al-Jami as-Sageer.
  *Narrated by Abu Dawood, 3512; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani.
  * Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 22/154.
• "Whoever resembles a people, he is one of them"
  *Mitsnad [Musnad] Ahmad, 2/50 Abu Dawood with a hadeeth of good narration #4031. It has been authenticated by al-Albaanee in Saheeh al-Jami' #6149 [3rd edition] taken from 'Imitation of the Kuffar' [or here] by Dr. Nasr Al-Aql.
• “Differ from the idolaters.”
  *Saheeh al-Bukhari, Saheeh Muslim and others.
• “Differ from the jews.”
  *Abu Dawood
• “Differ from the Zoroastrians.”
  *Saheeh Muslim and others

Please do not celebrate this event and SAY NO TO VALENTINE'S DAY. PLEASE SHARE.

Written by Dr. Shafaq Rafeeq

Mildly edited by Enticing Fury

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