Valentine Day
What actually valentine day? Why people greet this festival? Valentine also knows as festival of love. I am quite astonished that Islamic people also greet this festival. For those still do not know, let me tell to all of you some of my own opinion and fact about this festival. After read all this, I hope that we as Muslim should avoid from greet this valentine day.
According from what I have read, Valentine days come from pagan Roman, in the pagan Roman concept; it was an expression of "spiritual love". They consider this festival as important in their religion. 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 smear the blood of the dog and goat onto their bodies, and then they would wash the blood away with milk. We can see that, this festival is not good especially for Muslim. They do this festival because it is their belief of religion and tradition, but what about Muslim person. I want to ask whether in Islam, there are tradition of greet valentine day? Surely, it is not accept in Islam.
In Islam, it’s totally different because we have pure religion, we believe only to Allah. Although this Valentine day is like normal matter but there are rule in Islam that limit the behavior of all people. Actually Islam does recognize happy occasions that bring people closer to one another, and add spice to their lives. However, Islam goes against blindly imitating the West regarding a special occasion such as Valentine’s Day. Islam requires all Muslims to love one another all over the whole year, and reducing the whole year to a single day is totally rejected. There 2 type of love that religiously accepts and do not accept. Among the forms of love that are religiously acceptable are those that include the love for our Prophets Muhammad. It stands to reason that the love for Allah, and His Messenger Muhammad should have the top priority over all other forms of love.
So, I think we as Muslim should have awareness that Valentine is not our tradition. It’s the tradition from west. We should know that people who are heathen always make something to all Islam people so that we will follow their religion and tainted our belief to Allah. One example of the way the try to influence us by make Valentine day. For those do not have strong belief to Allah surely will follow this false tradition. As we can seen today, most of us greet this festival without having feel guilty. I want to ask whether in Islam, there are tradition of greet valentine day? Surely, it is not accept in Islam.
After all that I have said, I hope we together will work together to reject all this kind of festival that do not make benefit to our life. We as Muslim must know what is good and not.
What actually valentine day? Why people greet this festival? Valentine also knows as festival of love. I am quite astonished that Islamic people also greet this festival. For those still do not know, let me tell to all of you some of my own opinion and fact about this festival. After read all this, I hope that we as Muslim should avoid from greet this valentine day.
According from what I have read, Valentine days come from pagan Roman, in the pagan Roman concept; it was an expression of "spiritual love". They consider this festival as important in their religion. 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 smear the blood of the dog and goat onto their bodies, and then they would wash the blood away with milk. We can see that, this festival is not good especially for Muslim. They do this festival because it is their belief of religion and tradition, but what about Muslim person. I want to ask whether in Islam, there are tradition of greet valentine day? Surely, it is not accept in Islam.
In Islam, it’s totally different because we have pure religion, we believe only to Allah. Although this Valentine day is like normal matter but there are rule in Islam that limit the behavior of all people. Actually Islam does recognize happy occasions that bring people closer to one another, and add spice to their lives. However, Islam goes against blindly imitating the West regarding a special occasion such as Valentine’s Day. Islam requires all Muslims to love one another all over the whole year, and reducing the whole year to a single day is totally rejected. There 2 type of love that religiously accepts and do not accept. Among the forms of love that are religiously acceptable are those that include the love for our Prophets Muhammad. It stands to reason that the love for Allah, and His Messenger Muhammad should have the top priority over all other forms of love.
So, I think we as Muslim should have awareness that Valentine is not our tradition. It’s the tradition from west. We should know that people who are heathen always make something to all Islam people so that we will follow their religion and tainted our belief to Allah. One example of the way the try to influence us by make Valentine day. For those do not have strong belief to Allah surely will follow this false tradition. As we can seen today, most of us greet this festival without having feel guilty. I want to ask whether in Islam, there are tradition of greet valentine day? Surely, it is not accept in Islam.
After all that I have said, I hope we together will work together to reject all this kind of festival that do not make benefit to our life. We as Muslim must know what is good and not.
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