What is ruling on Celebrating Valentine’s Day

Ruling on Celebrating Valentine’s Day 

🎓Imaam Muhammad Ibn Saaleh Al-Uthaymeen [rahimahullaah] said:

Celebrating Valentine’s Day is IMPERMISSIBLE due to [several] reasons:

-Firstly: It is an innovated Eed [holiday]. It has no basis in the Sharee’ah. 

-Secondly: It calls to passion and infatuation. 

-Thirdly: It is a means of preoccupying the heart with the likes these insignificant affairs and it is in opposition to the guidance of the Salafus Saaleh [The Pious Predecessors].

📌Therefore, it is IMPERMISSIBLE to initiate anything on this day [i.e. specifically on Valentine’s day] related to [celebration], whether it is foodstuffs, drinks, clothing, and exchanging gifts or other than these [actions]. It is obligated on a Muslim to nobly [adhere to his (or her)] religion and he [or she] should not be one who goes with the flow- following everyone who calls to something.

📚[Source: (Majmoo Fataawaa 16/199).

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