𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 | Valentine day in Islam

It is possible that the holiday is based on a combination of two or three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus in Rome during the 3rd century.

But that which is certain is that there was a priest in Rome named St. Valentine. Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II, Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular military quests. Claudius was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join the military. He believed that the reason was that Roman men did not want to leave their loved ones and families. So he decided to cancel all marriages and engagements in Rome. 

St. Valentine would help couples get married in secret and he would also aid the Christian martyrs. Roman officials beat him to death, then cut off his head. He died on February 14, about the year 270.

It's believed that the Catholic Church may have established St. Valentine's Day to honor these men, who they believed to be martyrs.

Another story involves the practice of writing love letters to your valentine. It's said that St. Valentine wrote the first “valentine” greeting to a young girl he tutored and fell in love with while he was imprisoned for the crimes outlined above. Before his death, he wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine," which remains a commonly used phrase to this day.

This holiday seems to be hijacked from the Romans, who celebrated the feast of Lupercalia around Feb. 13 to 15. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the tail of the animals they had just slain. The Romans were drunk and naked while doing so.

Young women would line up for the men to hit them as they believed this would make them fertile and improve their likelihood of getting pregnant.

It also included a matchmaking lottery in which young men drew the names of women from a jar. The couple would then be coupled up for the duration of the festival — or longer, if the match was right.

Later, Pope Gelasius I muddled things in the fifth century by combining St. Valentine's Day with the pagan holiday of Lupercalia. 

Around the same time, the Normans celebrated Galatin's Day. Galatin meant "lover of women." That was likely confused with St. Valentine's Day at some point, in part because they sound alike. 

As the years went on, this day was romanticized by the likes of Chaucer and Shakespeare in their works, and it gained popularity throughout Britain and the rest of Europe, and the rest is history.

After Reading This, is this a day you want to take as a celebration? A day based on celebrating the death of a Christian saint? A day about men whipping women to improve their chances of fertility? A day encouraging Zinā and indecencies?

Be satisfied with that which ALLĀH ﷻ has given you from the legislated celebrations, Īd Al-Fitr and Īd Al-Adhā.

Sheikh Abdul Azeez ar-Rājihī Said,

“Muslims only have Two Festivals: Īd Al-Fitr and Īd Al- Adha, and the Īd of the week is day of Jumuah, as for Valentine’s Day then it is Falsehood and Imitation of the people of KUFR.”

 [فتاوى الشيخ الراجحي ١/٩٠]

Is it not sufficient of an honour and virtue for you that ALLĀH ﷻ has chosen this day for you to celebrate and rejoice?

But know that this is from the plots of the disbelievers, trying to implant this paganism in our creeds and shake the frameworks of our faith. So don’t be deceived by them.

‘Umar b. al-Khaṭṭāb رضي الله عنه said: “Avoid the enemies of ALLĀH ﷻ during their festivals.”

And in one narration with addition “For the Wrath of ALLĀH ﷻ descends upon them during it.” 

● [تاريخ الكبير للبخاري]

‘Abdullāh b. ‘Amr رضي الله عنه Said: “Whoever settles in the land of the Non-Arabs and Celebrates their New year and Festival and Imitates them until he Dies while he is in that state, will be Gathered with them on the Day of Resurrection.”

● [أخرجه البيهقي في الكبرى]

Ibn Taymīyyāh رحمه الله said: 

“Muslims should Not celebrate any festival of the disbelievers.”

‎● [مختصر اقتضها أسصراط المستقيم ١٧-١٨]

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