Do you married couples celebrate valentines day?

[Fairy]

Well do you? Or if your partner forgets, do you get upset?

[Tahiyah]

Well do you? Or if your partner forgets, do you get upset?

most muslims, i think, i hope....do not celebrate these "holidays"...

however, the day after valentines, if my hubby is in a store, he will buy me chocolate for 50% off....lol..

[Nazias]

We have the two Eids to celebrate! :up:

[Stylish-Girly]

most muslims, i think, i hope....do not celebrate these "holidays"...

however, the day after valentines, if my hubby is in a store, he will buy me chocolate for 50% off....lol..

Lol smart price

[Ibn Khattab]

Inshallah when i get married, Valentines day is gonna be everyday :outta:

[bint]

loooL! mashaAllah Ibn k thats the way to go. My brothers follow that motto. I am well proud of 'em. MashaAllah..

Valentines day should be everyday. If you really want to show you're love to you're spouse then you can in many ways..on different days when one least expects it.

[Kal-El]

Inshallah when i get married, Valentines day is gonna be everyday :outta:

You're a sellout :torture:

[Stylish-Girly]

Inshallah when i get married, Valentines day is gonna be everyday :outta:

Subhan'Allah and :insha: Akhi

[Ibn Khattab]

You're a sellout :torture:
why am i a sellout? Bruv you gotta be romantic with your wives man, cant be all like a robot now can we.

[Kal-El]

Gotta get married first

[Ibn Khattab]

Gotta get married first


how do you know im not already married :outta:

[$HugoBoss$]

Inshallah when i get married, Valentines day is gonna be everyday :outta:

Thats a bit excessive if you ask me but what do i know :D

[LastFriday]

Inshallah when i get married, Valentines day is gonna be everyday :outta:

:rotfl: hahahhaa... *sigh* You'll be spending money out the wazoo.

Thats a bit excessive if you ask me but what do i know :D

Do you know something we don't know? Or do you know that we don't know something that only you know? But I think I know that you won't tell us. :rolleyes:

[Ibn Khattab]

Thats a bit excessive if you ask me but what do i know :D

excessive? romance is my life man :outta:



Alhamdulilah:o

[$HugoBoss$]

Gotta get married first


:D

[GuCcI]

Inshallah when i get married, Valentines day is gonna be everyday :outta:

lol mashallah :p


sometimes we underestimate guys... they can be softies inside too u know :o :outta:

[Ibn Khattab]

lol mashallah :p


sometimes we underestimate guys... they can be softies inside too u know :o :outta:

Subhnallah, most men are like lions on the outside, they look fearsome and strong mashallah but with their wives they are as romantic as Romeo:up:

[$HugoBoss$]

excessive? romance is my life man :outta:



Alhamdulilah:o

I'm not saying your not but you'll get bored too quick if you know what i mean :D

[GuCcI]

Subhnallah, most men are like lions on the outside, they look fearsome and strong mashallah but with their wives they are as romantic as Romeo:up:

thats great cuz thats how it should be :up:

[Rosalie-Beauty]

Well acutally its good for all the guys that they dont have to worry about Valentines Day. Its always chaos the day before. All the guys freak out over the right gift and if she will like it or not and a hundred other things.

Maybe I'll skip school on Valentines Day :rolleyes:

nah, I'd rather watch a bunch of high school kids run around in a love daze. :D

[Ibn Khattab]

Valentines day is Fasaad. May Allah save us from it.

[Riceball]

Valentines day is Fasaad. May Allah save us from it.

AMEEN

[Layaan]

Valentines day is Fasaad. May Allah save us from it.

Ameen!:up:

[muslimma]

Valentines day is Fasaad. May Allah save us from it.

AMEEN

Ameen!:up:

ameennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[Raziel]

ameennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Ameen!

:jkk: to my brothers and sisters, I'm glad many of us are aware of it ... :D

[ebolebo]

We ve been married for 15 years, and never exchanged Valentines... it was just not part of our traditions...

This year, after reading the anti-Valentine threads on here, for the first time, i gave a Valentine card to my wife... she was surprised, and moved also... so happy, she almost cried...

Hey, thank you, ummah.com !

El Rey del salsa

[ahmeduk]

by Ahmed

Valentines day is here
its the same each year

we are hit in the pocket
people dash last minute to the supermarket

to buy their loved one a gift
so they can have a temporary lift

and then the day is gone
as quickly as the dawn

and its back to reality for all
til next years valentines call

good mood and emotions consigned to the past
all year they could never last

stop copying bill, freda and ted
why dont we instead do what Islam said

Your situation do assess
Read about how marriage in Islam is blessed

and follow the prophetic example
Sunnahs to follow, so ample

Realise that valentines is just a trick
simply another scheme to get rich quick!

Ahmeds world of Islam (http://www.ahmed2004uk.blogspot.com/)

[afsalim]

I know Valentine's day is a ripoff. But I also see nothing wrong with couples dining out or having a romantic evening by themselves.

[Ghuraba*]

I know Valentine's day is a ripoff. But I also see nothing wrong with couples dining out or having a romantic evening by themselves.

yh....n they can do that weneva, it dsnt HAV2 b on the 14th of feb jus to follow d trend. neway its more romantic n meaningful if ur hubby took u out 4 a romantic meal just out of the blue, just to say 'i luv u'
aaaw:inlove:

[afsalim]

yh....n they can do that weneva, it dsnt HAV2 b on the 14th of feb jus to follow d trend. neway its more romantic n meaningful if ur hubby took u out 4 a romantic meal just out of the blue, just to say 'i luv u'
aaaw:inlove:

Well, if you have the money to burn...heck....everyday is valentine's day then.

[ImaanSeeker]

Well, if you have the money to burn...heck....everyday is valentine's day then.

It doesn't take money to show love/affection.

[curious_man]

Well do you? Or if your partner forgets, do you get upset?

I bought my wife an eternity ring and a lovely card. I got her flowers, perfume and card last year and year before treated her to a lovely meal in a top restuarent.. :)

[Zesty]

The best of over hearing Valentines day plans amongst college kids on the bus :rotfl: I mean, its not like im intentionally listenening or owt like that.. but you cant help it if shes talking at the top of her lungs :outta:

She was skint.. but was telling her boyfriend that she wanted to have lunch and dinner at 2 totally different places on Valentines Day :rotfl: I had to control my laughter.. the whole thing was so comical... im so evil :(

[.: Anna :.]

no need to go out and have dinner etc on the specific valentines day.. for one thing the places will all be really crowded, and for another why not just do when u feel like it.. same with presents.

[GuCcI]

no need to go out and have dinner etc on the specific valentines day.. for one thing the places will all be really crowded, and for another why not just do when u feel like it.. same with presents.

exactly, they carry more significance when there is no occasion :love:

[ebolebo]

no need to go out and have dinner etc on the specific valentines day.. for one thing the places will all be really crowded, and for another why not just do when u feel like it.. same with presents.All this however is directed to one main objective :

don t do as the Kuffar do.

Whoever imitates the Kuffar is one of them.

Etc etc

What a waste of time and effort.

[imported_londoner]

All this however is directed to one main objective :

don t do as the Kuffar do.

Whoever imitates the Kuffar is one of them.

Etc etc

What a waste of time and effort.

Listen kuffar, you enjoy your valentines day and let your wife/partner/girlfriend/mistress know that you love her on this day only. We don't object to that.

[ummbilal]

most muslims, i think, i hope....do not celebrate these "holidays"...

however, the day after valentines, if my hubby is in a store, he will buy me chocolate for 50% off....lol..

lol mine too!!

Valentines has nothing for Muslims, its a bid ah

and has little to do with Christianity either for the Christians out there.

[ummbilal]

Listen kuffar, you enjoy your valentines day and let your wife/partner/girlfriend/mistress know that you love her on this day only. We don't object to that.


what is haram for us is haram for everyone, dont encourage the none Muslims to continue in their disbelief, its wrong,

[ebolebo]

Listen kuffar, you enjoy your valentines day and let your wife/partner/girlfriend/mistress know that you love her on this day only. We don\'t object to that.What a waste of time.

[beamz]

:nono::nono::nono:

[$HugoBoss$]

Hell YNeaOh

[Aquarious]

:salams
If your a Muslim it is IMPORTANT that you read this please. InshAllah
:jkk:

The History of Saint Valentine's Day

Most Muslims who indulge in many alien cultural practices, these days, do not know what they are doing. They are just blind followers of their equally blind cultural leaders.

Little do they realize that what they regard as innocent fun may in fact be rooted in paganism. That the symbols they embrace may be symbols of unbelief. That the ideas they borrow may be products of superstition. And that all these may be a negation of what Islam stands for.

Consider Valentine's Day, a day that after dying out a well deserved death in most of Europe - but surviving in Britain and the United States - has suddenly started to emerge across a swath of Muslim countries. Who was Valentine? Why is this day observed?

Legends abound, as they do in all such cases, but this much is clear: Valentine's Day began as a pagan ritual started by Romans in the 4th century BCE to honour Lupercus, the ‘god of fertility and flocks’. Its main attraction was a lottery held to distribute young women to young men for ‘entertainment and pleasure’ - until the next year’s lottery.

Among other equally despicable practices associated with this day was the lashing of young women by two young men, clad only in a bit of goatskin and wielding goatskin thongs, who had been smeared with the blood of sacrificial goats and dogs. A lash of the ‘sacred’ thongs by these ‘holy men’ was believed to make the women better able to bear children.

As usual, Christianity tried, unsuccessfully, to n the evil celebration of Lupercalia. It first replaced the lottery of the names of women with a lottery of the names of saints. The idea was that during the following year the young men would emulate the life of the saint whose name they had drawn. Christianity ended up doing in Rome, and elsewhere, as the Romans did.

The idea that you can preserve the appearance of a popular evil and yet somehow turn it to serve the purpose of virtue has survived. Look at all those people who are still trying, helplessly, to use the formats of popular television entertainment to promote good. They might learn something from this episode in history. It failed miserably.

The only success it had was in changing the name of Lupercalia to St Valentine’s Day. It was done in the year 496 by Pope Gelasius, in honour of one Saint Valentine. However, there are as many as 50 different Valentines in Christian legends. Two of them are more famous, although their lives and characters are also shrouded in mystery.

According to one legend, which is more in line with the true nature of this celebration, St Valentine was a ‘lover’s saint’ who had himself fallen in love with his jailer’s daughter.

Due to serious troubles that accompanied such lottery, French government banned the Valentine ritual in 1776. It also vanished over the years in Italy, Austria, Hungry, and Germany. Earlier, during the 17th century when the Puritans were strong it had been banned in England, but King Charles II revived it in 1660.

From England the Valentine ritual arrived in the New World, where enterprising Yankees spotted a good means of making money. Esther A Howland who produced, in the 1840s, one of the first commercial American Valentine Day cards called - what else valentines sold $5,000 worth in the first year. (Then $5,000 was a lot of money.) The valentine industry has been booming ever since.

It is the same story with Halloween, which has otherwise normal human beings dressing like ghosts and goblins in a re-enactment of an ancient pagan ritual of demon worship.

The pagan name for that event was Samhain (pronounced sow-en). Just as in case of Valentine's Day, Christianity changed its name, but not the pagan moorings.

Five star hotels in Muslim countries arrange Halloween parties so the rich can celebrate the superstitions of a distant period of ignorance that, at one time, even included the shameful practice of human sacrifice.

Christmas is another story. Today Muslim shopkeepers sell and shoppers buy Christmas symbols in Islamabad or Dubai or Cairo. To engage in a known religious celebration of another religion is bad enough. What is worse is the fact that here is another pagan celebration (Saturnalia) that has been changed in name - and in little else - by Christianity.

Even the apparently innocuous celebration might have pagan foundations. According to one account, in pagan cultures, people feared evil spirits, especially on their birthdays. It was a common belief that evil spirits were more dangerous to a person when he or she experienced a change in their daily life, such as turning a year older. So family and friends surrounded the person with laughter and joy on their birthdays to protect them from evil.

How can anyone in his right mind think that Islam would be indifferent to practices steeped in anti -Islamic ideas and beliefs? Islam came to destroy paganism in all its forms: it cannot tolerate any trace of it from the lives of its followers.

Further, Islam is very sensitive about maintaining its purity and the unique identity of its believers. Islamic laws and teachings go to extra lengths to ensure it.

For example, salâh is forbidden at the precise times of sunrise, transition and sunset to eliminate the possibility that it might get mixed up or be confused with the practice of sun worship. To the voluntary recommended fast on the tenth of Muharram, Muslims are required to add another day (9th or 11th) to distinguish it from the then prevalent Jewish practice. Muslims are forbidden to emulate the appearance of non- Muslims.

A Muslim is a Muslim for life. During joys and sorrows, during celebrations and sufferings, we must follow the one straight path - not many divergent paths. It is a great tragedy that under the constant barrage of commercial and cultural propaganda from the forces of Jahiliya and the relentless media machine, Muslims have begun to embrace the Valentines, the Halloween ghosts, and even Santa Claus.

:aku_astaghfirullah:
May Allah the Almighty protect us Muslims from corruption, destruction and going astray. Ameen
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