Skip to main content

Celebrating Valentine’s Day – [Brief Admonition By Shaikh Uthaymeen [rahimahullaah]


In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy

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

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

Firstly: It is an innovated celebration and it has no basis in the Sharee’ah.

Secondly: It calls to infatuation.

Thirdly: It is a means of preoccupying the heart with the likes of 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 related to [celebration], whether it is foodstuffs, drinks, clothing, and exchanging gifts or other than that. It is obligated on a Muslim to nobly [adhere to his (or her)] religion and should not be one who goes with the flow- following everyone who calls to something.

[Source: An excerpt from (Majmoo Fataawaa 16/199). slightly paraphrased]

Share


Related Posts

Signs of a Sound Heart and a Sick Heart – Shaykh Rabī

| Amjad Khan
  ‎إِلَّا مَنْ أَتَى اللَّهَ بِقَلْبٍ سَلِيمٍ Except him who brings to Allāh a clean heart [clean from Shirk (polytheism) and Nifāq (hypocrisy)]. Ash-Shu’ara:89 Shaykh Rabī ibn Hādi…

[14] The Character Trait Most Hated By The Messenger

| Abdullah Jallow
Aishah, may Allah be pleased with her, narrated: “There was no traite more hated to Allah’s Messenger, peace and blessings…

[1] A Brief Reply to Reem Krimly at Al-Arabiya News – [Ruling On Shisha and The Beard]

| Abdullah Jallow
In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. The Saudi Committee of Senior Scholars stated: Shisha, hookah and smoking are from the khabaa’ith (evil, filthy, unlawful things) and…

    FOLLOW US


    Donate to the Dawah in Manchester

    Join the Umrah Trip