Valentine Day

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Re: Valentine Day and Pakistani Media

Bahut hi Aaaalaa tajzia!!!
Allah hamari Qoum pe reham kare!
Yeh hi batain hamari nayee nasal ko tabbahi ke dahanay pe le ja raheen hain aur hamara media iss mein 100% qasoor waar hai
Yahan Europe mein eik bhi program iss pe nahi howa, kion-ke yahaan loggon ke paas inn cheezoon ka time nahi :) Na hi media ne 24 ghantay iss pe koi program kia :)

 

[Afaq Chaudhry]

Don't bring religion here, Valentine day is all about love. Religions are all about politics, controlling people and spreading hate.

Ablees DEEN ka inkari hai.............is lie ye sare us ke kirishme hain.....Islam keeps his followers in boundries, that why there is punishment for those who dont belive and try to violate these boundries.............

 

[saud491]

An Ancient Pagan Celebration

Valentine's Day: Religious Origins and Background

Pagan Origins of Valentine's Day

By Austin Cline, About.com Guide


At first, the connection between Valentines Day and religion might seem obvious isnt the day named after a Christian saint? When we consider the matter more closely, we find that there isnt a strong relationship between Christian saints and romance. We should then realize that our initial ideas may have been too hasty. To gain a better understanding of the religious background of Valentines Day, we have to dig deeper.

There is a lot of debate and disagreement among scholars about the origins of Valentines Day. Well probably never be able to disentangle all of the cultural and religious threads in order to reconstruct a complete and coherent story. The origins of Valentines Day lie too far in the past to be sure about everything. Despite this, there are a number of speculations we can make which are reasonably sound.
For one thing, we know that the Romans celebrated a holiday on February 14th to honor Juno Fructifier, Queen of the Roman gods and goddesses, and that on February 15th they celebrated the Feast of Lupercalia in honor of Lupercus, the Roman god who watched over shepherds and their flocks. Neither of these appear to have much to do with love or romance, but there were a number of customs focused on fertility which were associated with one feast or the other. Although attributions vary depending on the source, they are consistent in their description of the rituals.
In one, men would go to a grotto dedicated to Lupercal, the wolf god, which was located at the foot of Palatine Hill. It was here the Romans believed that the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were suckled by a she-wolf. It was also here that the men would sacrifice a goat, don its skin, and then proceed to run around, hitting women with small whips. These actions were taken in imitation of the god Pan and supposedly a women struck in this way would be guaranteed fertility during the next year.
In another ritual, women would submit their names to a common box and men would each draw one out. These two would be a couple for the duration of the festival (and at times for the entire following year). Both rituals were designed to promote not only fertility, but also life generally.
Our modern festival isnt called St. Lupercus Day, its called St. Valentines Day after a Christian saint so where does Christianity come into play? Thats more difficult for historians to decipher. There was more than one person with the name Valentinius who existed during the early years of the church, two or three of whom were martyred.


According to one story, Roman emperor Claudius II imposed a ban on marriages because too many young men were dodging the draft by getting married (only single men had to enter the army). A Christian priest named Valentinus ignored the ban and performed secret marriages. He was caught, of course, which meant that he was imprisoned and sentenced to death. While awaiting execution, young lovers visited him with notes about how much better love is than war the first valentines.

As you might have already guessed, the execution occurred in 269 CE on Februrary 14th, the Roman day dedicated to celebrating love and fertility. After a couple of centuries (in 469, to be precise), Emperor Gelasius declared it a holy day in honor of Valentinus instead of the pagan god Lupercus. This allowed Christianity to take over some of the celebrations of love and fertility which had perviously occurred in the context of paganism.
Another Valentinus was a priest jailed for helping Christians. During his stay he fell in love with the jailers daughter and sent her notes signed from your Valentine. He was eventually beheaded and buried on the Via Flaminia. Reportedly Pope Julius I built a basilica over his grave. A third and final Valentinius was the bishop of Terni and he was also martyred, with his relics being taken back to Terni.
The pagan celebrations were reworked to fit the martyr theme after all, early and medieval Christianity did not approve of rituals that encouraged sexuality. Instead of pulling girls names from boxes, it is believed that both boys and girls chose the names of martyred saints from a box. It wasnt until the 14th century that customs returned to celebrations of love and life rather than faith and death.
It was around this time the Renaissance that people began to break free of some of the bonds imposed upon them by the Church and move towards a humanistic view of nature, society, and the individual. As a part of this change there was also a move towards more sensual art and literature. There was no shortage of poets and authors who connected the dawning of Spring with love, sexuality, and procreation. A return to more pagan-like celebrations of February 14th is not surprising.
As with so many other holidays that have pagan roots, divination came to play an important role in the development of modern Valentines Day. People looked to all sorts of things, primarily in nature, in order to find some sign about who might become their mate for life their One True Love. There were also, of course, all sorts of things which came to be used to induce love or lust. They existed before, naturally, but as love and sexuality came once again to be more closely associated with February 14th, these foods and drinks came to be associated with it as well.

Today, capitalist commercialism is one of the biggest aspects of Valentines Day. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on chocolate, candies, flowers, dinners, hotel rooms, jewelry, and all sorts of other gifts and whatnot used to celebrate February 14th. There is a lot of money to be made from peoples desire to commemorate the date, and even more to be made in convincing people to employ any number of new means to celebrate. Only Christmas and Halloween come close in the way that modern commercialism has transformed and adopted an ancient pagan celebration.

 

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Re: An Ancient Pagan Celebration

ابوسعیدخدری رضي اللہ تعالی عنہ بیان کرتے ہیں کہ نبی کریم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا :
( تم اپنے سے پہلے لوگوں کے طریقوں کی بالشت بربالشت اورہاتھ برہاتھ پیروی کروگے ، حتی کہ اگر وہ گوہ کے بل میں داخل ہوئے توتم بھی ان کی پیروی میں اس میں داخل ہوگے ، ہم نے کہا اے اللہ تعالی کےرسول صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم : کیا یھودیوں اورعیسائیوں کی ؟ تورسول کریم صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم نے فرمایا اورکون ؟ ! ) امام بخاری رحمہ اللہ تعالی نے اسے صحیح بخاری کتاب الاعتصام بالکتاب والسنۃ باب قول النبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم لتتبعن سنن من کان قبلکم میں روایت کیا ہے دیکھیں صحیح بخاری ( 8 / 151 ) ۔
اورامام مسلم نے کتاب العلم باب اتباع سنن الیھود والنصاری میں ذکر کیا ہے دیکھیں صحیح مسلم ( 4 / 2054 ) ۔

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نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم کا فرمان ہے : ( جس نے بھی کسی قوم سے مشابھت اختیار کی وہ انہیں میں سے ہے ) مسند احمد ( 2 / 50 ) ، سنن ابوداود حدیث نمبر ( 4021 ) ۔
شیخ الاسلام رحمہ اللہ تعالی کہتے ہیں :
( اس حدیث کی کم از کم حالت ان سے مشابھت کرنے کی تحریم کا تقاضا کرتی ہے ، اگرچہ حدیث کا ظاہرمشابھت اختیار کرنے والے کےکفرکا متقاضی ہے ، جیسا کہ اللہ سبحانہ وتعالی کے فرمان ہے : ** اورجوبھی تم میں سے ان کے ساتھ دوستی کرے یقینا وہ انہی میں سے ہے ** الاقتضاء ( 1 / 314 ) ۔
3 - اوررہا اجماع تواس میں ابن تیمیہ رحمہ اللہ تعالی نے یہ نقل کیا ہے کہ کفارسےان کی عیدوں اورتہواروں میں مشابھت اختیارکرنے کی حرمت پرصحابہ کرام کے وقت سے لیکر اجماع ہے ، جیسا کہ ابن قیم رحمہ اللہ تعالی نے بھی اس پرعلماء کرام کا اجماع نقل کیا ہے ۔ دیکھیں : الاقتضاء ( 1 / 454 ) اوراحکام اھل الذمۃ ( 2 / 722- 725 ) ۔

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شیخ الاسلام ابن تیمیہ رحمہ اللہ تعالی کہتے ہیں : ( مسلمانوں کے لیے حلال نہيں کہ وہ کفارسے ان کے خصوصی تہواروں میں ان کی لباس ، کھانے پینے ، اورغسل کرنے اورآگ جلانے اوراپنی کوئي عادت اورکام وغیرہ اورعبادت سے چھٹی کرنے میں ان کفار کی مشابھت کریں ۔۔۔ مجمل طورپر یہ کہ : ان کے لیے یہ جائزنہيں کہ وہ کفار کے کسی خاص تہوار کوان کے کسی شعار کے ساتھ خصوصیت دیں ، بلکہ ان کے تہوار کا دن مسلمانوں کے ہاں باقی سارے عام دنوں جیسا ہی ہونا چاہیے ) دیکھیں : مجموع الفتاوی ( 25 / 329 ) ۔

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