Sunday, February 13, 2011

Valentine's Day

How many of us know what Valentine's Day is?
Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day or Festival of Love is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.
What do we mean by intimate companions?
Intimate companions is a particularly close interpersonal relationship. Intimate relationship includes friendships, dating relationships, spiritual relationship.

I do not know much to why Valentines Day is haram BUT most of us know Islam dictates strict rules and one of them is forbidding all forms of dating and isolating oneself with a member of opposite sex, as well as indiscriminate mingling and mixing.

However, if he or she is seriously considering  marrying someone, such a thing itself is not considered haram. Infact, if I'm not wrong Islam encourages us to marry a person for whom we have special feelings and affinity. Thus, Islam recommends that potential marriage partners should see one another before proposing marriage. Explaining the reasoning for such a recommendation, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ''That would enhance/foster the bonding''

Would appreciate someone telling me why it is Haram













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