Fatherly Advice To The Muslims Concerning Valentine’s Day

By The Noble Shaykh Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Al-Wahhāb Marzūq al-Bannā (‫)ﺣﻔﻈﻪ ﷲ‬
 
Translated by Abū Sa’d Muḥammad Shabāna (‫)ﺣﻔظﮫ ﷲ‬
Saturday 4th Jumādā al-Ūlā, 1437 | 13th February, 2016
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After Muwahhideen Publications’ Weekly Usūl al-Thalāthah Class on Saturday 13th February 2016,
our Shaykh Ḥasan Ibn ‘Abd Al-Wahhāb al-Bannā (‫ )ﺣﻔظﮫ ﷲ‬was asked for some fatherly advice
concerning those who celebrate Valentine’s Day saying it is just a day for the Muslim man to
honour his wife and for the Muslim woman to honour her husband.

Summary of Shaykh Ḥasan al-Bannā’s Answer:

Firstly, this so-called celebration is a pagan celebration. Those who will listen to this advice are
only from the People of the Sunnah; and if they are, they will take the advice and stay away from
such a celebration. Anyone else celebrating such a day is acting according to their whims and
desires because they are practicing their so-called love and finding the sweetness of their so-
called love, which is not the true love as prescribed in Islām.

Unfortunately, in your lands you have what they call freedom but this so-called freedom is only
for the disbelievers, and as for the Muslims, there is only humiliation and killing. The so-called
Valentine’s Day/Day of Love is only their speech. Look at how they (the Muslims acting upon this
pagan celebration) have taken this speech and acted upon it, because it has brilliance to it and
it resonated in their hearts. But our scales as the People of the Sunnah are different from the
people of disbelief. How can we ever agree? Of course, we are never going to agree. Islām forbids
 
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us from this so-called love they talk about where a man has lust for a woman and vice versa. This
so-called love of theirs refers to forbidden love in Islām.

Is there any better love than a man honouring his wife day and night and helping her upon the
Sunnah and a woman honouring her husband by agreeing with and obeying him? If they both
agree upon what pleases Allāh and His Messenger (‫)ﺻﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﯾﮫ وﺳﻠم‬, they are in love.

There used to be an old statement amongst the Arabs which said that marriage will spoil love.
This is because the love the Arabs before Islām referred to is what the disbelievers are upon
nowadays, which is lust and forbidden love out of marriage. In their minds love is not marriage,
but lust is what they refer to as ‘love’.

Some of them, after falling in love - as they claim - a month after marriage they get divorced
because firstly, they did not fall in love but they practiced fornication, which is forbidden by
Islām. They thought they were in love, which is not love; rather it is lust.

 
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