It is not lawful for a Muslim who believes in Allah and the Last Day to celebrate, approve of, or congratulate people on it (Valentine's day); it is forbidden to them. Rather, it is
obligatory for them to ignore and avoid it, in obedience to Allah and His Messenger and to keep away from that which will arouse Allah's Anger and incur Punishment.
It is also Haram (prohibited) for Muslims to support this festival or any other forbidden festival by any means, whether by supplying food or drinks; selling, buying, manufacturing, gift-giving, corresponding, advertising and so on, because all this comes under cooperating in sin and transgression, and disobeying Allah and His Messenger. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says: Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwâ (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allâh. Verily, Allâh is Severe in punishment.
Therefore is it obligatory for the shop owners, those who do the likes mentioned, to repent to Allaah from the crimes and transgression and the oppression they have committed connected to the greeting cards they are selling and all the things that help make apparent and spread the festivals of the non-Muslims. From their repentance, they must also warn the people from acts that they did before and explain to them that those deeds that they did was a great wronging, it wasn’t permissible and that it wasHaraam. They must increase in doing good deeds because the one who repents and then does good deeds then Allaah will accept his repentance. May Allaah provide all f us with safeguarding from being misguided trials and tribulations and may Allaah make us all firm upon His guidance, His Religion of truth, al-Islaam. Verily He is the Patron over this and He is able to do it.
May the Peace and Blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, upon his family and his Companions
obligatory for them to ignore and avoid it, in obedience to Allah and His Messenger and to keep away from that which will arouse Allah's Anger and incur Punishment.
It is also Haram (prohibited) for Muslims to support this festival or any other forbidden festival by any means, whether by supplying food or drinks; selling, buying, manufacturing, gift-giving, corresponding, advertising and so on, because all this comes under cooperating in sin and transgression, and disobeying Allah and His Messenger. Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) says: Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwâ (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allâh. Verily, Allâh is Severe in punishment.
May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and his family and Companions. Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Ifta’ Deputy Head: 'Abdul-'Aziz ibn 'Abdullah Al Al-Shaykh Members: Bakr Abu Zayd Salih Al-Fawzan 'Abdullah ibn Ghudayyan Source: Fatwas of the Permanent Committee Note: Modified for the purpose of presentation,
Therefore,
it is binding that we spread this ruling of prohibition to the people
and write them in the magazines in order that people may benefit from
it.
Fatwa number: 1636
Question:
Some shops have begun to store products in order for this to be sold on
Valentine's Day such as have cards, red roses and chocolates and the
likes. What is the ruling of this?
Answer:
All Praise be to Allaah and May the Peace and Blessings of Allaah be
upon the Messenger, Our Prophet Muhammad and his family and his
companions and all those who follow them in goodness until the Last Day.
To begin:
Verily,
this act of some of the businessmen and shop owners is a bad deed as it
makes visible the festivals of the non-Muslims. It shows agreement with
them and the symbols of their religion in front of the Muslims, and
those who don’t know or are ignorant will be led to blindly follow the
non-Muslims in this and their festivals.
Giving
gifts and chocolates on the days of their festivals is from the major
crimes and selling what is connected to these festivals and making it
apparent to the people is helping in spreading falsehood and giving
assistance to oppression and transgression. Allaah, the Most High, said:
"Help you one another in Al-Birr and At-Taqwa (
Therefore is it obligatory for the shop owners, those who do the likes mentioned, to repent to Allaah from the crimes and transgression and the oppression they have committed connected to the greeting cards they are selling and all the things that help make apparent and spread the festivals of the non-Muslims. From their repentance, they must also warn the people from acts that they did before and explain to them that those deeds that they did was a great wronging, it wasn’t permissible and that it wasHaraam. They must increase in doing good deeds because the one who repents and then does good deeds then Allaah will accept his repentance. May Allaah provide all f us with safeguarding from being misguided trials and tribulations and may Allaah make us all firm upon His guidance, His Religion of truth, al-Islaam. Verily He is the Patron over this and He is able to do it.
May the Peace and Blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, upon his family and his Companions
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