Is celebrating Valentine's Day haram?

see people yep so valentine has passed you know i think i should say a few words about valentine's now that it's passed for all the wounded souls that are there like we're in the words of mir where he says

you know if a sword is to strike let it strike [Laughter] foreign is the walk the alluring the seductive walk of a woman it's called that what this and he says

he says that the way they walk this is something you you're you're talking to me about the striking of a sword what is that he's saying this is where a person meets their fatality so yeah but i was going to say actually about uh about a valentine's you know i think i've said this stuff before to be fair that look this it's not these things are not haram as far as

the hareem is concerned of the shariah but one must always you know keep it real in life you know because these things the problem today and this is really a modern phenomenon and i guess in some ways this advice that i'm sharing now is maybe for people who are i mean it's for anyone but you know especially people who may be freshly embarking upon a relationship

that you see this day and age recent and it's of re this is a very recent phenomenon that everything life's measure has become based simply on the on relationships that is how a person becomes how they identify themselves how what their worth is almost in life is now it hinges on relationships and what i would seriously say to people is that look don't fall

victim to this kind of a this kind of a spiraling rabbit hole that don't even when look these things are all good you know there's nothing wrong with relationships of course these things are good they're great in their own right but a person should always maintain their own sense of identity their individual sense of purpose don't let these things um

you know beguile you to the sense that you lose that because you know ultimately you are always you you are not i know there's this thing of becoming a joint identity but a person is always themselves and and this is why i think and i say this because in this day and age sometimes relationships are very short-lived compared to generations ago because people today you know it's all about that being in that elated sense elated

sense of um love and and and that is an emotion and emotions by their very nature subside so you know when a person finds if they find themselves at a low or if they find themselves out of a relationship they should not be in such a way that their life becomes unbearable you understand so this is why i'm saying that these things are good they they're great but always maintain a sense of self purpose you know be you are an individual keep your own goals keep

your own journey developing as well that's um you know i i that that that's some words that i feel because you know you see how devastated people become and also don't buy into the general hype of because a lot of people on things like you know these valentine's day and this kind of stuff what it does is it also depresses a lot of people because you see we are social creatures we measure our selves by in relation

to others around us so i see how am i doing in life it's based on how other people are doing so and and and you could see that in in items like having a mobile phone you know you would you could love your phone but if a new version came out it's only when other people start purchasing that version so they start going around with a different version now that you will feel lacking you will feel a sense of damn you know like i've lost out

because we see ourselves in relation to others that al-insan madani um that you know we are social creatures so these kind of events depress a lot of people as well so it is a shame and really in all honesty it is just a commercial [Laughter] exploitation package really aimed at women and that's the the truth of it men in all honesty couldn't care less [Laughter] i mean it's true you know i was hearing somewhere you never see a man get excited about these things

oh it's valentine's no way it's it's all really just aimed at women and about consumerism and what the money that they can spend and i'm not saying that the thing in and of itself is forbidden or haram it's not and i'm not even saying it's a bad thing it doesn't have to be it could just be a fine little thing but not to get obsessed over these they don't really mean that much in life okay so cool somebody said muslims uh there's not many in the uk i don't know what that