Valentine's Day: Permissible or Impermissible? -Mufti Abu Layth

Valentine's is it permissible or impermissible will you be my Valentine Valentine Valentine so Valentine's people is it permissible or impermissible is the question right that just looks like I'm wearing some kind of a pink hat right so the question is that it is absolutely listen first of all I'll give you the fat was given by many all of mine I completely concur with this it is permissible it is not Haram and I'll go through the

breakdown in just a moment this is also the fatwa of data lifter Masuria the fatwa board the official form of photo board in Egypt chef ahmed mondo has a whole thing on it online where he's one of the specialists in that down lifter this is also the fatwa of chef ahmed passing al Hamid II who is the from Saudi Arabia not Java dramedy sob but I'm a chef Ahmed Hamid II from Saudi Arabia who is the former head of the hey actual Emeril Marui fernandel mukha you know the religious police the Islamic police he was the head of that it was his footwork and it is available online

it is also the fatwa of the d1 if that the fatwa formal fatwa council of tunis with the grand mufti most the earth man boot a year i think his name is buddhaya i think he pronounces it like that well but i yeah i'm not sure it looks like it's big deer which would be rather offensive I think because isn't big theater watermelon but I'm sure it's not be tears I think it's bata yeah his actual pronunciation is but he's the Grand Mufti of Tunis he's also the same Mufti who issued the fatwa over last

year about men and women sorry sons and daughters being of equal inheritance they are my lackeys and I think they're making some groundbreaking Fatah WA so that that's also his Fatah it's also the fatwa of some other people some people like share views of Carlo we and some Tolima he's kind of that doctor chef asam tolima he's on a lot of YouTube as well but and other people as well but so there are many people who have given the fatwa that it is not Haram it is not definitely not Harmon I still feel a Shiley but I had things by

default are permissible what is the background on Valentine's well nobody's really too sure right many people are not really too sure some people feel that there was a a st. Valentine that was from 278 off ad so we're talking you know in the third century after Jesus that he they feel stood up to the Roman Emperor at the time called Claudius the

second who's called Claudius the cruel Claudius the cruel you know he's gonna be a proper her army if they introduced him like if you turned up to his court and they said well let us introduce Claudius his highness Claudius the cruel you're thinking I've had it I mean who must be judged by Claudius the cruel we're anyway Claudius the cruel they're saying that he in his time needed men to enlist in the army and many of the men

were like I mean people were enlisting but others were like forget that man I'd rather be with the women and enjoy life so what he did is he prohibited he forbade marriage and st. Valentine who was a priest or a local bishop he used to secretly marry people this secret American what are the secret secret secret Annika right so he used to do the secret marriages with people and this this secret was then exposed and st.

Valentine was caught and he was then executed beheaded by Claudius the cruel obviously what else are you gonna expect that would just in his court they probably say well what do you think is gonna happen it is I Claudius the cruel thinking well I doubt him I'm gonna get a like a cake cake and tea it's it's like the worst possible things I might as well start picking them which one in which will death right so now so that's and to commemorate these Christians then chose this day the other thing is that

this date coincided with a pagan festival called Lupercalia now Lupercalia was a pagan festival to celebrate love so they kind of chose this date the 14th of February to for that now that's one version it's not that sahi but it's there other people say god knows what it was but the point is in the last few hundred years it's become a thing and it's definitely now a thing I personally think this is my personal thought I think look religions got nothing to do with it I do think that it is say I

don't like Valentine's because obviously he lonely people alone know I don't like it because I think that this is simply a corporate scam to just rob people of their wealth and and just it's become such a commercialized aspect that everybody's got a you know they gotta buy things they've got to make bookings they've got to do this you know this is this one this one not nice for men you know right so right so the thing is that so because of this whole the stress it

places on society and I'm not just I'm not talking about Muslim society as a whole it really stresses out people that they've got to compete and outdo other people and they've got to kind of make a you know I've got to do this for the Valentine's and then there's people who are lonely lonely lonely so these people are get really stressed and they become depressed because they haven't got anything for Valentine's and I want to help these people you know I'm here to help I'm here to help only the okay we choose out of the genders chorus up you can help that gender I will help

this gender you know to help people this so it places a lot of stress on society people get depressed with these kind of things there's a huge just to extort all this money from people so I don't like I don't support Valentine's per se I don't support it because of all of that that kind of baggage that said I don't feel that it's Haram I don't feel like it's guy anything religions got an issue with it at all but I think it's just more a the kind of shrewd come the brutal consumerism

behind it is what I don't like so that's my thoughts on it but if somebody did want to do something on Valentine's by all means people by all means it is all about you know this is this on you can go you know it's a loving loving loving day you know loving I would say let me quote by the way there are a lot of Fatah was saying it's absolutely Haram and you get that from the seller fees and the do Bundy's and you're gonna get that from loads of people maybe not everybody but most these people really have just out of sync with reality okay

it's not Haram and I've read a photo online by all say mean quoting ignite a mere saying that oh if you celebrate the festival's any festival of the co far he said its and he said it like it's such a common-sense thing like he said it's only inevitable that you'll become a kaffir I was like okay so that's that's not how these people you don't become a car filled by celebrating Valentine's and you're not going to although I disagree

with it from its community consumerism aspect and the depression it causes for lonely people in society but it's not haram islamically okay it is but right now it is seen as the the season of love people the season