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Yes, you can get good info from ibnul qayim.

Get knowledge and be the queen of the world.

Forgive & Forget.

"there are provisions governing the application of 'intention' principle. "

VERY right! I’m all with it. That’s why I said I do not celebrate that commercial festival :-)

I promise I will expand my knowledge on intention :-) I guess Ibn AlQaim is the best to read for (regarding heart issues (intentons..etc) )

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I'd rather keep quiet and not classify somebody. The groups you mentioned have qualifications. What are the qualifications of a stupid person?

I think we need to revise the language we use in dialogue. I find it difficult to insult somebody. It negates my inteligent. insults close my mind. Imagine the insult of 'terror' used against freedom fighters, does it help? Is it enough? It has lost its meaning. People enjoy to be told that they are terrorists nowadays.

Nobody is stupid just because he doesn't understand you.

Nobody is stupid just because he differs with you.

Forgive & Forget.

I admire you very much. You've the potential to learn, you're still learning. I respect your opinion posted in this regard, but i invite you to expand your knowledge on intention.

You know that its a big principle in Islam and it happens to be so in our day to day life. They call it logic nowadays. Quran explicitly says eveything has a logic, it may be known to others and not to others. However there are provisions governing the application of 'intention' principle.

Forgive & Forget.

If anyone who does not agree to your viewpoint is stupid or dumb.

Most will com into that category isnt it?

"The easiest thing to find is fault."

People are so strange, insults, accusations, pretence,know it all.

Wake up guys.

Use positive language.

Do not insult anybody, just because you differ with him.

Forgive & Forget.

i totally agree that the hollier than thou attitude sucks...

thats why in my previous post, i spoke to u about not NECCESSAILLY HAVING TO ATTACK BACK IN RITALIATION EVERYTIME U FEEL ATTACKED :)

I reitterate, One stupid cleric made a ridiclous statment, and 55 posts later, almost every non muslim is still hung up on what ever nonesense he said!!

i TOLD U ALREADY MAN, MOST MUSLIMS DONT GIVE A RAT"S ASS...

AND MOST MUSLIMS DO NOTTTTTTTTT THINK IT IS REDICLIOUS TO CELEBRATE LOVE....

:)

IF you really arent looking for ways to be freaked out about islam and muslims , u would be able 2 let this go already and see the humor in that INDVIDUALLY MADE COMMENT WHICH EVERYONE DESCRIBED AS STUPID!!!

I wonder if that is enough for u to be convinced!lol

u wanna see something funny?

Go to my website, look in my blog for a video about western culture concerning islam and arabs;)

Later dude

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Please learn to avoid things unneccerily affecting you. Do what you think is best for you, your family and friends. Try to be good to everybody. There are so many other issues in life, why to waste weeks for one day ?

all i will say is people do not get swayed so easily by one article or one sermon..

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its going to be fun time in a few days in india with valentines. all the jobless people are going to get onto the streets and start breaking shops and god knows what else.

i think they have already come out with a warning yesterday.

god, i hope this will be a peaceful valentine in india this time.

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Let the valentine's day limited to Love for public discussions, Keep the "making" away from Love for this forum :)

Just kidding!! But if you're not married, marry ASAP and if you're married the don't make your childrens to force you for their marriage :)

Market will assimilate us all. It is more powerful than Jedi force. Resistance is futile.

Here is the difference, when a Hindu lunatic says something like that nobody listens other than his pets (could be people). Hardly anybody pays any attention to self proclaimed defenders of the culture. Valentine's day is a relatively new festivel in India and most of the young people are really all ga ga over it. Anything involving food, gift and party count the Hindus in.

Its just a commercial thing propogated by greetings card companies, restaurants and other interested parties. Just look at all the rubbishy hearts and other nonsense on sale at The Mall. Great excuse for restaurants to hike prices. Its not about love or religion either. its just about money.

Even in India, There are a lot of Hindu organisations that are opposed to this festival.

"The easiest thing to find is fault."

Some need a day to promote a day for love to show true love. Thats all thats needed for a year?

"The easiest thing to find is fault."

No - I am certainly not looking for such articles. In my job there are a lot of Qataris and it was a Qatari who first pointed it out to me. The person was confused and wanted my opinon about Valentine's Day.

I am not using one man's opinion to judge others and hussamf 'I am not LOOKING FOR WAYS TO GET FREAKED OUT ABOUT ISLAM AND MUSLIMS'

What I don't like is he is using his opinion in a position of power to influence other people's thinking and spread lies around..

It saddens me that Friday mosque was used to slander like this.

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I have never said that people from other parts of the world are not visiting certain places. It is the 'holier than thou' attitude and absolute hypocresy I was talking about. "Let's not celebrate Valentines day because it promotes" love - can someone please explain what is wrong with promoting love on any day in any form?

If you do not love your partner, do not give her equal status in your relationship you may be feared, but never be loved and you will never know true happyness.

Do not confuse fear and obedience with love and respect.

I love reading posts like aldrr's.

It makes me even more amazed that anyone is religious. I mean just aside from it being complete and utter nonesense it also looks pretty boring.

No this no that. Don't do that don't do this. Dull dull dull. Why do you lot bother?

The fact that 1 wacko scholar ( if u can even call him a scholar ) said something stupid, doesnt have 2 indicate that this is a wide spread phenomenon everywhere....

The fact that gulf times published the story, thats their job!!!

its odd news, it got u people talking...that means it was good journalism:)

As a religion, Islam has no reservations on married couples spending a romantic evening/night any time of the year, V day included...

the only issue is ( if u even want to consider that an issue), that islam has stipulated only 2 " FEASTS" every year...

very extereme scholars use this a pretext to try and ban all other forms of celebrations including birthdays....

Its mostly a futile excercise on their part, and the vast majority of Muslims with any kind of education dont even bother listening to such views...

islam not only promotes love between married couples, it actually promotes " Love making "

According to Islam, having sex with ur husband/wife, and satisfying them sexually is a good deed, one that brings upon u God;s content and Grace...

Even more, Islam encourages married couples to be very adventerous in their sexual relationships and do EVERYTHING THAT EXCITES THEM...

The only sexual activity prohibited by islam, is anal sex...( for it can never bear fruit "children" and also the obvious health hazards associated with it)...and also having sex during the woman;s period ..

Other than that, its up 2 ur imagination:) hehe

I dont know who the heck this " know it all guy " is , and i can tell u right off the bat that i think his views are dull, boring, outdated, and entirely ubreadable( to put it politely)...

However let me note the following....

He has posted that MOST extreme openion of all, and he is the ONLY ONE u ALL quoted from, testimony to the fact that u r LOOKING FOR WAYS TO GET FREAKED OUT ABOUT ISLAM AND MUSLIMS, rather than really trying to understand and digest it, which i find very sad...

i understand u felt attacked when V day was talked about as a way to encourage adultary, but i hope u agree with me that not everytime u feel attacked u must respond by attacking back...especially when the person attacking u is clearly " way over the top" if u get my drift..

Men from all walks of life ( surely including the arab world) , go to some places in the world to have lots of sex...

I bellieve the highest number of teen sex toursists in asia last year was british...

It doesnt prove anything except that some Men from all cultures of the world , whether british or arab, are plain disgusting...

No one with half a fair mind can attribute that to niether christiaity or islam ( or juadism for that matter)....

In conlcusion, Do have a gr8 V day :)

Celebrate love, Make love, Nock urself out...

No one is going 2 come after u for taking a grl out for dinner...

Stop obseesing about the news and the views of extermists people...

At best, this article should have been a matter of laughter, rather than a full fedged war of openions ...

THE MAN IS JUST RIDICLOUS:)

Have a great day

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its not just people from this part of the world but people from all parts of the world are visiting bangkok and philipines.....yah right...for the beauty of the land....we know about the beauty.

lets not start generalising here and limit certain vices only to this place.lets not base an opinion for the masses based on certains inviduals' passions and fantasies.

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u hit the nail in the head :-)

I did not read the 'know it all' guy's whole reply because it is just too long, but did read the point form items. "Don't celebrate valentine's day because it promotes love" - let's just promote more hate and kill some more people.

Don't even start talking about promoting adultary - people from this part the world(man traveling without their families)are visiting Bangkok and Philipines for the beauty of the land. Sure, we believe that.

I do belive that Valentine's day is a celebration created by some marketing genius to sell goodies. But everything that sold are creating jobs somewhere so what's wrong with it? If you do not want don't celebrate it but please don't tell others what to celebrate or not.

please read my opinion in this....

http://www.qatarliving.com/discussion/christain-saint-celebrated-by-muslims-08feb2007

i second that both sides should know excactley what to say before spit it out

there are always two sides to the coin, so there will be good and there will be bad. the problem is we just enjoy discussing the bad.

sfd24, what you said also makes a good point that this means nothing to the poor. but unlike islam most other religions have many festivals that are symbolic to their cultures and traditions as well as religion, so they are all welcome to enjoy those festivals.we have to understand that and be tolerant about it as a matter of respect.....not for that person's religion but for that person's beliefs that arise out of his religious faith.then we are respecting him.

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oryx.......pls go ahead and try speaking to him.it might solve a lot of issues and give you some peace of mind.

what i dont understand is why are you all getting bothered by this article, you think people are stupid that they dont know what is right and what is wrong? or are you delberately looking for such articles so you can complain that muslims disrespected you and start a discussion on that.

pls, every muslim does not think this way.dont use one mans point of view as the mass opinion.i know there are many muslims who want to celebrate this day because it has become a symbol of love and freindship. why cant we just leave it at that?

kiara bring your fairies out.....

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Muslims don't like if they feel inaccurate comments are made about Islam... fair enough.

But this works both ways... Saying that Westerners use Valentine's day for promiscuity and adultery is very insulting and not conducive to respecting other cultures and harmonious living.

I laughed at the ignorance of it but I don't like false propaganda being spouted out especially by someone with influence.

It is twisted to put this spin on it. For me Valentines day is a day for me to reflect on all the loved ones in my life, friends and family.

I would really like to talk to this Iman - who speaks on behalf of my culture!

What an intersting issue

Celebrate or notto celebrate this is th question??!!

if you do then you are a warm cool person, full of love and very civilized,

if you don't then you are a blind, scholars follower, close minded, not civlized, still live in the anicent ages, against demodracy, and the new world capetalization, extremeist, terrorist, .....and the whole stupid line of curses :(

still,,,,,, i don;t celebrate :)

My father used to get islamic education from an Indian scholar who studied from Dar-ul-islam about everything.

He said once:

"There are two things, Knowledge & Information. Who has information will always have conflicts with others and taunt people when they do things what he can't understand because he just had a limited information. Who has knowledge will never fight with anyone because he would know what the other person doing is written somewhere or valid in a way"

These days we are laking Knowledgable scholars in our religions.

There are so many things that use to happen in Muslims these days which are against Allah's teachings. Do you think Allah has granted us to have a non-mahram driver taking our wives where they wanna go? How shamefull it was to hear about when I was in Abu-Dhabi with a driver and he told that an arabic guy with a long beard sit in my lemo and said take me to a prostitute. He felt really ashamed and said to him "Do I look like a Dalaal? (A person who takes money and provide prostitues). I'm sorry it hurts but It's the dark side of the picture.

I agree with Aisha, it all depends on the intentions.

May Allah forgive us and help give patience to bare things and spread islam with love Aameen!

Two Festivals in a year, I think too much festival mean wastage of money and wastage of time. We have money so affording Valentine.. Any one thinking about poor people at those moments. We can improve the life of some person by reducing (not cutting) our non-essential festivals.

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Christians don't like it when Muslims are critical about our business, why are the Christians or other non-Muslims concerned about this in any way?

Anyway the article was directed towards Muslims not for any other religions. SO whats the problem with the others anyway.

They never asked non-muslims not to celebrate it.

"The easiest thing to find is fault."

since you guys dont like it .. i`ll take the candy and gifts :))

it`ll come in handy for me :D

Even worst! you people should relax, for sure you donated at least a pint.

I remember, my bestfriend needs an operation, the hospital ask her if she has anyone who can donate blood for her. I decided to donate for her but when we were at the hospital they said they can't get any blood from me as I am actually low blood! what happen? My hubby ended up giving his blood instead. can't say no because she's my bestfriend.

Ivanhoe, wish to bring back the fairy! and that would be only this time she's too big. but I can't resist the dancing girl!

Just keep dancing, it will do you good!

kiara, we finished with the blood donation, we gonna meet little kids tomorrow. now you have the fairy and the dancing girl.oh lord, whose coming next :-)

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Remember! you people are about to donate blood, if you don't calm down, and you're high blood! I don't think it can happen.

Sorry can't donate blood Stealth drained my blood!

why are you making such a big deal about one article by a muslim scholar who spoke his strict point of view? you are simply calling for an unnecessary discussion where its going to be a clash between religion and culture and then more generalisations.

why are you generalising gulftimes as being irresponsible for putting that article?

if you want to enjoy valentines, go ahead and do it, no one will stop you.you dont need the whole world to know you are celebrating it, do you?

quote "In a Country in which there are not too many things that Westerner's are permitted to do compared to the neighbouring Gulf countries such as Abu Dhabi or Dubai, lay off them and let them enjoy the day with there spouse."

what are you trying to say, that just because you are here, so rules should change to allow you to enjoy the festival. knowing how this country is, you have made the decision to be here, so i shall repeat again, no one has stopped you in any way from enjoying this day, so please go ahead and enjoy.

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Sorry I wished you harm, but you are much easier on the eye than all that text.

I send Valentines to my wife and my wife alone. If I wanted to promote promiscuity I'd use alcohol, not a well intentioned card/gift. Not all non Muslims are cheating ratbags. Majority are faithful to their chosen partners.

And again, at the end of the day if that is how they want to live their lives, let them be (happy???).

I didn’t read it it’s long (I’m in a hurry!)

If you asked me I’d say that the intention is what matters. If I was married I’d be happy to receive a gift but it doesn’t have to be in a Valentine day you know. It’s not a part of our culture but I do enjoy watching you guys celebrating its interesting :-D

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i love surprises and gifts .. thas all :) anything that makes my gurl happy .. m up for it ..and yeah i want gifts toooo :))))

friede freude eierkuchen

make love not war :)

Just treat your wife like a second class citizen, apparently divorce rates are up in UAE perhaps the women are catching on to the fact that they really do have more options now in life than having babies and looking after their husbands.

Again relating everything to religion!!

Promoting love. DEAR GOD NO! SAVE US ALL!

Valentines Day is a way for candy companies to sell little candy hearts with words on them. I'm sorry but I don't even see it as a Religous holiday.

Ruling on celebrating Valentine’s Day

Question:

What is the ruling on Valentine’s Day?.

Answer:

Praise be to Allaah.

Firstly:

Valentine’s Day is a jaahili Roman festival, which continued to be celebrated until after the Romans became Christian. This festival became connected with the saint known as Valentine who was sentenced to death on 14 February 270 CE. The kuffaar still celebrate this festival, during which immorality and evil are practised widely. For more details on this celebration, please see: Valentines_eng.html"> Celebrating Valentine’s Day Valentines_eng.html">.

Secondly:

It is not permissible for a Muslim to celebrate any of the festivals of the kuffaar, because festivals come under the heading of shar’i issues which are to be based on the sound texts.

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: Festivals are part of sharee’ah, clear way and rituals of which Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“To each among you, We have prescribed a law and a clear way”

[al-Maa’idah 5:48]

“For every nation We have ordained religious ceremonies which they must follow”

[al-Hajj 22:67]

-- such as the qiblah (direction faced in prayer), prayer and fasting. There is no difference between their participating in the festival and their participating in all other rituals. Joining in fully with the festival is joining in with kufr, and joining in with some of its minor issues is joining in with some of the branches of kufr. Indeed, festivals are one of the most unique features that distinguish various religions and among their most prominent symbols, so joining in with them is joining in with the most characteristic and prominent symbols of kufr. No doubt joining in with this may lead to complete kufr.

Partially joining in, at the very least, is disobedience and sin. This was indicated by the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) when he said: “Every people has its festival and this is our festival.” This is worse than joining them in wearing the zinaar (a garment that was worn only by ahl al-dhimmah) and other characteristics of theirs, for those characteristics are man-made and are not part of their religion, rather the purpose behind them is simply to distinguish between a Muslim and a kaafir. As for the festival and its rituals, this is part of the religion which is cursed along with its followers, so joining in with it is joining in with something that is a cause of incurring the wrath and punishment of Allaah. End quote from Iqtida’ al-Siraat al-Mustaqeem (1/207).

He also said (may Allaah have mercy on him): It is not permissible for the Muslims to imitate them in anything that is uniquely a part of their festivals, whether it be food, clothing, bathing, lighting fires, refraining from a regular habit, doing acts of worship or anything else. It is not permissible to give a feast or to give gifts, or to sell anything that will help them to do that for that purpose, or to allow children and others to play games that are part of the festivals, or to wear one’s adornments.

To conclude: the Mulsims should not do any of their rituals at the time of their festivals; rather the day of their festival should be like any other day for the Muslims. The Muslims should not do anything specific in imitation of them. End quote from Majmoo al-Fataawa (25/329).

Al-Haafiz al-Dhahabi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: If the Christians have a festival, and the Jews have a festival, it is only for them, so no Muslim should join them in that, just as no Muslim should join them in their religion or their direction of prayer. End quote from Tashabbuh al-Khasees bi Ahl al-Khamees, published in Majallat al-Hikmah (4/193)

The hadeeth to which Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah referred was narrated by al-Bukhaari (952) and Muslim (892) from ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her) who said: Abu Bakr came in and there were two young girls of the Ansaar with me who were singing about what had happened to the Ansaar on the day of Bu’aath. She said: And they were not (professional) singing girls. Abu Bakr said: “Musical instruments of the shaytaan in the house of the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)?!” and that was on the day of Eid. The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “O Abu Bakr, every people has a festival and this is our festival.”

Abu Dawood (1134) narrated that Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: When the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) came to Madeenah, they had two days when they would play. He said: “What are these two days?” They said: “We used to play on these days during the Jaahiliyyah.” The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah has given you instead of them two days that are better than them: the day of al-Adha and the day of al-Fitr.” This hadeeth was classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood.

This indicates that festivals are among the characteristics by which nations are distinguished, and it is not permissible to celebrate the festivals of the ignorant and the mushrikeen (polytheists).

The scholars have issued fatwas stating that it is haraam to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

1 –Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on him) was asked:

In recent times the celebration of Valentine’s Day has become widespread, especially among female students. It is a Christian festival where people dress completely in red, including clothes and shoes, and they exchange red flowers. We hope that you can explain the ruling on celebrating this festival, and what your advice is to Muslims with regard to such matters; may Allaah bless you and take care of you.

He replied:

Celebrating Valentine’s Day is not permissible for a number of reasons.

1- It is an innovated festival for which there is no basis in Islam.

2- It promotes love and infatuation.

3- It calls for hearts to be preoccupied with foolish matters that are contrary to the way of the righteous salaf (may Allaah be pleased with them).

It is not permissible on this day to do any of the things that are characteristic of this festival, whether that has to do with food, drinks, clothing, exchanging gifts or anything else.

The Muslim should be proud of his religion and should not be a weak character who follows every Tom, Dick and Harry. I ask Allaah to protect the Muslims from all temptations, visible and invisible, and to protect us and guide us.

End quote from Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (16/199)

2 – The Standing Committee was asked: Some people celebrate Valentine’s Day on the fourteenth of February every year. They exchange gifts of red roses and wear red clothes and congratulate one another. Some bakeries make red coloured sweets and draw hearts on them, and some stores advertise products that are especially for this day. What is your opinion on the following:

1- Celebrating this day

2- Buying things from the stores on this day

3- Storekeepers who are not celebrating it selling things that may be given as gifts to people who are celebrating it?

They replied:

The clear evidence of the Qur’aan and Sunnah – and the consensus of the early generations of this ummah – indicates that there are only two festivals in Islam: Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. Any other festivals that have to do with a person, a group, an event or anything else are innovated festivals, which it is not permissible for Muslims to observe, approve of or express joy on those occasions, or to help others to celebrate them in any way, because that is transgressing the sacred limits of Allaah, and whoever transgresses the sacred limits of Allaah has wronged himself. If the fabricated festival is also a festival of the kuffaar, then the sin is even greater, because this is imitating them and it is a kind of taking them as close friends, and Allaah has forbidden the believers to imitate them and take them as close friends in His Holy Book. And it is proven that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.” Valentine’s Day comes under this heading because it is an idolatrous Christian festival, so it is not permissible for a Muslim who believes in Allaah and the Last Day to observe it or approve of it or congratulate people on it. Rather he has to ignore it and avoid it, in obedience to Allaah and His Messenger, and so as to keep away from the causes that incur the wrath and punishment of Allaah. It is also haraam for the Muslim to help people to celebrate this or any other haraam festival by supplying any kind of food or drink, or buying or selling or manufacturing or giving or advertising etc., because all of that is cooperating in sin and transgression and is disobedience towards Allaah and His Messenger (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“Help you one another in Al‑Birr and At‑Taqwa (virtue, righteousness and piety); but do not help one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allaah. Verily, Allaah is Severe in punishment”

[al-Maa’idah 5:2]

The Muslim must adhere to the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah in all his affairs, especially at times of fitnah when evil is widespread. He should be smart and avoid falling into the misguidance of those who have earned Allaah’s anger and who have gone astray, and the evildoers who have no fear of Allaah and who do not have any pride in being Muslims. The Muslim must turn to Allaah and seek His guidance and remain steadfast in following it, for there is no Guide except Allaah and no one can make a person steadfast but Him. And Allaah is the source of strength. May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and his family and companions. End quote.

3 – Shaykh Ibn Jibreen (may Allaah preserve him) was asked:

Among our young men and women it has become common to celebrate Valentine’s Day, which is named after a saint who is venerated by the Christians, who celebrate it every year on February 14, when they exchange gifts and red roses, and they wear red clothes. What is the ruling on celebrating this day and exchanging gifts?

He replied:

Firstly: it is not permissible to celebrate these innovated festivals, because it is an innovation for which there is no basis in Islam. It comes under the heading of the hadeeth of ‘Aa’ishah (may Allaah be pleased with her), according to which the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever introduces anything into this matter of ours that is not part of it will have it rejected.”

Secondly: it involves imitating the kuffaar and copying them by venerating that which they venerate and respecting their festivals and rituals, and imitating them in something that is part of their religion. In the hadeeth it says: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.”

Thirdly: it results in evils and haraam things such as wasting time, singing, music, extravagance, unveiling, wanton display, men mixing with women, women appearing before men other than their mahrams, and other haraam things, or things that are a means that leads to immorality. That cannot be excused by the claim that this is a kind of entertainment and fun. The one who is sincere towards himself should keep away from sin and the means that lead to it.

And he said:

Based on this, it is not permissible to sell these gifts and roses, if it is known that the purchaser celebrates these festivals or will give these things as gifts on those days, so that the seller will not be a partner of the one who does those innovations. And Allaah knows best. End quote.

And Allaah knows best.

Islam Q&A

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