Valentine's Day

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kebanyakannya dah tahu dah valentine's day tu ape,hari kekasih@hari memperingati kekasih dalam bahasa ibunda kita.DAN kebnyakannya pn dah tahu orang2 Islam tak sambut hari kekasih ni malahan tak dibenarkan menyambut hari belentain ni kerna bercanggah dgn ajaran Islam.yang bukan Islam diorg nak sambut biorkan la.

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Valentine's Day started in the time of the Roman Empire. In ancient Rome, February 14th was a holiday to honour Juno. Juno was the Queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses. The Romans also knew her as the Goddess of women and marriage. The following day, February 15th, began the Feast of Lupercalia(upacara membuang unsur2 jahat dlm sesuatu kwsn dgn mengorbankan kambing)

The lives of young boys and girls were strictly separate. However, one of the customs of the young people was name drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on slips of paper and placed into jars. Each young man would draw a girl's name from the jar and would then be partners for the duration of the festival with the girl whom he chose. Sometimes the pairing of the children lasted an entire year, and often, they would fall in love and would later marry.

Under the rule of Emperor Claudius II Rome was involved in many bloody and unpopular campaigns. Claudius the Cruel was having a difficult time getting soldiers to join his military leagues. 'He believed that the reason was that roman men did not want to leave their loves or families'. As a result, Claudius cancelled all marriages and engagements in Rome. The good Saint Valentine was a priest at Rome in the days of Claudius II. He and Saint Marius aided the Christian martyrs and secretly married couples, and for this kind deed Saint Valentine was apprehended and dragged before the Prefect of Rome, who condemned him to be beaten to death with clubs and to have his head cut off. He suffered martyrdom on the 14th day of February, about the year 270. At that time it was the custom in Rome, a very ancient custom, indeed, to celebrate in the month of February the Lupercalia, feasts in honour of a heathen god. On these occasions, amidst a variety of pagan ceremonies, the names of young women were placed in a box, from which they were drawn by the men as chance directed.

The pastors of the early Christian Church in Rome endeavoured to do away with the pagan element in these feasts by substituting the names of saints for those of maidens. And as the Lupercalia began about the middle of February, the pastors appear to have chosen Saint Valentine's Day for the celebration of this new feaSt. So it seems that the custom of young men choosing maidens for valentines, or saints as patrons for the coming year, arose in this way.

Jadinya sambutan belentain dei ni ada kesinambungan dgn Feast of Lupercalia yg disambut pd mlm belentain dey,so masih nak sambut belentain dey ni ker?tak payahla.Dalam kuthbah Jumaat arini pun dah gi tahu

"Secara kebetulan, tarikh Maulidur Rasul tahun ini jatuh beriringan dengan Hari Valentine yang diraikan oleh orang Barat pada 14 Febuari setiap tahun. Namun, umat Islam wajib menghindari diri masing-masing daripada terlibat secara langsung ataupun tidak langsung dengan perayaan Hari Valentine kerana perayaan itu membawa unsur yang merosakkan akidah dan akhlak umat Islam, khususnya golongan muda. Tambahan pula Rasulullah SAW melarang kita daripada meniru amalan bukan dari ajaran Islam sebagaimana sabda baginda yang bermaksud: "Siapa menyerupai sesuatu kaum, maka dia sebahagian daripada mereka." (HR. Abu Daud, Ahmad dan lain-lain).

Oleh hal yang demikian, lupakan dan sisihkan sama sekali Hari Valentine dari laman hati, ingatan dan fikiran supaya tidak menjadi sebahagian daripada mereka yang sesat dan rugi. Sebaliknya, suburi dan teguhkan kecintaan kepada Nabi Muhammad SAW dengan cara mematuhi segala ajaran al-Quran dan sunnahnya. Syukurilah dan kenangilah segala pengorbanan serta perjuangan baginda menyibar risalah Islam dengan memperbanyakkan selawat ke atas Rasulullah SAW sebagaimana dianjurkan oleh Allah SWT "

Dari sambut belentain dey lebih bagus kita sambut Maulidur Rasul,tak dapat join berarak pun takpe cukupla dgn bykkan berselawat ke atas Rasulullah dan membaca Al-Quran.ye dak?

Sumber : dari pakcik google