February 14, A Day For Lovers Known As Valentine’s Day
(Hafiz Muhammad Noman, Karachi)
The February 14th has reached
once again and the lovers are ready to enthusiastically celebrate the day which
is known as “Valentine’s Day”. This day is very controversial not only for the
Muslims but also for the Hindus and other followers of various religions.
People usually consider that the Muslims are conservative and do not accept
these types of occasions but these types of occasions are not only prohibited in
Islam but also they are prohibited in other religions as Hinduism, Buddhism and
others.
If we talk about India which is a very liberal country and sex education is
started to give to the students there from school level, many Hindus or it can
be said that many extremists extremely forbid Valentine’s Day there and declare
the day against their traditions or customs. Even, the extremists have created
various groups in India to cope with this occasion and the groups are in search
of couples on Valentine’s Day. When they find couples in red dresses and
celebrating the day, the groups start to beat them with sticks harshly and
surely they do correct in order to save their society from increasing evil
deeds.
Similarly, when we talk about Pakistan, the Muslims surely detest Valentine’s
Day and they want to save the Muslim adults who easily are affected by evil
deeds and adopt these types of occasions. It cannot be ignored that the media
has performed a big role to spread or prevail these types of occasions in any
society. Today, various advertisements and dramas are being aired which have
been made especially for Valentine’s Day. When someone rises or raises his voice
against the day, the media immediately shows that restraining someone from
celebrating the Valentine’s Day is the violation of human’s rights!
On the other hand, if we talk about Valentine’s Day, very few people know about
the reality of the day and surely most of the people just celebrate the day
either for self-enjoyment with girls or they think that the day is special for
lovers. A question arises here will the foreigners teach us loving people
whereas they themselves are not aware of the real love! They feel proud to sleep
with their dogs but they bring their mothers to Old Houses and leave there for
spending their lives without their children! Is this love? The parents who teach
their children to walk by holding their fingers are badly sent to old houses
why?
Anyway, the Muslims have started to celebrate “Haya Day” or “Modesty Day” and
all the Muslims and followers of other religions should adopt this day and
spread it in the whole world to cope with increasing evil deeds or immodesty in
the world. This can be used as weapon against those who like to spread immodesty
and demoralize the adults.