what is also interesting for us to
remember is that after January in
February that somewhere around the
middle of
February there was a there was a
celebration that was known in by the
ancient Romans as the Loper
Calia and the Looper Calia was a a
ceremony and Loper means
wolf and they depicted a wolf chasing a
little girl
and so they had a ceremony I'm not
making this up by the way right if you
want to you can look this up if you
don't believe me go to the encyclopedia
right after we're
finished a children's encyclopedia look
up Valentine's Day Easter Christmas and
Halloween and you'll find everything I'm
talking about okay you want to go deeper
into it go on the
internet okay and look up the Pagan
roots of all of these holidays and so
the Lup the Lup Calia was the
celebration of the
wolf and the authorities there would
gather together young people and they
would put their names into a box men and
women and they would take out the names
and whoever was your partner whoever you
you pick whatever name you pick was your
partner for the day and all types of
sexual activity went on during that day
they were totally out of control that is
the lalia that's what it really means
okay
now around February
14th around 270 ad of the Christian
era a bishop by the name of
Valentine he was trying to work with the
Roman soldiers because the Roman Emperor
um had imposed upon his
soldiers that anybody who joined the
army could not get married because if
you got married you're thinking about
your wife all the time and you're a
useless Soldier but the soldiers wanted
to get married so St Valentine worked
with them and he was captured by the the
Roman Emperor he was imprisoned and he
was
beheaded and so a legend formed around
St Valentine's Day in one case it said
he even helped a blind young girl he was
trying to help her get married and so
she wrote a note and it was found in his
jail cell to my
Valentine and so from that date somebody
making that compromise brought together
the two
streams and so now you have Valentine's
Day
so on that occasion and it's in the
school system if if if if Muslims are
sending their children to school you got
a problem on Valentine's Day because
they make them do Valentine's cods in
some cases it becomes mandatory in some
classes now they even have in Canada I
don't know about here you can buy a
Valentine's Day card somebody will come
and sing or somebody will bring food and
you know they make it very lavish and so
what happens is young people are forced
together on that occasion and for those
who are part of the monotheistic
tradition who understand that that the
relationship between men and women
should be done in a sacred way within
marriage and not in a loose way before
marriage and we see what is happening in
the society itself we see what has
happened to the standards even in in the
white house so we understand what is
going on in the
society that's because people have lost
their limits the H the limits have been
broken up and so those who are
maintaining the limits in the
monotheistic religions and in those
people of
Consciousness recognize that St
Valentine's Day is really part of a
pagan holiday where people are carrying
out the so-called wishes of Venus or
Aphrodite their little son called Cupid
and he shoots you with an arrow you know
that story he shoot you with an arrow
and you fall hopelessly in love and some
Muslims say I want to get married I'm in
love you're in love what is love man
there
is in there is suitability yes there
should be an attraction between husband
and wife but the pr peace be upon Him
spoke about the the the the beauty about
wealth about genealogy right n and about
Dean and he said marry people for their
religion for their Dean their tawa that
is the basis of the
marriage and so St Valentine's Day is
another time that we have to take a step
and we can have we will have a question
and answer period at the end but the
position we are taking is the young
people should have nothing to do with
Valentine's Day you have to step out of
that
completely in
Christmas another problem faces us what
do you
do do you give presents do you take
presents what do you do are you involved
one of one of the one of the greatest
benefits after my belief in Allah in in
accepting Islam was when Christmas
season came and as a Muslim we don't
give any gifts and Christmas even came
we said alhamdulillah at that time we
have another way of of of expressing
ourselves uh during that
season and so Muslims should not be
involved in some cases if the person is
your neighbor or somebody and they give
you a gift the prophet peace be upon Him
accepted gifts so it is possible to
accept to accept a gift as long as
you're not involved in the ritualistic
uh parts of the occasion but if you want
to give a gift give it at another time
during the year so they understand that
we have other things we have our we have
other times let them invite them for
food during the give them something at
that time give s at different points in
time