I am not forced to admit to you on this day that I have known love. However, this does not coerce me to allocate one day for the rest of my entire life to regret the killing of the patron saint of love (Valentine) and commemorate him. I am not obliged to show love to those who are massacring the concept of true love in my country, killing my dreams and corrupting my youth. I am not obliged to behave like an innocent child, to receive a red heart by the right hand while they treacherously stab me from behind with their left hand. I am not required to commemorate Astarte's rivers of tears for Adonis, while my people's rivers of blood are shed in our streets. Anemone should grow only on the blood of the Ummah (nation), not on tears of illicit love.
History has been crushed under the feet of those who came to my country. I want to tell them: You will never be dearer to me than Huda and ‘Abeer (two young Muslim girls who fell victims to the enemies’ brutal attacks in Gaza and Iraq). Your yellow smile will never deceive me to forget Iman and Mohammed Al-Durra (Palestinian children killed by the Zionists). I will not be able to hide my face and share your joy and forget the sorrows of my Ummah.
I am not coerced to live as a yes-man while they compel me to remember those whom I love one day, for I have many loved ones. If they have Valentine, I have someone much greater than him, Muhammad who taught me to dedicate all my life and days for love. He taught me that when I love someone, I should quickly come to him, not wait until February 14, or any other date, to tell him how I feel. He taught me that a gift (regardless of its value and color) is the messenger of love. Therefore he said: "Exchange gifts and you will love each other." He taught me a way to be more beautiful than Adonis and superior to Venus. Therefore, he said: "Allah is beautiful and He loves beauty."
Muhammad taught me that Allah The Almighty loves me because I live with love. Therefore, He said: "My love is due for those who love each other for My sake, meet together for My sake and visit each other for My sake." He promised me that I will be with him if I love him, for love of the Prophet is more than just words. He said: "One will be resurrected with those whom he loves."
Muhammad directed me to the verse in which Allah The Exalted Says (what means): {Close friends, that Day, will be enemies to each other, except for the righteous.} [Quran 43: 67] He told me that the essence of my love in this world is love for Allah The Almighty and love for His sake. In a Hadeeth (narration), he said: "The one who loves for the sake of Allah, hates for the sake of Allah, gives for the sake of Allah and withholds for the sake of Allah has perfect faith."
Muhammad taught me to choose those whom I love in order not to regret my love, Allah The Exalted Says (what means): {And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way. Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend. He led me away from the remembrance after it had come to me. And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter."} [Quran 25: 27-29]
As for those who love each other for the sake of Allah The Almighty, He will shield them on the Day of Judgment under His shade when there will be no shade but His and include them in His love. On the Day of Judgment, Allah The Almighty will call them, saying: "Where are those who love each other for My Majesty? Today, I will shield them under My shade, as today there is no shade but Mine." He will praise them, saying: "Those who love each other for My sake for them [are] pulpits of light, the prophets and the martyrs will look at them with admiration."
Cursed is this Valentine's Day whose cherishers from the non-Muslims abuse our Prophet with their cartoons and movies. How can I participate in Valentine's Day on the occasion of which the parliament of the Netherlands said to the whole world, "If Muslims want to live here, they have to rip up half the Quran and throw it away?"
May Allah The Almighty expose the true face of those who call to such abominations! If some weak-minded Muslims have been deceived by your false, beguiling and distorted media, there are many others who have seen through the façade of illicit love that you promote.