
Valentine: Hari Raya Mengenang Pendeta
Memasuki bulan Februari, kita menyaksikan banyak media massa, mall-mall, pusat pusat hiburan bersibuk ria berlomba menarik perhatian para remaja dengan menggelar acara-acara pesta perayaan yang tak jarang berlangsung hingga larut malam. Semua pesta tersebut bermuara pada satu hal yaitu Valentine’s Day atau biasanya disebut hari kasih sayang. Pada tanggal 14 Februari itu mereka saling mengucapkan “Selamat hari Valentine”, berkirim kartu, cokelat dan bunga, saling bertukar pasangan, saling curhat, menyatakan sayang atau cinta.
Sejarah, Asal-Usul dan Latar Belakang
Ensiklopedia Katolik menyebutkan tiga versi tentang Valentine, tetapi versi terkenal adalah kisah Pendeta St. Valentine yang hidup di zaman Raja Romawi Claudius II. Pada tanggal 14 Februari 270 M Claudius II menghukum mati St. Valentine karena menentang beberapa perintahnya. Claudius II melihat St. Valentine mengajak manusia kepada agama Nasrani, lalu memerintahkan untuk menangkapnya.
Dalam versi kedua, Claudius II melihat bahwa para bujangan lebih tabah dalam berperang daripada yang telah menikah yang sejak semula menolak untuk pergi berperang, lalu dia mengeluarkan perintah yang melarang pernikahan. St. Valentine menentang perintah ini dan terus mengadakan pernikahan di gereja dengan sembunyi-sembunyi sampai akhirnya diketahui dan dipenjarakan. Di penjara dia berkenalan dengan putri seorang penjaga penjara yang terserang penyakit. Ia mengobatinya hingga sembuh dan jatuh cinta kepadanya. Sebelum dihukum mati, dia mengirim sebuah kartu yang bertuliskan “Dari yang tulus cintanya, Valentine.” Hal itu terjadi setelah anak tersebut memeluk agama Nashrani bersama 46 kerabatnya.
Versi ketiga, ketika agama Nasrani tersebar di Eropa, di salah satu desa terdapat sebuah tradisi Romawi yang menarik perhatian para pendeta. Dalam tradisi itu para pemuda desa selalu berkumpul setiap pertengahan bulan Februari. Mereka menulis nama-nama gadis desa dan meletakkannya di dalam sebuah kotak, lalu setiap pemuda mengambil salah satu nama dari kotak itu dan gadis yang namanya keluar akan menjadi kekasihnya sepanjang tahun. Ia juga mengirimkan sebuah kartu yang bertuliskan “Dengan nama tuhan Ibu, saya kirimkan kepadamu kartu ini.” Akibat sulitnya menghilangkan tradisi ini, para pendeta memutuskan mengganti tulisannya menjadi “Dengan nama Pendeta Valentine” sehingga dapat mengikat para pemuda tersebut dengan agama Nasrani.
Saudaraku, itulah sejarah Valentine’s Day yang sebenarnya (berdasarkan data yang ada -ed), yang seluruhnya tidak lain bersumber dari paganisme orang musyrik, penyembahan berhala dan penghormatan pada pastor. Bahkan tak ada kaitannya dengan “kasih sayang”, lalu kenapa kita masih juga menyambut Hari Valentine? Adakah ia merupakan hari yang istimewa? Adat, atau hanya ikut-ikutan semata? Bila demikian, sangat disayangkan banyak remaja Islam yang terkena penyakit mengekor budaya Barat dan acara ritual agama lain. Bahkan saat ini beredar kartu-kartu perayaan keagamaan ini dengan gambar anak kecil dengan dua sayap terbang mengitari gambar hati sambil mengarahkan anak panah ke arah hati yang sebenarnya itu merupakan lambang tuhan cinta bagi orang-orang Romawi! Padahal Alloh berfirman, “Dan janganlah kamu mengikuti apa yang kamu tidak mengetahui tentangnya. Sesungguhnya pendengaran, penglihatan dan hati, semuanya akan diminta pertangggungjawabnya.” (QS. Al Isro’: 36)
Bolehkah Memperingati Hari Valentine?
Bila dalam merayakannya bermaksud untuk mengenang kembali Valentine maka tidak disangsikan lagi bahwa ia telah melakukan perbuatan kekafiran. Adapun bila ia tidak bermaksud demikian maka ia telah melakukan suatu kemungkaran yang besar. Ibnu Qoyyim Al Jauziyah rohimahulloh berkata, “Memberi selamat atas acara ritual orang kafir yang khusus bagi mereka, telah disepakati bahwa perbuatan tersebut haram. Semisal memberi selamat atas hari raya dan puasa mereka, dengan mengucapkan, “Selamat hari raya!” dan sejenisnya. Bagi yang mengucapkannya, kalaupun tidak sampai pada kekafiran, paling tidak itu merupakan perbuatan haram. Berarti ia telah memberi selamat atas perbuatan mereka yang menyekutukan Allah. Bahkan perbuatan tersebut lebih besar dosanya di sisi Allah dan lebih dimurkai dari pada memberi selamat atas perbuatan minum khamer atau membunuh. Banyak orang yang kurang mengerti agama terjerumus dalam suatu perbuatan tanpa menyadari buruknya perbuatan tersebut. Seperti orang yang memberi selamat kepada orang lain atas perbuatan maksiat, bid’ah atau kekufuran maka ia telah menyiapkan diri untuk mendapatkan kemarahan dan kemurkaan Alloh.” Allohu a’lam bish showab.
VALENTINE DAY HISTORY
Indeed, there has been no final agreement among historians
about what is actually happening, which then as celebration
Valentine day. In the book 'Valentine Day, Christmas, Happy New Year, April
MOP, Hallowen: So What? "(Ridyasmara Rizki, Pusaka Alkautsar, 2005),
Valentine Day history peeled in detail. This is a copy:
There are many versions about the origin of Valentine's Day celebration this. A
the most popular story of St. Valentinus believed that life
the Emperor Claudius II, who then meet on 14 death.
February 269 M. However, this also have several versions. A clear and does not
have a cross in is if we menelisik further to
in the tradition of Paganism (the god-goddess) Ancient Roman, something that fulfilled
with the legends, myths, and idolatry.
According to the view of Ancient Roman tradition, the mid-February
already known as the period of love and fertility. Dates in the calendar
Ancient athens, the period between mid January to mid -
February is called as Gamelion month, which is presented to the
wedding holy gods Zeus and Hera.
In ancient Rome, February 15, known as the feast Lupercalia, which
refers to the name of a god named Lupercus, the god
fertility. This deity is depicted as a man who half-naked
and dressed in goat skin.
At the time of Ancient Rome, the clergy of each date of February 15 will do
ritual worship to the god Lupercus with the present victim
the form of a goat to the gods.
After that they drink wine and will be run-run in the streets in
of Rome and bring pieces of sheep skin and touch
anyone who encountered them. The young women will fight for
touched the skin of a goat because they believe that touching the skin
goats will be able to bring them fertility. Something
a very dibanggakan in the Roman epoch.
Lupercalia celebration is a series of ceremonies in the Roman purgation (pensucian)
Ancient held between 13-18 February, in which the
February 15 peak. The first two days (13-14 February),
be devoted to goddess of love (Queen of Love Feverish) called Juno
Februata.
On this day, the youth gather and draw the names of girls in
in a box. Then, each youth are taking the name of the
random. Maiden name to the outside must be for a year kekasihnya
full for fun and entertainment to become the object of the youth who
select it.
The next day, February 15, to the temple to ask for protection
Dewa Lupercalia wolves from disturbance. During this ceremony, the boys
horsewhip young girls with animal skin. The perempuann that
berebutan to be able to get the lash because many assume that the more
then they get the lash will be beautiful and fertile.
When Christianity entered Roman Catholic, they adopted the ceremony
Paganism (pagan) and Christian colorific with nuance. Between
they change the names of the girls with the names of the Pope or Pastor.
Between supporting the Emperor Konstantine and Pope Gregory I.
Approach to be more on the teachings of Christianity, in 496 Pope Gelasius M
I made the ancient Roman rite is the Feast Day of the Church
the name of Saint Valentine's Day to honor St. Valentine who
accidental death on 14 February.
Indeed, about whom Saint Valentinus himself, as has been
described in advance, the historians are still different opinions. Current
at least there are three names that Valentine died on February 14.
One of them be depicted as people who died in the Roman period.
But this also did not have a detailed explanation of who indeed
"St. Valentine , also with story that never
known as edge-based narrate the story of each of the
different.
According to the first version, Emperor Claudius II ordered that the Kingdom of
Rome so irate and ordered the arrest and imprison St.
Valentine because he dares to declare Jesus is Lord
Al-Masih, while refuse to worship the Lord God-Roman.
Those who sympathize ago on St. Valentine wrote a letter and
put it in the trellis prision.
Version of the second recount, Emperor Claudius II, the young soldier
celibacy more resilient and strong in the battle field from the
who married. Ago because the emperor forbade the youth who become
married to the army. This action emperor secretly get a reaction
St. Valentine's, and he secretly wed too many
youth until he was discovered and arrested. Emperor decided Cladius
hanging for St. Valentine. Execution is done on 14
February 269 M.
Tradition SEND CARDS
In addition, the tradition of sending Valentine card itself does not have regard
directly with the St. Valentine. In the year 1415 M, when the Duke of
Dipenjara Orleans in the Tower of London, on the day the church
St. Valentine on February 14, he send the poems to his wife in
France.
By Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet, with the events that dikaitkannya
season kawin birds in puisinya.
So, what with the word "Be My Valentine?" Which until now
there are just still in a lot of greeting cards or expressed directly by
their respective spouses? Ken Sweiger says the word "Valentine"
comes from the Latin language that has similarities with the meaning: "The
Mighty, the Most Strong, and the Almighty. " This fact
at the time of Ancient Romans to the Nimrod and Lupercus, the god
Roman.
We realize it or not, so Sweiger, if someone asks another person
or spouse to be a "To be my Valentine?", and with it
Indeed, we have been straightforward to do a deed that
wrath of God, Sweiger term, ask for someone to "the
Almighty "and it's the same with the efforts to revive
culture to worship idols.
The Cupid (meaning: the desire), the baby or handsome man half
naked with the winged arrow is the son of Nimrod "the hunter"
The sun god. God called Love, because he was so handsome, so
on the many women that even dikisahkan own mother kandungnya
also interested in doing so incest with children kandungnya it!
Cross dispute indeed who own St. Valentine also occur
in the Catholic Church itself. According to the Catholic church as a
written in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908), the name of Saint Valentinus
most do not refer to the three martyr or saint (saint), which
different, namely: a clergyman in Rome, a bishop Interamna (modern
Terni), and a martyr in the Roman province of Africa. Connection between the
three martyrs of the Valentine's Day is also not clear.
Even Pope Gelasius II, in the year 496 states that did not
have known exactly about this martyr, martyr, even though
Gelasius II, so keep the date stated on February 14 each year
as a memorial feast day of Saint Valentinus.
There are some who say, Pope Gelasius II, this is deliberately set to
rival feast of Lupercalia celebrated on 15 February.
Remains of the framework that was unearthed from the tomb in Via Santo Hyppolytus
Tibertinus near Rome, identified as the corpse St. Valentinus.
Clay is then put in a gold box and sent to the Church
Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland. This relic has been
given to them by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836.
Many tourists now berziarah to the church on this day
Valentine, in which case gold diarak in a procession of devout and
brought to a high altar in the church. On that day, a mass
special to be held and the young and their
being a relationship of love. This feast day removed from the calendar
ecclesiastical year in 1969 with the reasons as part of a business
the wider church to remove a saint and a saint
muasalnya-origin can not be due only on
myth or legend. But despite so, until now this mass is still
celebrated by groups of a particular church.
It is clear already, Valentine's Day indeed derived from myth and legend
Ancient Roman era in which the trust is still valid Paganism
(idolatry). Catholic Church alone can not be agreed
Indeed, St. Valentine who is considered a martyr in the
on 14 February. However, this celebration had diperingati
officially Whitefriar Church Street Carmelite Church in Dublin,
Ireland and officially banned in 1969. Some groups
Catholic church still hold this memorial each year.
Business
If Valentine's Day is still on-dihidup until now, even
have the impression the more glorious, it is not the efforts of others who
moving in the field of printing greeting cards, a hotel, the
interest, the event organizer, and a number of other employers who
meraup have very large profit from the event.
They deliberately, through the strength of the campaign and marketingnya, blow-niupkan
Day Valentine's Day as a very special day for special people
whom, in order to conduct their trade and they get a return
very very big. This is what is often called by the sociologist
industrialization as a religion, where religion by the capitalist
be deflected into the business.
PARTY KEMAKSIATAN
Christendom is the designation for the lands or the lands
Christians in the West. Originally only Christian reference to the European mainland
such as English, French, Dutch, German, and so forth, but the adult
It also penetrated to the mainland United States.
People usually think the Valentine's Day comes from the United States.
But history says that Valentine's Day celebration indeed
comes from the UK. In the 19th century, the United Kingdom still traverse
North America region. Kingdom of British culture is then imported
koloninya by area in North America.
In the United States, Valentine card first mass produced printed
years after 1847 by Esther A. Howland (1828 - 1904) from Worcester,
Massachusetts. His father has a book shop and shop equipment
a large office. Mr. Howland got inspiration to produce the card in the
United States of a Valentine card that he received the UK. Efforts this
followed by the other-until now.
Since 2001, The Greeting Card Association (Greeting Card Association
USA) each year awards issued "Esther Howland Award for a
Greeting Card Visionary "to the best card printing company.
Since Howland produce Happy Valentine greeting cards in the United States,
production of the card is made in bulk in selutuh world. The Greeting Card
Association estimates that worldwide, approximately one billion
Valentine cards are sent per year. This is the second-largest holiday
after the Christmas and New Year (The Merry Christmast and Happy New Year),
where the greeting cards sent. The same association
perempuanlah estimates that the purchase of approximately 85% of
all valentine cards.
Start the second half of the 20th century, the tradition exchange card in the United States
diversification experience. Greeting cards that was holding the point
central, only now as a follower of the prize is bigger.
This is often done to the men, women. Gifts can be gift -
a rose and chocolates. Start 1980, diamond industry
Valentine began to promote the day as an opportunity to
give jewelry to the women's choice.
In the United States and some Western countries, the dates on
Valentine often as the beginning of a relationship that
seriously. This makes the Valentine there are more 'dating'
often at the end of the bed with (intimacy) rather than
the feeling of love from children to parents, to teachers, and
so that sincere and not accompanied by physical contact. This is
lo gist Valentine's Day.
Valentine Day celebration in the Western countries generally dipersepsikan
as a day in which the pair-pair dating can do anything,
something commonplace in Western countries, throughout that night. Even in
various hotel held a variety of competitions and events that ended in
each room is filled with a pair of different types of people. This is
considered to be reasonable, not to mention the party-party a more closed and
menjijikan.
Follow to acknowledge Jesus as Lord
Each year before the month in February, many young people of Indonesia
notabene claim to follow Islamic religious-busy preparing the follow-up
Valentine. Even though many of them who hear that Valentine
Day is one of the Christian feast day that has
values of the Christian faith, but this will not be too
them. "Ah, I just make ngerayaain Valentine fun-fun aja ...," so
Islam took a lot of teenagers. Can be justified attitudes and views
like that?
Valentine's Day celebration includes a number of claims over dogma and
Christian ideology as recognize Jesus as the Son of God "and other
so forth. Celebrating Valentine Day also means that directly or
does not, recognize the truth took on Christian dogma and ideology
, and any alasanya.
Well, if there is a Muslim-in the follow-up to celebrate Valentine's Day,
diakuinya it or not, he also received a follow-up, the view that
says that "Jesus as the Son of God" and so forth in the
Islam is indeed included in the act idolaters, menyekutukan
Allah SWT, an act that will not get forgiveness from God
SWT. Naudzubillahi min dzalik!
"He who imitate a nation, he would include people from these,"
Likewise the sound hadith that Rasulullah SAW diriwayatkan by Tirmidzi.
Ibnul Qayyim al-Jauziyah rahimahullah also said, "Giving up safely
the heathen ritual events specifically for them, have agreed that
the act is unlawful. Give up such happy holiday and
they fast, with say, "Happy holidays!" and the like.
For the mengucapkannya, if not also to the disbelief, most
not the act is unlawful. Means that he has survived to give
act on their menyekutukan God. Even the act is
greater sin in the sight of God's wrath, and more on giving
congratulations on the act to kill or to drink wine. Many people who
less understand religion in the fall and it is realized without
bad deeds are. He has prepared himself to get
anger and the wrath of God. "
Allah SWT alone in the Qur'an in surat Al-Maarij paragraph 51 prohibits the
Islam to mimic or meneladani the Jews and Christians, "O
Those who believe, do not take the Jews and
Christians to be leaders (mu); some of them are leaders
for the other part. Whoever among you take them
be a leader, then the person is included among them.
Allah does not guide the people who do wrong. "
Wallahu'alam bishawab.
The Story of my Heart Today.........
I feel very happy today,I get the feeling that the spirit of extraordinary (luarbiasa)because earlier in the morning,,I have talked with people I care about.
laugh and joke with him heart to make this quiet and peaceful, he is to me the strength I feel alive and responsive to despair.he was a great man he was always patient's lifetime, the attitude that is difficult titebak me he also remains steadfast, that is me happy with him, he has changed the nature of ugly to me so better.ok guy I first ends here wait until we connect again.bye