Is celebrating love not a part of our culture?

[Muzna]

Re: Is celebrating love not a part of our culture?

@muqawwee123

what do you mean by celebration?

Though Heer Ranjha might have been sung in a chopal of Punjab and Sassi punhoo in a Otaq of Sindh, but both cultures did not encourage PDA and the love birds dating openly as is the concept of Valentine day.

We are the culture, where ladies still avoid calling their husbands with their first name (munne ke abba being outdated one, but ‘wo’, ‘unke’, etc are the words to refer hubby), but Valentine’s day bring a new culture in picture, where Samina says to Sajjad ‘I Love you’ through message displayed on TV.

Did Heer say ‘I love you’ to Ranjha like today’s love birds?

In my opinion celebration of love could be any expression in which affection for one another is depicted…be it through illustration, poetry or even something as simple as three words uttered or written…

As for encouraging PDA (between married couples and not dating ones)…there are many taboos in our culture and this is one that I believe needs to be eradicated. What exactly is wrong with a husband and wife expressing their feelings for each other? I think more children in our culture need to grow up seeing this sort of “halal” behaviour.

I don’t know if I would take it as far as adopting Valentine’s Day but I don’t think that we should continue to uphold backwards theologies where openly admitting your love for your spouse should be something to look down upon.