“Foolish are those who try make others fool”, is the best one liner that describes the people who celebrate 1st April as April Fools’, it is often called as All Fools’ Day. This day provides excellent opportunity to those who are the most stupid, brainless, nuts persons of the society to project and share their foolish talent with the whole society.
They don’t see any difficulty in disturbing others with their unabated lies or foolish pranks but find pleasure and happiness in doing such activities.
Its history dates back to the medieval times of Europe when Popes were ruling the state affairs. It is said that in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered the new Gregorian calendar replacing the old Julian calendar which has 1st April as the New Year’s Day.
France was the first to adopt the new calendar, whereas England adopted it in 1752.
The French call it “Poisson d’Avril” or “April Fish.”
Those who adopted the Gregorian calendar started celebrating the New Year on 1st January. While those who didn’t celebrated it on first January and continued to celebrate 1st April as the new year were called ‘Fools’.
Islamic point of view about the origin and history of this day is that the day was started long ago when Muslims were thrown out from Spain to Africa and were made fool that they would be shifted safely to another place but they all got killed when the fleet was drowned intentionally by the disbelievers. So, if any Muslim celebrates such day, he is making fun of his own.
However, the main point to discard this day is that Islam clearly forbade us to lie even in joke and this day is all about telling lies, making fun, playing pranks etc which often results in creating much difficulty in one’s life.
The Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) once said: “Shame on him who tells lies in order to make people laugh! Shame on him! Shame on him!” [Abu Dawud]
The Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wa sallam) also said: “I joke, but I speak nothing but the truth.” [Tabarani]
The majority population of Pakistan clearly has no interest in celebrating such unethical days which comes from the Western culture. But our liberal and totally secular media tries to give undue importance to idiotic days like April Fools’, Valentines, Halloween, Father’s, Mother’s days etc.
We should try to focus our religion, our entity and dignity to safe our religious ethics, norms and values and our own culture and must keep ourselves away from celebrating such abnormal days of the West whose bases are vulgarity, lies, dishonesty and fabrication.