Islamic Pick-up Lines: A Disgrace and Ridicule to Islam

Flirting is an art. It is a rather cheesy way of getting a guy/girl to fall for you. Many cliché pick-up lines are made up everyday that could make "the gorgeous chick from around the block" or "the hot hunk from across the street" fall for you.

Unfortunately this lame and cheap way of expressing love has corrupted Muslims also. I recently stumbled upon "Islamic Pick-up Lines" which were said to be "Halaal advice for Muslims to score a Muslim chick", but, in simple fact, they are just ridiculous phrases which incorporate Islamic terms and ideologies by people who are clearly clueless about the laws of Islam and find humour in using these on the opposite gender.

The following a re just a few examples of the many appalling Islamic pick-up lines which are roaming the Internet and are being used by Muslims today:
*Marry me so that I don't have to lower my gaze every time you walk into the room.
*Girl, you so fine, I see praying five times a day has really paid off.
*Are your feet tired? 'Cos you've been performing Tawaaf in my mind all day long.
*I'm not staring. I'm just enjoying my first and only allowed look.
*Girl I know it's Haraam.. 'paying' so much 'interest' in you.. but I just can't help myself.

Due to Westernisation and modernisation of the Muslim communities, many argue that these pick-up lines are funny and creative and that they bring out the lighter and humorous side of Islam. They say that they is no harm in using them, or just enjoying their humourous state as they are "Islamic" and "Halaal". They refer to those who condemn these as 'lame' or 'party-poopers'.

What they don't understand is the argument presented by the other side of the Muslim community, the morally upright. The point that they raise is that these pick-up lines ridicule Islam and it's not right to make jokes about Islam. There is a verse in the Quraan that confirms this:

Surah Taubah
64) If you ask them about this they declare: "We are only talking idly and joking." Say: "Was it at Allah and His Ayats (lessons, proofs, evidence, verses, signs, revelations) and His Messengers that you were mocking?"

65) Make no excuse, you disbelieved after you had believed. If we pardon some of you we will punish others amongst you because they were Mujrimun ( disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, criminals).

Like I said before, Islamic pick-up lines are silly phrases consisting of Islamic terminologies; and that is why we should avoid using them. We learn in the above Ayats that we should not joke or talk idly about matters of Deen. Using a line such as "It must Laylatul Qadr 'cos that's the night that angels come down from heaven"  on the opposite gender is actually making a mockery of Allah, His Lessons, His Signs, His Revelations and the blessed and miraculous night in which the Quraan was revealed. This is Haraam and by doing this we are committing a grave sin for which Allah has set a strict punishment for.

I am by no means a Mu'allimah, nor am I very learned in Deen. I am just a regular Muslim teenage girl. And to be honest I was one of those who found humour in these pick-up lines, but after doing research and enquiring about it from the learned, I realised how immoral it is and immediately changed my ways. After having read this, I plead of you: Do your own research, enquire from those more learned than you and start changing your ways, today, Insha Allah.

*Shira Sudi*