Stop Practising Hindu Yoga, Pray Instead
At first, I wanted to blog about the new Windows 7 cool features and Windows’ entry into cloud computing, Azure, but I just couldn’t resist taking a dig at this one.
It has been announced that The National Fatwa Council will come out with an Islamic ruling (fatwa) relating to yoga, probably as a response to the musings of lecturer Prof. Zakaria Stapa of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s (UKM) Islamic Studies Centre. The professor, on Tuesday, advised Muslims who have taken up yoga to stop practising it for fear that it could deviate their belief.
You can read the Bernama report in The Star, but for a more detailed reporting, check out Malaysiakini’s (subsription only).
The UKM lecturer was quoted as saying:
“If the Muslims want a healthy body, prayers are the right choice… why must we find alternate ways… a single mistake can deviate our teachings as yoga movements follow the style and tradition of Hinduism.”
Marina Mahathir has the full Malaysiakini news on her blog, and her comments regarding the above quote should resound with a lot of real healthy Muslims:
If prayers are the only thing you need to be healthy, why are there so many unhealthy Muslims? Is this an indication that they don’t pray? If all you need do is pray, why do sports or eat healthily?
If they have ever found any Muslim who has converted out solely because of yoga, they should produce evidence instead of speculating on the ‘weakness’ of our faith. If it is ‘weak’ at all, it is because people like the Fatwa Council have done nothing to make it strong, constantly weakening it through fear and ignorance.
This fatwa comes just a few weeks shy of another earlier fatwa to ban tomboys, who were vaguely defined as “girls who behaves or dresses in a boyish manner”.
[via KLue (updated)]
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In other news, the Malaysian government plans to attract more foreign students to tackle the financial crisis.
Na-ah. Not gonna work if they are to be confined and segregated.
It’s really interesting to see how Malaysia produce all type of “Haram Ideas”.
If these idiots watch Malaysia TV they could easily find a lot more of funny makeup and dressing….
If they really care,stop these shows first b4……become kayuPro.
They are being creative and revolutionising Islam the way they want it to be. They think they are trying to impress but are suppressing and deviating the Muslims.
Anyway, it’s better they stay away from yoga centres before they pollute it with their myopic ideas.
enough of all these nonsense .
when are all the state govt Pakatan or BN
going to take action against all those incompetent
president, timbalan president and whatever majlis perbandaran joker
who are obviously not doing their job but are highly paid
for doing nothing.
look at the state of this country, not a place that is clean, neat and tidy.
the city drains are filled with rubbish the sidewalk overgrown with lalang
the list goes on and on.
it is time to declare war on all this joker
who are not doing their job. in fact they should be sacked immediately.
to all readers get the ball rolling.
It show that some muslim are not having a mindset to argue on self discipline thinking. Why must yoga be part of of a fatwa ? Let the Almighty be the judge not human. Should those who want to practice yoga let it be it is their biz why be a busybody. It is an exercise for good health. Muslim just go for the exercise not the religion. Who say those exercises are against islam ? NUTS just because it is practice mainly by Indian does not means it is Hindu
They should also stop learning kung fu and taichi because they are buddhism!!!
Practice Yoga is prohibited but patronizing SPA and prostitute dents are okay.Maybe these activities do not lead you to ditch your religion.
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thats very silly – why is it that people find a dialectical approach to enlightenment so hard? perhaps stupidity.