Fatwa on yoga? What next?
Fatwa on yoga quickly
The National Fatwa Council will come out with a ruling relating to yoga exert soon.
The announcement would be made by the council’s chairman, Prof Datuk Dr Abdul Shukor Husin, said Reserve Director-General (Operations) of the Department of Islamic Evolvement Malaysia (Jakim) Othman Mustapha.
He told reporters this after split the two-day seminar on Islamic Jurisprudence and Eternal Islamic Thinking at Universiti Sains Malaysia jointly organised by the Islamic Studies Compartment of the university’s Human Knowledge Study Concentrate and Jakim here today.
Yesterday, lecturer Prof Zakaria Stapa of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Islamic Studies Hub advised Muslims who have taken up yoga to stop practising it for quake at that it could deviate their belief.
(NST)
Yoga was banned in Egypt (not sure about now), where where clerics say the 5,000-year-old usage violates Islamic law and decribed yoga as an “ascetic Hindu in real life inexperienced that should not be used in any manner of exercise or worship”, “an aberration” and said mimicking it is “forbidden religiously.” Is Malaysia accepted to follow this example?
It is hillarious to the point of ridiculous, because yoga is neither a belief nor claims to be a substitute for any religion in the world. Why can’t anyone does Yoga or Kung Fu or anything that was based off some other faiths, as want as they do not accept the belief system that goes with it?
Yoga originally stems from polytheist beliefs and admiration rituals and intimately connected to the religious beliefs and practices of the Hinduism. However, many valorous arts, languages, foods and other cultural acts have some kind of background to them. Likewise Yoga is done by many people all over the world regardless of their beliefs. It is done as a contour of excercise and is very beneficial for that. As long as you do not compromise any of your own beliefs and also you seperate any of the ridiculous meanings to some of the forms then it is fine, no? Er, perhaps in future we should have a fatwa on Tai Chi exersize for its skinflinty link to Taoism as well? It may corrupt your belief.. yeah in all honesty. I wonder if one’s faith is so fragile that it is so easy to waver everytime it faces challenges? Then is it significance saving one’s faith to the religion by imposing invariable rules to avoid the person from going ‘ashtray?’ God cannot be that despairing, since He’s so magnanimous.
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Yoga must go, huh?
I even-handed read in my regular cyber news portal (I'm not naming names cos I don't paucity to be carried), that there is soon to be a fatwa on yoga. It kinda blows my haul, so I am still trying to formulate my thoughts on this. So if you're reading, bear with me if I am kinda bodoh here.
I merely read on Crankshaft that 'tomboys' are to be banned. Wah, that kinda knocked the socks off of me for a bit. And now this. If there is a tomboy out there, who practises yoga, she's gonna be powerful miffed, no?
I like to do what I like to do. And I don't like anyone telling me what I can and I cannot do. So this kinda sticks in my throat. Oh, did I praise that this ban is for muslims? Not for the rest of us infidels lah, so relax, k. So I am angry vicariously, and still it sucks.
So, back to me and bans: Who the heck is anyone to herald anyone else what they can and can't do? When you say I can't - that's when I want to try it lah. Childish? Yah, that's me. I may be in my fifties, but I've learnt nothing about this in all this time. Say no, and I say, 'mmm, why not?'
I can do nothing about this, of indubitably. I am not muslim, and so, in a way, this does not involve me. But I am thinking this has graver implications than is visible at face-value. So I think it is time to think, people.
There is an old saying, overused of direction, but worth repeating here: you give them an inch... you know that one? You agree to someone to do something once, and he goes on and on and on. I think 'they' have kinda walked off the plank with this one lah. Ever to withdraw that inch, methinks.
But about yoga: Yes, it has its roots in hinduism, and all the hindu priests are said to repeat it. But they teach you nothing about religion when you learn it. I have learnt from a couple of...
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Western Yoga and the Beatles
Found an captivating article at HowStuffWorks about the introduction of yoga to the West. The following is an cull out from: “Did the Beatles introduce yoga to the Western World?”
Yoga in fact made its first appearance in the West in the early 19th century. It was studied as an Eastern resignation in the early 20th century and gained popularity as a part of the health and vegetarian stirring of the 1930s. But it wasn’t until the 1960s that yoga really began to take off. Noteworthy Indian yogis began moving to Western countries to range their teachings.
It was around this time that the Beatles were first exposed to yoga. While the group was filming “Boost!” in the Bahamas in 1965, they met Swami Vishnu-Devananda, the miscarry of Sivandana Yoga. He presented them with signed copies of his work, “The Illustrated Libretto of Yoga.” George Harrison was fascinated by the book and began studying yoga and Eastern dogma. His wife, Pattie Boyd, encouraged him to study Eastern mysticism, Indian aesthetics and become a vegetarian. By 1966, Harrison journeyed to India to reflect on sitar, a type of stringed instrument, under the master Ravi Shankar.
While Harrison laboured in Bombay, Boyd heard of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the author of Transcendental Meditation (TM). The Maharishi, born Mahesh Prasad Varma, wanted to beat a hasty retreat meditation easy to understand and practical. In 1955, he wrote his first post, “The Science of Being and the Art of Living,” and began teaching TM in 1958.
Harrison and Boyd were struck by the Maharishi’s teachings and bought tickets for the Beatles to see him in London. The heap followed the Maharishi to Bangor, Wales to learn more about meditation. They when all is said traveled to his ashram, or religious retreat, in Rishikesh in the Himalayas where they were joined by other celebrities like Mia Farrow, Donovan and Mike Passion of the Beach Boys. The Beatles studied as a group until indubitable members of the band began to lose interest in TM.
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Did Yoga Activities really Helpful to Us?
Today’s power yoga basically branched out from the Ashtanga Yoga of the Hindu custom and religion of India.
Power yoga is emphasizing the development of one’s suppleness and the nurture of the desire for a vigorous whole body workout. The movement most of all facilitates for concentration and mental stability.There are various reasons why power yoga classes be filled everywhere. Nowadays, different and major gyms all over the world are sacrifice power yoga classes.
No wonder. That is because those who have already immersed in the activity unreservedly acknowledge the benefits and health effects to them.
Power yoga classes have become routine for various reasons. Not just vogue, more and more people are getting into the action because of the proven benefits the exercise can do to them.
Bodily gains from the Power Yoga
First of all, the power yoga promoted total well-being of the body. Because power yoga also involves physical activities that are sometimes stretching and working out muscles, power yoga is sometimes made as alternatives to unfamiliar and daily workout routines.
There are several significant benefits of doing the power yoga to one’s fraternity. Among these benefits are the following:
* Power yoga bolsters flexibility, starch and strength.
* Power yoga promotes improvement of one person’s genius and capability to focus and concentrate.
* Power yoga helps people delivering the distracting anxiety and overall tension.
* Power yoga helps one myself develop and maintain good and proper posture.
* Power yoga tones the substance in a way that is neither hard nor stressful.
* Bodily toxins are removed from the bones or body system through the sweat the body excretes during power yoga period.
* Power yoga also serves as a great warm up or training venture for all sorts and types of athletes.
* Power yoga, when done regularly would resist improve an athlete’s overall performance especially in nagging sports like golf, football, cycling and of line, swimming.
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Yoga : Fatwa to be out soon.
PENANG, Oct 29 - The Subject Fatwa Council will come out with a ruling relating to yoga training soon….
Fatwa on yoga out soon
PULAU PINANG: Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan akan mengumumkan keputusan berhubung hukum senaman yoga kepada pengamal senaman itu yang beragama Islam dalam tempoh terdekat ini….
Yoga: Majlis Fatwa akan umum keputusan
Wow… it’s like a perturb for me reading this news.
I had my first yoga class in Oct 2007 last year and agreeably post about it here. I also post my picture doing Scorpion Play the part at Pantai Chenang here.
The truth is, I like yoga very much nowdays. My trouble can confirm it 
It’s the only exercise I did after working long hour in from of pc. Even my kids can do some yoga advance. ( baby pose )
I’m not sure how in time is soon they are talking about.one week ? one month ? one year ? Kalau padi katakan padi,tidaklah hamba ternanti-nanti…
If let say, fatwa say it as Haram. I intend I need to practise senaman anak harimau added and modifed with some of yoga poses and name it as SenamanSayaSendiri lah pulak.
Some yoga poses mimicked our solat poses. Indulge pose (sujud), bend forward pose (ruku’), mountain affectedness (qiam), hero pose (duduk antara dua sujud). It should be ok lah then I fantasize.
Seriously, I’m eager to know the outcome. I also like to recognize what are ‘dalil-dalil’ yang digunapakai for menghalalkan or mengaramkan this sentiment.
Just wait and see lah then.
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Using Yoga for Weight Loss
Yoga can be for a gifted cause for more books by force the creation of a state of savant property and physical well-being. From the knowledge base of yoga promotes a hale and hearty lifestyle and in conjunction with a reduction of calories can contribute to your mass loss. It is your metabolism, kalorische in the burning process. All power loss depends on the commitment of more calories than you in. It also allows you to spread your ability to concentrate and focus.
Your thyroid regulates your metabolism is chief for the implementation of chemical processes in food to energy. Yoga familiar a number of torsion contribute to the workflow of internal organs. As a issue, your metabolism and increase burn more calories which ultimately principal to you to lower body weight. Another consequence is that help better your traffic and increase your energy level.
The different curves again, in syndicate with the forward warns help stimulate metabolism. The district provides the neck may be useful in promoting thyroid, if the influence problem is caused by a hormonal imbalance. If, through which most: the camel, rabbit, plow, and bridgehead. Prevailing quickly between different poses, can contribute to weight sacrifice. Note that this surcharge in May seriously find some of these very difficult arises and should be easier with point and add once more confidence in the lightest.
You can this permanent increase to strengthen the muscles, like warriors. This will alleviate to ensure that more stamina and improve your calories.
Remember that a piecemeal approach is the best of all practices of yoga. The long-term efficacy on your weight loss is clear, and more, so that inner peace and sensation good, that yoga is yours.
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