Yoga and Islam

Lifestyle Health & Fitness
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Someone recently told me that yoga is unislamic…:hmmm:

How, why?

What are the benefits of yoga?

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a lot of yoga poses have religious meanings for hindus e.g. the surya namashkaar where ur basically praying to the sun… and that is why some scholars don’t approve of practising yoga… but hey I just do it coz im fat! :vivo: Its not haram, in my opinion, but if people are wary of practising yoga for religious reasons, they can always go for pilates… pretty much the same benefits.

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Any activity could potentially be considered unIslamic if you vest it with a meaning that constitutes shirk or buth-parasti. If you consider yoga to strictly be an exercise regimen for physical fitness, I don't see the harm.

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I am surprised that this point is even debatable amongst pious Muslims.

Of course, those who do yoga commit *shirk *just like Salmaan Khan does it by participating in Ganesh Pujas. Both these practices promote Hindu culture and practices which a pious Muslim shouldn’t participate in lest his/her soul burn in the eternal fires of *jahannam.

*Pious Muslims do not need need to ape the *goras *by adapting such abominable practices, instead they should look for better Islamic alternatives.

Look how this Hindu extremist is shamelessly promoting his kuffar culture ..

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And what about , innamal amalo bin nayaat wali hadees. Will it not apply here. If a person is doing yoga for the purpose of exercising not to pray any idols. I did not even know and I am sure many others will not know about hindu way of worship.

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A yogi would consider that an insult.

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What about the yoga that is taught here in the west? Has that been modified to remove any religious element?

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It is an integral part of hinduism. Just search its relation to hinduism.

Naming it mere exercise is not correct.

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no actually they wouldnt .. yoga teachers even straight from india say thi id for everyone good for mind n body .. they're teaching it for benefit of everyone not for any selfish reasons .. but u proud people cant see ahead of your stereotypical narrow minded view .. how typically jahil .. u guyz probably do lotsof things which the quran tells u not to do n dont think twice about it n here start making noise when people practicing yoga for health benefits n peace of mind ..

reminds me of those jahil extremist molvi types ..

get a life u people .. fight for something worthwile .. dont make up nonsense

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Yes technically yoga is supposed to be both a physical and spiritual practise where the spiritual aspects of it have their roots in Hinduism. However in the west where mostly Hatha yoga is practised yoga classes really only refer to the positions of yoga as a form of physical exercise. Some classes require u to chant om at the end but I've noticed a lot of places are changing this to other chants to avoid religious connotations ( they just tell you to hum instead). The way yoga is mostly practised in the west is not real yoga they've just taken the physical aspects of it to use as a form of xercise so I don't see why it should contradict Islam, it's really just a series of stretching poses. If yoga is being practised in it's true form then yes the element of spirituality will also be there which might be of concern to some.

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Soni: You do whatever you like to do but calling people jahil or other names names for no real reason is itself a jahalat.

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mr. diwna saab .. read clone's post .. if thats not jahalat .. talking about shirk n kafars ..then i dont know what is .. it may be not a 'real reason' to u .. but i dont think insulting other reliigions bcs we think we're superior is right ..

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yoga is hindu? not any more hindu than your typical pakistani wedding ceremony...

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aside from the words look and understand who they are from and how they are being delivered :)

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aside from the words look and understand who they are from and how they are being delivered :)
context, meaning, source..matter

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exactly .. if ppl r offended by the 'hinduness' of yoga than y dont they saya nythinga bout the mehndi rasams n shadi rasams which so hindu like going on amongst paksitnis all over world .. maybe they should understand that hindusim has been on the subonctinent waaaaay longer than Islam .. n that there forefathers were hindu ..

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soni sahiba! Talk about what you wrote. Please do not run to other's posts.

Give one reason why you called those who consider Yoga not islamic being jahil and specially 'extremists'?

Do you think someone who does not perform Yoga is extemist if that person thinks it is not islamic?

Is that person extremist or ...people LIKE YOU are the one who are extremists?

I think the latter is true since those who think Yoga is not islamic and do not practice it do not in anyway harm anyone but people like you who look down upon those who do not agree with you, are.

Also attaching Yoga to Hinduism is not being extremist. If that is true then ALL those who wrote Yoga being related to Hinduism are extremists and jahil.

So who is extremist here? :)

P.S. I have no personal grudge here.

Exactly!

And I thought I was the only one who thought his post with video was a pure sarcasm and makng fun of others. Good catch. :)

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OK the second part of question regarding to benefit of yoga is not substanciated as it is claimed.

There is no proof and will never be an authentic proof of so called mental or physical benefit of yoga.

Those people who are sucked in to this act are led to believe they will feel better.

Do they really achieve something measurably better than those who do not?

Absolutely not.

There are billions of people who do not perform this act however 'good' or ridicilous it might look.

Does not mean they are in any way inferior to those who do.

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^ who r u to stay there is no authentic proof? .. r u a doctor .. have u even read anything about soo many studies being done on benefits of yoga .. ur saying bcs u DONT WANT to believe it .. if yoga did nothign for anyoine billions of eope aroudn the world would not being doing it n it wold not have picked up its popularity around the world like it has ..

i do yoga .. n when i dont for some reason i can feel the difference in me mentally n physically .. u really have no right to discount the claims of millions of people on how they feel when they do yoga just bcs u dont like it n think its unislamic ..

if u think something is unislamic that does not mean that it has no benefit .. everything in this world is not about reliigion n u nor any other paksitani has any rihgt to condemn any other paksitani who does yoga ..

n byt the way .. if it was soo unislamic then there wouldnt be yoga camps opened up in big cities of paksitn like karachi

n comet to think of it .. then exercissing heavily is also aainst islam .. bcs people use music to jump up an down .. so y arent u pl condeming heavy exercsise done with music?