Jun 21 2015
Yoga is Shirk
Yoga is Shirk
There are four aspects of Tawheed that have been classified by the scholars:
Tawheed e Asari
Tawheed e Afali
Tawheed e Sifati
Tawheed e Wujudi
Our main topic here to discuss about Tawheed e Asari or Tawheed fil Ibadah/Uloohiya and to compare how Yoga destroys the Tawheed e Asari.
لا الہ الاللہ محمد رسول اللہ
The first aspect of Tawheed (Tawheed e Asari) is must for all Muslims, with out accepting it one can’t be a muslim, by accepting the Tawheed e Asari muslims must have a strong belief that.
Allah is the only Creator of the universe (لا خالق الاللہ)
Allah is the only Owner of the universe (لا مالک الاللہ)
Allah is the only Commander of the universe (لا حاکم الاللہ)
Allah is the only Lord of the universe (لا رب الاللہ)
Tawheed e Asari or Tawheed fil Ibadah means you are not allowed to worship Allah with names and attributes which He Allah Ta’ala not use to describe himself. Commander of the universe means that Allah is the only Law giver. Lord of the universe means Allah is the only care taker of the universe. Hence you should single out Allah in your Ibadah ie: worship.
It’s quite obvious this branch of Tawheed is called Tawheed Ibadah. Violation of any of these components of tawheed, constitutes as Shirk [idolatry association with Allah]. The unforgivable sin [if its not repented from]…. To take others as Lords besides Allah. To deify creation or To humanize Allah [ie. taking or giving His attributes] To worship others besides Allah, To believe in other laws besides the laws of Allah…this is all shirk.
Shirk in Ibadah is known as Shirk e Jali (Open/Clear shirk) which is enough to enter hell (unless repented).
For more details about the all the aspects of Tawheed please read Sulook ke Do Aham Madarij, Khud Shanasi Haq Shanasi and Kalima e Tayyeba
The New Age movement is a modern religion concocted by Shaytan/Satan for the purpose of obliterating all beliefs in Allah and all Abrahamic religions. It seems logical for Satan to introduce it near to the end of times in order to prepare mankind spiritually for the arrival of the Dajjal (Antichrist). But why is this religion so dangerous? Because people are falling into it like a lamb to the slaughter, without even knowing it.
New Age belief have entered mainstream society, ever wondered for example what is the meaning of Yoga? A popular form of exercise….
Yoga was once practiced mainly by a cult click in India, America and Europe.
Now over 19 million Americans and millions more in Europe and India are actively involved in some kind of Eastern meditations. Altogether 60 million Americans have incorporated Eastern philosophy into their world view.
Yoga is the very heart of Hinduism. There is no Hinduism without Yoga and there is no Yoga without Hinduism. You can’t take Hinduism out of yoga. Yoga goes all the way back to the hindu god Shiva who is called Yogeshvara meaning lord of yoga. You will find yoga being taught in all the major hindu scriptures. Krishna one of the main Hindu god, was an advocate of yoga.
Yoga was also mentioned in the Gita (Hindu scripture) as the main means to attain salvation. Basically, the word means to yolk in union, the goal of the Hindu is to be yolked with Brahman (means universal soul).
What is Yoga?
Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means to yolk with Brahman. What this means is that Aatma – the individual soul which is the goal you are trying to reach the state of consciousness, where it means you are God! You are Brahman, so you reach a state where you realize Aatma the individual soul and Brahman the universal soul are one and the same.
The whole idea of waking up your conscious through arousing the serpent power within you, the idea is that the serpent lays coiled at the base of your spine and through maneuvering, movements – you waken the psychic energy to come up through the wheels – the psychic energy up to the third eye.
If one takes a look at the different position that Yoga presents, they will find that each position has a meaning to a Hindu god, it is named after them. Yoga involves no matter what kind of the position you choose to do includes a form of shirk.
Some positions have names in them that includes : “Goddess” , “Dog”, “Cobra”, “Corpse (as in a body style of the deceased.)” Firstly, the word Goddess is a pagan word to refer to a female god. Secondly, a dog is animal that Islam forbids for us to keep as a pet. And thirdly, why would anyone be willing to mimic these types of position knowing what they mean? All these positions are toxic for the Iman. They are a form of worship each thing that is in its position name. Now let’s say you do not do the Hindu or pagan chants or say their words. Let’s say you call upon Allah for acts of paganism such as yoga. This is a form of innovation. Furthermore, if one uses the excuse that they are doing it to keep in shape, is there no other form of exercise one can use to do so? We live in the 21st Century where you could literally keep in shape in so many other ways…you are not limited to one form of exercise!
Better yet, if you were to pray according to the way it was taught to us by the Prophet (saw) then you would find that you would already be covering majority of the Yoga positions in these simple Islamic moves that you do 5 times a day.
[4.48] Surely Allah does not forgive that anything should be associated with Him, and forgives what is besides that to whomsoever He pleases; and whoever associates anything with Allah, he devises indeed a great sin.
Jun 22 2015
Yoga in Islam
Yoga in Islam
Anti Islamic forces are always busy to destroy the identity of Islam, trying various methods to weaken the Islamic beliefs, Ibadah and adopting the various ways to make Islam nominal and strip out the Muslims fundamental belief of tawhid.
Their part of agenda is “Yoga”, according to the research of Hindu scholars, Yoga is a source of spiritual and physical purification, and according to their thoughts it is a mean to please their God “Par Maatma”, in the Hindu scriptures yoga is mentioned as the main rituals of Hinduism.
For Muslims this is not the way to worship for the Almighty Allah who is the creator, owner, commander of “SUN” and the whole universe.
Praying Sun or any other creatures is a clear shirk, Yoga revolves around the Sun salutation (Surya Namaskar) (please visit for details http://www.artofliving.org/yoga/health-and-wellness/sun-salutation-mantras), to put aside all comments please note that Sun is not creator(Allah), yes Sun is a source of energy and we pray to the Almighty who have created this source of energy not to the creatures. It is not the matter of hating Sun or loving, it is the matter of worship. Worship only Allah, the creator of universe including Sun.
The Sanskrit chants (Ashlok) used during yoga are the manifestation of idolatrous ideas. Yoga is not secular (http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/yoga-not-secular-vhps-praveen-togadia_1617658.html), Surya Namaskar is an essential part of the exercise form and no performance of yoga is complete without it(http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-yoga-not-secular-but-vedic-says-vhp-leader-praveen-togadia-2097683).
In the modern age, by putting the veil on the main idolatrous ideas, anti Islamic forces are trying to promote Yoga in Muslim community as the “Physical Exercise”, the worst thing is that the Muslims are seems to be inclining towards it.
On the basis of doubts even with out chanting ashlok just for the benefits of physical exercise yoga can’t be performed as according to the Hindu scriptures the whole idea behind yoga is praying to the Sun (Per Maatma, God http://www.shantiyoganola.com/sun-salutations-the-meaning-of-surya-namaskara/) which is a creature and it is a clear shirk. Sun does not deserve worship or prostration, only Allah the creator of Sun and the universe deserves to be worshiped.
Mostly peoples are trying to justify by highlighting the physical benefits of Yoga, but to accept any practice only the physical benefits are not enough, it must be in accordance with the Islamic rules and guidance.
Islam prohibits any doubtful practice, and specifically prohibits very strictly when the practices are related to the shirk (Idolatry).
Muslims worship none other than one Almighty Allah, who created everyone & everything, Sun, Moon, Stars, Jin, Shayateen and all around us and in universe, Worthy of worship is the creator not the creatures. This is called Tawhid, oneness of God, the main Pillar of Islamic beliefs, even prophets cannot be worshiped because they are creatures. We can respect and obey them but not worship them, Our creator is one either you call him Allah in Arabic, Khuda or Yazdaan in Persian & Urdu, God in English,
Ishwar in Hindi. the only supreme being who created all of us.
Many common Indian Muslims particularly and in general across the globe have been deceived by the beautiful titles “Physical Exercise”, “Weight Loss”, and many more lucrative titles and with the opinion of the physical exercise are performing the idolatry through Yoga.
It is very usual to be deceived by these delightful titles of ‘Yoga’ for the Muslims of India and alike countries where the Muslims and non Muslims are living together in multi religion environment, the disastrous part is that the Islamic countries and the Muslims living in Islamic cultures are also suffering from the delightful titles of Yoga, in a book “یوگا شریعت اسلامی کی روشنی میں” (Yoga in the light of Shariah) it is mentioned that the ancient book written on yoga in Sanskrit is translated in Arabic, and also mentioned that huge number of Arabs are coming to the Yoga centers for the special training, it also narrates that Yoga gurus are being called in special aircraft to train yoga to the Arab Royal families, Industrialists, and traders, and in the Arab world India is known as “Land of Yoga”, and pointed a very shocking news that the for the healthy, and comfort journey of the passengers Qatar Airways presented “Fly Healthy, Fly Fit” a special guide of “Yoga” (http://www.qatarairways.com/us/en/fly-healthy-fly-fit.page). It is very shocking and painfull that an Arabic and Islamic country is participating in promoting the non-Islamic “Yoga”.
Five times Sajdah in five Namaz (prayers) a day has probably got more exercise value than 1 SURYA NAMASKAAR a day. Please propagate and share this information with your families and Muslim friends.
We will keep updating this section with more information on how to achieve the meditation and better health using Islamic art of living. Quran and Ahadith have more than enough information about how to achieve the peace of heart, and believe us the so called “Yogis” themselves needs the peace of heart, they are trying very hard to convince that they achieved the peace using yoga and we can guarantee it is just a false claim.
The creator of all the mankind and the universe including Sun declares in the Quran:
“الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا وَتَطْمَئِنُّ قُلُوبُهُمْ بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ ۗ أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ”
“They are those who believe and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah. Lo! in the remembrance of Allah hearts do find rest.”
جو لوگ ایمان ﻻئے ان کے دل اللہ کے ذکر سے اطمینان حاصل کرتے ہیں۔ یاد رکھو اللہ کے ذکر سے ہی دلوں کو تسلی حاصل ہوتی ہے
نہ میکدے میں ہے نہ یہ شرابیوں کے پاس ہے
قلب کا سکون تو نماز یوں کے پاس ہے
“Neither it is in pubs nor with drunkards, The peace of heart is with the Muslims offering Namaz(salat)”
“Stay away from Yoga and say no to Yoga”
By silsilaekamaliya • Islamic Art of Living, Yoga is Shirk • Tags: Islamic art of Living, yoga in islam, یوگا اسلام کی نظر میں, یوگا شرک و کفر ہے