Yoga decree: Read carefully….
This is what had been said by The National Fatwa Council’s Chairman Datuk Dr Abdul Shukor Husin :
….yoga had been practised by the Hindu community for thousands of years and incorporated physical movements, religious elements together with chants and worshipping, with the aim of “being one with God”.
“Because of this, we believe that it is inappropriate for Muslims to do yoga. The council is declaring that practising yoga, when it comes together with the three elements, is haram,” he told a press conference here yesterday.
He noted that while merely doing the physical movements of yoga without the worshipping and chanting …read more
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