Muslims can only ban (Sahaja) yoga but not Al Naba, the Great News of their Quran

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> i seriously doubt Muslims (and Christians, Jews, Sikhs) will ever

> accept the rituals that are being promoted. This is the latest

> update and we can see how vital cleansing rituals have become (for

> the Sahaja Yoga organization).

>

> Thursday, March 16, 2006 2:48 AM

> Fwd: [aunews] Birthday Puja Update & Registrations

>

> " See details of Books and CD's coming from India for sale at our

> web site: http://www.sahajayoga.com.au/puja/news.html

>

> There will also be Clearing Sessions, Lemon and Chilli meditations,

> Onion Treatment, Camphor Treatment, String Burning, Oil Rubs and

> meditations " (end)

>

> i wonder how will Muslims react to " Lemon and Chilli meditations " .

> Management SYs have alienated most of the religious faithful and

> ordinary seekers with their obsession and insistence on cleansing

> rituals. Muslims will never compromise their faith with such

> practices. The only way will be the assurance that external

> rituals are absolutely unnecessary to take part in the Last

> Judgment and Resurrection. There is no room for compromise here.

>

> jagbir

>

 

Ruling on yoga ban for Malaysian Muslims postponed

Fri, Nov 7 2008 / 04:44 PM / India news

 

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 7 (IANS) The announcement of a ban on practice of

yoga by Malaysian Muslims was postponed Friday, but that has not

stopped the debate on if, and how, yoga can affect the faith of those

practising it.

 

The ban was scheduled Friday. But it was put off because the National

Fatwa Council chairman Abdul Shukor Husin was overseas on official

business, Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) Director-

General Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz said.

 

'A news conference will be held to make the announcement and the date

will announced later,' he told Bernama, the official news agency.

A lecturer of University Kebangsaan Malaysia's (UKM) faculty of

Islamic studies, Zakaria Stapa, said recently that yoga, which is

based on Hindu elements, could affect the faith of Muslims practising

it.

 

Yoga can make Muslims deviate from Islam, he said and pointed out

that yoga could be traced back to Hinduism. He urged Muslims to stop

yoga practise.

 

However, joining the ongoing debate, many yoga instructors and

practitioners say they regard this ancient form of exercise as

nothing more than a healthy pursuit.

 

How can stretching and breathing be threatening to one's faith, they

asked while talking to The Star newspaper.

 

The experts urge religious officials to attend classes and observe

how it is taught first before coming up with an edict.

 

'If they do, they will see that it is purely physical,' claims yoga

teacher Roslin Mohammed Daud, a Malay Muslim.

 

'It is not like the enthusiasts here are all running off to India,

living in ashrams and surrendering themselves without question to a

guru. Here, I believe Muslims will go where they are comfortable with

to learn yoga.'

 

Guidelines on the practice of yoga among Muslims are welcome, but not

an outright ban, experts said.

 

This issue is, however, not a new one, or unique to Malaysians.

Around the world, debates have simmered through the years about

whether yoga, which has been described as 'incorrigibly religious' is

in conflict with Christianity and other faiths.

 

Yoga enthusiasts in Malaysia are surprised that discussions over the

issue have come this far, the newspaper said.

 

Yoga, they contend, is not dissimilar to other forms of exercise and

those who practise it are only aiming to be fitter or slimmer.

Most yoga centres in Malaysia cater purely for those who want to

enhance their fitness levels. Yoga is taught here in a way that

strips away much of its Indian context, say the experts.

 

Classes just involve physical exercise - some are even combined with

other exercise regimes like pilates to form what is called yogilates -

and are advertised as a healthy means to lose weight, tone up, and

de-stress.

 

'Doing yoga is basically like going to the spa but, of course, it is

a little bit more active,' says Intan Suraya Hashim, who owns an all-

women fitness studio offering yoga, jazzercise and body shaping. She

practises yoga too and recommends it for its ability to enhance

strength and flexibility.

 

Yoga teacher Roslin Daud is clearly disappointed with current

developments: 'Too much emphasis is being placed on something we are

not even doing.'

 

She admits, however, that even before the current debate, there have

been many queries at her studio from Muslims, and even Christians,

who wanted to know whether there was chanting and meditation. Some

were worried that 'emptying their minds' during meditation may

cause 'negative or evil elements' to settle into that blank space.

'I told them we were only into the fitness aspect of it.'

 

According to Malaysian Yoga Society president Manisekaran, Hatha

yoga - which is what most people associate with the word 'yoga' - is

free from all elements of religion and occultism.

 

'It is based on the sound principles of mind-body training to achieve

balanced physical and mental health. There is no chanting, praying or

worship involved.'

 

He stresses that the other main branches of yoga like Raja, Jnana,

Karma and Bhakti are also free from religious concepts.

The society is planning a directory of yoga centres, organisations

and instructors of all branches of yoga. Individuals could then

investigate the organisations through the directory before joining

them.

 

http://in.news./43/20081107/876/twl-ruling-on-yoga-ban-for-

malaysian-mu\

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Dear All,

 

Muslims can only ban (Sahaja) yoga but not Al Naba', the Great News of

their Quran. To believe in the Day of Resurrection is " the most

important article of faith in Islam. It is in fact, the basis upon

which Islam builds its whole philosophy of Life... The advent of

resurrection or Qiyamah is more frequently mentioned in the Noble

Quran than any other happening. "

 

But the General Resurrection is for all, not just Muslims, Christians

or Jews ............ and we are the harbingers of this Great News!

For that we need to find a divine path that welcomes all religious

traditions and find common ground for the faithful to collective walk

with the faith, confidence, and comfort of their Holy Scriptures.

 

We will thus not label ourselves as any group or organization. Instead

seekers will be welcome on the promise of enlightenment based entirely

on their religious background. All we need is do is direct seekers to

www.adishakti.org and related sites (that are now over 3000 webpages).

Christians can join to follow the teachings of the promised Comforter,

or merge with the Holy Spirit within, or learn more of Christ's

teachings and why those born of the Spirit will feel the Wind. Muslims

can join to take part in Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection), or check out

why so many are feeling the Winds of Qiyamah. Jews may find the

Breath of God triggered within humans by the promised Messiah very

comforting since it is a Sure Sign revealed in their Torah. Hindus

may want to merge with the Adi Shakti within, or awaken their

Kundalini, or meditate on Sri Lalita in their Sahasrara. Sikhs may

welcome the fact that the Great Mother is the Aykaa Mayee. Others may

want to join to find out and realize why the Great Mother " is like an

immense tree, whose roots lie beyond the reach of our consciousness,

whose branches are all the forms of life we know, and whose flowering

is a potential within us, a potential that only a tiny handful of the

human race has realized. " What can we label ourselves thus? Why

create divisions and exclusivity? Why not allow everyone the freedom

to choose the religious path(s) they feel most comfortable with? Why

not let everyone be their own gurus as all the required information

is at www.adishakti.org and related websites?

 

Other than Silence on Self--the innermost core of unsurpassed

enlightenment in its most simplistic reduction and comprehension--

there must be no other emphasis on rules, dress, food, religion, guru,

leadership, ritual, treatment, penance, idol, pilgrimage, or any other

human invention to participate in the General Resurrection/evolution

from a physical being into the eternal spirit.

 

That enligtenment has nothing to do with the SYSSReligion and their

obsessive, ritualistic chakra-cleansing pettiness and avidya. To rid

ourselves of this disease and be saved from these SYSSReligion forces

of deception and ignorance we will have to celebrate the primordial

experience of the Great Mother ........... and daily experience Her

in our lives as our innermost Self; the direct experiential intimacy

with God that is gnosis. That is Self-realization!

 

And we forewarn all Muslims that despite the Call to witness the

Resurrection and the self-reproaching Spirit (after Self-realization):

 

LAA UQSIM BI-YAWM AL-QIYAMAH;

WA-LAA UQSIM BI-AN-NAFSAL-LAWWAAMAH

I do call to witness the Resurrection Day;

And I do call to witness the self-reproaching Spirit.

 

the majority will deny and defy their own Quran. Yes, they definitely

will because it is their own Quran that warns and accuses them!

 

Concerning what are they disputing?

Concerning the Great News. [5889]

About which they cannot agree.

Verily, they shall soon (come to) know!

Verily, verily they shall soon (come to) know!

 

surah 78:1-5 Al Naba' (The Great News)

 

" 5889. Great News: usually understood to mean the News or Message of

the Resurrection. "

 

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an 2

(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)

 

The centuries-old distortion of the Holy Qur'an by scholars and

theologians alike will deceive many who will still wait for doomsday

(Al Qariah or the Day of Noise and Clamour). Thus even after hearing

this Good News of the living, breathing Qur'an to witness and

participate in the Resurrection (Al Qadr or the Night of Power), they

will reject and ridicule it! So it was prophesied in the Qur'an that

Allah's (SWT) Holy Plan for humanity will be rejected and ridiculed,

and so shall it begin to manifest in the hearts of the disbelievers!

 

And in the Hereafter these disbelieving Muslims will be asked:

 

" O ye assembly of Jinns and men! Came there not unto you messengers

from amongst you, setting forth unto you My Signs, and warning you of

the meeting of this day of yours? " They will say: " We bear witness

against ourselves. " It was the life of this world that deceived them.

So against themselves will they bear witness that they rejected

Faith. For thy Lord would not destroy, for their wrongdoing men's

inhabitants, whilst their occupants were unwarned. " Qur'an 6.130-131

 

As i have said, Muslims can only ban (Sahaja) yoga but not Al Naba,

the Great News of their Quran that demands humanity be forewarned, by

those bearing witness to it, that the Resurrection has commenced:

 

LAA UQSIM BI-YAWM AL-QIYAMAH;

WA-LAA UQSIM BI-AN-NAFSAL-LAWWAAMAH

I do call to witness the Resurrection Day;

And I do call to witness the self-reproaching Spirit.

 

And we are calling upon the Ummah to bear witness to both the

Resurrection Day and the self-reproaching Spirit. Muslims can never

dare lift a finger against those messengers like us who are setting

forth His Signs of Al-Qiyamah (The Resurrection). That is why no

Muslim has till date, or will ever for the matter, dare challenge

www.al-qiyamah.org. i am most willing to chisel this challenge to all

Muslims in granite!

 

regards to all,

 

 

jagbir

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