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Women's Masaail The Majlis Vol 27 No 01, p.11

There is a group of ladies in our area that have a woman trainer to come home and do exercises with them.

Question

There is a group of ladies in our area that have a woman trainer to come home and do exercises with them. This lady intends on introducing some other exercises with them that originate from „Yoga‟. I know that yoga originates from the hindu culture, however they intend to use only the exercises/stretching techniques from yoga and not to practice yoga itself. There will be no meditation, humming and all the other aspects of yoga, just exercises. Will this be permissible?

Answer

This is acceptable, provided that the conditions mentioned in the question are fully upheld and no other un- Islamic practices are found.

Mufti ShafiqJakhura

Iftaa Department, DarulIhsan Islamic Services Centre

I concur with the answer:

Mufti Zubair Bayat

Ameer, DarulIhsan Islamic Services Centre

Answer and Comment

Firstly understand that the entity dubbed Darul Ihsan is actually Darush Shaitaan. The two wayward molvis who issued their junk fatwa of permissibility for the initiation of shirk and kufr under the guise of physical exercise, are juhala and agents of Iblees. These two characters lack intellectual discernment to differentiate between even jam and faeces. They always gravitate to haraam and shaitaaniyat. They have become experts in halaalizing haraam fisq, fujoor, riba and kufr.

Even if the satanic gym for women does not introduce Hindu kufr yoga, then too it is haraam for women to congregate for the type of exercises mentioned in the question. When it is not permissible for women to go to even the Musjid for Fardh Salaat, then how can it ever be permissible for them to go to a gym where shaitaan will incumbently be present? If these misguided characters are able to refer to the Kutub of the Fuqaha, they will find that it is not permissible for females to attend even a Walimah.

Even without Hindu yoga, it is not permissible for Muslim females to gather so shamelessly for exercises as do the kuffaar women of the west. Such gatherings of females are nugatory of the Imaani hayaa attribute of Muslim women.

Shaitaan is a cunning ustaadh. He approaches in seemingly good form with baits which ostensibly appear to be permissible. By imperceptible degrees he draws his victims into his snare of fisq, fujoor and kufr. Allah Ta'ala says: "Do not come near to zina."(Qur‟aan). This is a general principle applicable to all kinds of sin. By degrees Iblees draws his victims near to fisq, fujoor, shirk and kufr with the yoga shaitaaniyat halaalized by the moron socalled muftis who are unable to distinguish between right and left.

While Iblees calls the women to participate in expressing themselves at the gym, the Qur'aan commands them to remain "glued in their homes", and not to make an "exhibition" of themselves. Female emergence from the home for acts and practices which eliminate Imaani haya, is the stepping stone for greater evil and immorality. When women gather to behave like monkeys with their exercises, they denude themselves of their garment of Haya. When Haya is abandoned, the vacuum is filled by obscenity and shamelessness. Their shamelessness is compounded by means of the Hindu kufr yoga exercises.

A woman should exercise in the privacy of her home, not in a gathering of women outside her home. Rascal, deviate moron ‗muftis' have ruined innumerable women with their corrupt Ibleesi ‗fatwas'.

Dead cow carcasses

"resurrected" to produce cloned beef

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) We already know that cloned beef has entered the food supply both in the United States and the UK. Now, thanks to revelations from JR Simplot, a U.S. company specializing in the cloning of cows for beef production, we're learning that dead cows are cloned to produce the next generation of beef cattle. Here's how it works: A large number of cows are slaughtered and then chopped into steaks that are tested for their flavor, texture and other qualities important to steak eaters. The source animal of each steak is recorded, and cells from that source carcass are preserved for possible cloning in case the steak turns out to taste good. Once all the steaks are gauged for their desirability, the dead cow carcasses from which the flesh was cut to produce the steaks are harvested for their DNA.

This DNA is then used to clone new cows who are fed, raised and slaughtered to see how their flesh steaks taste. This cycle is repeated through multiple generations in order to "evolve" cow clones with great-tasting flesh.

‗The animals are hanging on a rail ready to go to the meat counter," JR Simplot employee Brady Hicks (yes, that's his real name) told BBC News. "We identify carcasses that have certain carcass characteristics that we want, but it's too late to reproduce the genetics of the animal. But through cloning we can resurrect that animal."

This "bovine resurrection," it turns out, is just the latest mad science idea from an industry that recognizes no value in the life of a cow but tremendous value from its dead carcass.

Frankenfood Beef

The upshot of all this is that the beef people are buying and eating in the US and UK right now could be from cow clones raised from the dead carcasses of other cows whose DNA were harvested for cloning.

Yep: Only in the food industry do you see this sort of Frankenstein science - trying to create life from dead body parts through a process they call "resurrection"... and then serving up Frankenfoods to consumers.

Far from the world of live foods, beef products are dead food made from dead cows that were given life by taking dead cells from the carcasses or other dead cows who were only kept alive in order to harvest their dead DNA. If it sounds a little sick and demented, that's because it undoubtedly is. This process violates so many principles of ethics and spirituality that it's hard to even know where to begin.

Of course, by the time a thousand cow carcasses are all ground up, mixed together, extruded, irradiated and packaged, no one can tell where the beef actually come from... or even if it was cloned in the first place. Slap a greasy patty of cloned beef between two hamburger buns at a fast food joint and no one is the wiser.

That's sort of the point, actually: beef industry knows that people don't really have much of a clue where their beef comes from -- and they don't want to know! So even if beef comes from cloned animals raised from the harvested DNA of dead cow carcasses, the average consumer remains clueless.

The high price of low cost

The goal of the beef industry is to create the best-tasting beef in the world at the lowest cost possible. Period.

There is no consideration in the industry for the experience of the cow, nor the ethics of playing God with bovine DNA, nor compassion for the suffering of these animals when they are slaughtered, nor the impact of factory farming on the environment. It's all about corporate profits at the expense of the cows who are born, bred, cloned and slaughtered merely to produce another quarter-pounder that ratchets up another dime in profits for the beef factories.

Think about that the next time you dare to buy anything made from cow parts. You may be buying Franken-cow beef originating from the "resurrected" DNA of a bovine carcass.

There's one thing we all know for sure: The beef industry prefers to keep consumers in the dark about where all that beef really comes from.

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