Thursday, November 27, 2008

Yoga 'Haram' absolute truth or relative / subjective truth?

Why Yoga was banned in Malaysia? The reasoning was based on Islamic truth.

Generally speaking there are two types of truths one of it, is the truth based on our faith which grounded based on religion and culture. The other truth is the real truth i.e the absolute truth which we are trying to seek from philosophy.

In religion and cultural truth we MUST accept the truth without any conditions or questions. Therefore the truth is absolute in the eye of the faith, culture or religion. The moment we doubt it, it amount to putting our own shoe in our mouth. Therefore generally we own doubt or question our belief system and religion. This concept is known as subjective or relative truths.

In contrast for absolute truth we doubt everything it is like a process of ‘no stone is unturned’. This will be a pain sticking process for those have relied on subjective or relative truths.

Based on this premise by declaring Yoga as Haram it is only reflecting subjective or relative truth and not absolute truth. So, the absolute truth is still on the air. Is yoga ought to be dealer as haram? Yes in the perspective of subjective or relative truth and NO in the eyes of absolute truth. So enjoy doing it.