الهند: رفض مشاركة الطلاب المسلمين في احتفالات اليوجا

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أعربت العديد من المنظمات الإسلامية عن رفضها إجبار الطلاب على المشاركة في احتفالات يوم "اليوجا" العالمي الذي ينعقد يوم 21 يونيو الجاري، بعد أن طالبت حكومة ولاية "مهراشترا" المدارس بفتح أبوابها.

وأعلنت المنظمات الإسلامية أنها سوف تلتقي بمحافظ الولاية؛ لتبلغه أن بعض الحركات التي تشمل الركوع والتي تمارسها اليوجا لإله الشمس لدى الوثنيين لا يجوز للمسلمين ممارستها؛ لأن الركوع ركن من صلاة المسلمين لله تعالى، وذلك وفقًا لتصريحات المتحدث باسم الجماعة الإسلامية بـ"الهند".

وقد أشار "محمد سلمان" المتحدث باسم جمعية الطلاب المسلمين بمدينة "مومباي" الهندية أنه يجوز دعوة الطلاب للمشاركة في جميع الأنشطة دون إجبار الطلاب على ممارستها. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Muslim outfits in Mumbai slam ‘compulsory’ Yoga Day order in schools

A day after Maharashtra government passed a diktat for schools to remain open on Sunday, June 21, to mark International Yoga Day, several Muslim outfits in Mumbai slammed the order saying that yoga, including Surya Namaskar, requires a person to bow (to Sun God), and bowing was a practice reserved for Namaz.

The Muslim organisations have decided to meet the chief minister on Wednesday asking that Yoga sessions be not made compulsory. “It is detrimental to our religious freedom. Islam being a monotheistic religion, the followers cannot bow before anyone except Allah, and it is wrong to impose such things on Muslims,” said Mohammed Zahoor Ahmed, education secretary of Jamat- e-Islami Hind.

“Yoga has Surya Namaskar which means bowing to the Sun God. Muslim students may not be comfortable doing this. Muslims taking up Yoga should be a voluntary move, making it mandatory is unfair.”

June 21 was declared as the International Day of Yoga by the UN General Assembly in December 2014, following which the state government had asked schools to devise programmes to mark the day.

Mohammed Salman, president of Students Islamic Organisation’s Mumbai Chapter, said: “We do not mind if they introduce any activities which help students. However, forcing it on them would disturb harmony and peace and damage the very foundation of secularism.”

In May, the school education department had directed schools to mark the day, and had set up a 24-member committee to chalk out guidelines for Yoga Day. Though School Education and Sports Minister Vinod Tawde had then said schools could celebrate it on another day, on Monday he urged schools to call students on Sunday, June 21.