Home » Hanafi Fiqh » Muftionline.co.za » Body Building in Islam: For Stamina and Self-Confidence, Not Showing Off

Body Building in Islam: For Stamina and Self-Confidence, Not Showing Off

Q: Is body building allowed in Islam for stamina and self confidence? It is not for showing off.

bismillah.jpg

A: It is permissible provided there is nothing impermissible associated with it.

And Allah Ta’ala (الله تعالى) knows best.

وعن عبد الله بن عمرو بن العاص قال : قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : ” يا عبد الله ألم أخبر أنك تصوم النهار وتقوم الليل ؟ ” فقلت : بلى يا رسول الله . قال : ” فلا تفعل صم وأفطر وقم ونم فإن لجسدك عليك حقا وإن لعينك عليك حقا وإن لزوجك عليك حقا وإن لزورك عليك حقا . لا صام من صام الدهر . صوم ثلاثة أيام من كل شهر صوم الدهر كله . صم كل شهر ثلاثة أيام واقرأ القرآن في كل شهر ” . قلت : إني أطيق أكثر من ذلك . قال : ” صم أفضل الصوم صوم داود : صيام يوم وإفطار يوم . واقرأ في كل سبع ليال مرة ولا تزد على ذلك ” (مشكاة #2054)

Answered by:

Mufti Zakaria Makada

Checked & Approved:

Mufti Ebrahim Salejee (Isipingo Beach)

This answer was collected from MuftiOnline.co.za, where the questions have been answered by Mufti Zakaria Makada (Hafizahullah), who is currently a senior lecturer in the science of Hadith and Fiqh at Madrasah Ta’leemuddeen, Isipingo Beach, South Africa.

Random Q&A

Sir, almost three months back myself and my wife we were staying alone in Bahrain just before ramadan we both had a big fight and that time she was in her monthly cycle in fact the matter was out of hands and we beat each other were totally out of control mentally and physically as well and in anger she first gave Talaq to me by taking Allah as Gawah to which i also get anger and called her parents in India and inform the same and then called my family as well and was talking to them and they tried to console both of us but we never stopped during that time she was still shouting at me and using bad language and I the highest level of my anger talking to my mummy and Bahbi I said i take you (bhabi) as gawah and divorce her (thrice) all at once* which I even doesn’t recollect it and my bhabi says I said it thrice.   After 3 days she went to India and since then she is staying at her house and both of us are not in physical contact since then. But we talk once in a while. and willing to come back to each other and since that day till today have not talked about divorce at all nor she remembers the incident and she has not inform her parents about it as well.   My question to you sir is does my Talaq counts or not under this conditions. As I am confused have ref to so many fatwas and everywhere its different.   And secondly if you’re really out of our mind and pronounced divorce without knowing the consequences of it does it counts.  In the name of Allah, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful.