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Do you know why prostrating and bowing to anyone other than God were prohibited?
Fiery energies, such as red and orange, cause numerous harms when they enter the head, including dilation of the defensive blood vessels and various eye problems such as retinal detachment. The foot chakras are not only energy entry points but also primary exits for negative energy from the body.
Comment:
1. Prostration is undoubtedly a great act of worship owed only to God. Whoever directs it to another as worship falls into major polytheism. Yet this does not justify using an unlawful means to deter people from that polytheism. We would then have escaped polytheism only to fall into a religious violation that many promoters of such nonsense may not notice.
2. The claim that prostration is connected with negative and positive energy and other forms of sorcery and charlatanism is false and a baseless fabrication from which Muslims must distance themselves.
“Prostration is a religious rite and servitude to God, mighty and majestic, in which the servant is nearest to his Lord. It contains humility, submission, brokenness, weakness and need. The tongue moves in supplication and tears flow from the eyes in fear, hope and love for the Most High Lord. The believer therefore finds comfort, tranquillity and happiness in prostrating to God and realises the meanings of servitude through it.
Today, promoters of energy philosophies claim that prostration frees us from negative energies accumulated in our heads throughout the day from using devices, life situations and the fear, sadness and similar feelings they generate. They say that we must prostrate directly on the earth or on something of its kind, soil or stone, for prostration to have its effect, so that the limbs used in prostration harmonise with the earth, discharge negative energy into it and receive positive energies instead! Astonishingly, this false statement is clothed as a scientific miracle and circulated as though it were a scientific fact establishing prostration’s health benefits. Some Muslims even become especially eager to prostrate on the ground whenever an opportunity arises or their head hurts, intending to discharge the negative energies accumulated in their heads!
It does not surprise me that Satan beautifies this statement for them. He is most enraged and defeated when he sees a child of Adam worshipping obediently. No scene manifests servitude and realises nearness to God like prostration to the Most High. He therefore sought to turn it into a pagan healing ritual instead of servitude and nearness!
Claims about discharging negative energies and drawing positive energies use ‘energy’ outside its recognised scientific meanings. They instead use it in philosophical senses, including the belief of adherents of earth-centred pagan religions that the earth has a great spirit and energy called ‘Gaia’, which influences a person who harmonises with it, granting health and peace and freeing him from disease!
So prostrate and draw near as an obedient, humble servant who loves his Most High Lord, whether on stone or carpet, or by nodding your head if you are ill. The One to whom you prostrate is near you: He sees your place, hears your supplication and knows what is within you. God has no need of any partner in worship.
3. This energy cannot be measured and is recognised neither by physicists nor religious scholars. Known energy-measuring instruments cannot measure it. It is supposedly measured by special instruments such as a pendulum, whose direction of rotation distinguishes negative from positive energy. Some use a Kirlian camera, which photographs electrical discharge, thermonic imaging, corona-discharge photography or a nerve-detection device, claiming that the displayed results measure ‘cosmic energy’ in the body. They attempt to turn ‘cosmic energy’ into something measurable like physical energy, clothing it as science and suggesting distance from religious meanings and pagan philosophies by exploiting most people’s ignorance of these instruments and what they actually measure. Physicists do not recognise this so-called cosmic energy: it is not the energy they know. Religious scholars do not recognise it either: it is not ‘energy’ used figuratively for resolve, elevated faith or similar meanings. Neither kind of energy has any connection to the methods of drawing energy promoted by cosmic-energy advocates. These are beliefs of Eastern religions, especially those of China, India and Tibet, promoted by their spiritual sages and false objects of veneration in the past and present.” (1)
Finally, when someone neglects the meanings of reverence for God, their life-giving effect on hearts and their hope of attaining God’s pleasure and Paradise, the heart becomes filled with other meanings. If these are not false hopes or a mirage mistaken for water by a thirsty person, then at the very least God’s words apply: “Would you exchange what is better for what is inferior?” [al-Baqarah: 61]. Praise be to God for the blessing of Islam.
God knows best.
(1) Adapted from “Prostrating for Energy Is Pagan Worship” by Dr Fawz bint Abd al-Latif Kurdi, published on the Islam Way website.
Article link: http://iswy.co/e11g14
For more, see:
– People’s Positions on the Benefit and Wisdom of Worship.
– Prostration and Good Thinking.
– Encouraging Prostration by Magnifying Its Worldly Benefits.