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Peace be upon you, peace be upon you, and peace be upon you, and peace be upon you.

Today we're going to have our rapid round again that a lot of people appreciated the fact

that we have some diversity that sometimes we do longer answers, sometimes we do short

and sweet so today we'll be the rapid round as many questions as we can get done in

insha'Allah Wa Ta'ala.

So let us begin.

Brother Sultan from New Jersey asks that is meditation as practiced by modern practitioners

allowed in the Sharia or is there some overlap with rituals of other faiths?

He then says that there are many recent studies that acknowledge that there's a lot of positive

results.

It helps in mindfulness and stress and being focused and well-being.

So the Islamic ruling on meditation as it is practiced in our times.

The answer to this in a nutshell is that there is no doubt that rituals of another faith

are not allowed for us to do anything that is inherently a ritual.

And therefore for example to bow down in front of an idol, for example, to show servitude

to another God or to do anything that is uniquely characteristic of another faith, another

Aqeeda, another religion that is a symbol of their religion.

So for example, there would not be allowed for a Muslim to, for example, wear a cross

because that is something that indicates faith that is against our faith.

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