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🏋️Bodybuilding &🚴exercise to look good physically

Hazrat Khalifatul Masih V (aa) recently said: “If someone wants to look good, then how can I stop them? If they do this... 🧵(1/7)

“there’s a double benefit; health improves and the body gets fitness too – both things are achieved. As long as the intention is pure, that 'we are going to improve our health, and we will improve our health so we can fulfil our dues owed to Allah the Almighty.'” (2/7)

Huzoor (aa) said Ahmadis should improve their health with the intention of serving the Jamaat, fulfilling the rights of worship and the rights of other people. “Along with improving health, through exercise, the body will look good automatically. Therefore, (3/7)

“the intention should be pure – Islam says that your intention should be pure.”

Giving an example of having the right intention, Huzoor (aa) said the Holy Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be on him, once asked someone why they had a window in their room. (4/7)

The person replied that it was there for the light to enter. To this, the Holy Prophet (sa) said that if the person’s intention for the window was to hear the azan, then he would have been rewarded for that intention and received daylight anyway. (5/7)

Huzoor (aa) said: “The intention should be pure. Apart from this, we cannot stop someone [and say] ‘Why do you wish to make your body smart?’ Let them do it. What difference does it make to you? If you want to do it, (6/7)

“then do it with the intention that ‘my health improves, and with health, I can fulfil the rights of Allah and the rights of His creation. And, as a result, my body will look good anyway.” (7/7)

Source: alhakam.org/finland-waqife…