Vastu shastra feng shui design.
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Im very much enchanted to see such a site which is quite fruitfull to people
like us! May Allah bless you with the best of his tidings for all your generous
effort. Coming to my question...it is about the concept of vaastu shastra.
Since Alhamdu lillah by the grace of god we are building a new house, we did
integrate certain aspects of vastushastra in it...like placing d kitchen acc.
to direction of wind..the ventilation, etc...Most of the aspect n design of the
house was approached through vastushastra. We even did a quick browsing of vastushastra
to check out any element of diversion from our faith...but we came out with
none...what ever aspect of vaastu shastra we used was completely based on
practicality...just what Islam preaches the most "practicality" a
concept void in all the other relegion!!we did completely avoid any elements
that Allah disliked...As being an ardent follower of faith in Allah n Allah
alone, I would like to know whether a concept we used is in any accordance
against Islam...since what ever research we did do have its own limitation!
PLZ i do need a quick response from your side!!
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Vastu shastra feng
shui design
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Ref: What is Vaastu Shastra?
The literal
meaning of ‘Vaastu’ would be a physical environment, and ‘Shastra’ means
knowledge. ‘Vastu Shastra’ is one of the
traditional Hindu
canons
of town planning
and architecture
and are supposedly codified in their religious texts and scriptures. ‘Vaastu Shastra’ deals with various aspects of
designing
and building
living environments that are in harmony with the physical
and metaphysical
forces/ energies of the cosmos such as the gravitational,
electromagnetic
and supernatural.
Building practices based on limited interpretations of these principles are
still sustained by the believers of the Hindu religion.
‘Vaastu’ is
the coded knowledge of direction that combines all the five elements of nature
and balances them with the man and the material. ‘Vaastu Shastra’ is creating a
congenial settings or a place to live or work taking advantages of the supposed
benefits bestowed by the five elements (Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Space)
called “Paanchbhootas” of the nature thereby paving the way for enhanced
health, wealth, prosperity and happiness in an enlightened environment.
The ‘Vaastu
Purusha Mandala’
is an indispensable part of ‘Vaastu Shastra’ and constitutes the mathematical
and diagrammatic
basis for generating direction and design. The principal Hindu
gods/presiding deities of each direction (called the ‘ashtadikpalar’) are:
Northeast-
Eeshanya- Ruled by the Lord of all quarters or Eeshwara
Siva (Religions,Luck and
Faith)
East- Aditya- Ruled
by Sun God - Aditya
(Seeing the world)
Southeast- Agni- Ruled by Lord of
Fire - Agni
(Energy Generating)
South- Yama-
Ruled by Lord of Death - Yama (Damaging)
Southwest- Pitru- Ruled by ancestors (History)
West- Varuna- Ruled
by Lord of water (Physical)
Northwest- Vayu- ruled by Lord Of
Winds (Advertisement)
North- Kubera- Ruled
by Lord of Wealth (Finance)
Centre- Brahma-
Ruled by Lord/Creator of the Universe (Desire)
Your Question: As
being an ardent follower of faith in Allah n Allah alone, I would like to know
whether a concept we used is in any accordance against Islam...s
As is absolutely evident from
the description of the supposed ‘knowledge’ of ‘Vastu-Shashtra’ quoted above
that it is nothing more than a code supposedly derived from the pagan religious
text and embedded with the ‘powers’ of their various mythological and
supernatural dieites and gods!
Dear and beloved brother in
Islam, to accept, follow, believe or utilize even an iota of such pagan
embedded knowledge that anything in the ‘unseen’ (other than the One and Only
True Lord Who Created) can bring about any benefit or protect one from any harm
would be, without an iota of a doubt, an act of manifest disbelief and the
abomination of the most heinious and unforgiveable crime of ‘shirk’ in the Sight
of Allah Subhanah!
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 39 Surah
Zumar verse 65-66:
If you commit ‘shirk’ all your works will
be rendered vain and you will be among the losers.
Therefore, you should worship Allah Alone, and be among His grateful servants.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 72:
Whoever commits ‘shirk’ (invoking
anything with Allah), Allah shall forbid
for him
Allah says in the
Quran: Chapter 4 Surah An-Nisa Verse 48
Shirk (associating other deities with Allah) is the only sin that Allah
does not forgive, and He forgives, whomsoever He pleases, sins other
than this. For whosoever associates any
other partner with Allah, does indeed forge a big lie and commits the most
heinous sin
The concepts of the
Hindu ‘Vaastu-Shastra’ or the Chinese ‘Feng-Shui’, etc. are no more than a
figment of someone’s imagination, and have absolutely no basis to the reality
of truth….nor do or can the practice of such imaginations and conjecture
benefit or protect one in the least!
There is only One Creator of everything that exists in
creation, and He Alone is and Suffices as a Protector, Cherisher, Sustainer,
and The Absolute Lord, Ruler, Master, and Controller of absolutely everything
that happens in the universe! Allah is
our witness brother, no ‘Vastu’, no ‘Feng-Shui’, no nothing can bring even an
iota of benefit to anyone if Allah Subhanah Wills otherwise, nor can such
absolute conjecture protect one from any harm if the Lord Most Majestic Most
Supreme Decrees otherwise!!!!! Allah
Subhanah, the Lord of the Worlds Suffices as a Disposer of absolutely all
affairs of the believers.
Allah Says in His Holy Quran Chapter 35 Surah
Fatir verse 2:
2 What Allah out of His Mercy doth bestow on mankind there is none can
withhold: what He doth withhold there is none can grant apart from Him: and He
is the Exalted in Power Full of Wisdom.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 3 Surah Ale Imraan verse 160:
If Allah helps you none can overcome you: if He
forsakes you who is there after that that can help you? In Allah then let believers put their trust.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah verse 51:
Say: "Nothing
will happen to us except what Allah has decreed for us: He is our Protector"; and on Allah let the believers put their
trust.
Allah Says in the Holy Quran Chapter 6 Surah
Anaam verse 17:
17 If Allah touch thee with affliction none can remove it but He; if He
touch thee with happiness He hath power over all things.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 33 Surah
Ahzaab verse 3:
And put your trust in Allah Alone; and enough is
Allah as a Disposer of affairs.
If one trusts, obeys, and follows the guidance and
commands of Allah and His Messenger (saws),
one can be assured of never ever being misled; but if one believes, obeys and follows any
other guidance, other than that of Allah and His Messenger (saws), one can be
assured of being led astray.
Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only
due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me
alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is
the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and
well wisher in Islam,
Burhan
