Gym during Ramadan, yes or no?
 

Salam Alaikum

Who goes to Gym during the month of Ramadan?

we will go to masjid during Ramadan

Insha'Allah I will go most nights after iftar. Though if I had the option to go to the Masjid every night, I would do that instead.

Ramadan is not for spending down the gym. 30 days rest from exercise must be undertaken, instead time must be spent on concentrated worship and focus on Allah http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/taala.gif. Every second of Ramadan should be considered as very valuable and not to be wasted on unnecessary actions. It is like an employee in their job usually getting paid 20 dollars an hour, and the boss tells the employee that for one month only they will get $500 an hour....that employee will work as many hours as they can for that month, knowing that they are getting lots of money and they will be able to rest when it ends. Ramadan is looked at like this by the advanced awliya Allah (or friends of Allah).

Salam Alaikum,

MashAllah, but will you stay in the Masjid 24 hours? No work? no exercise?

So you are saying exercise is unnecessary during Ramadan, from where did you get this?

As-salamu 'alaikum wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh

AbuMuslim, if you are able to go the gym, then do so. However, don't it at the expense of not going to the Masjid or missing Taraweeh. My brother said that he will inshaa Allah go to the gym in the morning during Ramadan thus he won't miss prayers at the Masjid.

Walaikum Salam,

Of course I will not miss Tarawih and other prayers. I will try to go in the evenings (1-2 hours before Iftar) but I am just asking the experience of other brothers (going to gym while fasting).

Salam Alaikum.

JazakAllah Khair for the help.

As-salamu 'alaikum wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh

I went two Ramadans ago. It was not really that different from normal. But I did not do it 1-2 hours before Iftar. I trained during day time so it was a long time after suhur and long time until iftar.

السلام عليكم

I was going to do this workout plan which lasts for 60 days and I started yesterday (I almost fainted during Fajr salah. I finished the workout (which is the easiest as its the first one) at 4am and 30 minutes later I thought I would need to vomit. In other words, what a good workout!

I then remembered that Ramadhan was only a few days away and despite my excitement of having found a workout plan which is much hyped which actually seems to work, I decided it would be best not to go through with it. It would require 45 minutes everyday 6 days a week which might not seem that much but its Ramadhan and in this special month of mercy I thought for me personally that time would be better spend praying, reciting Quraan etc. I have 11 months after Ramadhan to which I can beast this workout (or gym if I was a gymming guy) and get hench.

Yes, I will be going to the Gym during Ramadan, but I will be keeping it to the minimum since I want to spend most of the time reciting Qur'an and doing dhikr. I plan on going an hour and a half before iftar, so I can eat and drink as soon as I get home. And then of course, taraweeh after iftar.

Dont go everyday, I'll only be going like 3 times a week, and only for an hour or hour-and-half.

This Ramadan is gonna be brutal. Bring it on!

Bro, going to the gym can be an act of worship also. If you are doing it for the sake of Allah to stay and healthy and fit, which is also a part of Islam.

30 days rest from Gym is not a good hing to do if you go to gym regularly. If you do this then you'll lose all the muscle you had previously gained, so all those days you worked out will have gone to waste. Of course we will also do dhikr and Qur'an recitation and many other good deeds, but we'll have time for the gym also.

True that gymming can be an act of ibaadah, but I feel it's very easy I am doing something that I would do anyway and make it out to be worship. For example, I love doing X and I would do it regardless of whether it could be an act of worship or not. Just as an example, even though it's not very good, I am interested in trying to learn how to lucid dream. As far as I know it's not impermissible to learn how to lucid dream, neither is it something recommended islamically, it's neutral. If suddenly there was a way to make it into an act of ibaadah I would find it really difficult to believe my intentions would suddenly change and the driving force behind me learning it is to worship rather than what I originally intended it to be for.

Note btw the use of I here, I'm not doubting anybody elses intentions at all. It's just I remember creating an awfully long thread about this a long time ago on here somewhere in the fiqh section I think. The aspect of intentions is something I have a lot of trouble with.

Anyways the reason I wrote this was to say for me personally, I would prefer to stick to things where I know I am doing it solely for Allah SWT which if it was to benefit me that's great. Once I can hit that stage with my workouts, where a day will come when I can't be bothered to workout but I will say no I'm doing this for Allah and get up and go workout that's the day I know I'm really doing it for Him and I wouldn't have a problem working out in Ramadhan. As of now, when I can't be bothered, I'm not getting up off this sofa.

Recite things dring your exercise routines, use that as your timing. "Hmm, recite this aya 50 times today... then 60 times tomorrow..." Get your exercise and ibadah in at the same time.

http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/salam.gif, I have been jogging in Ramadhan in the past, and intend to do it regularly this ramadhan http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/insh.gif....My one piece of fairly general advice is that you should exercise just before Iftar, time it in such a way that you are returning home and the maghrib azaan starts.....If you finish exercising like half an hour before iftar, you might feel dehydrated for a longer period of time, and the last half an hour can be uncomfortable...