Muscular Christianity and sports culture among Muslim youth | Sports

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During the 19th century, when the Muslim world was going through a major political and social ups and downs, French forces arrived in Algeria, and the British occupied Delhi and in 1857 the great Mughal Empire was drawn.

These days, Author Clifford Putini wrote an interesting and thinking book “Christianity-Mening and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920” in which the author offers a very important overview of muscle Christianity and its appeal during the progressive era. This theory had a profound impact on the development of athletics and sports in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Young Man Christian Association (YMCA), the Olympic Games and the Collagate Sports.

The concept gained more popularity and focused on Thomas Hughes’ work when he wrote “Tom Brown’s school day” based on the experience of Thomas Arnold, an educational reformist working at a United States rugby school in 1857.

The movement of muscle Christianity was never officially organized or headed by a single personality, but instead there was a cultural phenomenon that showed itself in different ways and supported different personalities.

In this way, the sports provided a platform for “unorganized” Good news. “Boxing gloves are more useful, though in the church’s weapons, in the church’s weapons,” said a top priest of the AOJA church in 1894. Jay worked in the poorest part of East London and decided to build an athletic club, which includes a boxing ring on top of his church building.

The club was open every night and the father used to stand by the door, and take membership in it and shake the hands of the young men who came in. Not only was the ring filled with young rivals, but the fights also often found their way to the church’s Pew, the services regularly attract 400 to 500 men.

Jay has also reported that the participants of the club became less risky of sick violence, which was a common problem in the West at the time.

However, the largest belief -based leap was taken by the YMCA, which took the lead in 1869 and patronized its first Y (young) gymnasium, which later proved to be very effective in spreading Christianity among the youth.

In addition to James, the YMCA played a vital role in promoting indoor sports like basketball, volleyball, biking and crying. Young men and women arrived at these entertainment centers.

However, Muslim societies have been confused on this topic for a long time. When the involvement of Muslim youth and communities in sports, poor engagement strategies, lack of vision, lack of trained human resources, prohibitions around Islamic clothing codes and lack of political will and the ruling class priority, which is only deep in the skin, is the main obstacle and failure.

Islamic beliefs are full of examples of high sources of sports and participation in physical activities. According to Sahi Muslim Hadith No. 2664, Holi Nabi Muhammad (demonstrate peace on them) said that a physically hard -working believer is better than a weak believer. In Surah Balad, Almighty Allah, verse 04, reminds humans, that they are born for struggle and should not find the easy way, because Allah created man to struggle hard, and created Himself in every way to face the challenges of life.

Looking for a model in Islamic culture, where sports are used as a hook to engage young people with the mosque, I did a extensive research and was disappointed to find no such model, before I found out that the mosque was located in the Mosque F -8, and it was very good for it.

This successful model, where the mosque has been used in its true sense, is headed by Dr. Obaid and Rehman Bashir and his determined team. Mr Murad Sajid told me that more than 50 young boys and girls regularly participate in modern sports programs such as “Masjid Kids Club”, Fajr and Asar Games, and is very famous among the girls at the top of the mosque’s roof.

I also found out that a mosque called the Chadder Mosque in Manchester (UK), which was established in 2004, was also using sports effectively to reduce the social inequality and obstacles facing the Muslim community in terms of equal access and participation in sports, which has increased by more source.

In addition to the formal education of the Qur’an and the Fauqa, the mosque has also started programs like “sisters’ football” and “golf lessons” for young children aged 06 to 14.

In mosques in the United States, this approach is relatively more practiced, where enlightened religious scholars are using sports to engage with educated Muslim youth and their families, who are deprived of religion and sports because of their simplest way of life.

Islamic Sports is an organization in North America that focuses on social engagements to affect healthy lifestyle and access to sports. The Muslim Youth Basketball Clinic is also regularly organized in Portland in the United States under the Muslim Education Trust, where basketball is given “lessons of Islamic life”.

Muslim Youth worldwide faces many social and cultural challenges, which need to be solved through modern means, including sports and sports use, which will not only help learn Islamic values, but if designed professionally, this program can provide a lot of skills in young people and more of life.

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