{"id":5513,"date":"2025-10-25T02:38:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2025-10-25T02:38:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T02:38:34","slug":"is-bowing-to-your-sensei-in-martial-arts-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"Is Bowing to Your Sensei in Martial Arts Allowed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Bowing to Your Sensei in Martial Arts <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Question:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Is bowing to your Sensei in Martial Arts allowed?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">In the name of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-faith.com\/category\/islamic-creed\/almighty-allah\/\">Allah<\/a>, we praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Bowing and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prayerinislam.com\/guide-to-prayer\/ruku-in-prayer\/\">bending<\/a> down as a form of greeting in martial arts to your Sensei is a form of showing respect. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Although, we know in Islam we are not supposed to bow in front of anyone save Allah. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">How do we understand this and what should a Muslim do in this scenario? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;font-size: 14pt\">Watch this short talk to get the answer with Sheikh Waleed Basyouni<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"width: 0px;overflow: hidden;line-height: 0\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Faithiq Youtube Channel.<\/em><a href='https:\/\/prayerinislam.com\/is-bowing-to-your-sensei-in-martial-arts-allowed\/' target='_blank'>Soucre Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Bowing to Your Sensei in Martial Arts Allowed in Islam? Watch this short talk to get the answer with Sheikh Waleed Basyouni. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1799,1563],"tags":[4999,5000,5001,5002,5003,5004,5005,1569,76,2382,1052,1575,183,1991,1576,813],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatwas-rulings","category-prayer-in-islam","tag-aqeedah","tag-bowing-as-a-greeting","tag-bowing-in-islam","tag-bowing-to-human","tag-bowing-to-your-master","tag-bowing-to-your-sensei","tag-bowing-to-your-teacher","tag-how-to-pray","tag-islam","tag-muslims-how-to-pray","tag-prayer","tag-prayer-in-islam","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-ruku","tag-salah","tag-tawheed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Is-Bowing-to-Your-Sensei-in-Martial-Arts-Allowed.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imuslim.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}