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So we raised them up from their sleep that
they might question each other said one
of them how long have we tarried the
other said we have stayed a day or part
of the day and then they said how do I
become an animal be mad a victim I had
to comb the Waterpik home Harry he ate
in Medina
so Allah knows best
how long you have tarried and then they
he said send one of you with this
Warrick
which is money what up means silver and
they have they have been football and
what occurred silver so be walking home
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surrender become I had that so he says
so send you then with this money of
yours to the town and let him find out
or seek out said younger means to look
and young more never I am gobble nabber
on means to look you know but I am the
Luna L an EBD k fo for the apart and you
haven't a contemplated haven't they
looked seriously so it has the idea
looking with a concern or look at which
is the as common
the purest food but he convinced the men
who so let him bring some provision from
that food what he has a laptop
and he should behave with care and
courtesy or beware go easy
in order not to inform the others about
you so the idea that young or AHA escapa
Anna let them look at which is the
purest of food and this is a issue that
in some ways wasn't there's been a
concern about food from the very early
period of Islam if you look at the
Sahaba from below on whom and koshari in
his reseller says that they were more
concerned about their food than they
were about p.m. and laid that's him that
he said of Iran no pushing so why were
they more concerned about their food
because if they were eating food that
was not good there wouldn't be any p.m.
at night in other words if you eat out
on food you you won't be able to to do
p.m. unless in fact one of the reasons
why we find it difficult to get up in
the night has to do with wrong actions
and think one of the set up said I heard
something as a result of it I was
deprived of night prayers for forty days
because he heard some of Heba or
something and didn't say anything about
it so the idea of having pure food if
you look in the Quran every time the
word halal is mentioned with food Bible
is mentioned with it which means pure
now usually it has to do with enchilada
nama and also with the fact that it
should be pure from its source which is
halal in a sense so and there's nothing
redundant in the Quran there's no reason
to have an adjective with something if
it's redundant in its meaning so when I
lost as Hal Adam Feige ba halal means
Hara and fire it means fire so if it's
not five years in the sense of it not
being from a proper monetary source it's
certainly not allowed right you can't
say it's allowed with the
money is Haram the food is Haram which
you bought it with but one of the things
about the early period and until very
recently is that the majority of food
was pure by its nature in other words
because there was not a sophisticated
way of operate of packaging food
preserving food refrigeration all of
these types of things by its nature
there was limited things which people
could do to food because it went off so
they learn natural ways of preserving
food like pickling and doing these type
of things Marat because they found early
on that sugar was a very good
preservative but as we've increased in
our understanding of chemistry and
technology in these things people now
are able to do the most sophisticated
things in manipulating food changing
literally changing the chemical
structures of food and there's a whole
what's called dietary science is
learning how to do that now if you look
if you give the idea that Allah created
everything and guided it to its purpose
that everything is created and guided to
its purpose right everything that Allah
has made it has a purpose and it will
fulfill its purpose but Allah in several
verses in the Quran tells us to not
change the creation of Allah and he also
tells us the Chaffin promises well
ioveiy your end allah that he will get
the humans to change the creation of
allah subhana wa ta'ala to begin to
change it at some fundamental level now
in the quran it talks about clipping the
ears of the animals because this is what
they were doing these are the things or
in the sunnah about splitting the teeth
what the women used to do to augment
their teeth would they would put two
fleas they would make up gaps in the
teeth because they thought it was
beautiful now people close the gaps
because they think gaps in the teeth are
ugly right but the Arabs they used to
actually put things between the teeth of
the women in order to split the teeth so
that they when they smile they had these
gaps in the teeth
very interesting you know why humans do
this also the idea of plucking the
eyebrows the prophet Elijah discouraged
that unless a woman in the move the
focus a unless a woman has excessive
hair or something like that but to pluck
them until there's nothing but a small
line or nothing left there or even
putting on fingernail polish so if you
look at at really or letting the nails
grow because it's against if Allah right
so if you look at all of these things
I'm innocent arm generally is a deem
that teaches us to leave things in their
natural state the claw that's part of
what stuff that I mean the original
state father is the originator papa was
somehow accurate our so Shepherd I has
to do with natural state there's a
beautiful hadith in the sake of Imam
Muslim in which the promise Allah is in
passed by a group of people that were
doing be nor they were tell piya what do
you say not so clear huh yeah how do you
say that in like fertilizing a bee
pollinating pollinating they what they
were doing is they were doing this you
up there and Athene so they would take
the mail Poland and put it onto the
female tree and the Prophet passed by
and he thought something was very
strange about that because he wasn't
from Medina he was from Mecca they
didn't have palm trees in Mecca so never
seen that before but there was something
that seemed unnatural about it that the
person would have to go from one to the
other now for me what I find fascinating
about that is the prophets natural
reaction to it that it seems something
unnatural about it now the Sahaba left
doing it the unsolved and they had a bad
crop that year and they went they
complained to the Prophet and he said
why did you I wasn't why did you listen
to me I wasn't you know he said I'm
tomography amore dunya cone you know
better about your dunya I was he just
made a remark and it wasn't worried and
it wasn't it was his own comment about
what they were doing that he thought it
was strange but the point is is that I
this is an indication of how the Prophet
SAW item viewed the world you see that
there's something that people are
impacting too much on the world there's
something unnatural now there's a very
interesting theory you just want to take
this a step further beavers make dams in
America I don't know if they have you I
don't it's an indigenous American animal
I think but there's beavers that are
animal they make dams along rivers and
damming is obviously an ancient form of
for agriculture but the idea of making
these mega dams is a modern 20th century
phenomenon there's a theory that was
some physicists in America came up with
what they actually thought that the the
atmospheric changes that were taking
place were not a result of this global
warming and and the ozone layer lost
they actually said it was because of
these mega dams that were being built
all over the world that they're acting
like weights on the on the wheels that
there's they're upsetting at very very
fine levels the axis of the earth and
the balance of the rotation of the earth
because the water is not flowing at its
natural levels and you have these masses
of water which are minut in relation to
the earth itself but just like those
small bearings on the wheels are minut
it has a radical effect on the wheel
itself anyway I thought that was a very
interesting theory
with this whole idea of when you when
you begin to play with the creation of
Allah without knowledge without Bossier
then you end up doing much more damage
than you do harm and now they want to
build this huge dam in the Yangtze River
in China right and these are all IMF
World Bank projects I mean they're not
there's nothing for the indigenous
people in it really there are just giant
projects to get cooked to get these
countries into massive debt on usury so
the whole basis of it is use areas and
so the effects are going to be bad just
from that but
the ecological effects and the effects
that it has on me on the the place
itself is also relevant so if you look
now the thing if you if you go down to a
very fundamental level basically what's
happening is we are already
we're literally electromagnetic
resonance that's what all of us are at a
very basic level we're vibrating at a
certain resonance and when food is also
has a resonance and when you eat food at
either nourishes or it harms these are
include is not neutral right it's either
gonna be beneficial or harmful if you
eat it in its right proportions and you
eat good food it's going to be
beneficial to the body if you eat it in
its wrong proportions or if it's bad
food it's going to be harmful to the
body and the worst thing that you could
do is fill the body with food shuttle we
Iron Man level even or Adam Balkin or
who the worst vessel that the son of
Adam can fill is his stomach
subhanAllah that's a Sahadi the worst
vessel that the son of Adam can fill is
his stomach and he said the Prophet
Salla I said I'm said to actually have
been Adam Lupe max you're gonna be have
a ho ho it's enough for the son of Adam
to have just more souls that he keep his
back upright with Luke a Matt that's
tough fear of lucuma it's a diminutive
of LACMA which is a bite so small bites
it's enough for the son of Adam to have
small bites that he can keep his back
straight with and then the prophet
Elijah and said but if you have to eat
more than that and this is the one
everybody thinks is Sunnah he was saying
at the most extreme than one-third for
food one-third for water 1/3 for air
that's the extreme if you can't do with
just little pay mats then just do it now
people say and this I'm making this up
or what people nowadays they always say
the Sun that one-third one-third
one-third is true or not true people
forgot the first part of the hadith and
they think that that's the
that's not the Sunnah that's for
excessive people and always the people
to mention these hadees invariably eats
much more than they need and they kind
of say well mama soon america you know
nobody practices that soon anymore it's
not a sunnah in the first place the
Sunnah is not paying that this is the
rocks are in Canada good if you have to
do more than that then just do to return
the upon you or shall I be one of the
city so the second is are oxides a
dispensation the first is is the center
and we know that the prophet Elijah time
did not encourage asceticism he did not
like asceticism he didn't like going to
extremes and food is one of the extremes
and this is wild bull said he says what
Obama Hamas offense are long and it took
on me maybe sometimes too little food is
worse than too much food you see because
the nature of the nerves if you go to an
extreme the agenda the excessive
extremes are safer than the deficient
extremes there's very interesting
phenomenon if you look at diabetes a
diabetic will rarely be in serious
trouble if their sugar goes way way up
they get into trouble when it drops way
way down you see they get into trouble
when there's not enough blood sugar when
it goes under like 50 40 you go under 40
and you go into a glucose coma right and
then BOOM there's no sugar to the brain
and you can die they go into coma and
they'll die whereas it can go up 18
800,000 right if you know the normal
range is like between 80 and 120
something like that right in the blood
if you go up past like eight hundred a
thousand you're gonna have problems
right and they'll they'll be aware that
something's happening but the danger of
dying is not imminent like it is if you
go the other way which is deficiency and
this is what happens an overeater can
overeat for a long long time but an
under eater can go into serious problem
in a very quick time and what Bo Sadie
Proffitt lana was saying there is that
sometimes excessive xored is worse than
people who are too much in the dunya but
going to an extreme of rejecting the
dunya can be often times more dangerous
why because those people will often time
to go to the opposite or kill themselves
and so the Prophet did not like
asceticism nor did he like this other
extreme because he's the man of the
middle lace on the law Eddie was
cinnamon and this is why in this in the
sooner you will very rarely see the
Prophet ever pointing out to people
false he did it very subtly and he was
not his character to expose people's
fault but there are a few hadees that
are very interesting in that there was a
man who had a large stomach and he said
to the man had this been on somebody
else it would be better for you meaning
the food that you're overeating it's
better if it was somebody who really
needed it right now we also know how
much in the kitab Boracay febiven and
mubarak sees Yazeed making Pallava and
his stomach was coming over his ease are
and omar took his daughter his stick and
he lifted his harem and he said a bottle
kuwait Ojeda is this the stomach of a
little calf here because he's taking it
from a hadith that says that the
movement and it's inverse aji the
movement eats the caterpillar eats from
seven and a half and Kathy who yet home
in sobriety and the cat that eats from
seven intestine and the movement only
eats from one and this came because of a
man the a suburban world is that a man
came to the prophet Elijah and he told
him about Islam and they brought him
milk and he drank a whole ball and then
they brought he said you want more he
said yes if on he drank seven bowls and
he and then he said I'm finished so the
next day he came back and he said
Shahada and the Prophet offered him milk
he drank one ball he said you want
he said no I'm full so the Prophet said
the moment drinks from one intestine
whereas the kaffir it's he drinks from
seven so the catheters appetite for the
dunya is much greater than the movement
and food is our essential connection
with the world you see the first
connection with the world is the breath
and then the the next is the food itself
so this is the essential connection with
the world that we have is food and this
is why if you don't conquer that level
of the knobs it's a big problem the food
knobs it's a very serious problem now
it's not really fair for me to talk
about this because that's not where my
some people have different problems and
food maybe because when I was about I
think 21 or something I got amoebic
dysentery and I lost my appetite after
that and I've never really got it back
and that's what the Chinese call spleen
deficiency you know you get a deficiency
in the spleen from dysentery and that
causes like your appetite diminishes so
it's not it's easy for me I'm not giant
as ID is somebody that fights there
enough you know they have a difficult
time and they withhold from food for me
that's not the situation I just food has
never been a serious you know I'm not
somebody that can eat a lot of food and
I don't I can go a long period of time
but it's not because I'm it's mujahadin
it's just my nature that's what they
call shout out on the laptop ha ha WA
laughs ah shut up you know it's when
your own nafs is in accordance with the
shut up
so there's not really a reward for it
it's just lucky you like I have a friend
he hates onions and he's always quoting
the hadith the Prophet didn't eat onions
but he just doesn't like them it's you
know it's how I woke up a Sunnah so
here's how it goes according with which
is good ham daily left that's a good
thing but some people have a serious
difficulty with food like it is a real
difficulty they eat a lot and they want
more and that takes more data so you
need to learn
literally and one of them said of the
cell if he said I would prefer to stop
before I'm satiated Kobayashi back that
he would leave the food that I would do
p.m. and late that it was harder on
enough for him to do to stop the food
than getting up at night and doing p.m.
and late so they had a very strong
understanding of that what Mujahid is
and what struggling against the self is
and if you look at Abu median about the
law under the Great North African master
of ascent his whole book is about you
one that he says this path is about you
what that you have to do wet enough sick
you have to really make yourself hungry
and we know that the poet Sol I said and
his soon that was too fast on Mondays
and Thursday and some of his Sava fasted
every other day the same Ladell cm what
we saw and he prohibited which is a
continuous cm the fasting every day he
prohibited that or what they call in the
West which is a medicinal fast they
called a dry fast where you literally
don't eat food or drink and we know it's
in the confirm Sunnah that the prophets
Eliza Dunn did it and some of the shoe
have done that and even tenía in his
patella actually has a talk about that
and mentioned that he did do that he
performed that type of fast but it's a
very dangerous fast and the Prophet
prohibited it because he said that that
Allah in our be your family where you
say me my Lord gives me food and gives
me drink you see so he was having a
spiritual nourishment now we know also a
bizarre every thirty Robin I know in the
Sahara when he went to Mecca to find out
about the Prophet he stayed in the Kaaba
for one month and he used to drink only
Zemzem he wasn't eating any food or
drinking anything else and he said he
gained weight in that month from the
Zemzem water you see so that's a
spiritual nourishment that happens and
there are people that you know I've seen
I know one share that he only drinks
milk
that's all he lives on and he's been
doing that for several years and
he's actually he's robust he's not thin
at all you know so there's people that
can do that we can't do that if I did
that I'd kill myself and that's why it's
hard on to do that for somebody so those
things are related to people's stations
and things like that and so this idea of
you know food and and it's what what it
means and it's essential qualities the
prophets of light incident what I
learned in Africa and people some of the
people here who've been in Africa and
lived with Africans whether it's in
Ghana or Nigeria Sudan food in Africa is
fuel right really its fuel the Africans
the the Saharan African sub-saharan
Africans are not big connoisseurs of
food they don't have cuisines they don't
have it's actually quite simple food
when you move inside I mean in the
cities obviously you're going to get a
little different but still it's still
very simple when you go to places where
there's high civilization you get a
massive amount of energy being put into
food you go for instance to Syria
Palestine Lebanon people will spend the
whole day cooking a meal you know so the
whole life revolves around food the
public did not like that at all and he
talked about the colored foods that his
Ummah would eat and when some of the
Sahaba got to Syria and found others saw
how the eating colored food they were
shocked because they were used a very
primitive food they ate if you look at
the diet of the province Eliassen which
is in the Shema ed of imam Academy
he ate basically barley was the staple
the grain barley Shire which is actually
the best of all the grains it's been
proven to actually be the most
nutritious of all the grains barley and
then he had dates and dates were were
eaten in several different stages so
they ate that Bella had a thorough pub
they ate the souk area or the family
they had different stages of development
and each one of them has different
properties as well because they actually
transformed
and they can't they did not drink cow's
milk they'd write sheep's milk goats
milk camel's milk and they did make a
type of yogurt drink from it which they
would use with a leather what they call
a pedal bar and they call it there's
another word for it when they make the
yogurt with it which I can't remember
the bedroom you know that yeah the money
they make the the yogurt with it and
take the butter out because they do make
butter
so they had some butter xub de the cream
or the butter and they and then he had
we know that he liked pumpkin you clean
that he liked cucumber he our of pizza
that he liked grapes which they did have
a fight and they used to bring them to
Mecca and there were even some of the
carom in Mecca some of the houses the
Irish had date buying I mean grapevine
and he liked also the melon the melon so
they did have melons and things like
that they had mich Mich they knew about
mich Mich which was from syria
they brought dried apricots they also
knew about team which was dried that
they brought from Syria but those were
very expensive and for the you know for
the wealthy people the poor people
didn't eat those things so the diet was
very simple and then meat was something
that they actually ate quite rarely they
were not heavy meat eaters in fact
really we would say now in the language
of this time they would be called
semi-vegetarian because they really ate
very little meat the Arabs loved meat
but only the wealthy could afford it
because poor people could not afford
meat because meat in those days you
sacrifice when you ate the meat you
didn't you couldn't go to the butcher
they didn't have like a butcher were you
going but no you had the meat and you
would sacrifice it yourself or you would
go to somebody's house and sacrifice and
that's usually when they got meat was
when they went as I guess
to somebody else's house that's
generally where people got me and that's
why meat is considered nine it's an
alien food it's an excess of food and
this is why I've heard people tell me
you know about eating the meat from
grocery stores in America they say Minh
babbled Autobots you can't prove that by
Sharia because meat is not from the
bottle docks it really isn't
now there's a certain character that the
Arabs call fatty moon right
patty moon is somebody who loves meat
right carnivorous they say in English
they love meat fat him and there was a
hadith that say na al-marwah Delano says
to a man you know why why I always seen
you buy meat and he said in the affair
ammonia and merriment meaning I'm Karim
I love meat and I almost said to him
that I'm afraid you'll be from those who
all have a pie that even for hire at
dunya
you'll be from those who lose all of
their good deeds in this world by taking
too much 19 from the dunya that's what
he was afraid and Omar during his
Khilafah prohibited the eating of meat
every day and this is called Chuck
needle mover which is permissible for
the Khalifa to do that because it's
mobile to eat meat every day and they
say Hasan al-basri can a ya Kudo Pharma
kulla yawmin one a Kuna naka de théâtre
de one of the Salif said has an
ambassador used to eat a small amount of
meat every day and we didn't consider
that it affected his status as a Zayed
that he was there you see but during the
time of Allah when people started eating
a lot of meat because a lot of wealth
was coming into from the venom and
things he's made it impermissible for
people to eat meat every day they had to
do it every other day he was worried
about that now I find it very
interesting that although there is a
hadith and there's some in a Bihari one
of them which Aisha
the prophets Allah I am said fabulous 30
other Seraphim cuff of the Aisha for
Aisha RSI didn't miss a couple Barbara
13 at a secular farm the preference of
aisha over other women the preference of
that studied over the rep of food so
that the Prophet said is the highest
type of food because it's the most
delicious and there's also a hadith
which says ulema sato farm that meat is
the master of food it's like the
aristocrat of food now despite those
hadith which in mimetic new rod Allah
knows the two Hadees that he put he has
a chapter called Babylon in his Moapa
you could look it up there's a moral
here mm the chapter concerning meat he
only has two Hadees and both of them are
warnings about me one of them both are
from Ameer al-mumineen
o Madhava mana who said in one of them
the yacumo Lama in Idaho bar Allison Cal
barometer Hama
beware of meat because it has an
addiction like the addiction of wine and
to this day in Yemen they call meats
Ramadan what we mean the line of the
believers that's a name they call in in
in the Habra me language for me , and
what we need now what happens to people
who eat meat consistently is they become
they don't like food that doesn't have
meat in it they lose the taste for it
and they always want meat where's the
meat
you see they get used to the flavor of
the food having meat and they become
addicted to meet now in in
traditionally in most of them Muslim
countries and like they do in China meat
was a flavoring they did not eat large
pieces of meat it was literally a
flavoring for the food and you will find
if you ask people that are still alive
from say 70 70 80 years old who grew up
in anywhere in the Muslim world you
asked them how much meat they had when
they were growing up and you will be
amazed to find that
very little surgery but because of the
modern ability to refrigerate to raise
massive amounts of harmonized beef and
graze all of these animals bulking them
up if you go and see you know in in
America during the time they call
Thanksgiving which everybody eats turkey
they have these turkeys like just
enormous unbelievable and then right
next to him you can see organic turkey
in other words a turkey that didn't have
any hormones and and growth all these
growth hormones and chemicals and it's
like about one-third the size of this
now if you also notice Americans tend to
be very big all right they're big people
now I grew up vegetarian oh so i
spilling the beans in some background
baggage bringing into Islam but I
actually did not eat meat after - what
when I when I was 12 I stopped eating
meat but if you look at Americans
generally they're actually much bigger
than most people really they're giant
people it's true or not see Abdullah now
what you notice immigrants when they
move to America
suddenly they're children and this is
amazing because you see it all over
America you see these Indian who came to
America the father's five foot six the
mothers five foot two the son six foot
they think it's good protein in other
words that they didn't have good food
when they were in India that's really
what most of them think it is and they
don't realize it just has to do with the
hormones in the milk and in the meat
that these are unnatural growth hormones
that they're putting in these foods so
wherever American beef has gone there
has been a raise and increase in the
height of the people this has happened
in Japan in the Asian countries like
Philippines right the houses in the
Philippines now they're all having
because Filipino people are
traditionally like five foot four now
the ideal height for a human being by
our physiology is about five eight and
you will find in the Muslim war
that is pretty much the average height
of people is around you know if you go
on had and you're over six feet you find
yourself kind of towering over everybody
and then the Malaysians walk by you know
and they're kind of you know like midget
people and and they're actually quite
normal in relation to you know but when
you compare them to these people that
are actually very large right they're
very big people but they're inorganic
people in other words a lot of what they
have is is just it's unnatural the way
that they've acquired it so now there's
obviously stock as well because we get
into some areas I mean even in Europe
you can find there's areas where there's
larger people and that is true but but
this is something that's a very
interesting phenomenon now another thing
there's a researcher in the US that did
a study on estrogen which is a very
common hormone that they use in the
poultry and in the beef an estrogen is a
female hormone and he thought that the
rise in homosexuality was related to
using all these female hormones in the
cows and in the chickens and all of
these things that it was creating
unnatural tendencies and people things
like this so there's people taking this
very seriously you know what people are
doing to changing the creation of Allah
and it's all for money that's the only
reason they're doing it it's not doesn't
make healthier animals it's simply to
make more meat so that you can sell it
pound for pound for more money
that's the only reason there's no other
reason and it's because also Americans
want to eat these big giant steaks right
now the other thing that's very
interesting is the second hadith which
is in the mapa where he sees the man who
buys it every day and he says Akula
master date as the hater state every
time you get hungry you just buy meat
and he said yes and he said it would be
better if you just tucked your stomach
in a little bit and let other people eat
now this the promise a license said
though can an idiom the ID that cannot
home out if there was a prophet after me
it would have been oh ma now one of the
really interesting things about the age
were living in is that grain
a massive amounts of grain are going to
the livestock industry to raise cattle
right because the British they're called
beefeaters right and then they took this
beef eating idea to America because
America is anglo-saxon and the
beefeaters went around in fact the
reason they killed all of the Buffalo of
the Native American Indians who that was
their staple was simply to create
grazing land they killed millions of
Buffalo went out they used to go out and
just shoot them and they didn't use the
meat they were just wiping them out one
to starve the Native Americans but two
to create grazing land for their cattle
the Longhorns and these things and they
also wiped out the sheep herders there
were huge battles up in Northern America
in the Montana Utah in these areas
between the sheep ranchers and between
the cattle ranchers and the cattle
ranchers defeated them so beef became
the dominant food now one of the
interesting things is that in the Muslim
world most of the Muslim countries did
not eat beef they ate lamb which is the
traditional meat of the profits alati
cinema's man he did not eat beef
although he did sacrifice a cow on the
head and it was for his women he did not
eat beef and my whatup that has told me
that he had thought about getting rid of
his cows at one time just because it
wasn't a animal of the Prophet but he
decided because ibraheem Alisa dam had
cows that did that it was alright
because ibraheem after the incidents I
mean he brought a young healthy calf and
said the cap so there's certainly
nothing wrong there is a hadith that
says lamb will buckle Valon well daniel
has Shifa and that's Asahi Hadi and it's
called mush kill with the Mahadi thing
it's the meaning anyway that the meat of
the cow is a disease and it's milk is a
cure and now we know it's it's it's one
of the number one causes of cardio
arterial vascular disease right all of
the arteries get
and now they have like in in Pakistan
because people like this me and things
like this
and by the way bypass operations are
very common amongst upper-class
indo-pakistani people it's true or not
true very common tragic because if you
follow the Sunnah you would never have a
bypass operation and I'm amazed at
people that they say things like a hum
do masha'Allah the operation went very
well and this American masha allah allah
masha and sal you know and i want to say
to them you know why you blame things on
allah Sakuma why shareable allowed to
city food in a little bit misleading eat
and dreams but not to access allah
doesn't love those who are excessive the
prophet elijah himself higher allah
quran for me from melody nia you know
whom to melody mia know whom some may
other famous them and the best of my own
that is the first generation then the
second generation then the third
generation and then they start getting
plump
that's a hadith ie they start getting
plump so you eat all this food that
allah told you not to do and then you
say masha'Allah
I got a cardiovascular disease no you
say you know you blame your naps it was
your own appetite that led to that
condition there's no reason why you
should have I mean there are people that
have certain congenital disorders that
is true but for most people it's just
simply a matter of bad eating that there
enough Scott the better of them and they
weren't able to control that so people
really should recognize that that the
body is literally designed to live a
hundred and twenty years by Western
materialistic scientists the body is
designed to live a very long time the
proposal I sent him said a model Ummah
team of a necessity no a subterranean
myomas ages will be between 60 and 70 so
the majority of the Ummah will die
between 60 and 70 that's a sorry hadith
and that's what Allah has determined the
agile of this Ummah
hamdullah the Prophet died at 63 he was
in perfect health when he died he died
of a fever but they said that his
stomach was completely flat that he had
only 17 gray hairs in his beard that he
was very strong he had the strength of
40 men and he walked very and he was
doing jihad until the last I mean Hamza
Rabia was 55 on the Battle of Badr and
they said yo mo burger can a young hamza
it was hams day because of what he did
with the mushrikeen on that day and what
she was hired by him because of what he
did on butter he killed some of the
great warriors of forest he was 55 years
old you look at a 55 year old now in the
Muslim Ummah and they're all dent over
they've got their guy and share food on
you know so the body has certain rights
in the Lee Jessica a later haka your
body has a right over you and the right
of the body is that we eat we fuel it
properly we exercise it properly we give
it enough sleep that it needs Oh Mohamed
Atta's Adi says the maximum amount of
sleep that you should give your body the
maximum amount is eight hours that's the
maximum if you some people need a lot of
sleep if you need a lot of sleep that is
the max and you should never go more
than eight hours and it actually becomes
negative sleep now it's just to talk a
little bit about sleep because sleep is
nourishment it is literally food for the
law the body is is fed by proteins
carbohydrates and lipids but the Lua is
fed by Vicar and by known by remembrance
of Allah and by sleep and that's why the
more dickerer you do the less sleep you
need people that do deep dhikr actually
sleep less than people that don't this
is a fact and even interestingly enough
people that do forms of non Islamic
people that do forms of meditation where
they've shown that they go into theta
wave states in their
they also need less sleep so it's not
simply an Islamic phenomenon you can
find this in other traditions that
people that do learn how to concentrate
or meditate at a deep level don't have
to sleep as much as other people so
there's something to be said for that
just from that perspective now the
nature of sleep is if you sleep before
12 and I'm using 12 midnight not that
number 12 like on the clock
but before midnight if you look at five
years at four and mother is at eight
then twelve would be half night midnight
right but if Rogers at three and mother
lives at eight then it would be eleven
o'clock the sleep after Isha before
midnight is worth twice of sleep after
all right so if you sleep one hour
between say now you go to bed at 10:30
and you sleep till twelve that's the
equivalent of three hours sleep it's
only an hour I have but because that
sleep is before the half night it's the
equivalent of three hours right so
people and this why the Sunna of the
Prophet was to go to bed immediately
after Asia and in this I'm not making
this up this is really this isn't sleep
houses theories or something like that I
mean this is actually from food and it's
confirmed by if you do it so now the
other thing is if you sleep after fejoe
before shuttle it's negative sleep so if
you sleep an hour it's as if you were
deprived of two hours of sleep alright
you won't get rest from it it's negative
sleep if you sleep after a sort of the
four mug ative or before Asia it's
negative sleep all of that is negative
sleep it's it's as if you didn't sleep
you actually lose sleep if you sleep
after the the whole prayer before I saw
it's positive sleep and it's worked
twice so if you sleep one hour between
one and two o'clock say you prayed the
hora at 1:00
if you go to sleep at 1:30 get up at
2:30 it's as if you've had two hours of
sleep in terms of the regeneration
rejuven application of the body
rejuvenation all right so you following
this now if you sleep also after awesome
there's a hadith that Imams feel they
relate in the third whenever we and I
don't think it's sound but he's related
in there and it said whoever sleeps
after a sir and wakes up mad today
alumina in Lenexa let him only blames
himself memory was there for them
there's Nina that I owe to Amanda Elena
said that usually blame himself
so some share was telling that in the
nitrate and some crazy guy got up and
said no that can't be right I always
sleep after Asif so that's basically the
benefit you know of the sleep that we
should and the prophets Elijah and used
to sleep after the home and he said
Peter finish up in late afternoon take
Tallulah which is that afternoon sleep
because shellping don't take Tallulah so
it's a good sleep to do and it's also is
tiana out of qiyama layin it helps
people get up at night
to do the night friend because if you if
you're up all day from after pleasure
all the way up to asia you're exhausted
and you're gonna sleep very heavily and
you you won't have any rest if you and
also they've done studies these are like
medical studies that the universities
have done in the states and these have
been published in medical journals that
mediterranean people who have tabooed at
like southern spanish italians that's
where the studies were done they didn't
don't bother do him on the muslims and
in greece those people had lower blood
pressures lower heart attack rates less
stress rates they were healthier people
right and and they felt that there was a
direct correlation between afternoon
naps and actually based it on level
stress levels rising throughout the day
that when you stop after the hora and go
to
sleep that literally bring you back to a
starting point that you had in the
morning so you literally get a deep
rejuvenation that takes place in that
type of sleep so I mean basically what
you know the point of this is that I
think none of us should forget the
responsibility that we have just to keep
ourselves healthy you know it's really
important now sickness is not a bad
thing because it's fahara for this Ummah
and and you know they say Lafayette I
suggested in either I'm no model there's
no good in a body that doesn't get sick
you know that it's it's a purification
and the Prophet Elisha him got sick we
know that he didn't have any fowl
illnesses which is not permissible for
the prophets right a model of Tahu some
disease but they can get the simple
illnesses coughs colds fevers things
like that they they can get these things
generally you will get sick when your
immune system goes down the immune
system goes down when you're not giving
the body it's half if you eat for
instant sugar if you're eating over 40
grams of sugar a day they know very
clearly in Western physiology that your
white blood cell count goes down quite
radically so people that are constantly
taking sugar are in an immunocompromised
state and this is why your sugar intake
should be actually very slight sugar
should not you shouldn't take a lot of
sugar it's actually quite harmful if you
do I think personally drinking all of
these sugar drinks is really bad for
your health people that drink Pepsi and
Coke first of all I would not want to
support those corporations that's the
first thing because they really are and
mostly doing for auto and second of all
it's totally unbeneficial and it's
actually doing worse if there's no
benefit in it you're actually harming
yourself if you drink if you eat a meal
and you drink water that there is an
effect on the digestive system that's
why the sumo was not to drink we
with meal the father did not drink with
meals and it's in a bad Judy mentions
this if you drink sugar not water if you
drink sugared water with a meal then you
create a fermentation that takes place
inside especially if you've eaten
carbohydrates and bread
I mean neat because what happens is your
your your your stomach actually there's
two stomachs you have a cardiac stomach
pyloric and cardiac the the cardiac
stomach is the higher stomach right and
initially when you eat something it will
stop at that point for a period of time
and and the the Thailand and and the
other enzymes that come from the saliva
if you chew your food well will begin to
digest the food when it moves down into
the pyloric stomach what happens is
whatever enzymes were not there in the
food then will be released into the food
when you take water with that you dilute
the enzymatic power of those so the
digestion is weakened right and it also
puts out the fire of digestion because
digestion is heat and it needs heat if
you drink cold fluids that's why it's
better to drink a warm fluid actually
then a cold fluid it's actually
deleterious to your digestion to drink
cold with your meals right because
you're actually putting out the fire of
the digestion and the other thing is the
when you get into the the element theory
which is it's an Islamic theory it's not
even though the Greeks had it the
protozoa isn't clearly articulates it in
several Hadees and a debate and by
jewelry on his karma chair and the Shema
intervene on pyramid ii in the hadith
that about the eating the dates and
eating the the cucumber with it the
Prophet said had a you'v re-do hada the
the cucumber cools the heat of the date
and that's based on the four element
theory because basically they divide
foods into hot hot dry cold wet
that's every food can be classified so
dates are hot and dry they're hot and
drying foods and cucumbers are cold and
wet and so they actually counter if you
eat too much of a hot and dry food then
the body get creates too much heat and
it'll create an imbalance in the body if
you eat too much cold and wet foods then
that will also create an imbalance and
cold and wet is all those it just
depends somes worse than others it
depends but generally if you want a good
memory you'll tend you should tend to
eat more hot and dry foods because
people that are hot and dry have better
memories and people that are cold and
wet phlegmatic people what they used to
call phlegmatic people in the West
people that are heavyset have a lot
produce a lot of mucus and and these are
cold and wet people they tend to be less
acute less sharp than the more hot and
dry type now there is a natural drying
out as you get older the more cold and
wet you are the more sleep you need the
more hot and dry you are the less sleep
you need so what happens is babies sleep
all day long and they're very wet and
and they're actually wet and hot but
they sleep a lot because of the wetness
as they get older they get colder and
drier so by the time you get to old age
you're actually quite dry and getting
cold because the vital heats being
extinguished and this is why old people
actually in the West they call it
insomnia Muslims don't have insomnia
because they just take it as a sign they
should be praying right but in the West
older people get very upset about not
being able to sleep for a Muslim it's
kind of like you're getting on you know
you're going to die tomorrow or the next
day or the day after so you better take
advantage of your night right seriously
I mean in in traditional Muslim
societies an old person that didn't get
up and do too had you then it was a fool
right so people that have insomnia in
old age they should really what they're
supposed to be doing it's worshipping
and they don't know
so food can be related to those things
and there should be a balance of your
food but I think what the basic thing is
food should be reasonably simple right
it should not be you shouldn't eat a
whole bunch of different things and
certainly don't eat more than one meat
Atta I mean that's actually quite
disgusting to have like chicken beef
lamb at the same setting I mean it's
very extravagant to do that now Sahara
story was asked once about people he
said what do you say about a person that
eats once a day and he said I couldn't
Mb yet that's the way the prophets eat
and he said what about somebody that
eats twice a day and he said I could
have thought it came and he said what do
you say about somebody eats three times
a day and he said even Anna who never
just build him a stable right well he
can graze all day now I think that if
you eat reasonable amounts there's
nothing wrong with having a breakfast a
lunch and a dinner if you're eating
reasonable amounts if you're getting
extravagant you know breakfast should be
it's better to do some work before it
you know do some get the body moving but
it's it should be you know reasonable
meal and then the lunch should be the
heavier meal and then that's why you're
supposed to sleep after lunch the Arab
they say they'll have that - medic - I
shaft and the chef's eat lunch go to
sleep eat dinner take a walk so lunch
should be the heaviest meal of the day
and then dinner should be a light meal
and the Prophet said eat dinner even if
it's just a handful of dates and he also
said about suppose the Sahara in the
fist of all the Baraka take the Sahara
because there's Baraka in Soho it's a
time it's about at a time to eat it and
when there's Baraka that means that you
don't need a lot to sustain yourself
throughout the day so there are times
where things have more about our kind
like fruit has more Baraka in the
morning than it does
the evening it's better to eat fruit in
the morning than it is in the evening
and imam Aseel t mentions that in the
morning
fruit is gold at lunch it's silver and
in the evening it's LED right so the
benefit of it decreases through the day
and because fruit is a spring food and
the the time of the day that relates to
spring is the early morning right and
then the other thing is that it's better
to roast in the winter to boil in the
summer right roasting meat in the winter
boiling it in the summer because
roasting infuses it with heat which you
need in the winter and boiling it
diffuses the heat because you need less
heat in the summer you don't want to get
too hot and that's why you should eat
less meat in the summertime than you do
in the winter winter is a better time to
eat meat because it's cold and and it's
a yang food it's a strong energetic food
and meat will give you energy there's no
doubt it gives you an energy but you'll
pay a price for it if you do it
constantly it becomes addictive just
like wine is a stimulant initially and
then it becomes a depressant meat is
like that it's a stimulant initially but
it'll eventually wear your body down
until the body actually goes into
disarray so these are just some general
guidelines about this matter and part of
I really think Muslims have become
really inattentive to these these
aspects of the cinema because food is
definitely a very important thing the
phone-- soul hasn't came to teach us how
to eat as well we definitely came to
teach us how to eat and I think if you
want to know what to eat the best thing
is to traditionally look at what your
people ate your ethnic group ate in
their traditional food not modern diet
but what they ate traditionally and that
will usually be the best genetic food
for you in terms of what you need to eat
when you're in a country like England
it's better to eat cooked more cooked
foods hot foods heating foods than it is
to eat raw and cold foods when you're in
hotter climates you eat more raw foods
you know because the body needs that
innate heat so here it's it's a damp and
cold country you need more hot and dry
foods if you go to a tropical country
you need more drying cooling foods if
you're in a middle country you need more
balanced foods so it just depends on
where you are geographically and this
these are all real concerns I mean
they're not there's a very good book by
El Elyon Hass called eating through the
season and he gives very good guidelines
based on traditional Chinese medicine on
what types of foods you should eat
throughout the year because they change
and the Chinese understand this and the
Chinese by Western studies have shown to
have actually the healthiest diets they
have