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