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