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with Allah, the High, the Exalted, in the Abode of the Reward, there is no way for
them to achieve their aim except in knowledge and righteous deeds, and that
cannot be achieved without a healthy body. A healthy body can only be achieved
if healthy food is taken in due proportion at the due time. With regard to this point
one of the righteous predecessors has said: „Eating is of the religion, the Lord of
the Worlds has instructed us regarding it, as He said: “…Eat of that which is good
and do good deeds …”‟ (Koran Ch. 23 verse 51). So whoever eats to enable
himself to advance in knowledge and to work and to enable himself to carry out
his religious duties, should not ignore his health nor should he eat excessively,
as a animal grazes incessantly in the fields. The one who eats merely as the
means of fulfilling his religious duties should behave in a way, which reflects the
light of the religion on himself. Religious manners and ordinances serve to give
the servant the power to control his desire for eating and enable him to distance
himself from sins. The Prophet, may Allah praise and venerate him, said: “Indeed
a man will be rewarded even for the piece of bread he puts in his own mouth or
that with which he feeds his wife.” This is only if he does this observing religious
manners and duties.
them to achieve their aim except in knowledge and righteous deeds, and that
cannot be achieved without a healthy body. A healthy body can only be achieved
if healthy food is taken in due proportion at the due time. With regard to this point
one of the righteous predecessors has said: „Eating is of the religion, the Lord of
the Worlds has instructed us regarding it, as He said: “…Eat of that which is good
and do good deeds …”‟ (Koran Ch. 23 verse 51). So whoever eats to enable
himself to advance in knowledge and to work and to enable himself to carry out
his religious duties, should not ignore his health nor should he eat excessively,
as a animal grazes incessantly in the fields. The one who eats merely as the
means of fulfilling his religious duties should behave in a way, which reflects the
light of the religion on himself. Religious manners and ordinances serve to give
the servant the power to control his desire for eating and enable him to distance
himself from sins. The Prophet, may Allah praise and venerate him, said: “Indeed
a man will be rewarded even for the piece of bread he puts in his own mouth or
that with which he feeds his wife.” This is only if he does this observing religious
manners and duties.