As to what follows, I begin with the greeting words of paradise,
As Sallam Wa Alaikum (Peace be with you)
Last Sunday (2nd May 2010), I attended a work shop regarding the ethics of food.
Honestly it's really not what I expected, the seminar really blew me away and was a major eye opener. I always appreciate Imam Afroz because he is always straight to the point.
The programme covered the difference between organic and inorganic food, milk, chocolate, the soil beneath our feet, gelatin, alcohol, chicken, vanillin and an Islamic view of what is lawful and prohibited regarding food.
The main bit that really got me was to actually start looking into what is really in our food.
Sure I read ingredients while I'm consuming the food, 80% of which words I don't even know!
And I wonder if I have nutrition?
Imam Afroz explained that our brain is affected by our nutrition which I cant believe I didn't even think of (Subhan'Allah) until he told us!!
Well lets really look at the big picture.. We need mind, body and soul to serve God right? Well how are we meant to serve God if we can't maintain a healthy body (By the way by 'we' I am referring to myself also)
For people like myself who has a pet I look to buy my cat a nice nutritional stuff (I don't even know if he likes it, but hes got no other choice haha) but really I don't even buy myself food as healthy as i do for my cat. Even then stats show that canned cat food is more nutritional than canned human food. In my eyes that absolutly ridiculous!
Same story with gas.. I fill my car up with 98 so it runs better than if I fill it up with 91. How am I fuelling my body? hmmm REALITY CHECK!
So:
---> Good nutrition = More Energy :-)
---> Bad Nutrition = More Tiredness :-(
Okay and then we got meat.. GO AND LOOK WHERE YOUR MEAT COMES FROM!
Don't just blindly go and eat whatever because of a cert. How do you know whats in your mean and where it came from? You can usually tell just by looking at the quality of meat.
I mean this isn't your car if it breaks down you go and get a service. This is your body were talking about. Your life.
As I stated before: how are we meant to serve God if we can't maintain a healthy body
We went into some serious detail of milk, ill never look at milk the same again that's for sure.
Do some homework brothers and sisters, this isn't a joke!
We are at risk and company's are benefiting from it.
I finish up this piece with a Hadith I hope you all enjoy:
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: 'A truthful and trustworthy merchant is associated with the prophets, the upright and the martyrs.'
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith
Jazakallah Khair for taking time out to read this. Please forgive me if I caused disrespect to anyone. I really did not mean any harm.
(This is my first blog post)
Aashif Sacha
RMDT
(Auckland, New Zealand)
salaam
ReplyDeleteim really interested in this subject of good food, as all of us should be i guess. i nearly had a heart attack when i thought this was on in sydney and i missed it :P
was there any other suggestions as to how to make our diets better other than going organic, because at times its hard to do that?
Assalamu'alikum Brother,
ReplyDeleteI am Mohamed Isa from Singapore and nice work on your blog and it was a wonderful blogpost, very informative. Actually it was only until now that I thought of getting a reality check on the food that we have been stocking up in our body, most of the time, we know that food is bad but we still eat them because they are fast and cheap like Macdonals. May Allah help us all and Jazaka'Allah. Send my salams to Imam Afroz Ali when you see him. :)
W. Sallam
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I would say just be 'aware' of what you eat.
E.g. If you know that this food will harm you then why on earth would you put it inside your body?
Also if you look at where your chocolate comes from?
Who picks those coco leaves? Do you really want to be responsible in indulging in something people have lost their lives doing?
Slave labor..
Clearly we know what is right to eat and what isn't, and if there's doubt we should stay away from it because we simply just don't know..
Jazakallah, Hope that helps
Im not a scholar or anything. I'm a seeker of knowledge. So if this isn't correct info this is primarly from myself and I hope i havn't caused anyone confusion.
Aashif
No worries Brother, your efforts in spreading the word will not go to waste, it is from seeking knowledge that we begin to learn and if you find anything confusing for us, don't worry, for you have Imam Afroz Ali and other great scholars in your area/country to clarify. Jazaka'Allah
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