New inspiration
1.New year means new inspiration for everyone of us. This
year I would like to introduce some guidelines on smart eating and healthy life
style. My intention is for our community to become a healthy, slim, alert and
intellectual community. We are facing many challenges in this vibrant and
competitive world. Therefore we need to be fit in all aspects of our lives, be
it physical, mental, spiritual or emotion. Our eating habits and life style
play an important role in determining the fitness level of all of these
components on our lives. We want to be at par or better than other world class
professionals or entrepreneurs.
2.Committing suicide is haram. Poisoning oneself is also haram.
What then would be the difference with someone who is allowing himself to
purposely die before the actual time comes?
3. A Muslim should reach
the dying age on average at the age of 63, the age with which Prophet
Muhammad SAW passed away. For the Japanese, the average dying age for the men
is 75 and the women 85. The more advanced and developed a country, the longer
the average dying age of the population. The average dying age for our country
too has increased to 70 years old for men and 75 for women.
4.This longevity
phenomena or trend is actually being achieved as a result of embracing a
much more healthier life style. Nowadays a balanced diet or following a regular
exercise regime is widely practiced by the more wealthier or advanced
communities.
5.As Muslims, we believe death is Allah SWT’s prerogative.
We can doa for longevity. Allah SWT knows best what is in our hearts and minds.
Allah SWT knows our daily diet, exercise and other efforts put in for long-life
and maintaining our youthfulness. Allah SWT created us and He knows that as the
weak human beings, we will always doa to Him to for longevity and happiness.
6.As Allah SWT’s faithful and beloved Ummah, we have every
right to request that our doas and efforts be fulfilled by Him. Everything is
within Allah SWT’s knowledge and power. As Allah SWT’s faithful Ummah, we have
to leave it to fate and rely on Him to consider all of our doas and efforts.
7.B should die when he reaches x age but B seriously put in
the effort for longevity and Allah SWT knows best about his sincerity and good
intention. Allah SWT will InsyaAllah happily lengthen his life befitting his
efforts and doa. In fact Allah SWT knew about this would be efforts and doa at
the time of B’s creation.
8.Food certified by health and diet experts as being the cause
of chronic illnesses when taken more than the required amount are those
containing lots of sugar, saturated fats,
chemicals, heavy metals, high toxin and acid content.
9. Examples of food with high sugar content such as white
rice, yellow and white noodles, white bread, nasi lemak, all kinds of cakes or
kuehs, coffee or tea, syrup, soda and carbonated drinks. All kinds of bottled,
tinned or packet beverages, and all kinds of refined flour based junk foods.
10.Examples of food with high contents of saturated fats
especially fats originated from reared animals such as red meats, meat curry or
soups, ox tail soup, chicken soup, mutton soup, frying oil heated beyond its
boiling point and re-used for a couple of times and all kinds of fried foods
except those fried with olive oil.
11.Examples of food with high chemical and toxic contents such
as snack foods, all kind of fried foods using recycled cooking oil, raw foods
such as fruits and vegetables sprayed with antiseptic or pesticides, junk foods
and food cooked with excessive seasoning
and food with artificial chemical flavor or colouring. Some meat, chicken, fish
or seafood especially from farms located near river or sea and nearby the
industrial areas are also found contaminated
with chemical waste and should be avoided.
12.Examples of food with high heavy metal contents are food
supplements or drinks containing excessive herbs particularly in powdery form,
not an extract or concentrated form.
13.Examples of food with high acid contents are all kinds of
food and drinks with Ph level less than 5
i.e. all kinds of pickled food(unripe mango is acidic but the ripe ones are
alkalized) and all kinds of meat and proteins. Zam zam water for example is a good
source of drinking water due to its high Ph content of between 9 and 11.
14.Either consciously or unconsciously, most people actually
consumed all of the above foods. That has been our daily diet throughout our
lives. True, we do not consume poisonous
drink or food. We will never ever poison ourselves. In actual fact
without us realizing it we take in poison every time we eat. Without us
realizing it we are actually poisoning ourselves everytime we take in all of
the above foods and drinks.
15.Therefore from now on, we need to ponder on our eating
habits. We need to do some kind of adjustment on the way we consume foods or
drinks in order not to continue poisoning ourselves with the wrong diet. We
cannot effort to remain weak physically in the present fast paced and changing
world environment.
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