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of the general health, and contributes in saving good physical soundness. The developed
countries, along with the international health organizations, strive for publicizing the general
health among peoples of the world. They also work for guarding man from irregularity and
aberrance. Bantam, the English, says,
[1] Refer to Spirit of Islam: 401.
[2] Refer to al‐Bukhari’s Sahih and Muslim’s Sahih.
“Diligent preservations in the legislative purity of the Islamic religion will dismiss sinning and quit
the defects. All of the criminals that I have seen in the jails were dirty in appearance and reality.”
NUTRIENT COURSES
Islam has constituted a distinctive course of nutrition, and ordered Muslims of applying them to
their lives.
Moderation of food:
Islam has shown the necessity of moderation in food. God says:
O, children of Adam! Attend to your embellishments at every time of prayer, and eat and drink
and be not extravagant. Surely, He does not love the extravagant.
This holy Verse includes the principals of the general health and founds an equable rule of
physical safety. This is the moderation of eating. Overeating ravages the body and causes the
infliction of many diseases. Imam as‐Sadiq (s) says, “If people economize in their eating, their
bodies will be sound.”[1] Imam ar‐Rida (s) says in ar‐Risaletu Thehebiya, “O Amirul‐Muminin[*]!
Consider only the food that suits you and your stomach, and intensifies and relishes your body to
prepare it for yourself and use as the diet. The excessive food is useless. The food that is neither
excessive nor imperfect is the useful. You should not have the adequacy of food. You should leave
the food while you are still craving for it. This is better for the stomach and the body, and more
helpful for the mind and less heavy for the physique.”[2]
Islam has underlined the necessity of moderation in eating since it achieves the physical
soundness and takes away from diseases. The Prophet (s) said, “Eat only when you crave, and
abstain while you are still craving.” “Sons of Adam –human beings‐ have not filled a bowel worse
than the abdomens. Sons of Adam should be content with a few bits that rectify the body. If this is
impossible, one third should be given to eating, and one third to drinking, and one third to
breathing.” “Stomach is the house of every malady. Diet is the head of every remedy. Give the
soul what it habituates.”
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