Back to Basics: Giving the Body Its Due

When the Prophet ﷺ was asked what should one make dua for, he replied “Ask Allah for Afiya.”

One of the greatest blessings a person can have is Afiya. Without your health, how would your spiritual works be effected? Sometimes, we think our physical health and wellness is a worldly matter, leading us to neglect its importance. Our bodies are one of the greatest blessings Allah has given us. How are we worshipping Allah through maintaining and using the blessing of our health? The Prophet ﷺ taught us that our bodies have a right over us. How are we worshipping Allah through fulfilling its right upon us?

The believer must be well informed about foods, habits, lifestyles that weaken or harm their body and those that maintain and strengthen the body. Not for its own sake, but because it is a means to worship Allah.

The Prophet ﷺ replied when asked who is the best of people: “The best of people is one whose life is long and works are good.”

Meaning, they maintained their health for the sake of Allah and lived a righteous life. The companions were some of the strongest men and women in history, and they used that strength for the sake of Allah.

SageTree seeks to educate Muslims about the importance of being healthy and strong physically for the worship, service, and pleasure of Allah. Contact us for a free workshop/seminar on the following topics:

Physical Wellbeing: Essential Duty for the Believer

Brain Health: Combatting Depression, Anxiety, and Unwanted Thoughts with Diet and Exercise

Eating and Living Healthy in the Modern Age

Readings

 

  • What’s Gotten Into Us, McKay Jenkins

    Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston A. Price

    Anticancer: A New Way of Life, David Servan-Schreiber

    The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS, Terry Wahls

    Sugar Blues

    Grain Brain, Dr David Perlmutter

    The Vegetarian Myth, Lierre Keith

    The Anti-Estrogenic Diet, Ori Hofmekler

    Foods the Fight Cancer, Dr Richard Beliveau

    Gut and Psychology Syndrome, Natasha Campbell-Bride

    Eat-Stop-Eat, Brad Pilon

    Deep Nutrition, Dr. Catherine Shanahan

  • Original Strength, Tim Anderson

    The Barbell Prescription

    Starting Strength

    Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

    Posture: Get it Straight, Janice Novak

    Enter the Kettlebell, Pavel Tsatsouline

    Super Joints, Pavel Tsatsouline

    Strong Medicine, Chris Hardy MD and Marty Gallagher

    The Art of Chi Kung, Wong Kiew Kit

    The Complete System of Self-Healing: Internal Exercises, Dr. Stephen Chang

  • The Holy Quran

    Kitab al Adhkār, Imam Nawawi

    The OCD Workbook, Bruce Hyman

    Brain Lock, Jerrfey Schwartz MD

    How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

    Gut and Psychology Syndrome, Natasha Campbell-Bride

    Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

  • The Science Delusion, Rupert Sheldrake

    The Disease Delusion, Dr Jeffrey Bland