Physical & Psychological Benefits of Fasting – Dr Zakir Naik
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Yusuf Chambers: What exactly are the physical benefits of fasting?
Dr. Zakir: Since fasting mainly involves in abstaining from food drink and sex from dawn upto sunset. Today we realize that the stomach is the main organ of the body which has the maximum diseases, maximum number of ailments that’s why our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saws), he said:
It’s mentioned in Ibn Maajah vol no. 4 hadith no. 3349 our beloved Prophet said that
“There is nothing better that a son of Adam can fill in the container with more evils than stomach, it is sufficient for a man to be on his feet with a morsel but if he has to eat more than he can divide the stomach into three parts, one third for the food one third for the drink and one third for his breath, or one third for the air”
So what we realize that the maximum diseases originate in the stomach because it’s house for bacteria and the food that we eat it enters the stomach from the stomach it gets digested it goes into the intestinal tract then the food enters in the blood stream and then it almost goes into all the organs of the body and we realize that our stomach is working continuously through out the life, it never gets any rest. When we fast the stomach which is a very delicate organ though it’s very delicate it is a very complicated organ it’s delicate at the same time its very important it keeps on working though out the day. This organ while we fast when no food enters for several hours it gets rest and the toxins that are there in the body they are removed they are purged out. So fasting is a very good way physically it’s beneficial for the body, it removes all the toxins and it helps in various diseases.
Yusuf Chambers: What about the psychological impacts upon the human psychic regarding fasting, I think that’s very important
Dr Zakir: As far as the psychological dimension is concerned fasting help in patience forbearance and perseverance. It helps a person to increase the self control his self worth it helps him increase the self reflexivity also the self training and discipline is improved. The main psychological benefit is increase in patience and perseverance and it can make a person who says I cannot do it can make a person I can do and fasting helps in the conditioning the heart body mind and soul, it improves the overall dimension of the human being and fasting is a sort of training it even helps in behavioral change and changing a behavior is very difficult, a person who is used to a particular behavior to change a persons behavior is very difficult as we say that the best type of jihad is jihad fin nafs i.e. striving against ones own soul. So to change the habits is one of the things which is most difficult which fasting can do.
And since jihad that is going into the battle field is the utmost important when required is you cannot do jihad, if you cannot strive against your own soul how can you strive against the enemy so therefore fasting helps in the dimension that’s the reason fasting was made fard before jihad, fasting was made fard 15 years after prophet hood in the second Hijri and next year one year later Jihad was made fard. So Allah (swt) first wanted to train and make the Muslims fit psychologically…
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