Fasting is a greater
cure of our ills - both
mentally and physically
- than all of the drugs
of the earth combined
into one bottle or into
a billion bottles. ALLAH
(God) in the Person of
Master Fard Muhammad,
has taught me that
fasting and the right
kind of food are the
cures to our ills. He
has told me there is no
cure in drugs and
medicine. And this, the
world is now learning.
We can take medicine all
of our lives until it
kills us, but we are
still ailing with the
same old diseases.
The bad food and
drinks we are putting
into our bodies keep us
a victim to illness.
There are not too many
nice doctors who will
tell you that drugs are
not good for you,
because they paid for
their learning and want
to keep practicing.
But "How To Eat To
Live" is what we want to
know, and have wanted to
know all of our lives.
Every man or woman wants
to know how he (or she)
can prolong his (or her)
life.
Nature teaches us to
stay here in this life
as long as we can.
Nature has never taught
anyone that he should
leave this life and find
another one somewhere
else, because we have
only one life. If this
life is destroyed, we
would have a hard time
trying to get more life;
It is impossible. So try
to keep this life you
have as long as
possible. Go when you
cannot stay here any
longer.
ALLAH TAUGHT ME that
one meal a day would
keep us here for a long
time; we would live over
100 years. And eating
one meal every two days
would lengthen our lives
that much longer. He
told me you would never
be sick, eating one meal
every three days. The
fact that fasting is the
cure to 99 per cent of
our ills is known by the
medical scientists. But,
they do not teach you
that.
They know that
tobacco, hard whiskey
and alcohol are not good
for you and will shorten
your life and kill you.
But most of them are too
weak themselves to stop
drinking or smoking or
chewing tobacco. So they
do not teach you that
tobacco and alcoholic
drinks - made into what
is known as whiskey,
beer, and wine - are not
good for you, although
they know it to be true.
They will say, "Yes,
it is good for you if
you are temperate." But,
they know that once you
get started on that
stuff, it is such as
enemy that it just takes
you into its power, and
it is almost like trying
to break an iron chain
to get away from the
habit. So do not use
tobacco in any form and
you will live a few
years longer.
Fast once a month for
three days or four days
- or for whatever length
of time you are able to
go without food without
harming yourself - and
you will feel good. Did
you not know that if you
would stop eating pig
and the food that you
should not eat; stop
eating three and four
times a day and stop
drinking whiskey, beer
and wine, you would save
much in the way of
money?
In prolonging your
life by abstaining from
the pig, alcoholic
drinks and tobacco, you,
also, will be adding
money to your savings of
hundreds and thousands
of dollars. You will be
depriving those pig
raisers and tobacco
growers and alcoholic
distilleries of millions
of dollars that they rob
you of which hasten you
to your grave.
YOU COULD STOP the
tobacco growers from
growing that stinking
weed, by turning away
from the use of it. And
you could stop the pig
raising by not eating
the stinking hog. These
things are death to your
children in their early
ages. And, they even
affect the reproductive
organs of people in the
early ages, as well as
affect the heart, the
lungs, and your
sharpness in thinking.
And, after all of this,
you die a victim of
poison and
commercialization. Learn
to eat to live.