Eat the best food you can
obtain. Never deprive yourself
of good health, at the price of
cheap food. Just remember, when
you are feeding your stomach
with cheap, poison foods trying
to keep a dollar in your pocket,
you are not saving a dollar in
your pocket.
IT WILL only go to the
hospital, the undertaker, and
for the ever increasing drain on
the families’ savings in
purchasing drug pacification's
for the ill body from eating the
wrong food.
There is not one of you who
would not like to live a long,
long time. That long time
depends on what you eat and
drink. So, eat and drink that
which is good. Go to the farm
and try raising your own food,
or have collective farming.
However, try seeking some of
this earth that you can call
your own; and, raise on it the
necessities of life.
And, in this way, you may be
able -- if you can keep your
lurking enemy from slipping
poison into your good and
innocent crops -- to grow pure
food. We cannot blame the white
man for his evils, because by
nature he was made like that.
But, we can blame ourselves for
accepting such evil.
I have received many
questions in regard to meat,
fish, and poultry that have not
been mentioned. The main thing
Allah, as well as the Holy Quran,
reminds us of is that when it
comes to meat and fish, Allah
forbids us to eat the flesh of a
swine and a fish weighing over
50 pounds (or even weighing 50
pounds).
SOME PEOPLE will not even eat
fish at all. There are many fish
that we can eat; some even
weighing as little as one or one
and a half pounds.
When eating fish, we should
confine our fish-eating to those
fish weighing between one and
ten pounds. As I previously said
on "HOW TO EAT TO LIVE," do not
eat the scavengers of the sea
such as oysters, crabs, clams,
snails, shrimps, eels, and
catfish.
The fish last mentioned
(catfish) is a very filthy fish.
He loves filth and is the pig of
the water. Some people write in
complaining about the fish that
swim on their sides, but these
fish can be eaten.
ALLAH HAS Taught me that
chicken is not good to eat. They
are quite filthy (in-as-much as
they do not eat the cleanest of
food), but we eat them.
We eat beef and lamb; but
Allah also said that it is not
so good for us. It is not a sin
for us to eat it. It is not a
sin for us to eat camels. But if
we can find better food, we
should not eat the above
mentioned food. Many write and
ask if they should eat meat at
all. It is not a sin for you to
eat meat, but it is a sin for
you to eat the hog-meat.
If we want to prolong our
lives, it is best that we do not
eat meat or do not eat it so
often. Beef is very coarse and
many of our people do not eat it
because of that. Horsemeat can
also be eaten. It is cleaner
than the average meat. But we
should not eat it unless we are
extremely hungry and have
nothing else to eat because it
is a domestic animal and is
gentle and close to the home.
IT IS NOT A sin to eat even,
rabbit. But since Allah said
that the rabbit is so near kind
to the house cat that they are
relatives, we do not eat it. The
rabbit, however, is cleaner than
the house cat because he eats
vegetables, roots, and herbs and
he does not eat anything alive.