In
order to lengthen our lives, we
must begin with what we put in
us that retains life. Master
Fard Muhammad, to Whom Praises
are due forever, comes to
prolong the lives of the
believers.
THERE IS NOT a shadow of a
doubt that He (Allah) has taken
the proper steps to give us more
life in order to have and enjoy
the pleasures of life. He
(Allah) said what we eat keeps
us here, and the same will take
us away. Suppose we ate one-half
pound of food a day. At the end
of 365 days, we would have eaten
182 1/2 pounds of food per year.
BUT WE EAT more than this
amount. For instance, if we live
50 years, we would eat 50 times
this much food, at a half pound
of food a day. If we saw 9,000
pounds of raw food piled up
before us to consume, we would
think that this would be a lot
of food to go through our
bodies. And we would think that
it probably would wear us out to
eat that much food in our life
time, although we eat tons of
food in our life time.
AND IF THIS food is not the
proper food to eat, it will wear
away our body and cut short
three score and 10 years of our
lives. On the average, our
people are living around 62
years. This is a very short life
to live on an earth that has
been here trillions of years.
And yet, the average of us
cannot live 100 years under the
present system of civilization
of wickedness. Master Fard
Muhammad, to Whom Praises are
due forever, comes to prolong
our lives, not to shorten them,
by correcting our eating habits
to one meal a day instead of
three, and by teaching us to eat
the proper foods that will not
destroy us or shorten our lives
to less than 100 years. His
(Allah's) teaching us to eat
better food and to cut our
eating from three and four times
a day to once a day will
certainly prolong our lives and
increase our beautiful
appearance.
A PERSON WHO eats like an
animal, three or four times a
day and all between meals,
cannot retain a beautiful
appearance. Eating three times a
day and all between meals
removes the body's
attractiveness In many ways. We
eat meat, but yet meat is not
good for us. It becomes a
habitual tool. This type of food
poisons the blood and goes into
the flesh and cannot help but
transform and destroy the
surface of the flesh.
TAKE, FOR example, a new born
baby. Many times its beauty
lasts for just a short while and
then passes away with its
growth. Even in our late
twenties and early thirties,
because of the life that we live
and the frequent eating of
poison food, our beautiful
appearance begins to pass from
us so rapidly, until by our
forties and fifties it is nearly
completely gone.
Let us eat one meal a day and
try getting the best food that
we can to eat, vegetables,
fruits, pure fresh milk, and
pure whole wheat bread, that has
been cooked slowly, twice. Doing
this will help us live longer
and retain our beautiful
appearance much longer.
DO NOT GET into the habit (or
if you are already in the habit,
stop it) of eating a lot of
greasy food. Regardless of
whether the grease is from
animal flesh or not, our bodies,
by nature, are not made to
digest and control grease or
lots of fat. Thousands of minor
ailments disappear from us by
eating the proper food and at
the proper time, one meal a day.
He (Allah) teaches us never to
eat unless we are hungry. Eating
when we are not hungry causes
these minor ailments. We are
forcing the body to digest food
before it is calling for this
food.
TAKE THE hog and the
dog--they do not live ver long,
because they eat daily and
nightly.
The present civilization is
an enemy to righteousness. Since
they were put over us to rule us
they had to find a different way
of ruling us other that the good
old way of our fathers, who
lived several hundreds of years,
some nearly a thousand years.
IF WE MET a man today who
said he had been on the planet
500 years, we would think that
he was lying because our short
lives of less than 100 years,
lead us to believe that it is
false to think that people can
live several hundred years.
It is all in the food and
drink that we put into our
bodies that lengthens or
shortens our lives. Stay away
from poison food and drinks, and
eat to live.