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Does what we eat affect our faith?

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    1. Ali Ahmed
          In Islam, what you eat does not directly affect your faith (iman) in the sense of your belief in Allah (SWT) and the Islamic teachings. However, there are ways in which food choices can be connected to your faith:

         Maintaining a Pure Body: Muslims strive to keep their bodies pure for prayer and other acts of worship. This includes avoiding substances that are considered impure, such as pork and alcohol.

    2. Abdur
      Ahlul Bayt Scholar

      Eating to the point where you are full, makes your soul heavy, and you lose the appetite to worship Allah, Subhana wa Ta’ala. You recite Du’a Kumayl, you don’t interact with it. One reason is because your soul is loaded. Yes, we burden the soul with sins, with other things. But one thing is eating a lot of food

    3. Rizvii
      Knowledge Navigator

      Absolutely it does. If it were not affecting us spiritually, it would have never been forbidden. Allah swt. only forbids us from those which effects His creation. People used to consume Alcohol which is umm al khabasa as it gives birth to physical, moral, psychological and spiritual illness.

      The messenger of Allah, Mohammad (P.B.U.H&H.P) said: if anyone eats an unlawful bit, his/her prayer won’t be accepted, his/ her prayer won’t be answered, and each part of his/her body which grow by that Unlawful bit, deserve the fire (Hell).

      (Behar al-Anvar volume 66, page 314)

      The messenger of Allah, Mohammad (P.B.U.H&H.P) said: glutting destroy your intelligence

      (Mostatraf, volume 1, page 180)

      Imam Ali (A.S) said to one of his companions: Komeil! Don’t full your Stomach of food, leave space in it for water and air. Stop eating while you still have appetite for eating, if you perform these advices, food will be tasty to you. Truly, health comes by eating and drinking less.

      (That Al-Oghoul, page 66)

      Imam Ali (A.S) said: let the hot food become colder, once, a meal was brought to the prophet and he said: let it be cold and be eatable because Allah never makes us to eat fire, blessing is in the tepid food.

      (Forou’e Kafi, volume 6, page 322)