the blessed Sunnah of Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم as meat is one of the favourite edible items of the Beloved Rasool صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم.

The Greatest Rasool’s favourite food was meat. He صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم would say that meat improves hearing, and is the chief of all foods in the world and the Hereafter. He صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم declared, ‘If I had asked Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ to provide me with meat every day; He عَزَّوَجَلَّ must have provided it.’

(Ithaf-us-Sadat-il-Muttaqeen, pp. 238, vol. 8)

In Eid-ul-Adha days, consumption of vegetables and pulses is almost declined and people prefer edible items prepared from meat, so, people deprive of the due benefit they are supposed to have due to heavy consumption of it and after having consumed excessive meat, people suffer stomach disease and resultantly they tend to go to clinics. Therefore, act moderately when there is meat all around you and to curtail the harmful effects of meat, must use vegetables. Now let’s listen to some advantages from medical point of view and disadvantages of excessive consumption of meat.

Excessive meat consumption and disadvantages

Doctors comment that meat strengthens 70 powers of body, it sharpens the vision, enhances the colour of body, prevents belly bulge, cultivates habits and good manners; neck meat is light, digestible and delicious. Meat from shoulder section is the lightest, most delicious, most digestible and free from diseases. Veal (Calf meat) especially from a healthy calf is very moderate, delicious and the favourite one. It generally carries warming characteristic and if it digests properly, it is regarded amongst the powerful diets. Normally meat with gravy is better. Mutton is the best meat and the shoulder sections are the areas which do not have thick fibres which help tenderize and dissolve the meat soon.  Fibre of Back meat is less thick than the fibre of thigh meat; it carries the production of red blood cells. Meat improves height by providing the body energy and strength. Benefits of meat vary from animal to animal. Mutton generates clean blood which is beneficial for the hot-tempered people.

Now let’s listen to the disadvantages of heavy consumption of meat. Consuming meat more than 2 or 3 times in a week is harmful, excessive consumption of