Book Name:Ittiba e Shahawat
Attack of sins on the one who eats to full stomach
Dear Islamic sisters! It is a matter of great concern that eating to full stomach causes a person to fall into the pits of sins. Sayyiduna Imam Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه stated: ‘Excessive eating causes mischief in body parts and creates the desire of committing violent and immodest deeds. When a person eats to his full stomach, his eyes desire to see immodest things, his ears desire to hear evil things, his tongue wants to speak about indecent things, his private part demands the satisfaction of desires and his feet are keen to move towards impermissible places. On the contrary, if a person is hungry, all of his body parts remain peaceful. They will neither desire for any evil nor will they get happy when seeing it.’ Abu Ja’far رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated, ‘When the stomach is hungry, all other body parts are at peace. They desire nothing, and when the stomach is full, other body parts become hungry and take the person to committing evil things.’ (Minhaj-ul-‘Aabideen, pp. 82)
Dear Islamic sisters! Remedy for refraining from sins after eating to a full stomach is that a person should protect herself from the evils of Nafs by eating less than hunger. اَلْـحَمْـدُ لـِلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ In the fragrant Madani environment of Dawat-e-Islami, one is motivated to abstain from consuming a Haraam morsel. Moreover, she should even eat permissible and Mubah food in less quantity with the intention of gaining energy to perform worship so that she can relish the blessing of sweetness of the worship and does not get inclined towards sins. In the Madani environment of Dawat-e-Islami, eating less than hunger is called “Qufl-e-Madinah of the stomach”. In order to get a mindset to act upon this, Shaykh-e-Tareeqat, Ameer-e-Ahl-e-Sunnat, founder of Dawat-e-Islami, Allamah Maulana Abu Bilal Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri Razavi Ziyaee دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـهْ has written a wonderful book called “Payt ka Qufl e Madinah – The Excellence of Hunger”, comprising 162 pages. By the blessing of reading this book, اِنْ شَــآءَالـلّٰـه عَزَّوَجَلَّ you will be able to collect various Madani pearls about the manners of eating, benefits of eating less than hunger, rules of remaining healthy and various other Madani pearls. This book can be purchased from any branch of Maktaba-tul-Madinah. In