poor relatives, friends and neighbours and nor for the accountability of the Hereafter. One who is greedy for food only wishes to eat, eat and only continues to eat. That’s why today from everywhere we hear people saying:

Eat and drink to improve your health

Dear Islamic brothers! Remember! Whether it is an ordinary roti or delicious food but once they enter our stomach they all are mixed. As the morsel goes down our throat its taste remains no more. Eating whatever comes to our hand and eating a lot bring about countless worldly and Hereafter disadvantages. Let’s listen to the disadvantages of eating a lot in the light of the sayings of pious predecessors and try to protect ourselves from the greed for food.

Perils of living body

Sayyiduna Yahya Mu’aaz Razi رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated, ‘The one who has the habit of eating his fill, flesh increases in his body;  the one in whose body flesh increases follows his desires and the one who follows his desires, his sins increase and the one whose sins increase, his heart becomes hard and the one whose heart becomes hard, he falls victim to the calamities and attractions of the world.’ (Al-Munabbihat, pp. 59)

Glutton is more inclined to sins

Sayyiduna Imam Muhammad Ghazali رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه has stated, ‘Eating a lot causes Fitnah in body parts; it arouses the desire of causing disturbance in body parts and causing them to commit immodest deeds. When a person eats a lot, he becomes arrogant, 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 lust 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 be driven by the greed for any evil nor will feel happy after seeing any evil.’