The Golden Key to a Healthy and Long Life
They ask the smoker with one leg cut off, still holding a cigarette, "Look, you'll lose your other leg too!" to those who say, “I'm drinking, let them cut the other one too…” You know, the person who feels pity when he sees his condition says to give up…
Traffic, work, the person who experienced an unprecedented accident, the doctor who said that you will lose his foot, said, “Can't you treat it without cutting it? There is no cure…” The doctor is silent, he has done what he has to do, and he is helpless… The truth is, this is a realistic approach. Who wants to have a limb amputated or lost?
In Islam, protecting the body is as obligatory as performing prayers. Where did you use your body, how did you treat it? If we lie, our limbs will protrude and tell the truth.
Neither walking, talking, eating, thinking, breathing, working… We will not force it either. We will have mercy on the part that is the subject of this action. We will show him maternal affection. We will stay away from actions that have turned into a competition with what we do physically. Of course, we will not be lazy. We will not make you forget what each of our limbs has to do. It's like a working iron sparkle... Just like the unplowed land turns into a steppe... It will also be worked.
Retired people sigh and expect service from everyone… They don't think of doing any work. They do not enjoy life. Losing the sense of excitement is the most natural image. Therefore, they lose their health, are exposed to untreated diseases and die as soon as possible. No matter what age we are, our body has to work and move.
Experiments on overweight people such as sumo wrestlers have proven that the risk of heart attack is minimal. The reason for this is that even if the person is overweight, he has shown that moving saves him from this risk. It doesn't matter if the person is underweight or overweight. What makes a person different is the richness of movement in his life. We have become so conscious that even if the person is disabled, they swim, run, play football or basketball… While the excitement in their life increases, they also protect their health. They find themselves in the richness of life by doing useful works.
In a hadith, "Even if we get old, we try not to depend on anyone and do our own work ourselves!" attention was paid to its necessity. As a result, we must act, and we must not exaggerate our activity. Our body is ours and we should have compassion for it as needed. If we don't have mercy on ourselves, no one else will ever have mercy on us. The golden key to a healthy and long life is “Movement…”