Ramadan, A Blessing Not A Burden | Mufti Abu Layth

Ramadan has a fast approached people and what what I will try to do is this Ramadan I will try to keep um certain episodes going okay because I think yeah I think it would be nice and I also feel that I've been not been able to do as many episodes just because of preoccupations and things that have been happening and uh my mother's health and and a lot of

other things as well so yeah so I um but but I more and above uh just just that the the void it's the fact that I I'm I have this feeling that I I have this wanting to it's like I want to do that so yeah let's let's do that on what I would say is look a few people had asked me um about Ramadan on I want to highlight that look this

you know don't feel burdened by any way do not you know sometimes we can we can get stressed out it happens to all of us you know we can think oh man you know oh you know I've got this to do I've got to get this work done I've got to get um you know oh man now I'm not going to be eating well I've got exams I've got you know I need caffeine oh my God I'm gonna lose size because my muscles I won't be feeding protein I'm you know it's surprising you're oh I'm gonna feel

drowsy without my food I'm gonna feel ditzy and you know just just fatigued and lethargic and and we've all had these thoughts everybody has thought like and it's normal it's human it's the fitra okay but I want to tell you something honestly I I encourage you all to on YouTube type in things like the benefits of intermittent fasting

there's many videos there's there's a there's a Dr Burke b-e-r-g there's a few people with so many with I mean with this with the data with the science with the with the feedback with qualifications medical with holistic quality you'll have people that are so Health uh positive breaking down to you and for you these things because look just take and don't get listen don't I don't want you to misunderstand this I'm not trying to say um will come in a moment to the religious

thing but believe me our worldly perspective shapes how we see things people see fasting as oh you know I'm just gonna be hungry and not have coffee and not have food and oh my God I'm gonna be just grumpy and I'm gonna be like this and that's because they are seeing it will be these people need to just have a watch of some of these videos they they'll be like 10 minutes long you can watch them at Double speed if you like

they will show you it's phenomenal the help the benefits the mental benefits the health benefits of fasting so long and they will guide you on how not what not to do so don't go crazy with all this fatty foods and all this stuff when you do iftar and when you do this allow your body to trigger something called autophagy it's actually where the body turns on itself and starts eating some of its self within which sounds bizarre but actually once the body enters usually

once fasting has become a pattern within something like 36 to 48 Hours the body goes into a state of autophagy so long as you're not ruining it by with all these ridiculously fatty foods if you're eating healthy in between what that does is it will yeah so although it sounds freaky but the body will turn on all the what it will start to do is it will start to turn on any uh any potentially cancerous cells and we all have these kind of cells by the way so we have cells at a very small

molecular level that are Mal reproducing but the body is it's gradually destroying them it doesn't allow them to develop to a certain State it's the body starts to eliminate all of these you will find that the body within days will start to work on resetting insulin to a certain it will start to free up radicals it will start to work on trying to free certain stem cells it will you will see the mental Clarity that the body is providing you you will find yourself losing unhealthy body weight fats the body will start to it will

start resorting to consuming the fats you will be so surprised how powerful the body is you'll be so surprised I mean it is all we have been misinformed I'm telling you you will start to realize ah I didn't actually need the amount of food I was eating that you know to give you an example that people have done this to be silent this on YouTube you can see that there's this person who I who actually fasted like that abstaining from All Foods obviously plant water he could have teas and

coffees if he wanted took vitamins he did it under medical surveillance he fasted for 13 months I mean I'm not suggesting you do that but 13 months no it goes without saying he when he began he was obese by the time he finished he was absolutely healthy Not only was he healthy his diabetes had disappeared his insulin had been reset entirely and doctors thought that that's crazy as soon as he starts eating he'll come back with with follow-up checks after five years now they found his insulin was just as healthy look you will be surprised that's a

ridiculous amount you will find this happening within weeks within two weeks your body will be resetting so many things that we just don't allow it to reset because we keep eating we keep eating I since I've watched these videos and there's so many this the science in it the the knowledge is undeniable I since I've watched it I've stopped I've pushed my now I just have brunch I do not have breakfast I will just eat uh probably earliest 11 30 or noon and it is it's amazing what it's done to my body it's so

look what I'm saying is just from a worldly perspective know that there is so much you know wallahi when I started I look I ended up watching these videos because um and this because of my mom's health I got onto them and I started watching and and then one thing after another and YouTube brings you more and more and you start watching more it's it changed my life or an incredibly significant part of it

a reshape I used to be one I used to think breakfast was the most important meal of the day yes nonsense it is not and we in the western world where we constantly eat are providing ourselves with so much like the body has everything it needs to fix itself for the most part the problem is we don't allow it because we're constantly you see it's under stress it's like it's got to hold up some weight but if you give it enough time it could push the weight up but we keep loading it so we're having breakfast now it's having to digest that the livers having to store the fatty uh

you know deposits it's having to break things down the kidneys are at work before just as it's finishing it hasn't even finished always smacking down more lunch it's having to deal with more the gut microbiome is being messed up uh we're trying to clear up that in between we're throwing all these fatty foods this junk this you know just uh desserts and desserts and and sweets and sugar and sugar and we're throwing sugar and we're doing this day in day out to the body I'm telling the two lead causes for cancer contrary to what you may imagine two

lead causes are food and stress it's what you eat and stress these are the leading causes sure a person could be you know they could be exposed to certain radiation a person could smoke and maybe they develop things and it could happen I'm not saying but the main leading causes you'll find are these two it's the nutrition you don't want they they say now that EV I think ever is it one out of every two or three men

in his lifetime will now have cancer that and I think for women is it one out of every three or four so it's slightly less but this is simply coming down to it's not not much else has changed for humans it's our diet we're eating processed foods we're eating chunk we're flooding our systems with sugar now look Ramadan is a beautiful opportunity look it's there anyway it's there anyway look what the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said

he said sumo he said fast you will gain good health that's counter-intuitive it doesn't make any sense to people they're thinking well no I'll have less strength I'll have less no you see you think that yes there's a small brief moment where the you know the the the you'll find that the hormones kind of being released grilling being released which triggers the hunger response but that gets subdued then the body will stop turning on

malignant elements within it and and eating it during this state of autophagy it will also start providing Clarity hence you find people who fast between 36 to 72 hours they result in laser sharp Clarity mental focus you can watch this on uh YouTube people will be giving recording they'll be shocked how how clear their thinking is that they're expecting the opposite so and the irony was you see this is why you see in the lifetime of the Prophet salallahu you see the companions you see

they're struggling you see in battles a lack of food but they would fast and you see whilst assassinated armies were thinking huh that's funny you know that's interesting we're gonna eat up all this food for energy and the Muslims on many occasions were fasting many of the greatest conquests in Islam happened during Ramadan right throughout Islamic history

and you think well that isn't they're not gonna have energy you see but that's counter-intuitive because you're gonna think that it's you're right logically thinking you're gonna think that but that's because you underestimate how the body works under stress the body is designed and equipped to release exponential capacity do you know these so when the stem cells are are used used up you know what I at a fetal stage to generate the the limbs and the different body parts

there are several you know whether it's a few million stem cells they say but there are still several stem cells that are left remaining they don't just completely um you know they don't just wither away the body actually stores them deep into the bones and why does it store them and and it's with the the antelope the potential that should this body ever come under such dire death encountering stress that the body will release things it will release these super

almost nuclear sources of strength that it doesn't know it has that this is honestly and look forward to it trust me nothing is gonna you're not gonna lose anything you're not gonna lose size you know people the amount of people they stress on and lose size in the gym don't worry about these things gonna come right back yeah you're gonna gain some phenomenal strength you will have Clarity of mind you will have Focus

um you think you're you're worried it will also show you how truly in your independence from food you're not dependent I mean ultimately I get it we all are but not in the way you think you are you we think we're dependent oh my God I haven't had breakfast oh my God I'm gonna die I haven't had the coffee oh my God I'm not in that way we're not in here if that's all just psychological so I say let's use this opportunity it's Embrace but be weary don't flirt your system arifth Ari time with all

this nonsense and fatty kind of unhealthy junk be a bit you know treat your body like the temple that it is and yeah and with that in mind let's take this opportunity to explore even a bit if we can of the Quran even a bit you know just let's try you know this is going to you we're going to surprise ourselves I'm telling you you're gonna think ah oh I'm busy I'm not a little bit you're gonna love it it's gonna be

amazing but let's just try so this is what I wanted to say yes Allah make things easy