Healthy Living A guide to a healthy personal and congregational life

Healthy Living Campaigns Diet ▫Mainly vegetables. ▫Lean meats, poultry and fish. ▫No sugar or saturated fats. Exercise ▫Walking, running and bike riding. ▫Sporting Clubs. ▫Gym.

Healthy Living Campaigns cont. Sleep ▫8 hours sleep per day. Life Insurance ▫Guarantee for your family. Medicare ▫Guarantee for your universal health being. Cleaner Environment ▫Limit pollution and recycle.

What’s The Purpose To have more energy. Don’t want to feel sluggish. Live the longest possible life given our physical limits. Absence of diseases. To provide the best possible circumstances to achieve our goals and dreams. To achieve physical, mental and social well- being.

What’s The Result On average, 60 years of life in this world. I guess happiness during that time. Productivity in the physical sense. Rank, houses, cars, yachts, and money.

One Important Note There is obviously an immense amount of study gone into understanding the physical make-up of a human. All of the above recommendations were given based on findings from these studies. Consequently these recommendations are all based on the assumptions and judgements in these studies. As a result we can have disagreements; however, there is a general agreement about the physical make-up of a human.

Three Faces Of This World First face is the worldly face we have been discussing so far. Worth only 60 years at most. Second and third face look to hereafter years of life in this world is worth like 1 hour in heaven. Things in the hereafter are so much more valuable because they are not transient.

Three Faces Of This World cont.

First Note We also have many other inner faculties that are as important. ▫Emotions. ▫Feelings. ▫Intelligence. ▫Memory. ▫Nefis. ▫Ene.

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Personal Life) Takva (Diet) ▫Stay way from major sins:  To deny the existence of God.  To associate partners to God.  To deny or not accept authentic Law.  To lose hope.  To be certain that God will punish you.  To keep repeating the same sin.  To not fast or pray.

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Personal Life) cont.  To run away from war.  To be rude towards your parents.  To kill or rape somebody.  Steal or asking for interest when lending.  To perve or commit adultery. Worship (Exercise) ▫Pray. ▫Fast. ▫Charity (Zekat).

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Personal Life) cont. Reading (Sleep) ▫Gives a break and a mini vacation. ▫ Rest. ▫Gives us a chance to sort things out. ▫If you miss out on this you feel cranky, clumsy, brain and body can’t function right. Cemaat (Life Insurance) ▫Will continue to accumulate rewards for you after your death.

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Personal Life) cont. Refuge in God (Medicare) ▫Our protection from all sicknesses, diseases, natural disasters, dangers, etc. Good friends and companions (Clearner environment) ▫Bad influences (pollution). ▫Allows you to perform better.

What’s The Purpose To have more energy. Don’t want to feel sluggish. Absence of diseases. To provide the best possible circumstances to achieve our goals and dreams. To achieve physical and mental well-being.

What’s the Result Realisation of God. Love for God. Indescribable bliss and happiness. Infinite life. The opportunity to be with the greatest human beings. Heaven and all the beauty included in there. To meet God.

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Congregational Life) “In our profession we avoid selfishness, egotism and rank as though it is a lethal substance; any state that might bring about these feelings we stay away from.” “I do not want anyone to admire me or give me a rank. I have warned you about this issue many times.”

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Congregational Life) cont. “ O Said! Just like soil, you must be modest, in total humility and egoless so that the Risale-i Nur is not intervened with nor lose its effect.” “I do not clear my nefis from fault; on the contrary, my nefis desires evil.” “Yes! The person who loves himself and trusts himself is unwell. The person who sees his own mistakes is blessed.”

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Congregational Life) cont. “To me the biggest and most valuable service in this world is the service of saving or strengthening peoples faith. By all means, stay away from selfishness and things that bring pride. In this day and age, being humble, modest and egoless is a must for the people of truth. Since all exams are coming from selfishness, pride and testing the ego, the people of truth must always be modest, humble and always focus on your own faults and blame yourself.”

Healthy Living For The Hereafter (Congregational Life) cont. “At the time of service and contemplation, the people of truth put themselves forward. At time of results and rewards, the people of truth push themselves back. The people of misguidance do the opposite.” “Yes due to pride, a person will deprive himself of physical and spiritual progress. Because of his pride if a person does not learn from others and believes his knowledge is sufficient, that person will be deficient.”