Islam & Diabetes | Sayed Muhammed Baqir Qazwini

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Islam & Diabetes | Sayed Muhammed Baqir Qazwini
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[0:04]i begin in the name of the almighty god the compassionate the

[0:10]merciful the one who has created everything in utmost perfection and may

[0:14]the peace and blessings of the almighty god be upon his pure

[0:18]and beloved messenger the peak of his creation the symbol of humanity

[0:25]the holy prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi and his immaculate progeny of the

[0:35]bait peace be upon them especially the leader of our time the

[0:38]awaited savior may allah hasten his reappearance and make us all amongst

[0:46]the sincere and dedicated servants allah subhanahu ta'ala states in the holy

[0:52]quran allah wants ease for you allah does not want to complicate

[1:04]things for you allah does not want difficulty for you when he

[1:08]legislates laws for us in reality when you examine the laws of

[1:12]the religion of islam it does require a commitment to observe them

[1:18]we have to sacrifice that's part of our trial that's why we

[1:23]are here on earth but allah subhanahu wa ta'ala does not burden

[1:28]us with more than that we can bear you read allah will

[1:34]be used when allah speaks about fasting in the holy quran allah

[1:37]subhanahu ta'ala reminds us that he wants ease for us the laws

[1:42]that he's legislated for us are laws that we can handle they

[1:47]benefit us we have to sacrifice they require a commitment but at

[1:49]the end of the day we can handle these laws that allah

[1:55]subhanahu ta'ala has legislated for us now if some of these laws

[2:01]become harmful for us due to a medical condition then yes the

[2:03]religion of islam makes an exception for us that is why if

[2:10]fasting is harmful for us it affects our health it is haram

[2:14]for us to fast i know some sick people some people who

[2:19]are harmed by fasting they insist on fasting no i have to

[2:24]the month of ramadan is here i have to fast allah does

[2:26]not accept that from me because he does not want me to

[2:29]fast and harm my health my health is very important if i

[2:34]fast and knowing that fasting is harmful to my health i'm not

[2:41]worshiping allah i'm actually committing a sin so allah wants ease for

[2:46]us now one of the very important challenges that many people face

[2:50]today and this would be the topic of our discussion tonight and

[2:55]this is impacted by fasting and other islamic obligations is diabetes how

[3:01]do we understand diabetes from the islamic perspective this is a very

[3:07]relevant topic my dear brothers and sisters because today every family pretty

[3:12]much they have someone who struggles with diabetes if you look at

[3:18]the statistics on diabetes it's truly shocking here in the u.s it

[3:23]is estimated that more than 37 million americans they struggle with diabetes

[3:31]that's more than 10 of the population that means anywhere you go

[3:36]if you see 10 people on average one of them has diabetes

[3:40]and when you look at those people who have pre-diabetes they're kind

[3:45]of on the border getting there you know what the figure is

[3:49]that's one third of the american population you're looking at a hundred

[3:57]million americans who basically fall into that category they have pre-diabetes they're

[4:04]on the borderline and so this is a very significant issue health

[4:09]epidemic let's call it that's affecting many of us many people die

[4:15]because of diabetes globally every year it's estimated that one million five

[4:21]hundred thousand people die because of diabetes you know that's three people

[4:27]every minute diabetes is killing three people every minute as i'm speaking

[4:33]to you now every 20 seconds someone's life is being claimed because

[4:38]of diabetes it's the seventh leading cause of death in the united

[4:45]states half a billion people around the world they struggle with diabetes

[4:49]it's something that we must raise awareness about my dear brothers and

[4:53]sisters and let's look at the islamic recommendations to prevent diseases like

[4:58]that but how does diabetes impact fasting and other religious obligations given

[5:07]that this is so common and you probably all know someone who's

[5:11]struggling with this it's very important to be informed about the islamic

[5:14]perspective so the point the first point that i would like to

[5:19]discuss with you briefly is whether people who are diabetic should fast

[5:23]or not according to islamic law there are some people that are

[5:28]under the impression that anyone who has diabetes that's it they shouldn't

[5:32]fast it's going to harm your health you should not fast in

[5:34]the month of ramadan we just give a blanket ruling like that

[5:38]that is not the case there are different types of diabetes there

[5:43]are different degrees of diabetes we cannot say that if you have

[5:49]diabetes that's it you should not fast it depends on your personal

[5:53]medical circumstances for instance people normally people with type 2 diabetes where

[5:59]they take the medication like metformin they don't take insulin most of

[6:05]these people or i could say a lot of these people you

[6:10]know if they're otherwise healthy they can fast they can fast and

[6:14]fasting does not harm their health in fact there are studies done

[6:17]to show that fasting helps these people in controlling their diabetes in

[6:24]regulating their sugar levels their glucose sometimes eating less changing your diet

[6:30]fasting intermittently that helps people with diabetes yes you also have type

[6:38]1 diabetes those people who take insulin these people are at a

[6:44]greater risk when it comes to fasting but even some of them

[6:50]can also fast sometimes if you change when you get your dose

[6:54]you adjust it to your schedule during the month of ramadan the

[6:57]time of sahur the time of future if you adjust the dose

[7:05]properly and it matches your diet and now your lifestyle in the

[7:08]month of ramadan even many people with type 1 diabetes they can

[7:12]actually fast it doesn't necessarily harm everyone who struggles with diabetes some

[7:19]people yes it is harmful for them and sometimes you can try

[7:24]monitor the sugar level try fasting and then throughout the day monitor

[7:28]the sugar level if you see that it's dropping rapidly yes at

[7:32]that point you need to eat something but a lot of people

[7:34]can actually fast and it does not impact them now here's an

[7:39]interesting religious question who decides whether you should fast or not who

[7:46]makes that decision well i can't speak to god directly for him

[7:52]you know to tell me whether i specifically should fast tomorrow or

[7:56]not if i have diabetes right so who makes that determination that

[8:01]you should fast or not it's harmful for you or not is

[8:03]it your mom and dad is it your neighbor is it tick

[8:08]tock is it google is it your family doctor who is it

[8:11]this is a very important question who would be the one family

[8:16]doctor okay in islamic law at the end of the day you

[8:22]are the mukhellah you are the one who is obligated before god

[8:27]right so at the end of the day you yourself have to

[8:31]make that decision however islam wants us to make an informed decision

[8:37]islam commands us to ask the experts do research you are going

[8:44]to make the decision you're obligated before god you're responsible but you

[8:48]have to ask your family doctor you have to ask a number

[8:52]of doctors and when it comes to fasting i would recommend asking

[8:57]several doctors just for you to have a better understanding of uh

[9:01]how your diabetes is impacted by fasting do research ask an endocrinologist

[9:07]right maybe an endocrinologist knows more about that than your family doctor

[9:13]ask a doctor who specializes in diabetes do your research and then

[9:17]if you feel that it's safe for you between you and allah

[9:23]after consulting the experts try fasting if everything goes well continue fasting

[9:26]may allah reward you for that if you see that it's really

[9:30]impacting you you stop fasting so at the end of the day

[9:34]you make that call but you have to make an informed decision

[9:36]i know some people they come up with their own opinions i

[9:41]see a person who has a medical condition he wants to fast

[9:44]and i tell him on what basis are you fasting no no

[9:48]i feel i'm good i'm like no that doesn't fly with allah

[9:50]subhanahu ta'ala what do you mean i feel i'm good what does

[9:54]your doctor say what do other doctors say what does research say

[9:57]you have to consult the experts so once you've done your research

[10:03]and you feel confident that fasting is okay for you you can

[10:09]fast this is the first aspect of diabetes the second aspect is

[10:13]russell and purity there are people with type 1 diabetes who have

[10:21]to have these cgm monitors these continuous glucose monitoring systems to check

[10:28]their sugar right sometimes these people are sleeping it can drop rapidly

[10:33]or during the day and it could really harm them now the

[10:37]challenge is some of these monitors have to be attached for a

[10:41]good 10 days for a good two weeks and there's a very

[10:46]small needle that goes into the skin so when you do husul

[10:50]how do you do hussor when you have that object on your

[10:52]body our scholars and maraju have two understandings here the first more

[11:01]common understanding of maraju is that this is to be treated like

[11:06]a wound and therefore you do if you had a wound on

[11:13]your arm let's say on your upper arm there was a wound

[11:16]how would you do if it's an open wound right not a

[11:18]wound that has healed you basically put a bandaid on it you

[11:22]cover it with a piece of cloth and then that part you'd

[11:26]wipe on it you don't wash it because sometimes washing the wound

[11:31]can actually harm you so these scholars have said these monitors that

[11:35]are attached to the body through that needle that is basically like

[11:40]a wound it's a small needle sure you don't really see blood

[11:47]coming out but it is like a wound so you do the

[11:48]of jabira that part you basically wipe if the water cannot reach

[11:54]the device or you just cover it with a plastic bag and

[11:56]you do your hustle this is the first understanding the second understanding

[12:03]of samara they say no we don't see this as a wound

[12:08]this is technically not a wound it's a small little needle that

[12:11]looks like a hair right that goes into your body it's not

[12:14]an active wound blood is not coming out therefore in this case

[12:20]you have to do tiam moon is basically when you do the

[12:27]abolution with you know with the earth with dust with sand with

[12:30]anything that's from the earth you cannot do russell because this is

[12:37]a barrier if there's a barrier on your body you cannot do

[12:40]russell you have to do ta'amu let's say you have a person

[12:45]who's a painter right they got a lot of pain on their

[12:46]body and they don't have time to remove it what do they

[12:50]do in that case they cannot do because there is a barrier

[12:55]preventing water from reaching the skin in that case what they have

[12:59]to do is to do tayammum so this second group of scholars

[13:01]they say this cgm monitor for those people with diabetes this is

[13:06]actually a barrier and therefore they have to do tayamu i'll give

[13:12]you my recommendation my recommendation to those who have these monitors and

[13:15]i know a lot of people in the community who do my

[13:19]recommendation i know you'd like me to make things easier for you

[13:24]but believe me this is for the best my recommendation for you

[13:27]is to do the rusul and then after it do tayammo i'll

[13:30]tell you why because maybe right now you follow a merger who

[13:35]tells you do the russo tomorrow you know maybe your major passes

[13:39]away later you're going to follow someone else who's going to tell

[13:43]you no in that case you had to do tayammum and sometimes

[13:47]you could be in a situation where you have to redo your

[13:50]prayers and that's the last thing that you want done right that's

[13:54]why my recommendation is do the and then do it does not

[13:59]take more than 10 seconds it literally does not take more than

[14:03]10 seconds after you step out of the shower just do a

[14:06]quick tam you can see some videos on youtube that show you

[14:08]and demonstrate to you how to do taiyamu so that is my

[14:13]recommendation for those people who have to keep these monitors on their

[14:16]bodies for long do both that way you know for a fact

[14:19]you're on tahara and you're fulfilling your obligation and your sarah is

[14:27]valid by the way when you prick your hand many people have

[14:29]a misconception when you prick your hand and the blood comes out

[14:32]a lot of people think their hustle or their wudu gets invalid

[14:36]that's not the case no amount of blood will invalidate your wudu

[14:41]if you bleed you have a wound your will is valid you're

[14:45]still on tahara you just have to wash the blood before you

[14:52]pray and if the size of the blood the amount of the

[14:54]blood is less than a dirham as the hadith states dirham is

[15:00]basically the fingernail of your thumb your thumbnail right the size of

[15:04]your thumbnail if it's less than that you can pray with it

[15:06]you don't even need to wash it if it's more than that

[15:10]it invalidates the prayer so if you prick your hand your will

[15:15]is still valid i know many people who redo their wudu i

[15:17]tell them why did you have to do the law again it's

[15:20]must have to always do they will do but why it's like

[15:21]well my buddha became invalid no that's not the case blood leaving

[15:27]your body does not invalidate the wudu so that is something for

[15:31]them to consider my dear brothers and sisters my word of comfort

[15:37]for those who struggle with diabetes because i've seen some of them

[15:43]they really go through depression right they really have a hard time

[15:48]realize that this dunya is a trial and every single day that

[15:52]you struggle with this autoimmune disease remind yourself that i was not

[15:58]created for this world these diseases remind us believe me they're a

[16:03]gift from allah sometimes they remind us that we have a better

[16:09]place waiting for us don't waste your life on this world on

[16:13]materialism having your full hopes in this dunya violating others cheating others

[16:18]making haram money sinning every day just for momentarily momentary pleasure allah

[16:24]was did not create you for this dunya this is just a

[16:27]transit hall and then you leave these diseases are reminders my dear

[16:33]brothers and sisters that allah has a better place for us don't

[16:37]feel safe with dunya and by the way for those of you

[16:42]who are healthy alhamdulillah allah protect your health but always know that

[16:46]a disease can develop any minute never feel safe never say no

[16:51]i'm healthy none of this applies to me alhamdulillah you're healthy now

[16:55]but can you guarantee your health till tomorrow till next year till

[16:58]10 years from now any time i could be tried in this

[17:02]dunya always be ready realize that this is part of your trial

[17:05]in this world never object to allah accept this trial from god

[17:11]and if you have a disease that you're struggling with believe me

[17:15]every single day it's almost like getting free edger from allah even

[17:20]if you're not doing anything if you're just thankful to allah in

[17:25]your heart you say oh allah i accept this trial i don't

[17:29]object i will be patient you will get massive massive rewards for

[17:33]that disease such that the hadith states on the day of judgment

[17:39]when a believer sees how much edger and reward allah gave him

[17:43]for sleeping one night sick one night through fever and we know

[17:49]that you know having a fever is not the end of the

[17:51]world right there are much more serious conditions we can handle sleeping

[17:56]one night with fever when you see how much reward allah gave

[18:00]you for sleeping one night with fever the believer will wish on

[18:07]the day of judgment he was sick his entire life when he

[18:10]sees the rahma the mercy of allah subhanahu wa ta'ala so if

[18:14]you know people who are struggling with chronic illnesses comfort them give

[18:18]them patience assure them that allah subhanahu ta'ala will reward them allah

[18:25]subhanahu ta'ala will compensate them now the final point about diabetes and

[18:29]many of the illnesses that we experience my dear brothers and sisters

[18:34]the main cause of diabetes and a lot of the illnesses that

[18:40]we have in our society today is what what is it obesity

[18:43]and that's caused by what our diet over indulgence we live in

[18:49]a society that's very indulgent in foods my dear brothers and sisters

[18:54]and one hadith the holy prophet muhammad sallallahu alaihi allah allah muhammad

[19:01]muhammad you know what the prophet says the prophet tells you what

[19:05]the source of all disease is the prophet states al-mardatub your stomach

[19:13]what you put in your stomach is the house of all diseases

[19:24]and prevention avoiding all these harmful foods is the master of medications

[19:30]you want the best medication don't eat these harmful foods it requires

[19:38]patience we cannot do it right but listen to amir al mu'min

[19:44]he states if you don't have the patience to say no to

[19:52]your urges and desires when it comes to food your disease will

[19:59]be prolonged you're going to live a lifelong challenge of dealing with

[20:05]an illness with a disease and that's why the imam ali salaam

[20:10]in another hadith don't eat that food which is harmful allah has

[20:17]not authorized you to harm this body imam says don't give preference

[20:27]to your desire over the health of your body the leading cause

[20:30]of most of these illnesses is our food my dear brothers and

[20:33]sisters and the message of the month of ramadan is control your

[20:38]diet we live in a society where we are bombarded by advertisements

[20:42]long isles at the supermarkets that are just enticing us to eat

[20:47]more and more and more sometimes i go through these supermarkets these

[20:52]huge ones right and then you look at the aisle believe me

[20:56]for as much as your eyes can see you see an ocean

[21:02]of junk food an ocean of cookies 50 companies making different types

[21:05]of cookies and then the chips and then the you know soda

[21:11]the drinks it doesn't end and we can't resist it we can't

[21:17]resist it there are people who are starving on earth every single

[21:20]day 30 000 kids die from starving from starvation from malnutrition and

[21:28]we have all this excess money to buy harmful foods the religion

[21:32]of islam tells you prevention is the best cure develop that will

[21:39]power to say no that's what ramadan is all about unfortunately in

[21:43]most communities around the world especially you know in in many muslim

[21:47]countries ramadan is the exact opposite ramadan becomes the month of indulgence

[21:53]you eat sweets in the month of ramadan you never dream of

[21:57]them outside of ramadan i'm not criticizing those people they are my

[22:03]brothers and sisters in faith but honestly is this the purpose of

[22:09]ramadan yes islam recommends us gather together break your fast together do

[22:13]you know what the reward is to offer a meal to someone

[22:16]to break their fast it's an amazing amount of reward in the

[22:19]eyes of allah but over indulgence sometimes i see some house invitations

[22:26]right especially you know some countries that i'm referring to you go

[22:32]there you see 50 types of sweets on the table honestly that

[22:35]defeats the purpose of ramadan you think rasulullah on the last night

[22:45]before the imam was struck you know what if thought of the

[22:51]imam was his daughter lady um according to one hadith she brought

[22:54]him the iftar that last night she brought him bread barley bread

[23:00]bread made from barley some salt and some milk would you have

[23:06]that for year of thought i'm sure most of us would not

[23:09]accept this as an iftad if someone gives you that you take

[23:12]that as an insult but this was the iflat of the imam

[23:16]the imam looked at her it's it seemed the imam objected to

[23:21]her through his facial expression she told him did i do something

[23:26]wrong what what is it that i did wrong the imam alaihi

[23:30]salaam told his daughter um when have you seen your father eat

[23:34]several types of food allahu akbar the imam calls that several types

[23:40]of food and he just has milk bread and salt can you

[23:45]believe that she says i wanted to take the salt so he

[23:47]can drink the milk the imam said no take the milk i'll

[23:54]just break my fast on bread and salt i know we cannot

[23:59]be like i know the imam says who can live like amir

[24:04]and mu'min but at least we can try let's educate ourselves my

[24:09]dear brothers and sisters on the concept and the country on the

[24:13]culture of prevention not to bring disease to ourselves let's make it

[24:18]a policy in our households we don't regularly eat junk food okay

[24:23]you want to eat it once in a while fine no problem

[24:26]if it's if something is hard take it but to have this

[24:31]regularly every single day that's why we have all these diseases that

[24:35]is one leading cause for diabetes a lot of that can be

[24:41]avoided through prevention and the best month to exercise that is the

[24:45]month of ramadan that's the whole purpose behind this month and then

[24:49]you know what imam ali alayhi salaam told his daughter um after

[24:53]he said have you seen your father eat multiple types of foods

[24:57]he told her do you want my standing on the day of

[24:59]judgment before allah to be long what does this mean my dear

[25:06]brothers and sisters very briefly what does this mean i'll give you

[25:08]my analysis see if you eat something that's halal and you bought

[25:12]it with halal money it's not a sin allah is not going

[25:14]to punish you for that but we have hadiths that if you

[25:18]over indulge on the day of judgment that hisab that reckoning will

[25:23]be prolonged instead of quickly going through sarat and getting to heaven

[25:27]you will be stopped there will be delays you'll have to stand

[25:31]in line why is that the case my dear brothers and sisters

[25:35]i'll tell you what the analysis is when we over indulge when

[25:40]it comes to these foods and desires spiritually you weaken yourself you

[25:46]become more materialistic you allow your animalistic desires to influence you you

[25:51]become less spiritual and less productive so on the day of judgment

[25:58]allah will hold you accountable allah will tell you why were you

[26:01]less productive i gave you all the tools for success why were

[26:06]you not so spiritual let's see why let's inspect why and then

[26:10]your file is opened and you'll discover that the reason was all

[26:13]this overindulges even if it's halal but when you over indulge in

[26:19]something it weakens your spirituality and it distracts you from allah subhanahu

[26:22]ta'ala allah will tell you see that's why you did not pass

[26:28]the test the way you should have it was because of all

[26:32]that over indulgence that will delay us on the day of judgment

[26:36]so the month of ramadan is the best month for prevention my

[26:42]dear brothers and sisters for prevention for a healthy lifestyle for positive

[26:46]exercise you know how much islam recommends walking people who are pre-diabetic

[26:54]one of the best things that they can do is to walk

[26:56]to exercise the hadith from the prophet sallallahu alaihi in speaking about

[27:02]walking the prophet states never what do you have something better than

[27:12]walking in order to give yourself proper medication the prophet says walking

[27:19]is medicine for you and that's a beautiful hadith from the prophet

[27:23]sallallahu alaihi we ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give us the

[27:28]success in this blessed month of ramadan to truly find that will

[27:33]power to say no to our temptations to our desires we ask

[27:38]allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to protect us and our families from all

[27:42]these illnesses and all those who are struggling with these illnesses we

[27:46]ask allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to give them the patience to cope

[27:49]with these illnesses and to grant them a speedy recovery inshaallah wasallallahu

[27:55]alaikum

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