The Spirituality of Food | Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
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- Опубликовано: 29 мар 2022
- The anthropology of eating, authors Peter Farb and George Armelagos note, “Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
#hamzyusuf #islamichistory #muslims #food
A Muslim and a Jew - having a discussion and applauding each other, a beautiful thing.. mutual respect.
اللهم بارك واكرم وانعم!
امين 🤲
Eat healing foods like veg and fruit, honey, turmeric, black seeds and so on. Prevention is key.
All healthy fruits healthy vegetables healthy white meat is healthy
Extra meat pig soda sweet sugary drink sherbet are poison
Absolutely not. Vegetables, fruits, and plants in general are toxic. Including honey for consumption. Please don’t fall for the long history of lies you’ve been told about your health. Look up Dr. Anthony Chaffee and his RUclips video called “Plants are trying to kill you”. It’s very important we all get informed and seek the truth.
And I’d like to add, that I am not talking about gmo and chemically treated plants only…I am also talking about plants grown in perfectly clean soil and environment. They have natural poisons and as you eat them, you are slow poisoning your way to debilitation.
Food system is seriously messed up. The people need to make different choices or demand the government makes a change in the food laws.
Assalamu Alaikum, is this a reupload? And Where can I watch the full discussion/lecture?
Will share brother 🌸🌸
Salaam Prof. Is it possible to get a transcript of this clip. Appreciate it much.
It is easy to do that. On PC, click on the 3 dots below the video and chose open transcript then you can find what you want. In case you want to copy it, you can find another 3 dots for above your transcript. Chose toggle time.
my question is about uh spirituality and
food
um
and the quran talks a lot about eating
what's halal but that's usually coupled
with the word
being what's legal and maybe can you
comment on what you feel tayyip would
sort of mean in our current sort of
culture and then also
what do you feel is
the spiritual effect of consuming
artificial foods like high fructose corn
syrup and you know all these sort of
processed things that are added to foods
and
um
packaged you know what's the spiritual
effect of eating
artificial food and how you know can you
sort of comment on the idea of well just
to use another tradition in tradition in
some traditional buddhism
the the chef in the monastery had to be
enlightened
like they didn't let just anybody into
the kitchen
and in in in the islamic tradition
there's a whole tradition about prep
food preparation and the intention of
the cook
and so that you i i my teachers the
people that cooked always made the
intention that the food was a healing
one of the things is really interesting
in our culture you know they when you go
to
when you go to uh they don't teach
grammar anymore so people use transitive
verbs as intransitive verbs but when you
go to a restaurant they say enjoy
right enjoy is you know i mean i guess
you could make it a trans intransitive
but
you usually enjoy something
um but here it means the food so
but they just say enjoy
you know in in traditional cultures they
never would say something like that
they would say like salud you know with
health in in the arabic culture they say
with health and well-being
which reminds us of the purpose of the
food it's not to enjoy
enjoyment is part of it i mean it's it's
wonderful that food is so enjoyable but
that's not the reason why you're
actually eating it that's why the
glutton eats
but but somebody who's serious about
maintaining their health they eat for
health
and and you know we we're we're
literally digging our graves with our
teeth
i mean in our culture we are literally
killing ourselves with the food we eat
and so so
you know i would say that all
traditional peoples ate
with with just a knowledge of what food
was about and this is why the kishara
tradition you know the the halal
tradition that you have to there's a
whole you know native americans took
permission
uh in many of the their traditions they
took permission from the animal in in
the islamic church in the jewish
tradition there is actual you have to do
it in a way
you know in our tradition you're not
allowed to kill an animal in front of
another animal and if you look i mean
it's arguable that it's unethical to be
to me to eat meat today unless you're on
a farm where you're you're you know and
there was an interesting article about a
man who decided for one year i i didn't
see the film but he did a documentary
where he only ate what he killed
for one year
and when he would buy the the the sheep
one of the sheep farmers told him
you know he said i think i'm going to
call that you know
zeke and and he said no no don't name
them because you'll get can you'll get
attached to them
and but he chose to name them what he
said was
the thing that struck him most was the
gratitude he felt
to the animal when he ate it and in our
tradition there's a belief that the
animal wants to be
it wants to be energy for good deeds
because by becoming part of a righteous
person it's elevated in its state from
an animal that doesn't have free will
that only behaves according to its
nature
to
part of of
a being with free will and it and the
animal hates
to be used for
for foulness or for misdeeds and so that
whole
cosmology would which might sound
romantic but it was it was real people
and i met people that still live like
this and my wife does this she cooks
with that intention if i cook i cook
with that intention when i serve food i
cook without attention i'll just tell
you one quick story
i have a friend of mine who's a
connoisseur of tea and he'll only drink
certain teas and in england pg tips is
like the worst tea
and um and and
and he went to a friend of mine's house
and i know both of them and it was tea
time and the english take this very
seriously
and so uh
he he only had pg tips in the house
and so he said god he's gonna know this
is horrible tea so he goes in and he
told me that he made a prayer over the
tea and he said he said oh god make this
delightful for my friend
and he went in and he poured the tea and
he told me that he drank and he said you
know that's the best cup of tea i think
i've ever had
and you know
there's a reality to these things we
don't realize just the power of
intention
you know nia in arabic which means
intention also means seed it's the seed
of the thing why you do so and so many
of us do things without intention
there's no intentionality and intention
i know in your tradition in our
tradition intention is everything why
you're doing something and constantly
asking yourself why am i doing this
to to check our intentions
i i i just disavow that we're not going
to clap thing
[Applause]
i i want to
let that applause was also for the
question
that was a good question because
it at least i i i don't want to deflect
too much but uh from a jewish tradition
this is something we struggle with a
great deal uh because the laws of kashru
were written you know a thousand years
ago and more um and they were designed
to be more humane and to make the exact
connections that you're talking about
and the world in which we live has
advanced to the point that
one needs a you know a a uh variance
from the usda
because it's not as advanced and we lost
something in that there was a speaker
who came just a couple of years ago his
name was rabbi arthur waskow
um and uh he's sort of the
uh the front of something we call the
echocash fruit movement
and arthur's perspective is
if you're saying a blessing over wine
that was made with grapes that was
sprayed with pesticides
that made the people who made them ill
it's not holy
and if you take organic wine
that's been you know that's been made in
the purest way and poured into a
styrofoam cup it's not kosher
um and
what he means by that is that the word
used to mean something right it meant
fit
and and and the purpose of uh of of the
sharing of food
the enjoyment wasn't in the consumption
and how much you know uh can we pump
into it with you know uh
uh uh corn syrup but rather
the meal
and and the story of your friend praying
over his teeth
you know that's what that was what it
was intended to be
you
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