 أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الأنبياء والمرسلين سيدنا ونبينا محمد وأهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين اللهم صل على محمد وآل محمد قال تعالى في كتابه الكريم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم وأن تصوم خير للكم إن كنتم تعلمون my dear viewers everywhere السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته last night we talked about the benefits that an observing Muslim will earn from fasting and we finished with the health related benefits or the medical benefits today or tonight we are continuing with the same subject the medical benefits that an observing Muslim will hopefully receive by observing fasting now these medical benefits that I will be narrating have been studied not by Muslim scholars rather by scientists and those are considered to be evidence based findings in secular institutes such as universities and mostly reported by American and European universities that have nothing to do with observing fasting of Muslims now when they call fasting they call it under the name of alternative fasting or intermittent fasting where the person under the study fast one day and a break his fasting on the other day based on those they have found multiple findings I will be narrating a few of those benefits and then I will allude to its source before we talk about the medical benefits we need to understand the kinds of foods that we eat our food consists of the following the carbohydrates which include sugars and starch and the proteins which are in the form of red and white meats and fish and fats that are in the form of whipping cream for example and then there are hormones and minerals and liquids in the form of water or other fluids these constitute the food that we take daily now when we look at the whole picture we see that sugars degrade faster to produce energy we need energy the reason of taking food has multiple reasons one of them is to produce energy second is to build the storage material in our body and third is the body goes through metabolism and regulations so when we need energy the first thing that get degraded is the glucose it is easier than any other form of food while others are stored so the first benefit that we receive from fasting is that fasting combats obesity because when we observe fasting the first thing that happens in our body is that a hormone called insulin that make sure sequestered the glucose in our body and send them to the cells for degradation and a production of energy that hormone level drops considerably therefore the glucose will stop being used as a source of energy rather the fats, the lipids and the proteins that are piled in our body especially the belly fats they will be used for production of energy now this is coupled with a hormone that is called a human growth hormone or HGH now this hormones allows faster rate of metabolism of our body this will increase in 5 fold the metabolism in our body will increase up to 5 fold upon fasting now fasting will do 2 or 3 jobs simultaneously number 1 when we stop eating anything we stop taking up any food we have restricted the amount of calories that gets in our bodies now calorie is the containment of energy now when we stop eating the number or the amount of calories have been restricted in getting into our bodies on the other hand when the growth hormone in the body starts to kick in and start to work it will consume more and more of the calories so fasting does 2 things at the same time number 1 it reduces the intake of the glucose and sugars in the body and second it consumes them faster in the body in addition to the fats and proteins that's why it is considered that fasting fights obesity now based on a study in Aberdeen Scotland University of Aberdeen Scotland the study that says fasting for weight loss an effective strategy or latest dieting trend has been published May 2015 in international journal of obesity this is the first benefit of fasting the second medical benefit of fasting as I have discussed is the human growth hormone your human growth hormone allows the cellular processes to be expedited and the growth of a human takes place now this human growth hormone has been witnessed that the maximum activity of this hormone reaches during the time of fasting or stoppage from food intake by 5 folds the more activity of the human growth hormone the faster the combustion of the calories and reduction of the waste materials or lipids and fats and therefore we will end up losing many of those storage materials that if they stay in the body they cause danger and hazard again this has been described in a paper that is called the journal of a clinical investigation a paper under the title of fasting enhances growth hormone secretion and amplifies the complex rhythms of a growth hormone secretion in man it has been studied in the department of internal medicine University of Virginia Medical School and it has been published in April 1988 the third medical benefit of fasting is a process that is called autophagy autophagy ensures that the waste material in our cells have been sequestered and taken away assume you are building a home you are building constructing a building now at the end of the construction you will end up seeing piles of waste materials you will see bricks you will see woods you will see pieces of irons you will see steel you will see cements and things like that that have been not used or have been left over these are considered to be waste materials and you need to get rid of them you bring a shuffle you bring a truck and you load the truck with those waste material and throw them in the dumpster the same thing in our body when the cells perform their duty in making proteins, hormones and other things we will end up having waste material in those cells now if those waste material stay in the cells longer they cause trouble they cause autoimmune disease they cause inflammation and other pathologies therefore the body is equipped with a process a cellular repair process that is called autophagy now autophagy takes all of those waste materials and dump them out of the cell into the waste studies have shown that this process autophagy becomes expedited and increases in multiple folds when we are under the state of fasting again fasting helps the cellular important cellular process that help us to secure our bodies from inflammation and from autoimmune diseases again this has been under study in the journal of autophagy where the title says short term fasting and uses a profound neural autophagy and this has been done by the very well-known secret research institute at La Jolla California and that was done in August of 2010 so this is the third medical benefit of fasting the fourth medical benefit of fasting is that it combats aging and chronic diseases as we age the reason some scholars some scientists say that the reason we age is because of a cellular process that generates a free radicals those free radicals are very reactive molecules that bind with DNA and protein and RNA and destroy them inside the cell when these DNAs and proteins get destroyed they will shorten the life span of the cell hence our life span also will be shortened the more we get rid of these free radicals in the cells the longer and the longer our life will be and the healthier our state of body will be now studies have shown that during fasting the free radical number in our body will be shortened fasting and intermittent fasting will combat the free radical formation in our bodies again the study for this has been done by a research which has been published in Biomed Research International in 2014 where it says oxidative stress or pre-oxidants and antioxidants the interplay where they speak about the benefit of fasting and comparing the oxidative stress the fifth and last medical benefit is that intermittent fasting helps combat cancer nowadays cancer is very common everywhere the lethality of cancer is that it produces tumors that they grow in an exponential order out of ordinary without any limits the cell growth which leads to tumor growth causes cancer patient to die now under fasting the normal cells go through hibernation they stop activating they stop the activity and go into sleep however the cancerous cells keep dividing and proliferating now under fasting the food becomes scarce those cells will end up destroying themselves by eating the components of themselves the components of the cells they eat up the components of the cells like the DNA and protein to use them for their multiplications therefore they cause self destruction or under the medical term called cellular suicide they commit suicide now studies have shown that those who are under fasting when they commit fasting they have better chances to combat cancer cancer such as breast cancer brain cancer and skin cancer and finally the study for that has been published in the journal of current opinion oncology where the title says metabolic regulation of sirtuins upon fasting and the implication for cancer these are the benefits of fasting when we pay attention closely we see that the prophet 1400 years ago have said this elegant statement where he has said if you observe fasting you will be healthy يا صانعا كل مصنوع يا خالغا كل مخلوق يا رازغا كل مرزوق يا مالكا كل مملك يا كاشفا كل مكروب يا فارجا كل مهموم يا راحما كل مرحوم يا ناصرا كل مخذول يا ساترا كل معيوم يا ملجقاء كل مطرو سبحانك يا لأ الاث الاث خلصنا من النقا يا عدتي عندا شدتي يا رجائي عندا مصيبتي يا مونسي عندا وحشتي يا صاحبي عندا وربتي يا ولي عندا نعمتي يا ياث عندا كربتي يا دليلي عندا حيرتي يا غنائي عندا افتقاء يا ملجقي عندا افطراء يا معيني عندا مفزعي سبحانك يا لصنا من النقا يا علام الوعيو يا غفا يا ستا يا كاشفا الكرو يا مقلبا القلو يا طبيبا القلو يا منوريسا القلو يا مفرجا منفسا سبحانك يا لصنا من النقا سبحانك يا لصنا من النقا يا ملجقي عندا افتقاء يا ستا يا جميعا يا ستا يا زلن يا منطقة يا قبش يا صنوح يا حمار يا رجائي يا فارجة كل مهمون يا راحمة كل مرحون يا ناصرة كل مخدول يا ساترة كل معيوب يا ملجأة كل مطرود أو the fashioner of every fashion thing the creator of every created things the provider for every needy things the sovereign of all subject the speller of every hardship comforter of every griefer merciful to every sufferer helper of everything forsaken concealer of every blemish thing shelter for every exile I would like to talk a little bit about the word يا صانع كل مصنوعة the fashioner or in today's world the manufacturer of every manufactured the fashioner of every fashion the creator of every created we have many entities that create things manufacture things the tailor for example makes nice suits and nice dresses but is he really the creator of those things meaning that he create the fabric and he creates the thread and he creates the little sewing machine to do the sewing for this tailor dress or those are already made and he is the one who piece all of those together and bring them together I will give you an example the manufacturer of a car of an automobile do they manufacture every parts of the automobile how many parts are in a single automobile it is stated that there are more than 30,000 parts to a single automobile taken from the external body to the interior to the engine to the back to the seats to the windows to the steering to the pedals to the radiators to the glass to the window to the seats to the dashboard these are more than 30,000 pieces and parts from all nuts and bolts to the big engines to the radiators to all mechanical and electrical work network of the automobile those more than 30,000 pieces are made by whom all by a single manufacturer or they change from one manufacturer to another for example Boeing the airplane manufacturer they borrow their engine from a company called Rolls Royce so Rolls Royce will make the engine and sell it to Boeing and Boeing use it for their carriers so those are not in reality are considered to be the creator of the created but look at the almighty Allah سبحانه وتعالى when he creates something does he need the assistance of others for example when he create us when he create the plants the trees imagine those tall rising trees go to Redwood in California and look at the 40 foot 50 foot trees they are made from what? a single seed that seed itself did everything all parts of those tall trees are made from that little seed God doesn't need to bring so many parts together the same thing the same seed has everything to develop look at the creation of man when we are conceived in the womb of our mothers when we grow and how we were born and how we become adults look at the beautiful narratives that the almighty Allah سبحانه وتعالى he says و لقد خلقنا الإنسان من سلالة منطين we created a human out of clay piece of clay ثم جعلناه نطفة في قرار المكين we made him a seed خلقنا نطفة علقة then we made him a lump of a flesh خلقنا العلقة مضغة a clot then from clot we made a lump of flesh then خلقنا المضغة عظاما then we created bone out of this lump فكسون العظامة لحمة then eventually we covered those bones with tissues, muscles and a flesh and then we created him خلقنا آخر this is the creation of a human being a human being that has more than 3 billion cells 3 billion cells that we do have in our bodies are created only from a single seed we didn't need to have God didn't need to have so many parts to get together and assembled to create a human being therefore God is the creator he is the manufacturer but he is totally different from the rest of the manufacturer the next segment is segment number 11 which is to avoid evil and gain prosperity and to be relieved from calamity this is the theme of segment number 11 where it says right and left are sad are sad areĀn are our bodies are heart are the bodies are earth are all souls are rain rain are unite are the bodies عندما تكون في موضوع قدر وعندما تكون سراند من أجلان أمر أحد الذي تعتقد هو المونشن أعطاً أعطاً أن يتبعون المهم إذا كانوا أجلان موضوعاً يعتقدون على أجلان ومونشن وعندما يعتقدون على المنزل وموضوع هذه تعتقدون أنها عدة عدة شيء الذي يمكنك الوصول في حيث أن تساعدك و to protect yourself and survive تلك الوصول جميلة من دعاء يقول أن مي ميونشن مي ويلف في مي دستبراتي و دستبراتي يقول يا عدة عند شدتي ويقول يا رجائي عند مصيبتي رجاء هوب my hope in my calamity where do we have our miseries on the last day of our life الله سبحانه وتعالى refers to that day is the day of مصيبة the miserable day the misery misery is associated with death because the Almighty says in the Holy Quran in the Holy Quran says فإن أصابتكم مصيبة فأصابتكم مصيبة الموت refers to death as a misery of death therefore the prophet saying in this prayers that you are my hope on the day of my misery when I am completely disconnected from everything it is narrated when we are brought to the grave and put in the grave the call comes from the Lord where it says عبدي رجعوا وتركوك وفي الترابد فنوك ولو ظلوا معك ما نفعوك oh my servant they abandoned you they left you they dug the earth and put you in earth they covered you with earth and even if they had to stay with you they wouldn't have benefited you ما نفعوك ولم يبقى لك إلا أنا the only thing that is left to you is myself وان الحيو الذي لا يموت therefore the only hope we have is our Lord that is during the time of our misery be on your guard against falsehood because it is contrary to faith a truthful person is on the height of salvation and dignity while the liar is on the edge of ignominy and degradation do not be jealous because jealousy eats away faith justice fire eats away dried wood do not be a malice because it is a scrapper of virtues and know that desires make wit forgetful and make memory oblivious you should falsify desire because it is a deception and he who has desires is in deceit