Naima B. Robert – Prophetic Remedies for Modern Ailments
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Welcome to
weekend 3 of the Black Muslim Festival. Yes.
It is the wealth weekend. And as you
know, we are looking at wealth from a
holistic perspective this weekend. So we are looking
at wealth as in risk.
What are those things that Allah
has blessed us with as part of our
risk? Yesterday,
has blessed us with as part of our
risk. Yesterday, we talked about impact and influence,
which is part of our risk. And today,
we're going to be looking at health.
Health is, as you know,
one of the most precious things that Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala can bless you with. And
to talk to us more about how to
preserve our health
and to improve our health through prophetic
remedies and prophetic medicine is Anissa Kisoun. Sis,
I'm gonna ask you to introduce yourself to
these wonderful people,
and then I'm gonna mute, and I'm gonna
hand it over to you,
for being here all the way from Turkey
and for running into the city to to
to to be here to bless us with
your knowledge. May Allah preserve you, bless you,
give you success in all your affairs. Take
it away, sis.
1st and foremost, I am so honored and
so blessed to be here, honestly.
I was just praying to Allah that I
was given an opportunity to share this wealth
with our community because it is
very, very important.
And to actually share it amongst the wealth,
I think is great because sometimes,
especially within our community, we put preference to
maybe making money,
maybe other, you know, businesses, etcetera. But health,
in my opinion, there's nothing like it.
So I'll give you a little bit of
background information about myself.
My name is Anissa Kissun. Alhamdulillah.
I've been Muslim for 27
years.
I always came from a healthy background. I
mean, my mom grew her own food. She's
from the Caribbean.
We
were just brought up to have this kind
of natural life.
And then when I came into Islam,
I just was fascinated with prophetic medicine. You
know, I was absolutely fascinated with all the
fruits and the veg in the Quran,
the prophetic treatments, the honey,
you know, all of it. And I just
wanted to incorporate it because,
especially, when you become Muslim, you wanna be
best that you can be. I knew that
my body was a trust from Allah,
so I wanted to treat my body
to the best of my ability, and I
wanted to feed it the right foods and
use it and, make sure that it's working
good so that I can do good for
the sake of Allah. So I I gave
that a priority
over maybe other things that other people would.
And then I'm so passionate about it that
I decided to teach it. And one of
the things that prompted me was when I
actually came to Islam, I saw there was
a lot of
women, unfortunately, that were
always in their pajamas.
They were overweight, unfortunately. They were always in
pain
and having health problems at very young ages.
And I was this young kind of cool
hip sister, and I said, I don't wanna
be like that. Like, no way.
But also, I wanna know why our community
isn't,
you know, benefiting from this this beautiful sunnah,
this beautiful way of life. So I made
it my personal
mission
to go out there and learn. And Alhamdulillah,
I've been so blessed, really, really blessed to
have learned Hijama therapy,
the and and to bring it to the
UK and get it certified by the British
government, which was a battle and a half.
You know,
I was one of the first sisters to
bring,
fitness classes for Muslim women only back in
the day. I've been a PE teacher, so
I've taught all of these, Yani,
people who are now big and married that
really was campaigning for fitness in schools,
and sports in schools. So, you know, I've
been
around
and but I'm blessed and happy to be
on this platform now because
more so
now than ever, we need to
really
take
preference to our health. We need to really
put this at the beginning of our agendas,
and we need to prioritize
this not just for ourselves, our families, our
kids, and for the future
because we are all living in a world
with
turmoil, you know, SubhanAllah.
So I hope that's a bit of an
introduction to Aymah.
That's perfect. That's perfect,
And, you know, obviously,
you've been doing this for a very, very
long time,
And I know that you're really passionate about
this, which is why I was like, no.
No. No. We have to make this happen.
So, I mean, what I would love for
you to do is to obviously I know
that you you know what you want to
teach.
But I think that this point about,
you know, in our community, us prioritizing,
like, grinding, hustling,
hustling, wealth,
money, and maybe a lot of other things
over our health. Can you speak to that,
from your knowledge? Why do we, as Muslims,
as black people, why is this not a
priority for us? Where where is the disconnect?
Yeah. I mean, yes, I am definitely passionate
about this because, I've witnessed it over the
27 years.
And I think it's because,
unfortunately,
unfortunately,
a lot of revert black people as well.
We don't have the opportunities that, say, for
instance, Asians may have in terms of business
and wealth,
and we may have left,
work that is not halal,
etcetera, then come into the deen, and we're
looking for this halal rizq now. So we
might prioritize that. We also might prioritize
our families and getting married, and that's a
beautiful thing because we want to, you know,
be a part of an ummah. We have
non Muslim family, and we're trying to build
our own. And I know, you know, even
for me, this was a was a, priority.
But
at that cost, you know, if we're not
balanced, then our health is suffering, SubhanAllah.
You know? So I have watched
many young people suffering,
many young people suffering. And maybe, again, lack
of funds, it means that our food choices
are poor.
Or lack of knowledge means that, you know,
we are prioritizing things,
in the wrong manner, you know. So
I I I I don't like to,
say that it's because of poverty. I think
it's just it's it's it's a few things.
It's maybe, like I said, we take we're
having families
very young
and or we maybe we just don't prioritize
it as a whole, you know.
Even as a non Muslim, maybe we don't
prioritize it. I mean, our community is rife
with high blood pressure, high cholesterol.
Now all you you hear of so much
cancer. Cancer is rife within our community.
And
it's sad because we came from a place
where we had all the herbs. We had
the lifestyle. We were working our bodies. We
were utilizing our bodies, but we just need
to change this first, and we need to
prioritize it. I've seen
deaths at an alarming rate,
within the last, I would say, about 5
years.
Young people dropping down and dying. I mean,
I'm gonna say this as well, and I
don't mean to say this, but I think
some of our men, unfortunately, are prioritizing things
like the gym. They're going to the gym
because, hey, they wanna look good and they
wanna have these 6 packs, but they're doing
it for the wrong reasons, and they may
not be doing it right.
I've witnessed this. You know?
It's all about our intentions,
and we need to prioritize our intentions.
And if I know that this body is
my vehicle, then I wanna make sure that
I feed it the right things, that I
utilize it, that I clean it, that I
take care of it because ultimately,
it doesn't belong to me. And then if
you're a mother, you should be thinking about
your children,
about what are we giving our children, how
are we bringing them up, how are their
immune systems. You know, I see so many
mothers, as soon as their children are sick,
they run to calpol, they run to antibiotics.
Are we naturally
taking care of ourselves?
All the answers are there for us, but
are we actually
using it? And that's what I wanna get
at today. So that we've been given the
answers, let's put it into action.
I love that. Okay, girl. Anyway, then we've
got some people talking about the the black
tax, which is generational, financial, and psychological. And
I think there is something to be said.
I think I think I think all
and I could be wrong, guys, because this
is not my my field. But from what
I've seen and what I've read,
all minority communities,
especially people of color, which it is, it's
not just black people, brown people too, there's
certain health ailments. There's certain issues that we're
seeing, as you mentioned,
you know, cancer,
obesity,
which is linked to diabetes, which is linked
to heart, you know, high blood pressure,
you know, and and those types of things
which we we
kind of see across the board. And it's
almost as if
there's a disconnect there
with regards to our own selves
and our sense of cherishing ourselves and our
sense of feeling that we are worthy.
Firstly, taking the time to understand what our
bodies need,
and then the effort that it takes in
today's pharmaceutical
world to actually
treat our bodies with something that will really
help them because you said cowpole. And I'm
sure I'm not the only mom here who's
just, like, hiding in shame right now because
yeah. I mean, I'd that's what I did
when I when I had my young children
immediately,
high temperature. Straightaway, cowboys. I think you know,
I'm thinking in my head, oh, yeah. You
know, I'm I'm dealing with this issue. You
know, like, I'm I'm sorting this out. And,
you know, that lack of knowledge and even
thinking of an alternative or why an alternative
would be necessary,
I think, is something that we should be
empowering,
you know, mothers, fathers, young people coming up
with a new way of seeing themselves
and health, as you said, as a manner
and an investment really in their future?
A 100%. I mean, if we don't invest
in our own health, if we don't invest
in our bodies, then how do we expect
them to work for us?
When I used to teach in the primary
schools, I used to hold up some, not
primary schools, but in the schools, so executives,
schools. I used to hold up a a
set of keys, and I used to say,
if this was a Lamborghini,
and these were keys to a Lamborghini or
to a Ferrari,
I said, and I gave it to you
as a gift, Would you take it? And
everybody would like, yeah. Yeah. And I said,
okay. Well, if I told you to give
it unleaded petrol, would you give it unleaded?
And I told you to clean it and
take care of it. They said, yeah. Of
course you would. I said, would you give
it diesel? No. We wouldn't. Of course you
wouldn't. You would give it what it needs,
and you would keep it away from any
harm, and you would clean it, and look
after it. I said, look at this body
that Allah has given us, our eyes, our
tongues,
our hands, our legs,
our brains. SubhanAllah, just the cells, nanny. You
know? Allah has given it to us as
a gift, as an imana.
Do you not wanna go back to Allah
knowing that you took care of it as
best as you could? Well, that starts with,
like I said, knowledge.
And unfortunately, we have to undo a lot
of the knowledge that we've been taught in
schools. We've been taught, and we haven't really
been taught. Let's be honest. You know, all
of the stuff that I've been taught, I
is self taught. It's me traveling. You know,
I've been blessed to be go to Africa,
you know,
and learn from the ancient people,
how to take care of yourself.
And the deen,
you know, just looking at the deen and
studying the deen and looking at the health,
and then putting it into practice. Alhamdulillah, my
children have never been on antibiotics. Alhamdulillah, but
we have been in the most dirtiest places
in the world. The slums in Kenya, that
that a million and a half people live
in. You know, we've been there.
You know, we've been to,
Mauritania. You know, Subhanah, we've been to Senegal.
We've been to all of these places. And
we've
never needed
any of these harsh chemicals
that people have. So it's knowing, 1st and
foremost, this is number 1. It's having that
Allah,
but it's also knowing what to do with
your body. And Allah has made it really
simple for us. I'm not gonna be on
I'm I'm just gonna be honest. It's not
difficult. You know, sometimes you see these things
that maybe in science, they put it complicated
terminology,
and they make you feel that, oh my
god. You know, I'm not gonna learn that
word and, you know, all of this. But
really,
it's so simple. SubhanAllah, I cannot,
tell you enough
that the things once you know you know.
So you know, like, for instance, with your
stomach. If you know that most of the
illnesses come from your stomach, what is the
number one thing to do? Clean your stomach.
Clean your stomach with what? Honey.
Honey, raw,
organic
honey. Local honey, if you can. You know?
And this if you have this in the
morning, first thing, with a glass of warm
water, this will clean out your stomach and
help you go to the toilet.
Just simple things like this will help you
to lead a healthier life. And I would
tell you with the body, if you take
care of it, if you clean it, and
you use it correctly, it will work for
you.
So most of these,
illnesses that you talked about, they're preventable.
Diabetes is preventable. Obesity is preventable preventable. Even
cancers are preventable,
but we just don't know what to do.
So that's the number 1 is getting the
knowledge.
So take us through then maybe your
top prophetic remedies that you have used, that
you have, you know,
that you have, you know, that you've used,
that you that you recommend,
maybe just a a short breakdown on each
one. I know you can't give us, like,
a full lesson on exactly, you know, the
ins and outs of every single one, but
at least, you know, what what when we
say prophetic remedies, you know, what are we
talking about?
Okay. So I'm gonna give you my top
3. This is so easy.
Okay. So the first one is Hijam.
I'll give you a very short story with
myself. I was told at the age of
12 to go on contraception pill to to
get rid of my,
women's issues.
A 12 year old, imagine going to school
with the mini pill and
or to go on to steroids or to
have my womb taken out, which would have
meant that I didn't have any children. And
then, Alhamdulillah, Allah has blessed me with 5
children. Alhamdulillah.
So, Hijama,
I was told by a sister to come
and have this treatment,
and it was a beautiful Algerian lady,
and she told me, sit down. Sit down
and and shut up. And I I was,
like, okay.
She
got a empty baby
jar, put some fire in it, and put
it on my stomach and stuck it there
for about 20 minutes. She said, lay down
and and don't say nothing.
And I thought, what is this? This is
crazy. Like, I don't know. And but I
was respectful because she was my elder.
And then she gave me a small mixture
of honey with some seeds and told me
to just take this for the next 7
days. And lo and behold, it changed my
life. I never had any pains, and my
pains were excruciating.
I've been through labor 5 times. It's the
same,
threshold.
I used to vomit. I used to blackout
in the street. That's how bad my pain
was. And lo and behold, this 20 minute
treatment and this little jar
cured me, and I said, what is this?
What is this? You know, why do why
do we not know about this? Why is
nobody talking about this? And
I went to Egypt, and by the grace
of Allah, I learned how to do it,
and I brought it back to the UK.
And now we have been treating people with
all types of ailments, and I'm talking about
I mean, my latest,
one of my latest breakthroughs was a dear
brother, He's been suffering from migraines
for, I think,
either 42 years or 32 years.
Extreme
migraines.
Vomiting,
blacking out, needing to be in a black
room, and he would get it weekly.
And his children, all of them. So we
gave him Hijama,
and we changed small couple of things in
his diet, and lo and behold, after one
session,
no migraines.
We've helped people with fertility issues. They couldn't
get pregnant.
They've tried
IVF, failed twice. They were going down the
adoption route. One session of hijama,
healthy baby. And this is at the age
of 40, subhanallah, after trying for 10 years.
We have cancer patients.
We have patients with depression
and anxiety that again have 1 or a
few sessions, and it's changing their lives.
So definitely in my top ten because one,
it changed me,
and then I see the result of it.
I'm really been blessed to be the sister
who Allah bestowed,
this mercy, and he made me be the
first person in the world to test the
blood from Hijama therapy with a dark field
microscope
live.
And I worked with non Muslims on purpose,
and we were shocked at what we found.
It is definitely the deepest way of detoxifying
your body. It regulates your hormones. It promotes
circulation, so it's fantastic for
pain. It's it's just for me, it's definitely
a miracle.
And, you know, if if if I could,
I would make sure that every household had
a Hijama therapist
in there
that was just a normal not not for
money and business, just for themselves and their
families,
and then obviously for the wider community.
Inshallah. So definitely number 1 is Hijama. Okay?
Alright. So we've got a question here Yeah.
Which maybe some people are wondering that what
is hijama?
Oh, so sorry. Because it's so natural for
me. I'm so sorry.
Hijama
is,
okay. So a lot of people might know
it as cupping.
So in traditional Chinese medicine, they use it
also. It's actually been used for over 5000
years.
The ancient Egyptians used it. The Babylonians
used it. Mashallah and all in Africa, they've
used it. But it's where you place a
cup
over a specific area,
and you create a vacuum
to suck. Okay?
So you put the cup on the area,
and you can either have just the cup
on, you can put herbs in the cup,
you can,
massage with it with oil, and you can
also do small scratches that take out some
blood.
So this is what hijama is. It is
phenomenal.
And in terms of our hadith,
there is so many hadith where the prophet
says that this is the one of the
best,
things to cure mankind. It's the best one
of the best methods to cure us is
hijama,
and that's then leading into my second,
which is Honey.
Honey, again, Niani, I I love Honey. I've
been really blessed. I can see Uma Isa
and Aima, who I've known since she was
about 12 years old. She's here, and she's
my honey honey mommy.
She gets the best siddha honey, royal jelly
siddha honey,
and I've been so blessed to to get
honey from her. But honey, again, is so
amazing because it's not just one thing. Yes.
It cleans out your body, but it gives
you that boost that you need in the
morning.
It helps you prevent
illnesses,
and
it's really even good for depression and anxiety.
So honey is something that
but you have to be careful, by the
way. You have to be careful because there's
a lot of honey that's mixed with sugar.
In fact, most of the honey that's on
the market,
is mixed.
So make sure that you get a raw
organic honey. Cider honey from Yemen is amazing.
I was blessed.
I don't know if it was this year,
early this year before the lockdown or if
it was last year, this year, actually, to
go to a honey festival in Qatar, and
I saw honey and tasted honey from around
the world. It was amazing.
But so be careful.
Be careful
about your honey, And,
yeah, that's something that we need to be
looking after as well. As people, we need
to look after the bees because without the
bees,
we don't have hardly anything. SubhanAllah.
So, Honey is definitely,
my number 2. Is that what we we're
not talking about the,
Tesco
value No. Honey. No?
No. We're talking about Beehive Honey. You know,
I'm I'm so blessed to be here in
Turkey where they're I think they're the 2nd
biggest producers of honey in the world. And
when you go to the countrysides, you just
see loads of little beehives everywhere.
So you know that that honey is pure.
But honey can be used topically as well.
SubhanAllah, it's really good for burns. It's good
for scarring.
It's good for wounds. So it has so
many different uses.
And, honey is something that you should have
in your natural first aid kit definitely.
So that's honey.
Tell me when you're ready to go to
my number 3, which is a big powerful
one that we all need right now.
Yeah. I think that, you know, we,
everybody who's listening to this, obviously, this is
literally an introduction,
and there is so much information out there,
so much more to know. I mean, I
could ask you. I could drill down on
Hijama big time. You could drill down on
Honey. We could literally have a whole festival
on on just where we've got different people
speaking about different natural remedies, different prophetic remedies.
So take this
as just an introduction. Some of you may
be familiar
with all of this, some of you it's
your first time hearing this, so, you know,
just take this as something to go and
research, something to go and learn more about,
inshallah, just to give you some ideas for
how you can take back control of your
health inshallah and the health of your family.
Go ahead, sis. Alhamdulillah.
And forgive me if I'm overburdening you, but
I'm so passionate
about this topic
that, again, like I said, more passionate now
than ever
because of what's going on. People are living
in fear,
and, you know, I want them to be
empowered.
So please forgive me if I'm just going
super fast. I'm humbly now.
But, yes, number 3
is
everybody's gonna know it.
It's black seed.
Black seed is
amazing. It is another,
miracle
from Allah. It is definitely a huge miracle
that we should all have
in our cupboards.
Black
seed is how can I describe it? If
anything's wrong with me, anything's wrong, I'll go
and get some black seed. And it can
be anything from a pain.
It can be a pimple mosquito bite.
It could be that I feel unwell within
myself.
A good old spoonful of black seed, just
this miller
really boosts your body. It is a fantastic
immune booster.
Combined in that with the honey,
most powerful.
And it's something that
we take for granted. But again, like the
honey, unfortunately,
our Ummah has
really
kind of abused it.
Meaning, they've been mixing it, you know, and
diluting it. So sometimes you don't get the
best.
But,
you know, if you get some good black
seed,
there's you know, Marshall, there are a few
companies out there, and you take that daily
is actually probably one of the best things
for preventative
medicine. It will, like I said, boost your
immune system. So what you don't wanna do
is wait until you get sick. You wanna
keep your immune system at an optimal level,
especially those who are in the colder climate
because the winter is coming along.
So you wanna keep it. And especially with
this current climate that we're in now, we
need to keep our immune systems
as high as possible,
you know, and that's
a daily dose of black seed oil can
help with so many things. SubhanAllah.
So, again, like you said,
you know, we could literally break down every
single,
you know, one and add so many more.
And what we would get is
optimal health,
mental health, physical health, spiritual health.
And then we'd, you know, we we could
take care of ourselves literally. I mean, Alhamdulillah,
you know,
I went to the doctors,
I think it was a few years ago,
just to register because I moved into a
new area,
and they said that they can't find any
records on me.
And with my last doctors, they couldn't find
anything. They said that, you know, you don't
utilize our system for you or your children.
And I said, Alhamdulillah,
you know, in my head I said Alhamdulillah,
but I don't need to, Alhamdulillah,
because
it's about knowing how to take care of
yourself, so not to panic. If you're feeling
ill and your temperature's rising or you've got
a stomachache, you've got diarrhea,
you are vomiting, etcetera.
And knowing
what to do for what type of, you
know,
imbalance that you have and bringing that back
body back to a balance so that you
are staying healthy.
I've got some questions here
coming up.
Oh, interesting.
So would you say that this idea of
Al
Ithar, which, she's translated as selflessness,
almost results in a glorified
neglect
of our selves among Muslim communities, especially women?
Oh, that's a deep question, sister Tanika. Okay.
What do you think of that? I love
it because, yeah, sometimes we do feel like
if we are selfless,
okay, then, you know, this is,
this is this is good. But actually,
our bodies have rights on us, and we
have rights on ourselves, subhanAllah.
Right? And,
you know, especially when we are mothers
or or we're wives. Okay?
We get caught up with looking after everybody
but ourselves, but we have to stop and
have that balance because,
especially as a woman, we are the head
of the community in that way. In terms
of the village, you know, we are the
carers. We are we the ones I mean,
the men might be the providers financially, but
we are the ones who really
nurture the community. And without us being strong
and healthy
and knowing
what to teach the next generation, then what
would we have? You know, when I look
at the obesity crisis in the Muslim world,
I get really upset because I think that
a lot of mothers are responsible.
And I say that because you're the ones
who are providing the food in the family,
you know, especially if you're shopping as well.
And you have to be responsible. You have
to be responsible yourself and say, well, I'm
not gonna put that fizzy drink or that
soda in the house. I'm not gonna buy
those cakes and sweets. You know? I'm not
gonna, you know, buy that, fatty food or
or take my children out because
we are responsible.
You know? SubhanAllah. So, yes, I mean, going
back to the question, I think as women,
we really have to put our foot down
and we have to step up our game
because we are the nurturers.
And,
we need we actually need to be selfish
in order to take care of ourselves so
we can take care of others. And I
think that's we need to, you know, change
that mentality
and make sure that we are taking some
me time, some proper, proper me time.
I hope that has answered your question.
I love that question, and I think that
it really speaks to just a few things
that you've mentioned, you know, about,
a, things like honey, black seed. Okay? It's
available. It's, you know, it's something you can
have. You don't need to have a license
to give yourself honey. You don't have to
have a license to give yourself black seed,
or to have it in your house. You
also mentioned about not
bringing in foods that we know or that
are harmful. So the fizzy, the chips, the
biscuits, the all the all the rest of
it, the processed food. And what's coming out
of all of that for me is our
power.
And I almost feel like as a world
society, especially
urbanized
people,
we
feel like
we are powerless almost when it comes to
our health. It's like, you know, we eat
whatever is there. We eat whatever we feel
like. We eat whatever is being marketed to
us the best.
And then when we don't feel great, we
run to the doctors
to to try and get cured. So what's
what's happening there? Like, what's what's what's going
on? You know, we need to change our
culture. I mean, I come from my my
parents are from the Caribbean, and my mom,
you know, she was Jamaican. And don't get
me wrong, I absolutely love Jamaican food. Right?
You know,
but I decided to make a healthier version
of, my our food. So it's still tasty.
It's just maybe not cooked in, you know,
in in the way that sometimes, you know,
we would kind of fry our chicken, etcetera.
And we need to adapt to new culture.
I'm telling you, we really need to. And
like I said, I keep going back to
the mothers,
because we're the ones who, you know, in
who are in the kitchen. We are feeding
the next generation.
So if you have a a a cupboard
that, to me, doesn't have honey, doesn't have
dates,
doesn't have,
black seed oil, then your cupboards are lacking
something. These are some questions that you can
even ask yourself now. Do I have good
honey? Subhan Allah. You know, do I have
good black seed? Do I
have
even senna? Senna leaves is good. You know?
Ask yourself these questions,
and then you will see where you are
on the spectrum.
I would love to do some stuff with
you, Naima, really, and and more people out
there because I think we can do it.
We can really do it. We can start
to look at our lives. We can start
to take control. We can say, right.
This this is it. This is time to
now make a change. We are living this
year has been crazy for all of us.
And if I can just add here about
fear. I know I touched on it just
slightly before I answered the third question. But
fear, people may not know, it lowers our
immune system.
So all of this stuff that we are
consuming and we are absorbing, all of this
negative stuff, it's gonna make us more susceptible
to illnesses.
And right
now, we don't need to have that.
We need to optimize, like I said, our
health. So how are we gonna do this?
What are the steps that we're gonna take?
Being honest with ourselves and our community and
our cultures. Sometimes we have to put aside
our culture and say, okay. We love it.
Yeah. It's soul food. It's comfort food, and
we have it. Don't get me wrong. But
let's make sure that we have the foods
that our body
needs.
And it might mean for the Americans giving
up the Twinkies,
you know, the Kool Aid. You know, it
might mean giving up some, you know, of
the fizzies and and the fried chickens, etcetera.
And we need to adapt to more healthier
plant based diet.
And it might mean that we need to
change our monetary kind of, priorities as well.
And we need to sign kind of say,
okay. Let's go for more,
organic food and and or or even consuming
less. Sometimes, you know, we have these huge
meals and we're burdening ourselves.
But like I said, all the answers are
there within
our deen, and this is the blessed thing.
If I'm teaching non Muslims, I can't tell
them this. I could invite them, and I
can say to them, come. And I do
tell them, fast. You know? Because fasting is
amazing.
It's brilliant for your health. You know? I,
you know, in in the UK, we used
to fast for, like, 18, 19 hours sometimes
in the summer. And I remember testing my
blood to see
if there would be signs of dehydration,
and I was pregnant. Low and behold,
no
dehydration. In fact, my blood was optimal. It
was beautiful.
So fasting,
you know, the recommended days, having hijama
to clean
and detoxify you, making sure that you don't
do this cultural thing of getting up and
having coffee and tea in the morning. You
swap it and you change it for honey
and water. So you are
hydrating yourself
and you are,
SubhanAllah, you are, you are cleaning your system.
And
one of my biggest things that I'm gonna
say here,
we need, as people of color,
the vitamin
d.
We need the sun, the sunlight,
We need it more that so than ever.
Right? So even if we're in our hijabs
and niqabs,
we need to find those spaces where we
can get the sunlight on our skin because
it compromises
our health
massively.
So those are just some of the tips
that we can,
we can try to implement, but it all
starts with our intention. If we can make
a good intention,
that's our seed. That's our plant. You know?
And may Allah reward us all for trying
to be healthier and stronger
for our ummah, you know.
I absolutely love that. And you know you
mentioned about fasting, and I think I was
watching a video on YouTube yesterday, which was
talking about,
it was specifically about black women,
and health.
And she mentioned something that I'd like to
introduce here and hear your thoughts on it.
But, you know, you said about fasting. We
know, obviously, you know, it's a sunnah to
fast regularly,
in our deen. Obviously, we fast throughout whole
of
Ramadan. And we do it for the sake
of Allah. Alhamdulillah.
But
you see something like fasting that gets taken
on by the the the, you know, the
dominant culture,
it becomes cool, it becomes sexy. Oh, intermittent
fasting. Oh, it's the latest thing to lose
weight, to boost your metabolic, this this this
is that. And everyone's jumping on that. And
I guess what I want to speak to
is,
you know, you said we need to change
the culture.
And I've and this is what this lady
was saying is that for many of us
and I'm gonna put myself in that us.
For many of us,
a physically active lifestyle
in this, like, modern age that we live
in
is considered white.
That's what white people do. White people be
out there running,
jogging,
walking dogs,
riding bikes, hiking,
this, that. For many of us, that's white
people stuff or non Muslim stuff depending on
your paradigm. Right?
But when when I up in Yorkshire,
we see a lot of English people taking
advantage of the outdoors. Mhmm. We never see
Asians outdoors. Never.
Never never see family walking.
Never see them going out to the countryside.
You never see them active, physically active. And
I wonder, obviously, you know, back home, back
in the day, we would have been active
because we'd be working to promote our lifestyles.
Right? We'd be growing the crops. We'd be
doing what you're doing, riding the horses and
looking after the sheep and the goats and
stuff. But in the modern industrial
age,
I feel that we there's like a double
it's it's almost a double layer because the
modern age is sedentary already.
Yeah.
But as people of color, as in not,
let's say, English, I think it's I think
it's a white thing anyway across across Europe,
across the state, but we also exclude ourselves
from healthier ways of enjoying the outdoors, of
being active, etcetera.
And I'm not sure why that is. I
mean, firstly,
you know, if I'm wrong,
just, like, read me. But if if, you
know, what what do you say about that?
And also in the chat, guys, what what
are your thoughts on this? You know? Is
do we see exercise as a non Muslim
thing as what white people do, and is
that affecting us? Is that impacting us negatively?
Go ahead.
I'm so happy that you have talked about
this because when I,
I was a dancer before I became Muslim,
and this was my whole thing, sports and
dancing. And then all of a sudden, everything
is haram. I gotta stop. Right?
So then that's when I went on this,
this kind of campaign to bring fitness to
Muslim women. And I actually hand wrote back
in the day
to a 100 mosques that did provide,
fitness for brothers. They said they have some
sort of boxing or football or something. And
I said we need a safe space for
the women. And only 1 mosque out of
a 100
wrote back and said thank you very much,
sister Anisa, and that's it, Carlos. Okay?
And then I used to have to go
to the churches
and black out the windows
so that our women could come and take
their hijabs. And I remember having fights with
1 iman in 1 imam in particular who
told me, you know, we're gonna shut down
your classes because you're gonna lure the women
in these stuff for a lot. Right? Because
I'm trying to introduce fitness for them. And
this was, you know, going back quite a
few years ago,
And what I witnessed
was
it was the culture, like I said, that
you said, the culture of being indoors,
the culture of possibly cooking.
Okay? The culture of looking after children.
And really, you hit the nail on the
head. We have to change it. And even
after all these years of me campaigning, I
used to go into
the schools, the Muslim schools. Right? And I
did a test with them, a one minute
test, and I'll tell them, jog on the
spot for for for 1 minute. And if
you're feeling too tired, sit down.
Okay?
So I put my stopwatch on, and I'd
get them to run, and lo and behold,
98%
of the children would sit down.
And I used to say,
nice to look, nice to think
that 2% were just the ones whose parents
maybe were into fitness already, so they would
make sure that they did extra activities. But
and I'm speaking from in the UK.
We have a problem with academia.
We put academia
way before everything else. So it's all about
the English and the maths and the science.
Right? And it's all about the brains, and
they forget about the body. So the body
is becoming weak. And if we have children
with weak immune systems,
then, you know, we have compromised health anyway.
I remember I had to drop my child
off,
when I was doing a talk one time
in in a crash, and they came back
to me. Annie, Annie said, there's something wrong
with your child. I said, what is it?
What is it? She said, she went outside,
and she started paying with the dirt, and
and we had to call her back inside.
I said, don't you dare do that to
my child. I because because that's where you
get your,
good bacteria. This is where you build up
your immune system. This is natural for her,
you know, and you're trying to make it
out like she needs to be in this
sterile
environment.
So with everybody out there, you know, yes,
we need to move. We used to be
a culture
of dancing and moving that you said. I
went to West Africa, and I was like,
oh my god. None of and I wasn't
gawping at the men. I stuck for love.
Of course, I wasn't. But they were strong.
They would swim out to, you know, in
out to sea, and they would pull the
fish back, and then the women would carry
the the fish on their heads, and it
would all be free.
But they were so physically strong. I hardly
saw any obesity there.
I saw gleam in,
skin.
I just saw just just,
happy people
because they were physically using our body. We
need to go back and change that, not
just for ourselves because without you moving,
your toxicity level is becoming so high. You're
and I'm gonna get a little bit science
here. Right? But your lymphatic system, so your
that your rubbish bin, right, it doesn't have
a pump like the heart. So the pump
the heart can pump the blood around the
body, but your lymphatic system is supposed to
pump the
toxins and move them around your body so
we can go to the toilet and we
can sweat it out, etcetera.
Right? But we that doesn't have a pump.
So if you don't move,
this is a major,
major problem.
You know? So we need to move. People
are suffering from constipation.
Really easy.
Drink more water and move. You will
really you will you will start going to
the toilet more. And,
you know, we but we need to move.
And, yes, it is. I I I I
used to live when I was in London,
I used to live in a typically white
area. Actually, it was very white.
And in the pandemic and the lockdown
for their hour, they used to be out
there walking their dogs and jogging and cycling.
I never saw anybody else doing that, subhanAllah.
Right? But we need to like I said,
we need to change our culture. We need
to go back, and I love the fact
that you talked about it here because
at Fajr, I'm up. I get up. I
go and water the plants. You know, we
go horse riding, and
we are tilling the ground. We are physical.
We are sweating,
and we need to get back into this
lifestyle. You know, we really need to move,
and there's no excuse. You know, you could
do it at home.
And my advice is if you're at home,
make sure that you open up your windows
so you're getting some fresh air in
and you're not breathing in this trapped pollution.
But you need to get your children's
level up because, yes, it's all great having,
you know, an academic mind, but your body
will be susceptible to so many diseases if
you're not building
strong, you know. So I'm a lot. So
I'm glad you put that up, my love.
Yes. No. I think because we we don't
do ourselves any favors, you know. We we
we we're looking at these things, especially those
of us who live in the UK. UK.
You guys know that the weather here is
just, like, so
unpredictable.
And and it really is. It's a cultural
thing. It's a cultural,
shift that we that we should make because
I think, you know, we have this thing
of, you know, it's almost like pooh poohing
certain things. Oh, and and a lot of
a lot of people in the chat have
said they have been told that they are
too white.
So, oh, the the same. I get those
comments all the time. I used to go
to the gym very early in the mornings
before work, and my friends would always comment
you're so white.
And, sister mentioned about the hijab and burqa,
etcetera, that it can be a bit of
a you know, you need to get comfortable
with it,
which I think is true.
Youssou said when I started horse riding, I
get told it's Abe, and your future husband
will not be happy.
And, and sister Monserrate said, you know, sometimes
it's just about replacing the word exercise
with physical activity. So you may be able
to use the local gym because there are
no sessions for women, but maybe we could
do the 15 or 30 minute walk to
the train station or to the department store.
It's and, you know, things like taking the
stairs instead of taking the escalator or the
lift. Mhmm.
Tarika says, I reject any perspective that implies
that something I'm doing is too white. If
anything, it makes me motivated to change the
narrative.
Yeah. Lots of great, lots of great comments
here. And, also, sister,
Naima is here on Issa, and I know
that she she's a honey dealer.
But she's got a list here. She's most
people,
a, don't have physically demanding jobs,
are climate controlled all day,
consume a fair amount of foods that don't
require much digestive effort,
don't eat when hungry,
don't stop eating when satiated,
are participating in fad or restrictive diets,
have disrupted sleep cycles due to stress and
exposure to artificial light, and those screens, guys.
Yes. It's that phone that you look at
just before you go to sleep.
Are indoors rather than outdoors. Use escalates and
elevators instead of walking and climbing stairs. Use
body products,
regular body processes
and experience regular loneliness and lack of deep
social ties. She says we have constructed a
lifestyle that promotes low metabolic demand. What's say
to you to that? Oh, you know what?
I think she knows.
She knows me very well, and, these are
definitely some of the advices that I would
give,
anybody, you know. Yes.
We we we go for the ease. This
is this is that's what she means in
a nutshell. We always go for the ease.
We go for the convenience of convenience food,
the convenience way of life, but actually
that's probably what's killing us. You know, subhanAllah,
we we were so blessed. We can turn
on a tap and water comes out compared
to other parts in the world where they
have to physically
pump, but they're actually using their muscles. You
know, they're they're actually a lot stronger where
we can just jump in our cars.
You know,
they can walk for miles.
So a bit like, you know,
even early,
Europe, you know, when, the rich peep the
rich, rich people who had servants,
they would eat all the meats, and they
would have the fatty foods, etcetera.
And they would be dying of those type
of illnesses, but then the poor people would
have veg based diets, and they'd actually be
stronger and live hunger, live longer or healthier,
but maybe die of actually having, starve more
than starvation.
But we need to go back. And like
I said, my main thing is that it
is all there within our sun.
We don't need to go out there and
search. And in fact, it's really weird because,
you know, when you talked about the fasting,
I remember I wrote for one of the
popular popular women's magazines,
the commercial women's magazines.
And I took and I mentioned it. This
was many moons ago about,
intermittent fasting, and I mentioned dates. And I
said, oh, can I put my name against
this article? And they said, no. No. No.
Because
it was an assignment, you know, on one
of the courses that I did. And this
article went viral, and then it started to
become popular. And I thought, wow. I would
have loved for them to just put,
and and these to consume, then they could
see that it was from a Muslim perspective,
but they took out all the Muslim parts,
and they kept all the health benefits in
there, you know.
So, yeah, like I said, we just need
to go back.
And it and it and and take one
step at a time. Don't overburden yourself. Don't
go, oh my god. Look at my lifestyle.
I'm opening up my cupboards. Oh my god.
Look. Look. I'm sitting on the couch or
the at the desk all the all the
time, and where do I start, and what
do I do? And
no. Don't do that.
Okay?
A journey of a 1000
miles begins with a single step. So like
I said, make that intention first,
you know,
get some help.
And Naima, I'm ready to do whatever you
want me to do,
and we can take this journey together
because you'll feel empowered. You will feel stronger.
You will feel more balanced. You'll see
a lot of your problems,
even your mental health problems, just anxiety.
I'll give you an example about depression.
Okay?
Depression
is a is and I know depression very,
very well. I've dealt with depression
within my immediate family for over 23 years
and within the community. So I'm, you know,
I'm quite clued up,
in depression.
But you have a cycle because
dehydration,
lack of water leads to depression. Right?
But then when you are depressed and you're
stressed,
that leads your body into more
dehydration.
So then you're dehydrated
even more so, and it leads to more
depression.
And it's this vicious, vicious
cycle,
you know. So
one,
patient I had recently,
I told her to increase her water intake,
you know, to stop the dehydration. I gave
her some tips, and I said to her,
just do this.
And lo and behold, after about 2 weeks,
of constantly, not just that, I added some
I did add the honey, and I added
the black seed,
and I gave her some exercises, and
she was suffering from depression for 30 odd
years.
A single sister on her own, no children.
She was not married.
And,
she woke up one day and she she
left me a beautiful voice and then she
said, Anissa,
I'm not feeling anxious. I'm not feeling depressed.
What is going on? And I said, all
you did was give your body the right
things that it needed. That's all you did.
You know? You didn't do anything else. So
like I said, obesity,
you can fix it. You can fix it
yourself.
Cancers,
they're preventable.
Subhanallah.
You know, high blood pressure, high cholesterol,
diabetes.
You can reverse these
things. Allah says
that there is a cure for everything except
for death. So who do I trust?
A doctor who tells me this is incurable,
or do I trust my creator? I have
tawakkal
in my lord, and I know he's given
me the right things.
So, you know, we need to prioritize these
things, you know,
community. You are my tribe. We are we
are one.
We are one ummah. We need to be
strong together.
And, let's let's make an intention.
I agree. And,
says we need to ignore the majority and
remember that our health needs to be maintained
and isn't a manner.
Personally, I don't know how you can just
sit and fill yourself
up. You fill up your car with fuel,
but to use it. Right? Not to just
sit there on the driveway.
And it's true, subhanAllah, there there's just so
so much,
that
needs almost unlearning
as well as learning.
And I I can't help, you know, kind
of referencing something that I saw. I watched
a video today.
Just she mentioned something very
just by the by the way,
and it was about, you know, how our
modern society
focuses on pharmaceutical
medicine,
which as you know is a huge, huge
industry,
and
downplays
and discredits
natural remedies because it's difficult to monetize, and
because you can't patent it, and because they
can't control that. Do you wanna just speak
to that,
without going too deep down the rabbit hole?
Yeah.
For me,
just look at the lifestyle
without it, you know. I mean,
I'm a bit of an old school kind
of person. I like ancient remedies.
I love I love looking at what Allah
has given us.
And the fact that if you utilize it
in the right way, you know, there'll be
no harm,
So,
do I trust something that every single time
I'm putting these one of these pills into
my mouth, my body reads it as a
poison automatically.
Your body starts to attack it.
Do I trust it?
For me, personally, no. I don't.
Is there room for it? Of course, there
is. SubhanAllah.
You know?
Sometimes things are not readily available, but for
me, I would rather stock my house
with the things that I need. SubhanAllah. So,
for instance, I always stock,
charcoal.
Charcoal
is fantastic if you get poisoned, if you
get a bite, etcetera. So you can make
little patches, and you could put it on
directly. Or if you've got poison in your
stomach and you've got diarrhea, you can have
active charcoal or help you withdraw a lot
of the toxins out.
So that's just one element. I just make
sure that I have
I try to have
whatever is there and and that is natural
because there's the trust element that it comes
from Allah. You know?
With regards to the pharmaceuticals,
do I trust it?
From what I've read, there's
enough documentaries out there, there's enough,
experts talking about it
than for me to go into it to
know that,
I don't need that kind of stuff,
and we don't need that stuff as a
whole,
especially when they don't give people the options.
Like, you said the options. There was there's
not I don't even like to call it
alternative. I like to and and then call
the other doctor, the other medicine orthodox medicine.
I'd rather turn it around. They're the alternative.
And
we most of them all along. We are
the natural ones that have been around for
many years.
You know? And I'm just hoping that people
are out here,
like screen capturing this, screenshotting
this. You guys know how many truth bombs
would drop today. Okay? And if you're not
sharing this with people, then I don't know
what to say. Maybe shame on you might
be a bit too harsh. But for real
for real, there are 57 people watching this
live. There will be 100 more who will
watch this, after the time, after the fact.
But the fact is this information
should be shared
with 1,000, if not tens or hundreds of
thousands of people because these are this is
our life, guys. Of course, the video is
recorded, and
the festival is over.
You know I'm gonna create
a banging resource, okay, with with all these
gems from the amazing amazing speakers. But the
point
is, you know, look at how can you
implement this? How can you bless someone else
with this knowledge? How can you start to
research things? I know for myself,
I'm taking, you know, definitely taking certain pointers
from this session that I want to implement
in my life as well, subhanAllah.
So I know we we touched on Hijama,
we touched on Honey, and we touched on
Black Seed. And I feel like I know
that and I know that there are a
ton more,
but I feel like that is enough.
And also the things you've given us to
think about about the food that we're eating
and the how much we're moving, I feel
like that is an amazing starting point for
everyone here to be able to say, you
know what?
I need to I need to rethink certain
things. I need to make different decisions. Those
of you who are raising your hands, please
put your question in the chat, because I
think we should open up for a q
and a. But guys, let's keep the q
and a specific to what we have discussed
here, and let's not ask sister Anissa to
kind of give a medical advice or, like,
say, okay. If you have obesity or this
or that, now is not the time for
that.
Let's, stick to the topic here because the
Iblinilah,
we will be able to have something off
the back of the festival where we can,
you know, learn more from sister Anissa. Maybe
we'll do like a short like a course
or master class or something where we can
really go in deep. But there's one thing
that I wanna say. Those of you who've
got your hands up, please put your questions
in the chat. But the other thing I
want to say is somebody put a question
in and said, is this session for women
only?
And that's a really interesting thing for me.
We know that it's not,
but do you feel that there is a
disconnect with our brothers
when it comes to this issue? And I
would love to hear from the brothers. Chris,
I see you there. Masha'Allah.
Who else do I see? Who can I
call out by name? I don't know who
else is here,
but you guys are I mean, if you
could share that, that would be really, really
helpful,
you know, for yourself as a man, as
a brother, you know, do you feel like
this conversation has nothing to do with you?
There's Ustad
Giles here, I think. Someone said my husband
is here. We're
grateful for the brothers who come out and
come and and listen and learn. But I
wanna hear from you guys in the chat
to say, you know, what your take on
all this is. And, sis, are the brothers
not being,
either educated enough or being proactive enough. Talk
about it. Well,
I'm kind of happy that you said this
because
a lot of the complaints I get from
the women
is
that I'm healthy, and I'm trying to be
healthy,
but
my husband or my sons demand
the meat and the fizzy drinks, and the
snacking
the snacking with the,
late night sugar cravings.
As an ummah, we have an addiction with
sugar,
unfortunately.
And, that's some of the one of the
biggest things that's actually killing our Ummah, to
be honest with you. I I spoke to,
an expert in this who's not a Muslim,
and I tried to invite him to the
Muslim community, but then I found out that
he was Jewish, and he's he he refused
to, you know, come and share his knowledge.
Having said that, you know,
the the the advice is just stop having
so much refined sugar subhanAllah.
But yes, I think the brothers are a
bit of an issue have a bit of
a problem. And you know what question I
used to put towards the boys that I
used to teach?
I used to say to them, could you
have walked from Mecca to Medina?
Could you have fought in the battles?
You know, picked up those swords and fought
for hours without little food and little water.
Could you have done that?
And I asked them, you know, be honest
with me, and they would turn around and
say, no.
No. You know, they couldn't. So
I I do think our men need to
be strong. I think you need to be
wrestling. You need to be doing archery. You
need to be doing horse riding. You need
to be doing swimming. You should be doing
these sunnah sports. You need to be doing
self defense or martial arts and things like
this, and you need to, you know, not
just be in the gym going, yeah. Yeah.
I can lift like these these big weights
and they are, oh, it's cool. Look at
my biceps. You know? This is like Gaston
out of Beauty and the Beast. You know?
We need to get real.
And we and especially as role models, the
men, and I'm not saying this is all
men because well done to those who are
role models for their families and those who
advocate. And I'm not saying all women are
great and they're all healthy, but sometimes, you
know, it's the reverse. But whoever is the
healthy one in the house,
then
but don't let the other one, you know,
dominate you, you know, and you keep doing
your good practices
and you show your children.
Because what we don't wanna do is get
the kids into bad habits because they're our
next generation. They're our future. And what type
of ummah will we be bringing up if
they are weak, addicted to sugar? They are
inactive.
They are, you know, just constantly consuming this
chicken and chips kind of, you know, on
the way home from school. Like like, what
what what are we? What are we? You
know? What are we as an ummah? We
would just we're we're gonna we're gonna perish.
We're gonna perish, literally of obesity.
You know? I I tried for many years,
and I said to people, you need to
get behind me because we need a massive
campaign
campaign
against the beastie. And I said this about
15 years ago
when it wasn't even at the height it
is now.
Nobody would get behind me, but they would
back a chicken shop and a chicken franchise,
you know. Speak to it, sir. Speak on
it,
Oh, yeah. But this is it. This is
it. So why aren't we collectively
getting together and giving the right people the
platform
so that they can go up there and
teach and inspire?
You know, we that's what we need to
do as an. We need to collectively say,
okay. Like this non nonsmoking campaigns. You know,
we've got plenty of those. Okay. Well, you
know what? We need an obesity one. We
need a health one. We need these strength
ones so that we can start to look
at ourselves longevity wise. Okay?
Because like I keep saying, and I say
this with a
with such emphasis and such,
you know, passion
that if you don't get serious now, it
may just be too late, SubhanAllah. And I
mean that. And I mean with everything that's
going around,
all this news, all this negativity,
all these,
invisible,
weapons that are going around.
We need to
rely on ourselves and Allah. Allah, obviously, first.
But we need to rely on ourselves. Nobody's
gonna tell me about my body more than
me, and I'll give you a prime example
about that. So my mother
died of cancer
3 years ago. May Allah be pleased with
her.
And for
months, if not years, she was going to
her doctor and kept on saying, I've got
a stomach problem. And he kept on giving
her this pink gloopy
galvos con thing for acid. Right? And take
that. Take that. You're fine. You're a strong
woman because she was, she was very, very,
very strong and very fit.
And then it wasn't until she actually passed
out, and then she went into hospital and
they diagnosed her with stage 4 advanced cancer
of the stomach, and she died
3 months later. SubhanAllah.
Now I never forget the look of that
doctor's face when he came into my mother's
bedroom, and he saw her face, and he
felt as guilty as sin, SubhanAllah. Because she'd
gone to him, and she trusted him as
her doctor. And I used to say to
her, mom, you know, and don't don't trouble
me. Leave me alone, me and my doctor.
My doctor will tell me what is right.
You know? And I was, okay, mom. You
know? SubhanAllah.
But
this is how much we trust.
We trust this medication that we're not making.
We're trusting vaccines that we don't know what
the ingredients are having in it. We are
trusting these these,
methods that we don't know
when Allah has given us the answers?
Do you think that he's gonna leave us
without
us knowing how to take care of ourselves?
Are you are we, you know, do we
not have trust in him? SubhanAllah.
You know? So we need to, if I've
got a headache, you know, I can feel
it. You can't feel it. So isn't it
better that I know how to take care
of myself?
You know? So these are the basic things
that you need to know, and you don't
need to be a doctor to know this.
You don't need to be a surgeon and
have this high
so called IQ.
You don't need to have it. I've sat
with beautiful women that can't even read and
write, but yet they can. They know their
herbs. They know how to cure you. If
you come with a broken arm and or
pain, they know how to take care of
you. It's just knowing
what is right
and how to take it and how to
take care of yourself. SubhanAllah. And remember what
I said, prevention
is better than cure. So don't wait for
you to feel that pain.
You know, don't wait for you to get
obese.
You know, just look after yourself from now.
So so so many gems there. And, was
just the chat is really,
it it lit up. And I just want
to remind people when you are,
typing in the chat, make sure that you
are sending can't
see
it.
But definitely, I hear you on can't see
it.
But definitely, I hear you on the need
for a change in the culture,
you know, the change in in our culture.
And that's something that we can do. That
is something that is within our power. You
know, guys, I'm sorry. Hijab is not an
excuse.
Mixed gender is not an excuse. Music is
not an excuse. Distance is not an excuse
because
aside from anything else, the Internet gives you
access to everything and anything,
any type of and when I'm talking about
exercise here and kind of physical activity,
you don't have to join a gym. You
don't have to do do any of these
things that, you know, some people are mentioning
in the chat because you have YouTube, and
you can get an app, and all those
exercise are there. And majority of them are
for free.
Like, it's it's actually crazy. And it doesn't
matter what style you're into, whether and I
know because I'm a fitness blender, and there's
everything on there. There's Pilates. There's
yoga. There's,
kickboxing.
There's Tabata.
There's, you know, strength training. There's cardio. There's
aerobics. There's everything on there. So
let's let's really see it in terms of
us taking back our power.
And for the sake of Allah and for
the sake of our children, sis, I wanna
close-up on that because
it really is
it's it's a legacy that we're leaving right
now. You know?
You know, sis says here, one of the
things that some communities, the women spend a
lot of time preparing meals and doing housework.
They're very hardworking and the backbone of their
households.
Making time for themselves is very difficult. It's
about focusing and being able to say no.
And, she said
easy, friendly beginner stuff for them. I just
wanna speak to that quickly inshallah because a
woman who
is spending a lot of time or however
much time she's spending, but if she's preparing
the meals
in that household,
she has the power
to shift that health dynamic in her household.
She has a lot of power. There are
some families
remember that we live in a society where
family dinners are a thing of the past,
and that is true. That is statistically proven.
Certainly in the US and in the UK,
families do not sit together. They do not
have dinner anymore. Majority of households do not
even have a dining table anymore.
And that's because, obviously, the culture has shifted.
People are, you know, going for, you know,
ready meals, for frozen food,
you know, people eating different things in the
same household. So basically, you know, you're, like,
bugging different things in the oven, etcetera.
I don't think this is necessarily
our issue in the Muslim community
yet.
And I say yet
because this next generation,
they're not on it because they don't see,
you know, what's what's actually happening, and they
may not see the benefit of holding on
to some of that cultural capital that we
had as women. Trust me. When you are
the one who repairs the meals in
your house and everyone in the house eats
those meals,
you have so much power
to actually impact your ham your family's health,
how they approach food, the atmosphere in the
house, etcetera. You give up that power, it
for the sake of convenience,
oh, speak to that.
SubhanAllah.
I think,
you know, like you said,
giving,
back the power to the women,
to the to the brothers, to us all,
to the next language. We need to learn
about ourselves, how
to language, we need to learn
about ourselves, how to take care of ourselves
mentally,
physically,
emotionally, and spiritually.
And
we need to make that a priority.
Okay?
I think, yes,
in terms of the next
generation, I do worry. I'm not gonna lie.
I really will really worry
because I've been a PE teacher
for many, many years.
So I
have witnessed it with my eyes, you know,
I've seen the obesity levels. I've seen that,
oh, I don't wanna do this and I
don't wanna do that, you know. And I
look at our next generation and I think
it's it's gonna be gone pretty soon.
You know?
I was I was blessed to be in
Qatar,
and, they have a very small nation. They
only have, like,
I don't know, 200,000,
but most of them are becoming obese now.
And it's like and I said,
before long, your your whole tribe is gonna
be wiped out
because you're dying at, like, 34,
35, 36 of heart attacks and things like
this. So we gotta take this seriously.
This is something that,
it's not a discussion, and it's like a,
oh, hey. Yeah. And and it's all happy
go lucky.
We really
need to take heed.
We are in a state of an emergency
with our ummah and with our health.
Like I said,
2020
to 2025,
these are gonna be crucial years.
With all the lockdowns that are coming, you're
gonna see depressions.
Right? With all these things that they want
to implement, you don't think that the social
distancing is gonna have an impact. So if
you're not prepared
immune system wise and you boost your immune
system,
alright, and you boost your morale, your mentality,
and you prepare yourself
for change.
Alright? And adapting to this new change. For
some people, they're they're able to leave. They're
able to get out and escape this. But
really, this is something that, you know, if
you don't take it seriously now, you're going
to have to become serious. You're gonna have
to. So you it's it's better that you
start now and start to prioritize.
And I remember listening to a chef recently,
and he said, teach your children how to
go without food
because this dependency
on food is not gonna be good for
you. It's not good for your health anyway
because we consume too much. But
when the first lockdown came, everybody was going
out and thinking they're in the house and
they're snacking, you know, and this is cool
because, oh, I'm being paid to be off
work and all this stuff. You're wrong. That's
the time that you should have
increased your health. You should have increased all
of your activities. You should have looked after
and made better choices,
you know, and made better changes and adapted
and had new habits.
Okay? This is not the time to sit
back and be watching Netflix and chilling. Okay?
This is a time that we need to
go, okay. Then this is serious. This is
like a live and die situation now. Alright?
And so, you know, for that,
and, Naima, when you're ready, you know, we
can put together workshops. We can put together
courses. I'm here to help. This is my
sadaqahjariyah.
I want to share this with the world.
I have been wanting to share this with
the world. And
I've done it to a small degree, but
now it's like it's become the most prioritized
thing out there.
Right? Now all of the world is listening,
Not just Muslims, non Muslims, everybody. And in
fact, we have the answers more than them.
They don't have the answers.
We have the black seed oil. We have
the honey. We have
all of these things, the hijama.
You Allah, more than now we need the
hijama,
because we need to cleanse ourself and detoxify
ourselves
more than ever before.
So go back to the sunnah. It will
be an ajar. It would be a blessing
for you. It will be blessings for you
on Yawma Kiama
to revive these sunnahs,
to share them with your children, to share
them with the community.
This will be sadaqa for you. Okay? Start
looking at your akhirah,
you know, and and and stop looking at
our desires and our nafs and and what
we what we want. Because, yeah, you might
want the sugary biscuits and the ice cream
and the the coffees and the teas, but
what we need is what we need to
do now.
Am I am I correct in saying that,
Naima? Yeah. Yeah. 100%.
100%. And I think, you know, it's it's
it's
it's frustrating to me that all I see
on my feed, my news feed is
vaccines,
tests,
masks,
distancing,
all of this stuff, rules, tier 1, tier
2, tier 3, all of this stuff. And
I'm like,
is someone gonna talk about immunity at some
point?
Like, can we have a conversation?
Like, can anyone say,
right guys,
this is the situation out here.
This is what you need to be doing
in your home.
This is what you need to be eating.
This is what you need to be avoiding.
This is what you need to be doing
to build yourself up. There is literally no
conversation about that whatsoever.
Whatsoever. Guys give me a yes in the
chat if you're if you've noticed this,
that we are being disempowered,
completely
disempowered
in the face of this global thing. I'm
not even gonna name it, but in the
face of this global thing, we are being
disem
disempowered. Everything is outside our control.
Everything is something that we have no power
over, and we can do nothing
except
6 people only. Masks,
this, that, this, that, this, that. And I'm
like, what what's going on here?
You know, when you said about the masks,
I'll tell you for those of you who
don't know what the masks are doing in
terms of your body. They are not allowing
you to have as much oxygen. And I'll
tell you a good way
to, test your oxygen. Right? So put a
timer on for 60 seconds,
lay down flat, and make sure you're breathing
with your stomach
going up, not your chest going up, and
see how many times that you take a
breath in and out,
right,
over
one minute, over 60 seconds.
Okay?
Ideally,
it should be
7
times.
9 is okay, but if you're
a 9 and above, you're taking more breaths
than 9 and above, then it means that
you're shallow breathing. It means your body is
not getting
enough oxygen. Now this is beautiful.
And my dear sister who said that this
is making me depressed, don't let it be
don't let make you depressed, my darling. This
is empowerment here right now. So oxygen, Allah
has given it to us free. And in
fact, if we choose the right plants
in our homes or we open up our
windows that somebody said at Fajr, then this
is when the air is the cleanest. SubhanAllah.
I'm most blessed. Right? And if we practice
deep breathing,
our body will benefit from all the oxygen
because
some of you may not know
that cancer cannot thrive
and live in a body that has a
lot of oxygen, subhanAllah. So a body that
is low in oxygen, then your cancer cells
will start to multiply SubhanAllah.
So something that is free, and it is
easy, doesn't take much time,
but practice
deep breathing
in a clean,
environment. SubhanAllah. And we can all do this
like Naima said, it's free.
You don't have to go to gyms. You
don't have to join classes. You don't even
have to watch YouTube if you don't want
to.
You know, you can literally do it on
yourself.
Okay? But deep breathing
is probably number 1 on my list. And
when I'm teaching actually,
oxygen, do you know what I say, Naima?
I say, if I were to put my
hand over your mouth for a few seconds,
you would die.
Okay? But you go without you can go
without food, and you can go without water
for a few days, but you can't go
without oxygen.
Now you
understand how important oxygen is. So then you
need to monitor yourself to see how your
breathing is, SubhanAllah.
And there are many ways and many things
that you could do. We again, like you
said, we can have a topic on all
of these Yeah. On all of these issues.
But but if you just start off with
deep breathing, for those of you who are
having to wear masks all the time,
make sure that you are deep breathing on
a daily
basis.
If you just take away that one thing
from today, then halaf, this is enough. But
if you take away all the other things,
then
But don't be depressed, my dear brothers and
sisters out there, because we are Muslim Alhamdulillah.
We have to be optimistic.
We have to smile, and we have to
be happy. We have to be in a
happy place. We have to be cautious
and have, you know, and and and and
not be stupid to know that what's coming.
Okay?
But we have to be realistic,
you know, and, I hope that we are
spreading love here today.
Yeah. I I think that we are. Alhamdulillah.
I think all we need to do is
plug back in, you know, sort of we
need to unlearn a few things and, you
know, many people have said in the chat,
you know, that we need to continue this
conversation. So you and I, inshallah, we will,
you know, I know I know and I
know that the this this space
is going to produce
so many beautiful things Insha'Allah, and I pray
that this is one of them. Listen, sister
Anisa, you left your horses and your sheep
and your goats
and came into the city to to bless
us with this knowledge today. May Allah preserve
you and your family and everybody that you're
with. Allow you to continue to do this
work. Mhmm.
Guys, you know what to do. Please make
du'a for the sister,
and, you know,
take action.
Take action. Even if it's just one thing,
decide now.
I am taking action based on what I
have learned. Okay? It this this this stuff
here, we're not here just to chit and
chat and pally pally. We are here to
shift
ourselves, to change the narrative,
to to move ourselves in a different direction.
So thank you all for being so amazing
and so, you know, attentive and active in
the chat.
It's been amazing, and I'm so pleased actually
to have so many people in here for
a health talk. It's so, so good. Alhamdulillah.
Alhamdulillah. So, guys, listen. We're gonna wrap it
up here now. I do believe that our
next session is in about half an hour,
and we are gonna be talking in that
one. No. It's in an hour's time where
we're gonna be talking about the 5 elements
of fulfillment and wealth. So this is a
different type of risk now. This has to
do with the money game. But, guys, this
here is in your control. You have the
power.
You have the power.
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This link, this is a free talk, so
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inshallah.
So thank you guys so much, sister Anisa.
We love you for the sake of
So
Please
join us in the Facebook group, Anissa.
Put your details in there so people can
reach you inshallah.
Inshallah.