Most of the bad things and difficulties that happen in this...

Most of the bad things and difficulties that happen in this world are because of man's actions.[^2] The Middle Course In Eating; Not Being Excessive One will be healthy if he follows the middle course regarding the desire for food. The middle course in eating is eating the necessary amount and variety of food. The Qurān orders us: “Eat and drink, but do not be excessive.” ^3 The commander of the faithful, Imām ‛Alī (a) also has given an order in this regard.

He said that one should not eat until one is hungry and should stop eating before one is full. If one eats when he is full he will get a digestive disease. This is being excessive. On the other side not eating enough is not eating anything for 24 hours. For this reason, it has been commanded for a person who is fasting to eat something at night. For this reason eating something before dawn has become part of the Islamic culture.

The poet S‛adī has wrote a poem in this regards: “Do not eat so much so that food falls out of your mouth and do not eat so little so that you die of weakness.” One should not become weak due to lack of eating and one should not eat so much that he would become sick and get digestive diseases.

Some have said: “The stomach is the home of all pain.” This was about the amount of food, but about the kinds of food: A Colorful Dinner Table And Different Diseases Never become accustomed to eating all kinds of different food at once. The more kinds of food that man eats the more health problems he will have. He thinks that he will become stronger from eating these different kinds of foods, but it is the opposite.

The different kinds of sweets and fatty foods that one eats bring him closer to getting diabetes and other diseases. One who is used to eating different kind of foods must also spend a lot of money. For this reason it is possible for him to commit any crime in order to provide his stomach with what it wants. But when one is satisfied with whatever is brought to him, when one does not care to eat different kinds of food he will not commit these crimes; instead he will fight against his nafs .

You have heard how Abu Dharr fought against his personal desires and did not accept Mu‛āwīyah's elaborate dinner invitations or pouches of gold. Instead, he was satisfied with barley bread. One who is satisfied is honored. He pays attention to what is allowed and what is forbidden.