The impermissibility of eating forbidden food for the purpose of training
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The impermissibility of eating forbidden food for the purpose of training
Regarding the second question from this session, which is the question about eating frogs: We find that some of the training that takes place in the armies is intended to prepare for times of hardship,I mean: in wars, so that if a person is forced to resort to it, he will have become accustomed to it, and it will not be sought for its own sake!
But, my brother! When a person comes to eat, whether he has trained or not, he does not need to train. Does a person train on eating? When a person is hungry, he eats; but he trains on facing the enemy, and on advancing and retreating, and there is nothing wrong with that; but to train on eating and on drinking urine, this is not correct.
The questioner: But in areas of hardship—Shaykh—they do not find anything to eat;Because it is devoid of food! The Shaykh: Good! If you find yourself in areas of hardship and you do not find in them anything but snakes, you eat them, even if you have not trained.
Indeed, Allah guides the infant to his mother's breast, and he knows the location of the breast, and the adult does not know that when he is hungry he eats the animal or the snake? So this does not need training at all.
And you may say: They train them on poison! We say: The poison is not in the body itself, but the poison occurs from the reaction of this animal, and then this fluid emerges from it, just as the human being has the base fluid from which the child is created, and it does not come out except after its causes are present.
Regarding the second question from this session, which is the question about eating frogs: We find that some of the training that takes place in the armies is intended to prepare for times of hardship,I mean: in wars, so that if a person is forced to resort to it, he will have become accustomed to it, and it will not be sought for its own sake!
But, my brother! When a person comes to eat, whether he has trained or not, he does not need to train. Does a person train on eating? When a person is hungry, he eats; but he trains on facing the enemy, and on advancing and retreating, and there is nothing wrong with that; but to train on eating and on drinking urine, this is not correct.
The questioner: But in areas of hardship—Shaykh—they do not find anything to eat;Because it is devoid of food! The Shaykh: Good! If you find yourself in areas of hardship and you do not find in them anything but snakes, you eat them, even if you have not trained.
Indeed, Allah guides the infant to his mother's breast, and he knows the location of the breast, and the adult does not know that when he is hungry he eats the animal or the snake? So this does not need training at all.
And you may say: They train them on poison! We say: The poison is not in the body itself, but the poison occurs from the reaction of this animal, and then this fluid emerges from it, just as the human being has the base fluid from which the child is created, and it does not come out except after its causes are present.