What is the ruling on weight loss for an obese person?
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The Shaykh : Kamal?
The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Regarding a side question, meaning regarding weight loss for someone who suspects that it will lead to illness.
The Shaykh : What? Repeat.
The questioner : Weight loss for someone who suspects that if he remains, he will exceed the limit.
The Shaykh : Yes, the standard, he exceeds the standard.
The questioner : A large weight may expose him, according to the words of the specialists, the doctors, to diseases.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It is not prescribed.
The Shaykh : Is it not?
The questioner : It is not prescribed for him to lighten as much as he can.
The Shaykh : No, the issue of what is prescribed is a separate matter, but say that it is not permissible.
The questioner : No, I mean it is prescribed.
The Shaykh : No, because we say that someone might say this is forbidden, because weight loss is changing the creation of Allah. Allah created you in this form, do not change it. This is like beautification by straightening teeth and other things about which prohibition has been reported.
The questioner : But Shaykh, I qualified it by saying that this obesity is the cause of a specific disease mentioned by the doctors, meaning there is a disease.
The Shaykh : The cause may have an effect, and it may not, and how many things have doctors said are the cause of such-and-such, and it was not.
But in any case, it is from the category of permissible things. However, those who weigh themselves every day do not want this to be an illness; they fear that an illness will come to them after ten years. This is a delusion in any case; it may be light today and heavy tomorrow, just as you now find in yourself, for example, that some of your organs hurt you today and do not hurt you tomorrow without any medicine. Yes.
The questioner : Shaykh.
The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah reward you. Regarding a side question, meaning regarding weight loss for someone who suspects that it will lead to illness.
The Shaykh : What? Repeat.
The questioner : Weight loss for someone who suspects that if he remains, he will exceed the limit.
The Shaykh : Yes, the standard, he exceeds the standard.
The questioner : A large weight may expose him, according to the words of the specialists, the doctors, to diseases.
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes.
The questioner : It is not prescribed.
The Shaykh : Is it not?
The questioner : It is not prescribed for him to lighten as much as he can.
The Shaykh : No, the issue of what is prescribed is a separate matter, but say that it is not permissible.
The questioner : No, I mean it is prescribed.
The Shaykh : No, because we say that someone might say this is forbidden, because weight loss is changing the creation of Allah. Allah created you in this form, do not change it. This is like beautification by straightening teeth and other things about which prohibition has been reported.
The questioner : But Shaykh, I qualified it by saying that this obesity is the cause of a specific disease mentioned by the doctors, meaning there is a disease.
The Shaykh : The cause may have an effect, and it may not, and how many things have doctors said are the cause of such-and-such, and it was not.
But in any case, it is from the category of permissible things. However, those who weigh themselves every day do not want this to be an illness; they fear that an illness will come to them after ten years. This is a delusion in any case; it may be light today and heavy tomorrow, just as you now find in yourself, for example, that some of your organs hurt you today and do not hurt you tomorrow without any medicine. Yes.
The questioner : Shaykh.