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How to Eat to Live, Book 1
Chapter 1
Right Way to Eat
1 There is no way for us to learn
the right way to eat in order to live
a long life, except through the
guidance and teachings of Allah.
Who came in the Person of Master
Fard Muhammad.
2 The Bible says that He will give us more life abundancy, but He
demands strict obedience to His Will. There is no way of prolonging
the life of human beings or any other life unless it begins with
restrictions of the foods which sustain life, the right kinds of food and
the proper time when it should be taken into our bodies.
3 Jehovah taught Israel how to live, but Israel rebelled against the
law of Jehovah, handed down to them through Moses, the servant of
Jehovah.
4 There are many Jews today, called Orthodox Jews, who try to eat
in order to live. They are careful of the type of food that goes into
their stomachs. They will not slaughter an animal without trying to
drain that animal's blood out of its body before taking it for food.
They will not accept diseased animals, birds or fowls.
5 We give credit to the Jews for still trying to obey that which they
were ordered to do by Allah, through the prophets that Allah sent to
them. The Jews paid the penalty for disobedience, and are still
paying. However, they are the only people, the Holy Qur'an teaches,
whose food we can eat. They, in turn, can eat our food. The Muslims
who try to live according to the teachings of the Holy Qur'an will not
eat the wrong food when they know what that food is.
6 Of course, those who are becoming converts to Islam in America,
mv followers, are being tried. The Christians, white and black, trv to
force or deceive my followers into eating foods they know we the
Muslims do not approve.
7 In prison, they almost starve my followers trying to force them to
eat the filthy, poisonous swine flesh. This I know, because when I
was in prison they did the same to me.
8 Thanks to the coming of Allah in the Person of Master Fard
Muhammad, if we obey what He has given to us in the way of proper
foods and the proper time to partake of these foods, we will never be
sick or have to pay hundreds, thousands and millions of dollars for
doctor bills and hospitalization.
9 The Christian people have one of the most brutal ways of killing
animals for their food. Many of their animals are killed under fright
and excitement; they actually murder the animals they eat.
10 We, the Muslims, who have not been able to go out to the
slaughter houses as yet to choose our meat, as the Orthodox Jews are
doing, slaughter our animals or cattle at a time when they least expect
it. We take their lives in the name of Allah, with a prayer over this
condemned life to be used to sustain our lives.
1 1 Allah has taught me how to eat in order to live. I have been
teaching it to my followers, but we often become negligent and fall
victim to our own negligence. As a result, we are calling the doctor,
or going to the hospital because we did not eat the right foods, and in
the proper way.
12 Hereafter. I shall enforce restriction on my followers to eat as
Allah bids us. As I have said to my followers on many occasions, life
cannot be prolonged unless we are careful of what we eat and when
we eat.
13 The foolish idea of eating three or four times a
day and all between meals is like the poisonous
swine who never has any regular eating habit. Even
a dog will not eat when he is full most of the time.
The hog, however, swallows as long as he can, and
then regrets that he can't keep swallowing. He will
crawl into his food and wait until he can swallow
some more. He is so greedy he won't leave his food.
How to Eat to Live, Book 1
Chapter 2
vegetables
1 Virtually all vegetables are good to eat except collard
greens and turnip salad. The roots of turnips do very well, but not the salad.
Cabbages are good, especially the white head, but not the green leaves.
Cauliflower is a really fine vegetable, but take away the green leaves. There
are a lot of other good vegetables that have been grafted from original
vegetables, though some of the grafted vegetables are not good to eat. Do
not eat the vegetable called kale.
2 Eat some spinach, but do not become an habitual spinach eater. Eat
rutabaga, a little every now and then. You may eat as much garlic and onion
as you like, but no sweet potatoes and no white potatoes. Sweet potatoes
were never good for any human to eat. They are good for hogs, but not for
you. White (Irish) potatoes are a food for people who live in frigid zones, a
staple food for such as Europe, Northern America and Canada; but potatoes
and rice are too starchy for you and me. They laden us with too much starch
and fat, which are friends to diabetes. Sweet potatoes are full of gas, do not
eat them. There are many more vegetables you will find edible or forbidden
to eat in this book. If you like, write me for information on other vegetables
not mentioned here.
PEAS
3 Allah forbids us to eat peas. He considers most peas fit for cattle and
herds of animals, but not for the delicate stomachs of human beings. No
black-eyed peas, field peas, speckled peas, red peas or brown peas. Do not
eat the split peas you find in the store.
4 Peas, collard greens, turnip greens, sweet potatoes and white potatoes
are very cheaply raised foods. The Southern slave masters used them to
feed the slaves, and still advise the consumption of them. Most white
people of the middle and upper class do not eat this lot of cheap food,
which is unfit for human consumption.
BEANS (DRY)
5 No beans did He advise, except the small navy, the small size and not
the larger size, the little brown pink ones, and the white ones. This bean He
valued to be very high in protein, fats and starches, and it is a safe food for
prolonging life. As you will find, most of the Muslims like their bean soup.
These beans are dry beans. He said that He could take one of our
babies and start him off eating the dry small navy bean soup, and
make that child live 240 years. He described no other bean. This dry
bean, or pulse, is of ancient origin. It was this bean, according to certain
historians, that Daniel preferred for himself and his followers in the prison
of Nebuchadnezzar. Do not add rice and meats to these beans, because they
contain proteins, fats and starches.
