Frugality

Indeed, experience repeatedly shows that frugality and the payment of zakātOne of the Five Pillars of Islam; the obligatory almsgiving for the benefit of the poor and the needy. bring blessing and increase to one’s possessions, whereas extravagance and the neglect of zakātOne of the Five Pillars of Islam; the obligatory almsgiving for the benefit of the poor and the needy. become causes for the disappearance of blessing, as countless examples attest.

Alī ibn SīnāAvicenna; the celebrated Persian physician and philosopher whose works profoundly influenced Islamic and European scholarship. (Avicenna), the celebrated genius whom the scholars of philosophy regarded as their Plato and who was acknowledged as a master of both medicine and philosophy, interpreted the verse

كُلُوا وَ اشْرَبُوا وَ لَا تُسْرِفُواEat and drink, but do not be wasteful. — The Quran 7:31

from a medical perspective as follows:

“I have condensed the science of medicine into two lines. The beauty of speech lies in its brevity. Eat only when you have an appetite, and stop eating before you are completely full. Health lies in digestion. That is, eat only an amount that can be digested with ease. The most burdensome and exhausting thing for both the stomach and the body is to eat before the previous meal has been properly digested.”