Benefits of Fasting on Mondays and Thursdays

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the World; and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions.

“Abu Qatada Ansari (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that Allaah's Massenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) was asked about fasting on Monday, whereupon he said: It is (the day) when I was born and revelation was sent down to me.”

Fasting has many lessons and benefits for your physical, mental tranquility, and beauty. When fasting, the organs of the body can rest and billions of cells in the body can raise themselves to survive. Fasting serves as a detoxification to remove dirt, toxins from the body, rejuvenate the body cells and replace cells that have been damaged with new ones and to improve the function of hormones, making the skin healthy and increase endurance because humans have the ability natural therapy.

Fasting can make your skin fresh, healthy, soft, and radiant. Because, every time the body has energy metabolism, namely the events change from the energy contained in the nutrients into potential energy in the body. The rest will be stored in the body, kidney cells, skin cells, and eyelids as well as in the form of fat and glycogen.

Fasting for Muslims is one of the Pillars of Islam and is one of worship obligatory during Ramadan. For Muslims, fasting is one of worship to be done. There should be a mandatory fasting during Ramadan, but there are also fasts David sunna such as fasting, fasting Arafat, Monday-Thursday fasting, fasting and other traditions.

Several experts from Western countries and East have been researching and proving the benefits of fasting. Three experts from Western non-Muslims have expressed their opinions about the benefits of fasting.

The three experts are Allan Cott, MD, an expert from America, Dr. Yuri Nikolayev Director of the diet in the Psychiatric Hospital of Moscow, and Alvenia M. Fulton, director of the Institute of Healthy Food "Fultonia" in America.

Allan Cott, MD, has brought together the results of observation and research scientists of the country, and then compile into a book Why the experienced Fast reprinted 17 times within eight years. In the book, Allan Cott, M.D. disclose various wisdom of fasting, among others: To feel better physically and mentally, To look and feel younger, To clean out the body, To get more out of sex, To let the body health itself, To relieve tension, To sharp the senses, To gain control of oneself, To slow the aging process.

Dr. Yuri Nikolayev assess the ability to fast causing the person to be ageless, as a discovery (science), the largest this century. He says: what do you think is the most Important discovery in our time? The radioactive watches? Exocet bombs? In my opinion the bigest discovery of our time is the ability to make onself younger phisically, Mentally and spiritually through fasting rational.

Alvenia M. Fulton, director of the Institute of Healthy Food "Fultonia" in the United States declared that abstinence is the best way to beautify and enhance your natural woman. Fasting produces tenderness and charm charm. “fasting is the ladies best beautifier, it brings grace charm and poice, it normalizes female functions and reshapes the body contour”.