Question: The Prophet (ﷺ) said: and obesity will appear among them is obesity prohibited?
Answer: “As is well-known, obesity is blameworthy. However, it is a result of eating and drinking, extravagance, and increase. Of course, it is not desirable. It is upon a person not to be extravagant in eating and drinking. He should be moderate as Allah says:
وَالَّذِينَ إِذَآ أَنفَقُواْ لَمْ يُسْرِفُواْ وَلَمْ يَقْتُرُواْ وَكَانَ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ قَوَاماً
And those, who, when they spend, are neither extravagant nor niggardly, but hold a medium (way) between those (extremes)” [25:67]
[Taken from: Sharh Sunan Tirmidhi no. 242]
Question: If obesity is blameworthy, is it upon a person who is afflicted by that to seek treatment?
Answer: “No doubt if a person is capable of being healthy from obesity, which harms him and does not benefit him and he is capable of curing himself, then this is something good”.
[Taken from: Sharh Sunan Tirmidhi no. 242]
Translated by
Faisal Ibn Abdul Qaadir Ibn Hassan
Abu Sulaymaan
