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Exercise and physical
training
Every person of faith knows that his body has
been entrusted to his use for a short time in this
earthly life; he is responsible for caring for it as
best he can, so he is careful about his health. For
this reason, he devotes some serious time in his
daily activities for exercise or physical training.
Exercise and physical training help to strengthen
the body, give it endurance and enable it to func-
tion in an orderly and healthy way and will make
it possible for the believer to work even better to
please Allah and do right action.
A human being's metabolism is not in accord
with inactivity, it is created to support movement.
Today it is recognised that exercise has many benefits: it
strengthens the body's immune, circulatory, respiratory
and nervous systems; it makes the body more resistant to germs
and disease; it ensures the orderly functioning of the hormonal sys-
tem, the heart and the arteries; it strengthens the muscles, joints and
tendons; in improves conditioning and
robustness; it helps maintain
balance in the blood
sugar, reduce the
level of "bad" cho-
lesterol and in-
crease the level of
"good" cholesterol.
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