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24 Hours in the Life of a Muslim
24 Hours in the Life of a Muslim

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 function in an or-
derly 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, respira-
tory and nervous systems; it makes the body more resis-
tant to germs and disease; it ensures the orderly functioning of the
hormonal system, the heart and the arteries; it strengthens the mus-
cles, joints and tendons; in improves conditioning and robustness;

it helps maintain balance in the blood sugar, reduce
the level of "bad" cholesterol
and increase the level of
"good" cholesterol.

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