What’s the big deal of following Islam?

You may achieve a healthy body by following a healthy living practices - be it from Islam or from your own ingenuity. What’s the big deal then?

In a materialistic sense, the best practices of healthy lifestyle are:

• Go to bed and sleep early. The first night of sleep repairs your body.
• Wake up at the crack of dawn. Sleeping during the sunrise has biological toxic impact on your body.
• Be active - go for a walk everyday for an hour or so. Go out and earn for living.
• Eat less and do intermittent fasting twice in a week.
• Live stress free. Remember that, in the end,  things will work out fine.

If you follow that lifestyle, you are pretty sure with high chance that you will live a healthy life in this world, in fact this is followed by many people who are healthy. So what’s the difference if I follow Islam or not? What’s the big deal of Islam claiming that you would live a healthy life by following exact the same lifestyle?

• you pray Isha and go to bed early. Better if you wake up middle of night for Qiyamul-layil- the night tahajjut prayer. 
• Wake up at Fajr and do not sleep afterwards especially during the sunrise. Recite Quran and Dhikr of Allah until sunrise. Go out and seek the bounty of Allah in this world.
• Eat one third of your stomach, it’s projects highly recommended Sunnah
• Fast one month in a year - that’s obligatory and fast 11 days in month, that’s highly recommended Sunnah
• Have tawaqqaltu alallah, do your part as Allah has given us the free-will and means as a test. nothing happens without the will of Allah and rely on him alone. 

If this life is the only life you and I are living , then no worries. Do not listen to any of the Islam thing. However if you’re not sure if this is the only life or you are sure that the life has bigger purpose and you will be resurrected for an eternal life hereafter than do not be deceived by this mere healthy life devoid of Islam. The metaphor is like you are in a trading business and you’re selling your goods with a perishable items that is good for a day and if tomorrow comes then your returns won’t be of any use. Sell your goods for hard currency that is good for today and for tomorrow. What’s our goods that we trade?

Time!