On the authority of Al-Numan bin Basheer, who said: I heared the messenger of Allah say: "That which is lawful is plain and that which is unlawful is plain and between the two of them are doubtful matters about which not many people know. Thus he who avoids doubtful matters clears himself in regard to his religion and his honor, but he who falls into doubtful matters falls into that which is unlawful, like the shepherd who pastures around a sanctuary, all but grazing therein. Truly every king has a sanctuary, and truly Allah's sanctuary is His prohibitions. Truly in the body there is a morsel of flesh which, if it be whole, all the body is whole and which, if it be diseased, all of it is diseased. Truly it is the heart." narrated by Bukhari and Muslim

Say with your mind that the body is the garment of your soul: keep it, therefore, pure since it is innocent.

While man is in this world, two things are necessary for him: first, the protection and nurture of his soul; secondly, the care and nurture of his...

Just such opinions and tenets I also have read in the books and writings of doctors (der Doctoren), and there are also very many opinions,...

Valentinus too, in a letter to certain people, writes in these very words respecting the appendages: "There is one good, by whose presence is the...

Similarly, repressing our desires, it forbade partaking of fishes which have neither fins nor scales; for these surpass other fishes in fleshiness...

Think that your body is the garment of your soul; and therefore preserve it pure. Impure dæmons vindicate to themselves the impure soul.

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

Besides, for the sake of bodily health we submit to incisions, and cauterizations, and medicinal draughts; and he who administers them is called...

A little further consideration will show how entirely distinct the human soul is from the body and its members. Limb after limb may be paralysed and...

The initiates of old warned their disciples that an image is not a reality but merely the objectification of a subjective idea. The image, of the...

And do not eat any blood, for it is the soul ; eat no blood whatever.

That body again in man is the heart within man, for in it the prânas (which are everything) rest, and do not go beyond.

Now then the principles of man are this-wise vehicled: mind in the reason (logos), the reason in the soul, soul in the spirit Spirit pervading [body]...

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man: for from within, out of the heart of men, proceed ...

Man's bodily needs are simple, being comprised under three heads: food, clothing, and a dwelling place; but the bodily desires which were implanted...

Thou must not think that there is any other power or virtue in it, or belonging to it, than there is in the whole deep of the body everywhere, all...

The Souls of those who quit the body violently are most pure.

For deformity and disease are a defect of form, and a deprivation of order. And this is not altogether an evil, but a less good; for if a dissolution ...

Not nakedness, not platted hair, not dirt, not fasting, or lying on the earth, not rubbing with dust, not sitting motionless, can purify a mortal who...

An abundance of nutriment is noxious to the body; but the body is preserved when the soul is disposed in a becoming manner.