I really didn’t want to give up bread.
I’ve been off it for over a month because I’m recovering from an illness, but I still love bread.
I’ve often made my own bread, and I even started a home bakery business once and successfully trained up a couple of apprentices.
So, I’m pretty happy that bread is now going to be back on my menu again after a little break. I’ve evolved, though, so now I just want salt-free bread.
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Please find below a guest post by Abdullah Reed, ‘Salt -Free bread’. We are very grateful for this contribution.
Salt-Free Bread
ALHAMDULILLAH
BY: Abdullah Reed
I really didn’t want to give up bread.
I’ve been off it for over a month because I’m recovering from an illness, but I still love bread.
I’ve often made my own bread, and I even started a home bakery business once and successfully trained up a couple of apprentices.
So, I’m pretty happy that bread is now going to be back on my menu again after a little break. I’ve evolved, though, so now I just want salt-free bread.
I really want to broadcast the blessings, now, for the sake of Allah, so please do share this story, in shaa Allah.
The bad guy in the story is salt. I’ve been against salt for years, but now I’ve intensified. I’m poking at it from all angles.
I don’t hate salt, I’m just completely over it. I get plenty of sodium in my diet and even have a seasoning made from celery leaves.
More powerful, though, was the realisation that I don’t actually need mineral-derived salt for anything that my body has to do.
So I stopped permitting it in my diet about 3 months ago. Salted food is gone. Its gone, and I don’t miss it. I craved it for a few months but that’s finally stopped.
I’m absorbing more of my food every day now, every time I eat. My gut is just better.
There are other benefits, too, lots of them, but I’ll save those for some other posts.
The point I want to make is that it can be done, and that its not as hard as you think.
Biologically, chemically, and even culturally, there’s no proof that salt is a food. Its used as a seasoning, and as a presrvative, yes. Ok, but that doesn’t make it a food. Its still just a mineral, even when its being used as a seasoning and a preservative.
Salt is used as a food, but its not a food. It doesn’t grow in the ground like an onion. It doesn’t drop off a tree like a lemon. Even cinnamon, the bark of a tree, is from a living organism while salt is not. So salt is dead, and thats a problem for our gut biome.
Salt actually wants to preserve food, which is the exact opposite of what I want to do with my food, which is go ahead and digest it.
My religion has been the driving force for me. Ok, I believe that salt is not a food and so its obviously not one of the good, pure, and nourishing blessings that Allah would like us to put in our bodies. Where does that leave it? That leaves it as a bad thing to put in (خَبِيثَةٌ). If its not good (طَيِّبٌ), its bad (خَبِيثٌ).
That was the advice Muhammad gave his followers, peace be upon him, when they were new Muslims, wanting to serve Allah but still ignorant about what serving Allah actually meant.
When his early followers had already believed, but were still eating bad food, Muhammad received this blessed revelation:
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In The Name of God, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful
Say: The bad and the good are not equal, though the abundance of the bad may please you; so be afraid of God, people of understanding, that you may be successful.
The Qur’an, The Tablespread, verse 100
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So its upon us to continue his work. Letting salt become categorised as food is simply erroneous. Fundamentally erroneous.
Salt does not grow in any farm or forest. It is not our sustenance. Its a preservative, so we can use as a preservative, but its not a food.
It has a totally different chemical structure to all organic molecules. Its a substance that is simply not in the same category. Its not toyyib. Its not pure and good. If it was good and pure, it wouldn’t give people heart disease, kidney stones, and arthritis.
