Avoiding Spiritual and Physical HEART ATTACKS

I was thinking about this the other day...
when you are a student of knowledge who has knowledge but doesn't practise his/her 'ilm...how terrible then, when you develop diseases of the heart like pride, arrogance, love of shuhra (fame), or if you indulge in sins: backbiting, not praying on time, being lazy about obligatory acts....then you only have yourself to blame when you realise your Iman is low and you have the characteristics of a Munafiq(hypocrite)...you haven't been doing your nawafil acts so even your fard acts become hard! You start feeling lazy about even the fard and they start to suffer...you have caused your own ruin. You are having a spiritual heart attack. Getting back to a healthy heart will be hard after all that gradual damage...

That is with regards to the spiritual heart.

Now think about your physical heart. I've been chatting with doctors over the last few weeks...and one of them said something that really struck me. She said that after about the age of 25, your arteries start slowly furring up...you may not notice or realise how much damage is being done to your arteries...the furring up...the fatty deposits...until they are about 70% blocked when there will be a point at which your health will be impacted. You could have a heart attack and your life will never really be the same again. This has happened to people in their 40s and younger...it doesn't just happen to the elderly.

Now reflect on this:
Just like that person who has knowledge but didn't act upon it and caused his Iman to plummet....we are educated and we know that over-eating or eating the wrong types of foods (saturated fats...sugar...processed carbs etc) causes damage to our health....we know that keeping our weight to a healthy level is an important part of keeping healthy in general and is a part of our deen.

We know that our bodies were not made to be sedentary...they are designed for movement...muscles - if you don't use them you lose them, your heart - cardiovascular exercise strengthens it...we need activity and exercise....so in other words...we have the knowledge of how we should be keeping our physical heart healthy...just as the student of knowledge has knowledge of how to keep his Iman high....
but...
if we don't practise it...I mean if we don't exercise...if we eat junk...we can't say no to the biryani and parathas and kheer or profiteroles...waste our money on excessive eating...etc...we will cause our own ruin and affect our physical hearts....and have a physical heart attack. Again...getting back to a healthy heart will be hard after all the gradual damage...

In other words....we need to practise our knowledge...act upon it...knowledge of deen -how to keep our spiritual hearts healthy as well as knowledge of dunya- how to keep our physical hearts healthy...