Monday, April 14, 2014
The science of preventative medicine did not take shape or come into existence until after the discovery of microorganisms of various types, which came about after immense scientific and technological progress in knowledge of the causes of disease, which only happened in the last century. Before that, people were of two groups, Muslims and non-Muslims. The Muslims had a precise system of preventative medicine which was part of their religion through which they worshipped Allah, the Exalted, and which followed easily. As for non-Muslims, this is the testimony of their scientists against them.
The German scientist, Siegfried Honeker, in her book The Arab Sun Shining on the West, described the impressions of Al-Tartoosi during his visit to the land of the Franks (Europeans) at that time, and how he, as a Muslim who did Wudhoo’ before each of the five daily prayers, was repelled by the state of filth in which the Europeans were living, and he expressed his astonishment that they only bathed once or twice a year, in cold water. As for their clothes, they never washed them after they had put them on, so that they would not wear out. Then the German researcher noted how European societies were gradually influenced by Islamic customs after that, once their benefits had become clear, and they began to set up private and public baths.
The British regarded bathing as so harmful to the health that it could cause death. It was regarded as something shameful to build a bath inside an American home, until the first bathroom equipped with a tub was built in the White House in 1851. At that time it caused a sensation because it was regarded as something shameful at that time. In France, the palace of Versailles did not have a single bathroom, despite its vastness.
Britain colonized the Sandwich Islands and forced the Muslim inhabitants by means of oppression and enticement to become Christians, but the outcome, as the British doctor Bernard Shaw noted in his book The Doctor’s Frustration, was that lethal epidemics spread among them, and he explained that as being due to their abandonment of Islamic religious teachings, which require absolute cleanliness in all matters, both great and small, to the point of cutting the nails and cleaning beneath them.
The science of microbiology was unknown at the time of the Prophet and afterwards, until the last century, but the Islamic teachings on purification, Wudhoo’, Ghusl and cleanliness in the home, one’s clothing and in places where people gather, and the teachings with regard to food and drink, behavior in public and in private, all point in one way or another, to these hidden worlds and the causes of other diseases, which weaken the body and damage health, and cause physical illness which may result in death.
This proves that the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah were the first to refer to microorganisms and that Islam offers the most successful methods of eradicating them and protecting man against their dangers. Scientists have seen with their own eyes the truth of the Revelation sent by Allah to His Messenger and the fulfilment of the verse in which Allah, the Exalted, says:
“And those who have been given knowledge see that what is revealed to you (O Muhammad) from your Lord is the truth, and that it guides to the Path of the Exalted in might, Owner of all praise.” (Soorah Saba’, 34:6)
(from Islamic Medicine: The Key to a Better Life by Yusuf Al-Hajj Ahmad, Published by Darussalam)
The German scientist, Siegfried Honeker, in her book The Arab Sun Shining on the West, described the impressions of Al-Tartoosi during his visit to the land of the Franks (Europeans) at that time, and how he, as a Muslim who did Wudhoo’ before each of the five daily prayers, was repelled by the state of filth in which the Europeans were living, and he expressed his astonishment that they only bathed once or twice a year, in cold water. As for their clothes, they never washed them after they had put them on, so that they would not wear out. Then the German researcher noted how European societies were gradually influenced by Islamic customs after that, once their benefits had become clear, and they began to set up private and public baths.
The British regarded bathing as so harmful to the health that it could cause death. It was regarded as something shameful to build a bath inside an American home, until the first bathroom equipped with a tub was built in the White House in 1851. At that time it caused a sensation because it was regarded as something shameful at that time. In France, the palace of Versailles did not have a single bathroom, despite its vastness.
Britain colonized the Sandwich Islands and forced the Muslim inhabitants by means of oppression and enticement to become Christians, but the outcome, as the British doctor Bernard Shaw noted in his book The Doctor’s Frustration, was that lethal epidemics spread among them, and he explained that as being due to their abandonment of Islamic religious teachings, which require absolute cleanliness in all matters, both great and small, to the point of cutting the nails and cleaning beneath them.
The science of microbiology was unknown at the time of the Prophet and afterwards, until the last century, but the Islamic teachings on purification, Wudhoo’, Ghusl and cleanliness in the home, one’s clothing and in places where people gather, and the teachings with regard to food and drink, behavior in public and in private, all point in one way or another, to these hidden worlds and the causes of other diseases, which weaken the body and damage health, and cause physical illness which may result in death.
This proves that the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah were the first to refer to microorganisms and that Islam offers the most successful methods of eradicating them and protecting man against their dangers. Scientists have seen with their own eyes the truth of the Revelation sent by Allah to His Messenger and the fulfilment of the verse in which Allah, the Exalted, says:
“And those who have been given knowledge see that what is revealed to you (O Muhammad) from your Lord is the truth, and that it guides to the Path of the Exalted in might, Owner of all praise.” (Soorah Saba’, 34:6)
(from Islamic Medicine: The Key to a Better Life by Yusuf Al-Hajj Ahmad, Published by Darussalam)
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