Abdur Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera – Islamic Medicine
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hamdu Lillahi wa Salatu was Salam ALA. So you didn't know Celine or
other early he asked me he Mr. Amar bad
this session is going to be dedicated to this text that we're
going to look at. It's a classical text, most who are to be Neverwet.
Most who are means an encyclopedia, you can say.
So it's a very detailed collection on everything related to the
medicine of the prophetic medicine, the medicine of the
Prophet sallallahu sallam. And it's written by the half of the
Hadith master about noraim,
Medina, Abdullah Al us Rouhani. He has numerous books, and he's one
of the more popular mohideen out there, who's known for gathering
numerous, he's got a book here little earlier, which is on the
saints of the past. And he's got numerous books. He's a prolific
author,
very famous, very well known. So this particular collection among
the numerous books on the table number we
numerous books were written on prophetic medicine, this one is
supposed to be the most extensive. So we're going to be trying to
cover parts of it, it'd be very difficult to go through it
completely. But we're going to be trying to complete different parts
of it inshallah. So, before we start on it, there's just some
introductory things that we're going to look at today. Before we
actually begin, before we begin his first chapter, which is on the
narrations from the Prophet, sallAllahu, alayhi, wasallam,
everything related to medicine.
In terms of what's coming in Hadith, I'm just going to give you
a bit of a background of the state of medicine, the status of
medicine, in the Arab Arabian Peninsula, during the time of
Jahangir, which just preceded that of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam so you get an understanding of what kind of
context the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam has mentioned
these things in.
So first and foremost,
engineering, medicine,
structural engineering, all of these kinds of aspects, they,
you find that there's not much of a development of this during the
time of jarhead. Here in the Arabian Peninsula, there's not
much of it.
These things were much more developed in you can say, the more
civilized world of the time, people used to consider the Arabs
to be very uncivilized. They had a very tribal kind of interaction
between them warring factions constantly, many of their wars
would last for decades, as we know of the Osen hemorrhage, which both
of these tribes were from Madina Munawwara from Madina Munawwara,
yesterday about the time, in fact, they were both blue Taylor, if I
remember correctly, they're both from the original same tribe, but
then they were sub branches, sub clans, and they were fighting with
each other.
So in the Arabian Peninsula, which had never been overcome by either
the Persians or the Romans, the two dominating powers of the time.
So while in the Roman and
Persian lands, you had much more advanced medicine.
This there was not this wasn't available in the Arabian
Peninsula. You could say that these people were considered to be
Bedouins, in a sense. Very tribal very Bedouin
Imam Shafi is Imani shelter B Imam, shelter, B, he relates that
when it comes to Elmo tip, he says Ammar al Mahtab
forgot gonna fill Arabi mean who Sheikh
llama la isla ma indel. Our IL, the Arabs had some aspect of it,
but
nothing compared to what even the earlier civilizations had, for
example, probably the earliest generations or the earliest type
of medicine, we have three types of medicine that are very closely
interlinked
Chinese medicine, which deals with balancing the yin and the yang,
the yin and the yang, right, that's what they deal with to try
to create
the balance in the body again, so they treat the symptoms are
creating the imbalance. You Unani medicine that deals with the four
humors. Again, if the humans are out of balance, then it creates
problems in the body. So they're desiring they're not just covering
up symptoms here they are actually desiring perfect stability within
the human being. So again, very similar and then thirdly is the
Ayurvedic which is more of an Indian, but they say that much of
this is probably come from the Chinese yuan is probably too
taken from the Chinese, with some, with some modification. There's
obviously then theories about where the Chinese medicine has
come from. And According to one theory, it's come from the Yellow
Emperor, who is the who is considered the first Chinese
emperor, which, who, according to some people, seems to have may
have been a profit. Because
if you look at acupuncture and all of these things, they're just not
scientific at all, in a sense, I mean, poking needles in different
parts of the body, and is supposed to have an effect. So it seems
that this what we would call an Arabic dopey knowledge, which
means inspirational revolutionary, as opposed to be as opposed to
scientific and based on experience and experiment. Right. So
it seems like a lot of this has come from that, but they're very
similar. Now, you nanny medicine, we have that now primarily in the
Indian subcontinent, because they're the ones who later
developed it. Right, which is what they call Hekmat. Right? That's
what they refer to it. Now. It's called United medicine. And in
India, it's accepted. There's numerous unity colleges. And,
again, I said they deal with the, the four humans, they do a lot of
the reading of the pulses. Because when they place their three
fingers on the pulse, each one of those three sections relate to
different parts of the body. They can tell by whether it's a fast
pulse, slow pulse, stringy pulse, they tell this and they are very
accurate. In fact, there was one Hakeem that came recently, and
number of people just recently, a month ago, something number of
people went to him without the patient saying anything. He tells
you, you've got a cough, you've got this problem, you've got that
problem very accurately, they can figure these things out that's
diagnosis through the pulse. So while we had these kinds of things
around the Arabian Peninsula was a bit different. So Imam shall to be
not Shafi mom shall to be. He says that Elmo tube in the Arabs there
was some of it there was some medical science some medical
knowledge, I would say medical knowledge some know how, right not
a proper science, just some medical know how not compare
anything to what the earlier nations had like the Chinese and
others. But Mahoto Minta Jha ruble Amin
beautiful expression. It was just what was you can say, acquired
from the experiments of unlettered people.
So it's like okay, this worked. This particular plant worked,
right? This particular fruit works for this. Right? So that's how it
was acquired Via Roma Binney and Allah or Lumut Toby allottee, your
Korean Wuhan Aqua moon, it was not based on any of these natural
sciences that have been established, the foundations have
been led by the left have been laid down by the people of the
past.
Not during the time of ignorance, which is the time before School of
Law sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, you see that they had trade, their
main connection with others was through trade. The ILA, if you're
Quraysh ILA for him record the schita it was safe. So, during
certain seasons, they would go up north to Sharm, whereas at other
times, they would go down south. So they had, they had connections
through that. They had certain political collect connections with
with the,
with the people, their neighbors, which is basically the Persians,
and the Byzantines are the Byzantines, you can say it either
way. Right? So you've got the Romans Byzantines on one side and
you've got the Persians on the other side. Now, clearly, when
you've got some kind of connection, there is going to be
some filteration of some of their medical ways that will come into
it as well.
Now,
if you if you look into those civilizations, what you will find
is that they were the Nestorian
physicians than historian physicians, who you can say
specialized in medicine. They were the ones who were singled out, and
they were known to be specializing in this. Many of them had actually
taken
taken sanctuary in Persia
and the Sassanid ruler of the time, Cebu, the second Cebu, the
second of the sonnets, he had made for them a base in a place called
jun de shabu. Right so these names are there on the
on the presentation. So that's in Iraq is a place called it was
place called jindee shampoo which is considered to be the center of
medicine at the time.
So they are
had taken the ancient uni Medicine Unit and just refers to ancient
Greek Hellenistic medicine. They had taken that and they were
developing that in in this area
in this madrasa in this, the school that they had established.
So they played a very important role in converting Hellenistic
sciences and knowledge on medicine, especially into the
language of the time and thus into Islamic countries, thus, Iran, and
so on and so forth. Now, it's probably from there, it comes into
the subcontinent, because the subcontinent has had a great
influence through Iran through the Persian lens, you know, Persian,
was the language of the subcontinent at one time, until it
became more to do afterwards and Hindi.
What we find what we find we'll be discussing a certain individual
like this is that one, at least one individual from the Arabian
peninsula had gone to John D. Chabaud. And had acquired some of
this, this medical know how, and and brought it back to Arabia. It
wasn't a mass exodus of people, they weren't numerous students
that have gone and studied there. But there was at least this one
individual. So let's look at the people who would be who are known
to have some link with medicine, just before the time Rasulullah
sallallahu Sallam and into his time. So this is just around time
Rasulullah sallallahu just before and after prophets prophesy. So
number one, I think at the forefront, you would say is
somebody call the first one is is hard, even new kelda color, the
half heritage new color, there should be an A after the L here,
how do you think no color the McAfee so he's from the bandwidth
Akif tribe.
He's in.
Hydrogen use of is from that same tribe hydrogen use of a third
coffee is from the same tribe. i But it's earlier than hydrogen,
you're quite a bit earlier. Here, this person dies in, I think 50
Hijiri 608 670 Gregorian.
He is the famous Arabic physician
who is born towards the end of the jalahalli period.
And he's born in part if which is, as you know, is close to Makkah.
Makarora. He had gone to Persia in his youth. And he'd studied in
this school in June, the chaperone among these historians, and he
acquired whatever he acquired, and he came back and he settled back
into life. And he started started he started practicing his medicine
there until he died. And he became very popular because now this was
a different form of medicine that worked and people
used to go to him. In fact, he became very, very popular.
When the Prophet sallallahu Sallam started preaching, Islam, the
prophet Allah some used to actually tell people with serious
illnesses to go and consult him. So he was actually approved in a
sense by the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasallam.
That also tells you how far his influence had reached. We have one
story which is rated from Saturday may not be what costs are the
Allahu Anhu
said married to I became sick, and the Prophet salallahu alayhi salam
came to see me came to visit me. He placed his hand on my chest
until I felt the coolness of his heart of his hand in my heart. I
felt the coolness of the Bronx Watson's hand in my heart, and the
prophets Allah Islam says in the Quran, Quran math, Oh, dude,
you've got a problem with your heart.
You've been afflicted in your heart, whatever that may have
been. It dilhari Sabina colada go to Hadith no colada.
He is of the Fatima tribe. He is a man who practices medicine he
practices treatment.
And he said he gave a suggestion as well of what he should do. He
said that he should take seven iJoy dates for Yahoo
Sebata, Marathi Najwa, el Medina, Azurill, Medina, seven Medina iJoy
dates, and he should grind them together including their pets with
their pets they should be grinded and then after that he should
apply that to you or he should administer that to you.
So that's
hararithe IGNOU Canada. So we understand that there was some
influence of, of this jewelry shop or school of the historians. Then
the second person that we're looking at he died actually one
year earlier which is in the 49 Hijiri, which is 669 Refer abou
Rinda at Tamimi. So from the blue Tamim. He came to Madina Munawwara
to become a Muslim.
He is a contemporary of the first one. So this you can understand
that this was during the medina period as well.
All right. He comes to Madina Munawwara to become a Muslim.
And
his father was also
a physician of some sorts, meaning he was known to be somebody who
cured people now what kind of physician? I think it was
surgical, I think they dealt in surgery, right? Some kind of, you
can say primitive surgery, whatever it may be, they had no
anesthesia at the time. Right? Because one thing that I mean, the
few things that Western medicine has been able to do very well, I
think there's three areas that they've been able to deal with
very well. One is surgery.
One is
anesthetics. And the third one is hygiene, anti bacterial. Right,
and they've been able to pin down the vitamins, vitamins. Right.
Those are the few areas that are very good at unfortunately,
they're not very good at finding cures for diabetes and cancer and
things of that nature, unfortunately, right. So they're
not very good with you know, certain types of other like auto
immune issues.
But they've they've done a lot for these particular areas anyway. So
this reefer aboard into Tamimi.
His father is also some kind of physician or some kind of
practitioner of it.
His father took took some interest in the heart, thermo Naboo, you
know, the province of Assam had a protruding piece of flesh between
the shoulder blades, which is considered to be the seal of
prophecy. So it's a protruding piece of flesh, various
descriptions for it, but it was there. And he looked, he looked at
it, he wanted to look at it and he thought that this was actually a
growth a cancerous growth.
This is problematic, and he wanted to surgically remove it. That let
me remove this. The prophets Allah some obviously refused completely
that no, that's not going to happen. And he said that, in Allah
Hua Toby. Look, Allah is the real physician, meaning Allah is the
real one who cures the cure is in the hands of Allah, wa ala kinako,
Raju and rafiqul. But you are a compassionate individual. Very
interesting way to explain this, saying that cure comes from Allah
subhanho wa taala. But you with your compassion, or using
basically being used as a means to cure people. This tells me that
this should be the motivation, the sentiment of a physician, that
Allah is the real cure yours, but it's we are being used by Allah
subhanaw taala with the right kind of disposition He's given us.
That's why I've got a friend who is a physician. And he's got a few
children. And he wants one of his children in particular to be he
did at that time to be a medical doctor, because he felt that he
had the right disposition for him. Right, because just by behavior,
you could probably make somebody feel 50% Better anyway, just by
your attitude sometimes. Right? I don't think I'd make a very,
because just be very strict. And it's I don't think I'd make a good
doctor.
So, but with this concept of always trusting in a lie, I've
actually seen this work very well. Not necessarily in western
medicine, because I haven't dealt with so many medics, but there's a
person locally in our area who's very good at bone setting and
dealing with pinched nerves and dealing with any twists or
fractures or anything like that. Right, it is very good. And also
in you can say
I forgot what they call this in English, but it's the knot on the
navel to reset that I know that this is not something that may go
in the solar plexus. I'm not sure how they refer to it, but it's
that he sets it because without that you're your body's supposed
to be an imbalance. And so he's very good at doing his son who's
also studied learning with him was very good as well. He's dealt with
my background so many times, right? He sorted me out. You don't
even have to tell you where the picture is. He just feels it and
says okay, it's this, this particular bone is out or slightly
off. And that's why he sorts that out. And then it's done. But he
was trying his hardest to set the the knot back in place by the
navel. And it was excruciating pain. So then he told his father
to do it the next time I went, and I was like, Oh no, this is going
to kill but his father he started, read a few things and then just
pushed it in place.
Very simply. The way to tell whether it's there or not, it's in
the right place or not, is that you push down on the navel to see
if you can feel a pulse there are not and if you can't feel a pulse,
they means it's moved out of place you feel it somewhere else. So
they push it back in place. It's to do with you know the umbilical
cord. That is a very
important aspects they say because the when you're an embryo, this is
where you get all of your nutrition and everything from so
that needs to stay behind the behind the belly button as such
behind the navel exactly if it moves out of place your whole
body's in. And sometimes you could do all forms of other treatments,
but nothing works. And it's because of that. That was, as I
mentioned, refer about him that Tamimi somewhat surgeon, right
trying to remove the
the seal of prophecy.
The third person is called the model as as the he is, again one
of the famous Joe Healy physicians. There's a I'm gonna
just mention a narration that gives you an understanding of what
his position was, if not Abbas relates that by the Allah one,
that there was a man from the as Shenmue, a tribe, whose name was
the man so he is referring to this man. He was he used to deal with
mental illnesses. So we've got a surgical, we've got the first one
who's probably an all rounder of sorts, right? You Unani medicine
or whatever. And in this one, he's dealing with more mental
illnesses. He came to Mocambo carnamah
So his experience interaction with the Prophets Allah missin Maka,
maka not in Madina, Munawwara he heard people saying that the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is a magician.
He is performing wizardry or some kind of soothsaying or his into
his insane these were the various charges against the Prophet
salallahu Alaihe Salam. So he felt with all of his goodwill, he said,
Why don't I go to this man, maybe Allah will give him Shiva, maybe
God will cure him at my hands because I deal with mental
illnesses. So he thought that this was one of those spiritual
problems. So he says, I went to meet him and I said, Yeah,
Muhammad.
Allah gives cure at my hands, Allah's place curing my hands. So
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said Alhamdulillah he
promised to respond to him. He started with the hotbar basic
sermon Alhamdulillah Hina who understand you know, we're not
gonna be here you want to do a karate
all praises to Allah. We praise Him we seek assistance from him.
We believe in him and we rely on Him are very relevant points. My
Yeah, the Hello fellow modela warming up real fatherhood yella,
wherever Allah guides they cannot be misguided whoever he missed,
allow us to stray will never be guided. what I shall do Allah
Allah illallah wa the hula Sharika who Anna Mohamed Abdi who are sued
I bear witness that God is that Allah is one and there's no has no
partner and Muhammad is His servant and His Messenger
Amma beret then he was about to begin and he said alright either
either your cola Can you can you repeat that? Please? He didn't say
please. But this is just what I'd expect him to say. Right? So the
Prophet Solomon said it again three times.
And
and then he declared immediately says I have heard soothsayer speak
because he's been dealing with these people all his life. I've
heard magician speak I've heard poets speak. But I've never heard
anything like this. I've never heard words articulated like this.
They have led they reach the the the lexicons of the ocean, which
means that they are beyond any kind of description.
Can you extend your hand, I would like to give you my allegiance. I
would like like to pledge my allegiance so the person doesn't
put his hand out me or whatever. You put his hand down and he gave
him his allegiance. And subhanAllah that was it. He became
Muslim.
Number four was, but that tells us that you had people dealing with
some kind of mental illnesses. Number four is this person called
Shama del? Eben, okay, barbell Caribee Rahima, hula with Ara.
He was not Gernon. He was that means he's probably from a
Christian background, possibly. He came to Madina Munawwara with
Nosara of Nigeria on with the Christians of Nigeria on the NIS
the Nestorians of Nasaan. Nigerian
who became Muslim. He told the prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam that injure Helia times he was also practicing medicine and
his special specialist. He was a specialist with women's cases. So
he used to work much among women.
So now he started asking the proposal or some other boundaries
when working with females, in terms of curing. So you see you
have quite a good variety of different people doing different
things.
So the Prophet sallahu wa salam gave him a number of suggestions,
that doesn't seem to be recorded. If that was recorded, it will be
wonderful, you know, to
Short to understand our boundaries, but he tells you that
there are some boundaries he gave him some boundaries. So Shamal
said Ya rasool Allah by the one who sent you with the truth in
Nicola accident octubre Aleman, based on the advice the Bruxelles
gave him, this person recognize that this was very apt advice for
his, for his positioning said, bye bye the one who sent you with the
truth, you are the most excellent of physicians in knowledge,
because of what the process must have told him.
Number five is a person called Abu Hussein Ibn Hussain is
he used to also cure people during the time of ignorance. And his
main, his,
his his way of practicing this was through hijama, which means
through cupping, through branding. So cupping and branding was his
way. Right.
To such a degree, he became so good at this that people would say
AXELA, Maha rotten Phil came anybody whose aim like if you're
good at something, you would say, Oh, he is such a specialist. He's
more of a specialist and IGNOU than Ibnu, whose aim is in
branding.
As another word for it's such solarizing that the word
cauterizing to to be able to shut a wound to stop bleeding.
Basically, they used to use branding to do that. So what
branding does is that it just brings everything away is a very
crude way of doing it, it could cause a lot more problem as well.
But that was the only thing they had in those days to do it because
they had no other way to stitch or do these things or anesthetic for
that matter. So they will just burn it and it would just coalesce
together. And hope it's you know, it works. Then we as I said we had
a great variety. So we had a woman now as well. Her name is very
aptly she felt right, the cure. So she been to Abdullah Al Qureshi
and now she's from the Karachi tribe. So she is not an outsider.
She dies in the 20th Hijiri. So she's much earlier on. She fought
Binti Abdullah Al Qureshi.
She had studied some of these things.
And
she was more into general wounds, skin problems.
General skin issues, that's what she dealt with. She had actually
taught some of this to have sort of the hola Juan, the wife of
Rasulullah sallallahu sallam.
She also held some as other positions as well as she had the
hisbah which means controlling the marketplace and so on. All the way
to the time of Amara, the Allahu Anhu. To see if everything's going
right. She was like an inspector of sorts.
Then you had so as you can see, until now, everybody's performing
a different type of medicine.
I'm sure there were other people but these were the most famous
ones. And that's why we're mentioning them. Then you had
another woman whose name was ru fader been too sad unserious. So
she's obviously from Madina Munawwara
close to the masjid Nabawi there was a clinical tent. Right? That
was their structure was attempt, a Hamer, right, which was a clinic
of sorts. So any of the normal issues that would take place, they
would take people there. And Ruth Bader used to work there. She's
considered one of the first nurses to deal with these kinds of patch
up jobs, put clusters on and try to treat wounds and so on. In
fact, this tent became known as Hamer to rue fader became known as
hers. That's why when the famous story of Saturday bloom was when
he was when he was struck in his
coronary artery, I think it was right, one of the main arteries
and which he just profusely bled, and they couldn't, they couldn't
shut it.
During the 100 expedition, during the hunt duck incident, the
Prophet sallallahu, Sama told him to be taken to this claimer to
this tent.
So that they could try the branding, but it didn't work on
him.
She also took part in the inhaber and
number of other times as well. And lastly, we have a shot at the
Allahu unhas name here because when the various different
delegations from around the peninsula used to come to the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the protocol had any
discussion with them, because the person who was considered about
various different types of
of ailments, whether that be spiritual or physical or whatever.
So whatever responses he gave or whatever he heard from them, she
was in the same room and she used to take this on, so she became
quite knowledgeable
So they've qualified her as a physician of the time of some
sort, Allah one.
So that gives you some understanding that there was
something going on. But it was very, it was it was just a bit
arbitrary. In a sense, there was nothing developed. There was no
proper science that was being studied, primarily based on
experience. Of course, when it came to battles and things, there
were many, there were women that used to go with plasters and
everything to try to patch people up and so on, like Omar, Omar
Amara, and others that that did that I'm not going to go into that
too much. Now, unfortunately, they also had
the other side of the which was none, it was not medical as such,
in any sense. It was going to these soothsayers, that has to
happen in any kind of ignorance, society is going to happen. So you
have people going to these Gohan, the soothsayers,
and
there was obviously a great need for something to do with medicine.
Now, of course, with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, he
clearly suggested a number of different things. You hear in the
words of the Prophet, Allah, some he suggested this, take this take
that, even when he told somebody to go to heritage Nacala, he told
them to take the seven ideas of Madina Munawwara that that would
be his cure for him.
So that's just to give you some background of the
the context in which the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam is now
making these statements, these narrations that we have from him.
This is what he's talking about. So let's start the actual book now
of a boon or aim, and the sayings of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi
wa sallam in that regard. I'm not going to go through this long list
of the books that have been written. But just to give you an
idea that Islamic texts society, they've produced the book of the
prophetic medicine.
There's YBNL team is very famous for that YBNL team has a book
called Zabul mad, which is a book of Syrah by him. And there's an
entire section probably a whole volume on the prophetic medicine
in that book, which has been published separately, and I think
that one has been translated. This book hasn't been translated. But
this is a lot more vast than this than that book, this book, it
begins with the Hadith.
It begins with the Hadith on what the prophets Allah has said, then
it goes into great detail of every single ingredient that the
prophets Allah may have mentioned. And then other people have
mentioned after it, it goes into different ailments and what
they're curious. And I'm sure that's like a whole medical
course. So that's not going to be done here. We're not going to,
we're just going to try to get an understanding of the different
aspects of this book, over the course of this Inshallah, to give
some understanding of it. But obviously, you'll have to open up
your minds and go beyond your two. Okay, this is the first section.
Let me just let me just go over
the various different subjects that the author is going to go
through. Right. This is the kind of things that will be discussed
in books on prophetic medicine, they don't necessarily all you
have to understand is that when you have a book on prophetic
medicine, they incorporate a number of other things. It's not
just what they've got from a sort of loss. A lot of there's only a
so much information we have from there. But then that information
has been taken and then further developed and applied and so on.
And that also becomes part of the prophetic medicine. Now, it's
questionable whether that is prophetic medicine or not. The
first one
is
the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. I'll just read your
chapter it says Bible major fita unlimited while healthy early.
This is his heading. Obviously he says that this is the chapter on
learning, cure and medicine and in an encouraging people to do so. So
clearly, you can understand what kind of narrations he's going to
bring in between that.
Okay, the first narration he has with all of these narrations, he
has his direct chain of transmission to the to the
narrator's, but I'm going to miss all of those out because it'd be
relevant to us now.
We'll hope to gather these together and hopefully have them
translated later. Right. But at this point, you can just take a
few notes if you need to. This first narration he relates from
ATA Ignacy, EB authoritativeness.
He says that once I went to visit a boy Abdurrahman, a salami, he
was sick, I went to visit him.
And
there was a servant of his a boy young boy who wanted to administer
some medicine to him, but he refused. I said, No.
So he said to him, leave him
I had said no to him. He's saying, but he said No, let him do so
because I have heard Abdullah Ibrahim was rude Radi Allahu Anhu
he is now relating from a Sahabi
inform from the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa salam, that
Martinsville, Allah Who done Illa unzila, who Dawa and
Allah subhanho wa Taala any
sickness that he has
caused to exist in the world, he has also caused a cure for it.
Now, what we understand from here is that there's somebody who's
saying, no, no, no, don't, don't give him any data. Maybe it goes
against I'm reading into this or maybe it goes against our code.
Maybe it goes against reliance in Allah, maybe it goes against a
rodar bill, tada, which means to being satisfied with your state,
right? With the decree of Allah.
He's relating a hadith and from the sabe, saying, No, let him do
it. The prophets are also encouraged it, because there is a
cure for everything, it is not against the worker to use a cure,
because a cure is also a sub. It's not against the worker. That's why
somebody asked the Prophet sallallahu Listen, now this is
we're tying this into taqdeer here into the whole concept of
predestination. Somebody asked
at a Tehran Dawa, and Nevada we have, what do you think of the
medicine that we use? So the problems are having said that it
is also from the coder?
What do you mean by that? So essentially, you know, somebody
thinks that to leave it and let coder take its course, is coder is
predestination. However, administrating the work, which is
a physical action that you do is also part of the cutter, that has
also been predestined that you will use at the VA, at the end of
the day, the effect of that the the effect of the administration
of that medicine, that's up to Allah.
So we are just, it's just like the DUA you make, that the way you
take the
abstention that you do, of not eating certain foods, all of that
is just the physical suburb, and it's up to Allah to create an
effect after it or not. So it's all the same thing. At the end of
the day, the why is the same as dua, maybe one's just more
powerful than the other, but otherwise, the same thing.
Look, we have had people in the past who have refused to take
medicine, because it would mean that they couldn't do we'll do
properly afterwards, or to get some surgery done, because it
means they wouldn't be able to do such that for a number of days or
whatever. We've had that. And thus the Allamah have mentioned that
it's allowed for a person to abstain from Java, even if that
means he dies in the process. What's not allowed is a person to
forego food or drink.
That would be suicide. But if somebody is told, Look, your cure
is in this medicine, but he refuses to take it. He is not
liable.
Because that is something you can abstain from the Yukon apps and
food and drink. And likewise, the same thing, can you switch a
machine off?
Can you switch a machine off? You know, life saving? Life Saving
machine? Yes, you can. Because it's external. Leave it to Allah
subhanaw taala? Can you deprive somebody of food or medicine?
Sorry, food or drink? No. There was that case about five, six
years ago. whole big case about somebody being deprived of food,
you know, that in Islam would not be allowed. You continue to give
them food and drink, you know, some kind of nourishment. But
medicine, you don't have to. It's a very clear line, you get so many
people who have relatives on life support, and they could call and
they're very scared of the answer. Right? They know what they want to
do. They want to switch it off. But they're looking for a fatwa.
And they think and I'm going to give them one
essay, you can switch it off what you can switch on.
Yes, you can switch it off. It's not necessary. Actually, there's a
series of these narrations, this particular generation that were
the prophets Allah Islam is saying that every sickness that is
existent Allah has also sent a cure for it that is in a number of
narration and it seems to have been transmitted
contiguously from numerous people
there's something that at the end of it it says Jahai la Humann
Johanna who are Ali Muhammad Ali Muhammad Abdullah muscles and it's
relating this that the one who is ignorant of it is ignorant of it,
the one who knows of it knows of it, which means that there will be
some people who will know this skill, whereas other people will
not.
Okay, let's look at a few more generations here. He's got
numerous generations but a lot of them are very similar so I'm just
going to give you the various different readings there's another
narration here from Abu Huraira the Allahu and so they're not all
from Abdullah evening. So this one's for Abu Huraira the Allah
one Rasul Allah Salah some said yeah, a Yohannes oh people who
believe a
All people, the Dow, the Dow which means use medicine, get a cure
find a cure
for in Allah Allah means Allah and Allah and sal Allahu
Allah and Allah Who Dawa. And because again the same then
statement. So Abu Huraira Jana was also heard this in a slightly
different form that yes you should use medicine because Allah if he
has revealed a if there's if there is a sickness, then he's also
revealed a Dawa for it.
abou Seidel Hooray now are the Allahu allah sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam said, Allah subhanho wa Taala hasn't created any ailment
except that he has a sheaf up for it as well. Which means a cure.
The one who knows it knows it the one who is ignorant of it is
ignorant of it illness some
except some except Sam. Right now who Sam you know, not Samantha,
not Samuel, right. The artist will Loma Sam who is the same guy,
right? Karl molt we're talking about death here except death.
There's no cure for that. Another narration from Osama iblue sherek.
He says once we read the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and a
group of Bedouins came to him and asked him about something.
They said, Yeah rasool Allah, can we use medicine? Meaning Can we
look for cures for things? Because remember that the concept of
Tawakkol is coming in belief in Allah one God, He does everything.
It creates some confusion. As you can see, you know, it's one of the
big topics of the day. So
previously, I've had to tie up all of these loose ends. And tada, can
we can we
use Kyosei said, Yes, of course. And again, then the same. That
Allah subhanaw taala he has not sent any kind of ailment, except
that he's sent a cure in LA haram. Except evil old age sibility.
There's no cure for that. Now, once you've lost it, you've lost
it. That's why the person used to seek protection from this ailment.
Allahumma inni Allah will become an Al haram of Allah seek to
refuge from evil old age. Another version, Allah Khomeini I was
becoming an aura, the Illa are very rumor. I seek your refuge
from being returned to evil old age as well as surfing in going
back to a state of where you don't know where you don't know after
having known Allah protect us from it. That's why one of the biggest
donors and most prolific donors I've heard in our old folk, Allah
kacica Mataji. Naka, Allah kacica Mata Naka, that's like, just so
normal because they just don't want to become dependent on
anybody. Okay, the next Hadith now is from Jabra the Allah one again
another Sahabi he says that liquidly the in the world for
every ailment, there is a cure for either a sub Dawa, ie buddy in
Allah He Azerbaijan, if you're able to acquire the medic
medication, the cure for a particular ailment, then by the
will of Allah by the will of Allah will become better. Because
remember, we are occasional lists, we believe that every instance of
cure, everything that happens in the world, is occasion by Allah
specifically, even though there are literally billions and an
infinite number of occasions that are taking place, everything's an
occasion but the picking up of this cup is an occasion and that's
getting into theology now.
This section now the next collection of narrations there are
about
bringing in physicians to do a treatment. The first Hadith in
this regard is from Jabra, the Allahu Anhu the Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam sent a physician, somebody to do a treatment to obey
Him no cab and he gave him a branding he basically, cauterized
him for something he gave him a brand for something.
Now the narration is from
again from Joby Abdullah, the Allah he says that
somebody had struck had struck, obey ignore.
Obey vocab in as a verb
in his median cubital vein for Kawahara Surah Salah sambia de the
Prophet sallallahu alayhi salam cauterize them with a hot iron.
I'm adding the hot iron I'm assuming that's what they did it
with. Right
now in this one what happens is so Haley Nabi Saleh relates from his
father from Abu Huraira to the Allahu Anhu that
there was a problem with one of the companions of the Prophet
Allah some during the art campaign,
the Prophet sallallahu some called for him to physicians that used to
be in Medina.
One hour and said, cure him, treat him. So this ADRs will Allah
we used to we used to practice medicine in the time of Joe Helia
we used to do this in Thailand yeah here, but when Islam came
from our who are in networker
then it's all about the worker is all about reliance on Allah. They
felt that this went against her and so you know, the earliest
speculation that we had it's now you find this in the text
professor and said early Joe said no cure him he said treat him
because for in the law, the unzila the one who has
cause this illness or this problem to exist unzila Dawa is also
revealed a cure for it. So modality issue fun, and then he's
given his his his enlisted a cure in there. So then they did this
and he became better. So now you could tell that there was some
confusion among the ranks in this case.
Again, similar Hadith from Amarillo dinar from Hilah, Hebrew
yourself, he says that a person Jintao Rasulullah sallallahu
Sallam became ill.
And he said, Call a doctor for him. They said Yara Salalah Toby,
what's he going to do? What's the doctor? Well, how what kind of
benefit can adopt a benefit? He said yes.
Because Allah subhanaw taala whenever he reveals so it looks
like this statement that Allah revealed the a an ailment, there's
always a dua this was made on numerous instances, it seems
because you understand from the variants of narrations here
because then another very similar one says gone call a gone call a
doctor for him. And somebody said what untitled call with Eric
Arizona, you're saying this?
You are asking to do this said yeah. Said because Allah subhanaw
taala he's revealed the cure for everything that he's
the next chapter, which we'll deal with some other time is actually
about
assessment and figuring out what the problem is.
And I feel compelled to actually read this one because we've
actually read this one before, so I'm just going to cover it. It's a
saddle the Allahu Anhu says, as I mentioned earlier that I became
sick in the province of Assam came to visit me put his hand on my
heart. And I felt the coolness of his hand on my heart. And he said,
Yes, you've got a heart problem. Now exactly what heart problem? I
don't know, right? Cause you should go to hydrothermal colada
from beneath Akif because he's a man who practices this medicine.
Anyway, just like a lot of heroin. That was Mashallah. It was
enlightening for me as well. Hopefully, it was useful for you
as well. And may Allah subhanaw taala. Accept and may Allah make
us better at what we do and grant us help and grant other people
help through us and give me that solid progeria for all of us.
That's the main thing. Well, I could read that one.