Zakir Naik – Is Using Modern Medicine instead of the Prophetic Medicine Kufr
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A medical student asks a question about traditional medicine and the importance of modern medicine. The representative explains that the Prophet has multiple hadiths regarding medicine, including the benefits of honey, black seed, and misvolume. The student is advised to practice the medicine and not disagree with the Prophet's advice.
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My name is Syed Haris.
I am a medical student from India.
My question is regarding the traditional medicines advised
by or done by the Prophet.
Are these methods told by the Prophet legislative
and if we believe more in modern medicine,
am I committing kufr because I am not
having full faith in the words of the
Prophet.
The question posed by the brother is that
our beloved Prophet has many hadiths he is
talking about the medicines.
It is known as tibbi nabwi and the
Prophet has various hadiths talking about what will
cure you, what will not cure you, talking
about honey, talking about blood seed and various
other.
So, the question posed by a Muslim who
is a medical student that if is it
kufr if I practice something else, if I
don't practice the medicine and if I practice
like maybe allopathy or the mainstream medicine.
So, is it kufr?
Is it wrong if I don't believe in
the word of the Prophet?
Regarding the last part of the question is
it wrong if I do not believe in
the word of the Prophet?
Yes, it is wrong.
You have to believe in the word of
the Prophet but that doesn't mean you have
to practice that medicine also.
Practicing the medicine is not fard because whatever
the Prophet told about the medicine if you
follow it is a sunnah.
The Prophet never said it is fard that
you should take honey.
The Prophet spoke about the benefits of honey.
The Prophet spoke about the benefit of black
seed that in this there is cure for
every disease except death.
But that doesn't mean it is a fard.
It is sunnah.
It is sunnat-e-mawqidah.
The Prophet spoke about the miswak that if
you use the miswak and the Prophet said
if it wasn't too difficult I would have
made it fard for every Muslim to use
the miswak before every salah.
But he didn't do it.
So using miswak is sunnah.
So whatever the Prophet recommended whether it is
binabvi, whether it is cupping, whether it is
honey, whether it is black seed all these
are sunnah.
It is not a fard.
It is not fard to do it.
So but you saying, you cannot say what
the Prophet said is wrong.
That is wrong.
You cannot say I don't believe in the
hadith.
That is kufr.
If it is a sahih hadith, Prophet said
this and if you deny it then that
is kufr.
You cannot deny that.
But it is not a must that you
should follow it if you are practicing it.
Now you said you are a doctor and
there is an allopathy medicine which may not
follow the same what the Prophet has said.
It is not wrong at all.
Because Allah says in the Quran in surah
nahl chapter number 16 verse 47 and surah
ambia chapter number 21 verse number 7 Fas
'alu ahal zikri in kuntullah talamu.
If you don't know ask the person knowledgeable.
So if you get sick who will you
ask?
You will ask a doctor.
So now you are following the guidance of
the doctors in today's world.
It may be a non-Muslim, no problem.
And the Prophet was very clear.
There is hadith in which when people were
hitting the plants and the Prophet said what
are you doing?
They threw the plants against the other plants
and there used to be pollination.
The Prophet said we don't do it.
So they didn't do it and that year
the crop failed.
And then they realized that when they used
to do those actions, it was mainly helping
in pollination.
And the crop was good.
So the Prophet said these are worldly matters.
In worldly matters it's not necessary you have
to follow everything what I say.
In matters of deen in religion yes you
have to follow him blindly.
But in matter of worldly things you may
or may not follow him.
It's not compulsory.
So as far as medicine is concerned, there
is alternative medicine, science has advanced so there
is no problem at all in you following
what the modern science says.
But that doesn't mean you have to disagree
with the sahih hadith in which the Prophet
has given treatment.
You can also use that.
You can do both together.
So if you practice general medicine or practice
allopathy medicine which is not the same as
tibbi nabwi, there is no harm at all,
you are not doing a sin but see
to it you don't criticize the hadith in
which the Prophet has spoken regarding the cure
for many of the diseases.
Hope that answers the question.