Zakir Naik – Is Using Modern Medicine instead of the Prophetic Medicine Kufr
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A medical student from India asks a question about traditional medicines and if they are the same as the prophet's advice. The agent explains that the medicine is not fard and that practicing it is not a must. The agent also suggests alternative medicine and explains that research has advanced, but it is not necessary to disagree with the current advice.
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My name is Syed Harris.
I'm 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 kuf? Because I'm not
having full faith in the words of the
prophet.
The question posed
by the brother
is that a beloved prophet
has many hadith is talking
about the medicines.
It's known as and
the prophet has various hadith talking about what
will cure you, what will not cure you,
talking about honey, talking about blood seed and
various.
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 kuf? 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's a sunnah.
The prophet never said it is 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's a it
is sunnah. It's sunnah the mokaddah. Prophet spoke
about the that if you use the and
the prophet said,
if it wasn't too difficult, I would have
made it fard
for every Muslim to use the
before every salah. But he didn't do it.
So using
so whatever the prophet recommended
whether it it is
whether it's cupping, whether it's honey, whether it's
black seed, all these are funnah. It's not
a fard. It's not fard to do it.
So, but you saying, you cannot say what
the prophet said is wrong. That is wrong.
You cannot say don't believe in the hadith
that is if
it's a say hadith,
prophet said this and if you deny it,
then that is you cannot deny that but
it's 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's not wrong at all because Allah says
in the Quran in
chapter number 16 was 43. And
chapter number 21 was number 7.
If you don't know, are the personal 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. He may be a non
Muslim, no problem. And the prophet was very
clear. There is a hadith
in which when people were
hitting the
plants
and the prophet said, what are you doing?
They fed the plants again, the other plants
and there used to be pollination.
The prophet said, well, 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 is not necessary you
have to follow everything what I say. In
matters of deen,
in religion, yes, you have to follow him
blindly. But matter of worldly things, you may
or may not follow him. It is 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 hadith in which the prophet has
given treatment. You can also use that. You
can do both together. So if you practice
a general medicine
or practice allopathy medicine
which is not the same
as the binabvi.
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 disease. Hope that answers the question.