Zakir Naik – Is Using Modern Medicine instead of the Prophetic Medicine Kufr

Next question from WhatsApp.

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.