I SLAMIC
M EDICINE
WH AT IT IS
&
W H AT IT IS NO T
INSANIAH COLLEGE UNIVERSITY
LECTURE: First yr Medical Students
COURSE:
Islamic Revealed Knowledge
OMAR ZAID, M.D.
Dec 2012 – Mar 2013
Islamic Medicine is defined as an
approach to Medical Care whose basic
paradigms, concepts, values and
procedures conform to or do not
contradict the Qur’an and Sunnah.
It is characterized by being value-based,
by being holistic under the tauhidic
paradigm, and by conforming to the five
purposes of the Law, maqasid al shari’at.
IT IS NOT specific medical procedures
or pharmacopeia of therapeutic
agents used in a particular place or a
particular time.
Islamic Medicine is universal, allembracing, flexible, and allows for
growth and development of various
methods of investigating and treating
diseases within the frame-work
described above.
The Islamic approach to medicine has
reintroduced the human element in medicine
without denying the benefits of modern
medical technology.
It is a process of conceptual transformation
called the Islamization of Medicine.
The end-result of the Islamization process WILL
NOT BE a medical system FOR M USLIMS ONLY
but for the whole of humanity because Islam is
a set of universal and objective values.
Islamization is not theologizing, or localizing
of parochial medicine but is rather a rocess
that makes an objective, universal, value-based
and systematic scheme of excellence for all.
Prof Omar Hasan Kasule Sr. MB ChB (MUK), MPH (Harvard(,
DrPH (Harvard) Professor of Epidemiology and Islamic
Medicine Universiti Brunei
Motivating Factors
By denying a religious and moral
dimension, European medicine
operates in a presumed moral vacuum.
An unacceptably high number of
patients are being treated for side
effects of modern therapeutic
agents
All this is the result of
1.
Materialist Reductionism
Narrow specialization leads to lack
of a holistic approach to the patient
1.
 lack of tauhid or wholism.
2.
3.
Greed due to consumerism.
Fear of Death is manipulative.
Application of laws that govern
the mineral kingdom to man.
Physicians behave as a technician
and turn a blind eye to moral and
social issues that affect the health
of his patients
'Evidence-Based' Medicine: A Coin's Flip Worth of
Certainty … http://www.activistpost.com/2012/11/evidence-
Secularized medicine has no
consistent set of ethics leading to
malpractice, fraud, and bias in
research
Hence: Muslims wish to practice
M EDICINE not M EDI - SIN
based-medicine-coins-flip.html  90% of the peer-reviewed
clinical research, the holy grail of the conventional medical
system, is exaggerated, or worse, completely false?
The concept of tauhid motivates looking
at the patient, the disease, and the
environment a singularity or single
system in equilibrium and continuum
with the unseen.
Thus all factors involving (affecting) all
three elements are taken into
consideration while making medical
decisions.
Tauhid motivates the Physician to view
the patient as one organism rather than a
client with a conveniently packaged
combination of organs and pathologies
ripe for exploitation.
The patient has physical, social,
psychological, and spiritual dimensions
that must be considered in synthesis with
an integrated, holistic approach.
Balance = middle path = moderation
The principle of tauhid requires an overall
comprehensive ‘birds-eye’ view of the
patient’s disease, their physical constitution,
their environment (physical & social), their
mental capacity and knowledge base, and
their belief system.
The Western allopathic system pays lip
service to these realms by merely recording
on paper some of the pertinent data, but
takes little of initiative or action to modify
medical treatments accordingly.
Essentially, Western medicine and society,
in its pursuit of profit, has been reduced to
recipe makers and vendors whereby
technicians (the doctor) prescribe and treat
according ly without taking or affording the
time, resources or concern for a more
comprehensive approach.
The Muslim Doctor’s Responsibility is to PROTECT & ACTIVATE
the Purpose of Shari’ah in the realm of medical practice with regard to :
Physical Health
Spiritual Health
Progeny
Mental Health
Wealth
The Physician’s role is integral to these purposes
which are P REVENTATIVE as well as C URATIVE
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said that:
Allah did not reveal any disease without also REVEALING ITS CURE .
H ENCE , A S M USLIM P HYSICIANS , OUR DUTY IS TO :
SEEK , FIND AND APPLY THESE REVEALED CURES.
Hence also, the Muslim Physician’s responsibility is not to blindly follow the West (taqlid)
because WESTERN ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE IS NOT CURATIVE WHICH DENIES AL’QUR’AN
The West is destroying their people’s health, progeny, spirits and wealth by treating
symptoms in a non-wholistic, non-tauhidic / non-Islamic manner: a neo-Medical Norm
 this is the result of Secular Humanism which has lead to Scientific Reductionism.
Below are profit making, chemo-synthetic treatments
for the palliation of symptoms and are useful.. BUT
T HEY CANNOT AND DO NOT CURE .
Pill-Popping is a delusion of the Modern Age that aids
hegemony of the NWO and the human denial
syndrome when uninhibited by Revelation & Taffakur.
It represents the medical paradigm of Mc Medicine
that allows doctor and patient to continue the
pretense
of success both physically and spiritually
==
The above substances are Curative,
Divinely Created, and
Imbued with the living and dynamic
formative word of Al’Mussawir
Sincere Muslim Physicians will not ignore their
value as Allah’s gift for curative purposes.
Most of tibb nabawi [Prophetic Medicine] is preventive medicine
and must have been divinely inspired.
H ENCE W E ARE INSTRUCTED
BY THE PROPHET HIMSELF IN
Diet, fasting, nutrition and exercise
Quarantine for epidemics;
P REVENTATIVE & C URATIVE M EDICINE
PALLIATIVE
Forbidding urination in stagnant water,
Hygiene;
Precautions to prevent fire and pests,
MEDICINE IS A THIRD AND LAST PRIORIT Y
In the Islamic scheme of medicine.
Nevertheless it has become the primary focus
of research, education and practice,
all of which ignore the search and discovery
of revealed curative measures and agents.
leaving a country because
of its water and climate.
Spiritual Aspects of Healing and Recovery.:
Prayer, dua, recitation of the Qur’an and the
Remembrance of Allah play a central role
fever; constipation; incontinence; dropsy (heart failure); wounds;
epilepsy; sciatica; skin itch; pleurisy; headache; inf lammation of
the throat; enlargement of the heart; ophthalmia; catalepsy; acne;
skin eruptions; food poisoning; witchcraft; head lice, etc.
The Qur’an is the best medicine . Dua is medicine.
Asking for protection from Allah, isti’adhat, is medicine.
A strong iman and trust in Allah, tawakkul,
play a role in the cure of diseases. Salat is a cure .
BUT: THERE ARE CONTINGENT CONDITIONS
e.g.
Un-forgiveness will inhibit curative results which are dependent upon Allah’s Mercy.
Secret Sin for which the patient remains unrepentant; involvement with haram activities;
Continuation of Bad habits (smoking) … drinking, bad food, gluttony (obesity), etc.
Lack of sincerity … lack of faith … poor physical constitution, anorexia, drug use …
Ibn al Qayyim mentioned three therapeutic modalities
used in Prophetic Medicine:
Natural;:
Most important ly, diet and moderation
We now know of specific diets for the blood types which are
curative when followed.
Spiritual:
Mixture of Both:
as mentioned above, but one must be careful of Shirk.
unfortunately, addiction to modern lifestyles
and weakened iman may inhibit all of these.
Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/10/29/dna-is-influneced-by-words-and-frequencies/
Prohibition of shirk in seeking a cure:
Shirk arises when people seek and expect cures from anything other than Allah.
Manifestations of shirk include:
amulets, tamaim; divinations; and worshipping or asking a cure from
humans called saints, or from bomohs, shamans, awliyaa, or by visiting their
graves, etc.
Other superstitious practices :
claiming knowledge of the unseen or supernatural powers by any human.
Many people with disease conditions resort to shirk due to satanic misguidance.
These practices nullify ‘aqidat al tauhid because they attribute disease and its cure to
other than Allah.
They may also distract or delay people from seeking cures through rational scientific
ally based medicine. A GOOD M USLIM SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED WITH JINN AND
SHOULD ASK
A LLAH FOR PROTECTION AGAINST THEM
The Problem of Definitions:
I SLAMIZING THE PHYSICIAN ?
Al Tabari described the
Islamic code of medical
ethics in 970 AD to include
the following:
a) personal
characteristics;
b) obligations towards
patients;
community;
colleagues;
assistants.
Values alone are not enough to
change reality. A physician
may be good and ethical but if
the system he/she is working
in is unethical, he/she will be
ineffective Islamically. We
therefore cannot define a
medical system by ethics
alone. It is not enough to say
Islamic medicine is what good
Muslim physicians practice.
Islamic Code of Medical Ethics
International Organization of Islamic Medicine
Kuwait 1981.
Revised by Amine and El Kadhi (Azhar, 1993)
“the physician must believe in God, and in the Islamic teachings and practice it
in private and public life; be grateful to his parents, teachers, and elders; be
humble, modest, kind, merciful, patient, and tolerant; follow the path of the
righteous; and always seek God’s support. The Muslim physician must stay
abreast of current medical knowledge, continuously improve his skills, seek
help whenever needed, and comply with legal requirements governing his
profession; realize that God is the maker and owner of his patient’s body and
mind and treat him within the framework of God’s teachings; realize that life
was given to man by God, that human life starts at the time of conception, and
that human life cannot be taken away except by God or with His permission;
realize that God is watching and monitoring every thought and deed; follow
God’s guidelines as his only criteria, even if they differ with popular demand or
the patient’s wishes; not recommend nor administer any harmful material;
render needed help regardless of financial ability or ethnic origin of the
patient; offer needed advice with consideration for both the patient’s body
and mind; protect the patient’s confidentiality; adopt an appropriate manner
of communication; examine a patient of the opposite sex in the presence ot a
third person whenever feasible; not criticize another physician in the presence
of patients or health personnel, refuse payment for treatment of another
physician or his immediate family; and strive to use wisdom in all his
decisions”.
Some Question on I SLAMIZING M EDICINE ?
C AN THE P RACTICE OF M EDICINE OR M EDICINES BE I SLAMIZED ?
A RE A LL R EMEDIES ( I . E . MEDICINES ) INHERENTLY I SLAMIC ?
A RE THE WORDS ‘M USLIM ’ AND ‘I SLAMIC ’ SYNONYMOUS ?
I SN ’ T THE PROBLEM RATHER THAT OF THINKING ( IDEAS ) AND DOING
( ACTION ) CORRECTLY ACCORDING - TO AND IN SUBMISSION - TO D IVINE L AW ?
I S C REATION INHERENTLY I SLAMIC ? I S PHYSIOLOGY INHERENTLY I SLAMIC ?
I S THERE I SLAMIC P HYSIOLOGY AND N ON -I SLAMIC P HYSIOLOGY ?
A RE
DIVINE LAWS THAT GOVERN THE MINERAL KINGDOM ( INORGANIC &
CHEMISTRY )
THE ONLY LAWS THAT GOVERN ANIMAL
ORGANIC
& HUMAN KINGDOMS ??
I S MEDICAL SCIENCE CORRECT WHEN IT APPLIES SCIENTIFICALLY BASED LAWS
THAT GOVERN NON - LIVING SUBSTANCE TO THE LIVING SUBSTANCE OF
HUMANS AS THE SOLE BASIS FOR CURATIVE THERAPY ? I F NOT, WHAT THEN
IS MISSING ?
F INDING AND DEFINING THIS MISSING COMPONENT IS WHAT WILL MAKE
M EDICAL S CIENCE TRULY I SLAMIC . I GNORING THIS REALM IS THE CHIEF
ERROR OF M ODERN MEDICAL SCIENCE ; THERE ARE OTHERS .
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
“Islamic Medicine” is not a reaction-to or a complete rejection-of modern
Western Medicine.
Natural therapeutics such as nutritional supplements and indigenous, unprocessed foods or folk medicines, chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy,
acupuncture, Chinese and Auruvedic medicines, etc., are included here as
being encouraged by Islam -- BUT NOT AS ALTERNATIVES to allopathic drug
therapy. Why? Because the word ‘alternative’ implies that Western
Medicine is not Islamic, which is not entirely true at all.
Western medicine is, however, an incomplete system with many serious
flaws, not the least of which is top-heavy administration and their profit
motifs guided by an extremely corrupt Pharmaceutical industry. As you
study Western medicine you will come to realize it is more about DISEASE
MANAGEMENT rather than disease cure.
Islamic Medicine is about both cure and prevention in addition to well
defined moral & ethical values and guidelines. Hence, it is a balanced
tauhidic (wholistic) scientific approach to mankind’s illnesses.
Islamic Medicine is defined as a medical practice whose basic paradigms,
concepts, values and procedures conform to or do not contradict the Qur’an
and Sunnah.
It is not specific medical procedures or therapeutic agents used in a
particular place or a particular time.
Islamic Medicine is universal, all-embracing, flexible, and allows for growth
and development of various methods of investigating and treating diseases
within this frame-work.
I SLAMIZATION IS NOT THEOLOGIZING or sectarian-parochial medicine
(Chinese, Malay, Arab or MB Medicine or Education) but rather it is a
process that makes for overall universal excellence.
In other words, the epitaph (obituary) should read:
Dr. ‘so and so’was an excellent physician,
and by the way, he/she was a Muslim.
[a Muslim who became and died an excellent physician].
The two sources of knowledge in Islam are Revelation (traditional Islamic soft
sciences) and the Empirical world or universe (material science).
M USLIM PROFESSIONALS
MUST KNOW BOTH
‘Intellect’ is a tool given to the human race to use both sources
R EAD, CONTEMPLATE & ACT
Western epistemology denies revelation as a source of knowledge.* Its
scientific epistemology is solely based on matter and is therefore incomplete
as stated earlier.
Furthermore, it denies religion and/or is sometimes actively anti-religion. It
does not officially accept the unseen, al ghaib, although several governmental
programs are based on occult knowledge (spiritual science and the
paranormal)
Western science also denies morality as a factor in its work. It operates in a
presumed moral vacuum where there is no recognition of absolute morality. **
* Largely due to the Catholic repression and persecution of science and scientists
** Largely due to Illuminati occult influences that occurences with the so-called ‘Enlightenment’
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