Conclusion
Praise
be to God Who has facilitated the completion of this humble work, and
we ask Him to accept it purely for His sake, and benefit us and all
Muslims by it. We ask Him to reward everyone who contributed to the
realization of this book, and make that in their good deeds balance
in the Day of Judgment.
We
have to remind readers that this book included answers to some
questions that were asked by different people who were considering
converting (or reverting) to Islam, by some new Muslims, and by some
people living in close proximity to Muslims because of their work,
common interests, or general life. The answers in this book have
been directed to these groups of people in general, and all the
questions that have been included here real enquiries, rather than
anticipated or selected questions.
This
book could be considered a beginning and an incentive for more
in-depth studies that interest those who are active in the field of
preaching and spreading Islam amongst non-Muslim minorities living in
Muslim communities. Those who are working actively for Islam may
dedicate part of their precious time to investigate the needs of
inviting different non-Muslims to Islam and the ideas these people
could have about Islam, and provide some writings that clarify
misconceptions about Islam, and support these writings with solid
proof.
Contemporary
preachers of Islam are supposed to reflect modern life and realize
the challenges and dangers of backward thinking. They should also
prepare themselves to shoulder their great responsibilities in such a
way that reflects their deep belief in God and His messenger, prophet
Muhammad (pbuh).e
time when there is no running current of blood to wash them naturally
and prepare the atmosphere for the existence of doderline once more,
especially that the prophetic tradition commands the use of musk
(perfume), which germicides, not to mention its fragrance.
B.
Circumcision of sexes, males and females:
Abu
Hurayrah related that the prophet (pbuh) said: “There are five
things that ever man should naturally do: circumcision, shaving the
public hair, taking out the armpit hair, nail trimming, moustache
cutting.”
Circumcision
is cutting off the piece of skin which covers the glans. It is
recommended that the whole piece should be removed. Shaddad Bin Aws
related the following hadith
from the prophet
(pbuh): “Circumcision is obligatory for men, and a dignitary act
for women.”
Circumcision is a regulation for Muslims and a discriminatory mark
and an emblem. The Jews share Muslims this tradition, because the
first prophet to command it was Ibrahim (Abraham, pbuh).
In
1987 The Medical
British Magazine
published an article stating: “Penis cancer is rare among the Jews,
and in the Muslim countries, where circumcision is done during
infancy...” The American magazine Pediatrics
stated: “The Jewish and Muslim religious obligation plays an
essential role in urging them to practice this natural deed,
circumcision. In other words, the foreskin surrounding the glans is
like a moor, where most disease circumstances develop, and urine
irrigates it; white material is formed on the walls of this pocket
resulting from the remaining germs and fungi, the excretions of the
fat and sweat glands with the phosphate of the mucous tissue, and the
remains of urine and its elements.
It
is easy for us now to imagine the interference of disease factors,
like urine meatus with the uncircumcised. This substance goes into
the urethra, then into the bladder, then the kidney. It may continue
its way to prostate, the testicle and epididymis; it may cause
infertility to men as a result of testitis and epididymitis.
Circumcision prevents the top-of-the-penis cancer, as this kind of
circumcision rare with the uncircumcised men. Any likely infection
in the penis may quite easily be transmitted to the woman, which
causes her aidoiitis/vulvitis, and elytritis bartholinitis, it may
cause the womb neck to be infected or to ulcerate. This infection
could develop further ominously and affect the womb, or its
accessories, which may lead to infertility. I do not say the
circumcision prevents, or reduces those infections significantly
only, but there are certain diseases, which can be prevented only by
circumcision, such diseases as the narrowing of the back foreskin, or
front and back foreskin infection, the sticking of the foreskin with
the glans, and some forms of frequent urinary continence caused by
the foreskin. The husband’s circumcision plays an important role in
preventing the wife of most of the women’s gynecological
infections.
As
for women’s circumcision, which is known in Islamic sharia as
khafdh,
it is optional. Women are urged to circumcise, especially when the
outer genitals, like the clitoris, or labia minora, are
overgrown—cases which might cause repellence or disgust. Also,
this overgrowth and dangling outside may cause in the future
continuous sexual excitement because of constant friction, which may
lead to lack of shyness at her, and she may deviate to perversion and
disobedience, and that is whey the God prophet called it a “noble”
deed.
When
those genitals overgrow to the extreme, they may prevent sexual
intercourse: it prevents the penis from penetrating the vagina. If
the girl has no overgrown genitals to be cut off, or if her genitals
are moderate in length, there is no justification for circumcision.
It
is generally noticed that women’s outer genitals are longer the
colder they get to the Equator, and the shorter they the further we
move north. This becomes rare in the northern people.
C.
Eating the meat of a dead animal:
Dr.
Jon Hanover, a Profess at the Department of bacteriology, Guess
Hospital, the governmental and biggest hospital in Copenhagen stated:
“the meat of dead animals is a reservoir of germs, and –
reservoir of killing diseases. Therefore, laws were legislated in
Europe to prohibit eating it.” He mentioned that animals that die
because of suffocation, the germs in which are transmitted to their
meat eaters, as the wall of the large entrails, where the excrement
is, works as a barrier that prevents the transmission of germs from
the large entrails to the body of the animal and to its blood as long
as the animal is alive.
It
is known that the large entrails are a big reservoir of germs, which
are harmful to man. The internal wall of these entrails prevents the
movement of those germs to the body of the animal. Also, in the
blood of the animals there is another wall that prevents to movement
of the germs to the animal’s blood. If an animal is suffocated, it
dies slowly, and the danger lies in this kind of death, as the
resistance of the wall coating the large entrails loses its strength
gradually which eventually allows the harmful germs to penetrate the
wall of the entrails and go into the blood and neighbouring flesh,
then they move through the blood cycle to the rest of the body, for
the animal is not dead yet. The germs go out from the wall of the
veins to the flesh due to the lack of resistance in the walls of the
veins, which consequently makes the animal a big reservoir of these
harmful germs, which attack the health of the animal until it dies.
The death of the animal in this way means there is a big danger in
the body of the creature which has been strangled to death. Dr.
Hanover added that all this might happen any animal that dies in any
other way except slaughtering. Muslims slaughter the animal in order
to purify it animal from such likely germs. In this light we can
understand God’s words better:
“Forbidden
to you (for food) are: al-maitah (the dead animals – cattle –
beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine, and that one which
Allah’s name has not been mentioned while slaughtering, (that which
has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allah, or has
been slaughtered for idols) and that which has been killed by
strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the
goring of horns – and that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild
animal – unless you are able to slaughter it (before its death)”
(Holy Qur’an: 5: 3).
D.
Prohibition of eating the pig’s meat (and its derivatives: pork,
ham, etc.):
Dr.
John Hanover Larsen stated that he discovered a new germ called
“parsina.” This germ exists only in pigs, and lives only at low
temperature degrees, 4 centigrade. Many Europeans contract it and
many diseases that infect the backbone and joints are attributed to
this germ (See Inimitability
Magazine, No. 3).
Besides, he discovered tapeworms and their coated eggs in their meat,
blood and bowls in spite of the many attempts of the veterinarians to
burn quantities of pig’s meat to get rid of that tapeworms, as they
re-appear constantly. Psychoanalysts have found that a man eating
the meat of a certain animal might become infected by certain
qualities of this animal. The pigsty is one of the filthiest places
and this animal is least jealous among animals about its females.
The lack of jealousy about one’s own mother, sister(s), spouse, and
daughter(s) in the west might be attributed to their devouring of
vast quantities of pork.
E.
Fasting 6 days of the 10th
Hijri month, Shawwal
(the month that comes after the fasting month of Ramadhan):
These
are known as the “white days.” Many prophetic traditions urged
Muslims to fast three days of every month, the three days whose
nights are white because of the moonlight when it is a full moon.
They are 13, 14 and 15 of every lunar month. Abu Dhar reported that
the prophet (pbuh) “commanded us to fast the three white days: the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth.”
Researchers
have found out that during these three days, the moon becomes a full
at night and the sea ebbing reaches its highest level—something
that causes a big excitement. They also noticed that this excitement
during those days, particularly in sexual activities, affects man.
They also found out that during these three days of every month
crimes increase. Other researchers connected between what happens on
earth with that in the human body, as the percentage of water on the
globe is 75% and that in the body of the human being is approximately
the same. Fasting had been the only medicine, which reduces man’s
tension and/or his sexual excitement. It is a fact that the
strongest motives in man are the natural ones, then the motive for
food, then sexual motives. Fasting reduces the strength of man’s
motive for food, drink and sex. Thus, we realize that God the
Almighty gave man a natural and useful medicine to appease him in the
time of agitation and excitement. The prophet’s tradition echoes
this.
F.
AIDS spread as a result of the spread of adultery:
Sodomy
(homosexuality) is one of the most wicked and ugliest crimes. It
indicates the deviation of inborn nature, corruption in the mind and
perversion. It denotes sexual intercourse between two males, or
between a male and a female where male has sex with a female in the
anus. God the Almighty said: “You - Go you in unto the males of
the alamin
(mankind),” and leave those whom God has created for your to be
your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!” (Holy
Qur’an: 26:164-5).
In Arabic it was is
known as Liwaat,
adjective of Lut’s people, who were the first people to have
practiced this act, “which none has preceded you in committing”
in the alamin (mankind and jinn,” as God said. God the Almighty
punished the people of Lut most severely by making the earth sink
under them; they were rained with stones as a punishment for their
dirty act. Qur’anic verses were revealed condemning their act,
which is still being recited throughout the world and will continue
to be recited for generations to come. God said:
“So
when Our Commandment came, We turned (the towns of Sodom in
Palestine) upside down, and rained on them stones of backed clay, in
a well-arranged manner one after another, marked from your Lord; and
they are not ever far from the zalimun
(polytheists, evil-doers)”
(Holy Qur’an: 11:34).
This
has been proved in the history of mankind. God punished them by
killing them all, so that not a single criminal would remain alive
would remain to transmit any social and/or physical diseases to
ancestor generation. God wants man’s life to be clean of the dirt
of vice and perversion; hence, the prophet’s guidance cam to show
us the great atrocity of this crime in the prophetic traditions which
made the path of truth clear to be taken. Jabir ibn Abdullah related
that prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “The most thing I fear about my
nation is the act of the people of Lut (homosexuality).”
Ibn Abbas reported another hadith
from the prophet, who said: “God does not look at a man who went in
unto a man, or woman in her anus.”
Abu Hurayrah also reported that the prophet said: “May he be
cursed, he who does the deed of the Lutians
(homosexuality).”
“Curse” means here the dismissal from the mercy of God the
Almighty. This is deserved only because of the one of the heinous
acts of sin and disgust of it, the repetition of that in the crime of
sodomy is a clear proof of the heinousness of this sin, and the one
who does it deserves every kind of punishment. There are many
prophetic traditions in this respect.
Prophet
Muhammad (pbuh) warned us against the committing of sins as a whole
and particularly committing sin public. Abdullah ibn Amr related
that the prophet said: “O, folk of immigrants, there are five sins
I take resort in God from that you do not see: ‘No people amongst
whom adultery appears publicly will escape being plagued with
pestilence, diseases which did not appear among their ancestors, and
if they do not weight properly what they sell, they will be inflicted
with famine, adversity and the oppression of the ruler. If they do
not pay zakat from their money, they will not have rain from the
sky. Had it not been for the animals, they would not be rained. If
they disobey God and His messenger, God will allow an enemy from
others to take some of what they have. If their rulers do not
implement Allah’s book and choose from what God has revealed, God
will make their strength among themselves’.”
Those
crimes which the prophet (pbuh) mentioned are inflicted upon anyone
who avoids Islam partly or completely. Every criminal act has its
own consequence: sodomy and its spread in the human society brings
about new diseases which did not exist before among the ancestors,
which is what we live in this century.
In
the 20th
century God decreed to send to those who commit sodomy a wild dragon
in order to awaken the sleepy and cause horror in the hearts of those
whose insight has been blinded by false civilization. How could they
be prevented without having any deterrent system or considerable
values? The 20th
century civilization has paddled in the liberty of sex, and did not
leave any virtue without fooling with it, or honour or chastity
without destroying its pillars, nor left women’s dignity without
desecrating it.
AIDS
hs been a cry that turned the life of the west upside down. it has
been a stigma on those who avoided marriage and practiced sodomy as a
way of living.
Dr.
George Dunia wrote: “The demonstrations of the sexual perverts in
the streets had disappeared. The public water closets have closed
their doors and the call for purity, chastity and marriage to one
woman has returned, and he fear of AIDS has many restored the moral
and social values of the 50s to reappear and the sanctifying of the
virgin woman may come back again.”
“Purity,”
“chastity” and “virgin women” are words that are being
repeated by millions. They had been absent for long years in vice
and immorality. Statistics classified AIDS patients into four kinds:
1.
Sexual perverts, whose percentage in Britain is 84% out of the total
number.
2.
Drug addicts who take drugs by syringes.
3.
Adulterers who commit adultery with more than one woman.
4.
Patients who have contracted AIDS through blood transfusion.
AIDS
also appeared among women, especially whores and drug addicts. The
several perverts or drug addicts are to be blamed for the spread of
AIDS. They are responsible for the spread of AIDS in the society.
The only way to avoid AIDS is the confinement of men to an honest
marital relationship. If man had done so, and the wife to her
relationship with her husband only, the possibility of contracting
this disease will be almost impossible; hence, the accuracy of the
Islamic rules explained by the prophetic traditions.
The
punishment of this act, killing the doers, the positive and the
negative, came to wipe out the effect of the crime both physically
and morally. The inimitability of the prophetic traditions in this
subject t when it stated that the spread of vice in society is a
cause for the appearance of illnesses which have not been known
before, and this is what has our present century has witnessed.
Question
153: What
is the form of scientific inimitability in prophetic medicine? Can
you give some examples?
Answer
153: The form of
inimitability in prophetic traditions appear in all fields of
anatomy, physiological, pathological medicines. Because of time and
space, I am going to give only a few examples. Annuman ibn Basheer
related that the prophet said: “the believers in mutual intimacy
and mercy are like one body; if one organ suffers, the whole body
will suffer.”
The
portrayal of the tradition is an accurate scientific description of
what happens in the body. The body temperature rises and the body is
affected with fever that prevents it from sleeping and is worried at
night, and torments him during the day. This connection is not only
related to the organs of the body, but it goes beyond that to the
psychological aspect as well. Also, the prophet said: “There is in
the body one morsel, if it is good, the whole body will be good, and
if it is corrupted, the whole body will be corrupted too, it is the
heart.”
So it is void of diseases, free of illnesses, the whole body will be
sound as a whole. Abdullah ibn Abbas related that the prophet said:
“Use antimony as kohl,
it makes the hair grow and sharpens the eyesight.”
Ali ibn Abi Talib related that the prophet of God said: “Use
antimony, it makes the hair grow, dismisses the motes and sharpens
the eyesight.”
Antimony is used as an ingredient of the medicine used for the
treatment of trachoma. If studies continue, other results may be
discovered. Al-Miqdad ibn Ma`d Yathrib related that he heard the
prophet say: “Man not filled more harmful pot than his stomach. It
suffices man to have a few morsels to give him strength. If it is
impossible to do this, he can give a third of his stomach to food, a
third to drink and a third to breath.”
This hadith
gives us an accurate organization of man’s food, so that it does
not go beyond the need and does not become less than what I
necessary. In this manner, man lives comfortably away from obesity
which tires the body and the heart which is the 20th
century plague. Abullah ibn Abbas related that the messenger of God
said: “Nothing replace food and drink except milk.” In another
version: “I do not know any drink that can replace food except
milk.”
Here the prophet refers to the useful substances which are necessary
for the human body whether it is small or big. He referred to the
value of nutritional value of milk in a time when people did not know
the ingredients of milk and the elements it contains, and the
important ingredients of vital food which cannot be found together in
another drink. Aishah related that the prophet said: “A home in
which there are no dates is a home whose householders are hungry”
and in another version: “A home without dates is like a foodless
home.” This shows that dates are a sufficient food of man and it
satiates him so he does not need other kinds of food. It has been
proved that dates contain so many minerals that they are called a
mine of minerals. Dates form a complete and excellent meal
containing vitamin A and B. It is easy to digest their sugar, unlike
the starchy substances. The prophet (pbuh) said: “Every
intoxicating substance is wine, and every kind of wine is
prohibited.”
All
the modern studies confirm the harm of wine on man’s health; it
causes many physical and psychological diseases. The prophet (pbuh)
set a rule: Every mind-killing and intoxicating drink is wine, and
the rule of wine applies to it, prohibition. Abdullah ibn Abbas
related that the messenger of God said: “Two blessing many people
are many people wish to have, good health and free time.”
Abu
Hurayrah related that the prophet said: “There is no supplication
of the servant better than “O, God, I ask you for good health in
this life and in the hereafter.”
In these two hadiths,
and in many many more, the prophet (pbuh) stresses the importance of
health and fitness; and this is what is being done by the health
authorities in all countries all over the world for the sake of
preserving the health and fitness of individuals. Osama ibn Zayd
related that the prophet said: “If you hear of a plague in a land,
do not go into it, and if it inflicts a land you are in, do not leave
it.”
This hadith
sets the essential rule of health quarantine performed by countries
to protect the people from the coming diseases and there are many
examples of prophetic inimitability.
