By TCN News,
New Delhi: The holy Quran – which is a repository of knowledge of plants, flowers and agri-products that have medicinal attributes – and Hadith offer wonder drugs for treating “all diseases, except death,” asserted Dr Abdulaziz Abdullah Jifrey, former vice president of the Saudi Otorhinolaryngology Society.
Referring to the early life of Muslims, Dr Jifrey said the Prophet of Islam (PBUH), after realising the hardships faced by them, prescribed treatment for various ailments. “These formed part of the Hadith. Similarly, the Quran is a repository of knowledge of plants, flowers, fruits and agri-products that had medicinal attributes,” the noted ENT specialist from Saudi Arabia said during a lecture on ‘Quran, Sunnah and Medicine’ organized by the Institute of Objective Studies (IOS) here on November 12.
Dr Abdulaziz Abdullah Jifrey
Dr Jifrey maintained that the traditions of the Prophet (PBUH) contained in the Bukhari offered sure shifa (cure) for not one, but most diseases. Muslims had been traditionally using prescriptions of Tibb-i-Nabvi (treatment prescribed by the Prophet) for curing diseases. He remarked that the Quran and the Hadith called for observation, which led to advancement of knowledge. While claiming that the Quran contains science, medicine and other branches of knowledge, it calls upon the faithful to possess imaan (unflinching faith in Allah) and have love for Allah, the Creator of every living being, he said.
Dr Jifrey asserted that the Prophet (PBUH) left behind a rich legacy of medical knowledge, which could be enhanced with further experiments. He quoted a Hadith to buttress his point by saying that diseases like eczema, blood pressure, diabetes anaemia, cancer, failure of kidney, hypertension, infertility, etc. could be treated with prophetic medicine. He also described camel milk as highly nutritious.
IOS chairman Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam stated that the Institute was engaged in holding seminars, symposia, discussions, lectures and other functions on educational, social and economic issues of the common people in general and Muslims in particular, adding that health was one of them. He suggested that a national and international conference be organised on Quranic and Prophetic medicine and pleaded for setting up a centre for research on the medicines contained in the Quran and Hadith.