Category: Health & Ilness
Isolating From Mosques During Pandemics
Relevant in light of the spread of the new Omicron variant: Imam Al-Mardawi Hanbali states: "(ويعذر في ترك الجمعة والجماعة المريض) بلا نزاع، ويعذر أيضا في تركهما لخوف حدوث المرض." (الإنصاف، ٣٠٠/٢) "An ill person is excused in non-attendanc...
View DetailsIslamic Perspective On Diseases & Disabilities
20 Quotes: Islamic Perspective on Disabilities & Illnesses - حكمة الباري It is absolutely heart-breaking for people to see their children or relatives with mental or physical disabilities/illnesses. Share this post - so it may solace people who...
View DetailsImam Shaybani Was Fat
Imam al-Shaybani, the student of Abu Hanifah was fat. Imam Shafi'ii said: ما أفلح سمين قط إلا أن يكون محمد بن الحسن "No fat man has been successful except Mohammad Ibn Hassan al-Shaybani." ["Siyar A'lam al-Nubala", ...
View DetailsCupping Is Not Religious
Ibn Taymiyah explained that cupping (حجامة) was meant for people in those hot countries, it will harm people in cold countries: وقوله "شفاء أمتي": إشارة إلى من كان حينئذ من أمته وهم كانوا بالحجاز. كما قال: ما بين المشرق والمغرب قبلة لأن هذا ...
View DetailsProphetic Medicine?
The Prophet was sent to teach us RELIGION, and NOT Medicine, Science, Maths, Biology, Astronomy, etc. Ibn Khaldun wrote 650 years ago: والطب المنقول في الشرعيات من هذا القبيل، وليس من الوحي في شىءوإنما هوأمر كان عادياً للعرب فإنه صلى الله عليه وسلم...
View DetailsKindness With Disabled
Dealing kindly with the Blind & Disabled - مسند أحمد The Prophet said: مَلْعُونٌ مَنْ كَمَهَ أَعْمَى عَنْ طَرِيقٍ "The one who misleads a blind person from the (correct) path is cursed." ["Musnad Ahmad", 3/266...
View DetailsDepression Is Not A Sign Of Weak Faith
Depression - a Sign of Weak faith - ضعف الإيمان? Prophet Yusuf went missing, and Allah said about the grief of his father Prophet Ya'qoob: وَقَالَ يَا أَسَفَىٰ عَلَىٰ يُوسُفَ وَابْيَضَّتْ عَيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْحُزْنِ "AND HE SAID: "OH, MY SORROW OVER Y...
View DetailsPlagues Are A Mercy
How Sahaba accepted Destiny & Plagues - معاذ بن جبل The plague of Amwas (طاعون عمواس), was a Bubonic Plague epidemic that afflicted Syria-Palestine in 638–639 and some Sahaba were present. It is reported in “Siyar A'lam al-Nubala", (1/458): و...
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