Islamic Medicine Directory

IDENTITY ON FINGER TIPS
Fingerprints did not mean much to the people at the Prophet’s time. An Englishman by the name of Genn Ginsen, in 1856, found out that the pattern of lines at the tip of a person’s finger was something unique to the individual. Until 1856, men knew nothing about this characteristic of fingertips.

FORMATION OF MILK
We often see goats, sheep and cows eat grass, and yet it rarely occurs to any of us to establish a link between this process and the milk and the dairy products we consume.

THE FEMALE HONEYBEE’S ABDOMEN AND THE HEALING POWER OF HONEY
The honeybee has a body that varies in length between 1cm and 3cm, and that is divided into three parts: head, thorax and abdomen. The verse quoted above stresses that in the individual female bee there are “abdomens,”

BLACK HOLES:MIGHTY OATH
The expression “place where... fall” (mawqi) also mentioned in the sura, The Cave (Kehf), verse 53, means the place where the sinners fall, i.e., hell. The root of this word is “WaQa’Aa” and it means the action of falling, a happening and an incidence.

WE LIVE IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
Is the universe infinite? Or is it finite in a steady state? From the very beginning this has been a subject of debate between great minds. Hot debates and ratiocination of all kinds failed to clarify this dilemma.

The Prophetic Medicine

Medicine of the Prophet by Ibn Al Qayyim - [Read more ]

Qur'an and Modern Science

The methods of proving the existence of God with usage of the material provided in the ‘Concept of God in Islam’ to an atheist may satisfy some but not all. Many atheists demand a scientific proof for the existence of God. I agree that today is the age of science and technology. Let us use scientific knowledge to kill two birds with one stone, i.e. to prove the existence of God and simultaneously prove that the Qur’an is a revelation of God. - [Read more ]

Islamic Medicine

Muslims raised the dignity of the medical profession from that of a menial calling to the rank of one of the learned professions. They were the first to introduce systematically in their medical writings small-pox and measles, the treatment of cerebral hemorrhage and apoplexy, allergy, tracheotomy, operation for cataract, paediatrics, anaesthesia and many other specialities on which thousands of books have been written. Islamic medicine has been nurtured by Muslims in the light of the Quranic edicts and Prophetic directions which led the scholars of mysticism and spiritualism to the determination between the Nature and the bodies and between the material and the spiritual worlds.

Islamic Medicine Directory

Amazing Quran (52)

Embryology and Life Creation (9)

Islam and Health Guidelines (15)

Islam and Medical Ethics (17)

Islam and Natural Medicine (6)

Islam and Non-Medical Sciences (49)

Islam Views on Medical Issues (35)

Organ donation,
Euthanasia,
Reproduction and Abortion,
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Islam, Food, Alcohol and Smoking (50)

Medicine of the Prophet (30)

Muslims and Medical History (52)

Psychology and Sexual Issues (11)

Views of Non-Muslim Scientists (3)

Today's Hadith

I heard the Prophet saying, "Treat with the Indian incense, for it has healing for seven diseases; it is to be sniffed by one having throat trouble, and to be put into one side of the mouth of one suffering from pleurisy." Once I went to Allah's Apostle with a son of mine who would not eat any food, and the boy passed urine on him whereupon he asked for some water and sprinkled it over the place of urine.

Site of the Day

The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution - http://www.islamicmedicines.com/forum/showthread.php?t=417

According to the theory of evolution, every living species has sprung from a predecessor. A previously-existing species turned into something else in time and all species have come into being in this way. According to the theory, this transformation proceeds gradually over millions of years. - [Read more]