The Sick and Ailing in Islam - Visiting the Sick

The Prophet (S) has said:
When you visit a sick person, comfort him, though this does not alter
his destiny, but it will calm him his worries and refresh his spirit.
Such ethereal support, according to al-Akili (1993) helps the human
spirit, builds up will of the patient, and empowers his
psycho-physiological process to defeat the illness. The religion Islam
has strongly recommended its followers to constantlyvisit the sick,
and the rewards attached to suchan act are limitless. The reason for
this behavior is not only related to the fact that the sick person
gets company and confidence, but the stronger relationship is to one's
energy system, and the interaction with the fields of energy of the
sick person and its rate of vibration.
An emotional mental trauma can create interruptions in the flow of
energy within an ailing person and may surface as physical pain,
illness, or disease. When someone is ill, he suffers a big hole in his
energy and chances are that the force fields have slowed down and are
not spinning quite so fast (Lindgren et. al., 1997 & Weston, 2000).
This hole can be filled up with higher sources of energy,i.e. the
healthier people who come to visit the sick person, and various other
elements, or meditation and prayer. For instance, we have seen that
the Prophet (S) always advised the sick to stand up and pray to the
Almighty.
Grad (1965) of McGill University in Montreal observed in his
experiments that if depressed psychiatric patients held the flasks
ofwater (which was later poured on barley seeds), the growth of the
seeds was retarded. The opposite was the case if spiritually and
emotionally balanced healers held the flasks of water. Weston (1998)
writes that a depressed person or any person with an evil thought or
lustful intention releases detrimental info-energy that is powerful
enough to cause a disturbance in someone else's energy system. These
experiments have concluded that the energy surrounding a sick person
is blocked, the force fields being unstable with low vibrations. The
information within the energy is also agonizing.
Because the sick person's energy will have low-charged, weak, and
unstable fields of energy,he may naturally draw and attract stronger
and much free flowing energy from the higher energy source, the
healthier friend or relative. There is also a possibility that a sick
person's energy flow is inthe opposite and wrong direction. This
visitor's energy will go on to balance and reduce blockages that exist
in the energy centers of the sick person.
If more healthy people and friends visit the sick person, the weak
energy can completely be transformed and the sick person may feel
vibrant and active and the energy will begin spinning clockwise
indicating the start of healing. This is why we have Muslims visiting
the sick always in a group, and in his presence, there is recitation
of Qur'an, or invocations. These types of practices are deeply rooted
and contain powerful ingredients to heal a sick person at the energy
level.
It is recorded in history that when the American Indians needed to
replenish their energy, they would go into the woods; arms extended,
and absorb as much energy from the trees as possible . Apparently,
Deepak Chopra (1998) in Healing the Heart recommends daily walking
around the woods in the morning, and that the trees at that particular
time have fresh and unadulterated energy to release and allow free
flowing energy communication with the person. Weston (1998) also
recommends putting one's arms around a tree to draw energy.
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird (1989), in their book The Secret
Life of Plants, quote an experiment in which a few unhealthy plants
were kept in the middle, surrounded by a large group of healthy
plants. Because the healthy plants emitted stable, strong and highly
charged energy that almost instantly interacted with the sick plant's
weak energy, the sick plants got stronger and healthier day by
day.This change can be strongly attributed to theenergy interactions,
the higher vibratory source feeding the lower source - the blocked and
low-charge energy replaced with pure and steady source of energy.
Results of a study, which were published in the year 2000 in the
journalHorttechology, says that people in roomswith houseplants and a
view of trees could tolerate more physical pain than those in
surroundings without any plants or trees. The Washington State
University conducted this study. Clearly, there was arelationship
between theenergy in plants and trees and the energy within an ailing
person.
Tompkins and Bird (1989)quote yet another experiment by Marcel Vogel,
in which the experimenter paid some attention to a particular leaf,
and none to other leaf, the control. He found out that the leaf
towhich there was no attention paid appeared flaccid, turning brown
and beginning to decay. The leaf on which there was focused attention
was radiantly vital and green, just as if it had been freshly plucked
from the garden.
There was indeed some kind of power that was keeping the leaf in a
healthy state, and that power was the energy interaction between the
person and the plant. Simply the person attending to it observed
significant growth in a leaf. Vogel continued his experiments in
different situations and found similar results. In some experiments,
the leaves that were attended to by human attention appeared to even
heal their wounds caused by being ripped off from thetree.
Islam has also been kind enough to advise the healthy people and
relatives to refrain from staying for a long time with a sick person.
Not only would this act make the sick person lethargic, there could be
a reversal effect, in that the sick person's energy may absorb too
much free flowing and balanced energy from the healthy person thus
lowering his healthy and vibratory nature. This may further cause
short-term illness or lethargy because of the excessive amounts of
highly charged energy being drained from the healthy person.
Praying for the Sick
We have already noted the benefits of prayer, even if the ailing
person is in another continent. Itis customary for Muslims to ask
their brethren to remember them in their prayers, and Muslims pray in
congregation for each other all the time. Inparticular, when someone
is sick, then Muslims gather together and pray for that sick andailing
person. According to Weston (1998), a group of people, saying prayers
has the followingeffect on the group, its surroundings, and the
persons the prayer may be offered to:
When you pray with other family members, you form a sacred group
energy field. The energy released bathes everyonein that room. It
flows intothe carpet, the walls, and furniture, leaving a residue of
it present at alltimes. This sacred group energy field is filled with
information, the information from the intent and content of your vocal
prayers together.
Group power, according to Weston (1998) can achieve same healing
results as that of one world-class healer. Scientists accept this
typeof prayer, with intention (as the person's name is being
mentioned), as proven acts that provide healing to the recipient.
Several specific studies have already been quoted in the earlier
sections, but one large meta-study is quoted below.
Recently, studies were identified by an electronic search of the
MEDLINE, PsychLIT, EMBASE, CISCOM, and Cochrane Library Databases from
their inception to the end of 1999 and by contact withresearchers in
the field. Studies with the following features were included; random
assignment, placebo or other adequate control, publication in
peer-reviewed journals, clinical (rather than experimental)
investigations, and use ofhuman participants. Two investigators
independently extracted data on study design, sample size, type of
intervention, type of control, direction of effect (supporting or
refuting the hypothesis), and nature of the outcomes.
A total of 23 trials involving 2774 patients met the inclusion
criteria and were analyzed. Heterogeneity of the studies precluded a
formal meta-analysis. Of the trials, five examined prayer as the
distant healing intervention, 11 assessed non- contact therapeutic
touch, and seven examined other forms of distant healing. Of the 23
studies, 13 (57%) yielded statisticallysignificant treatment effects,
nine showed no effect over control interventions, and one showed a
negative effect.
The study concluded that the methodological limitations of several
studies make it difficult to draw definitive conclusions about the
efficacy of distant healing. However, given that approximately 57% of
trials showed a positive treatment effect,the evidence thus far merits
further study. This study appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine
2000.

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