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Islamic Article |- Islamic Medicine al-Kadhim (AS) has said:

Stay away from the treatment of physicians as long as you are well. It
is similar to a building, a little of it leads too much.
al-Hasan (AS) remarks:
Every medication stirs up an illness, and there is nothing more
beneficial for the body than withholding from it all except what it
requires.
The Infallible (AS) have further cautioned us to avoid medications as
long as the body can bear the illness. Natural medicines used by the
Prophet (S) were simple and non-artificial remedies. They were all
designed to stimulate thehealing process within a person. Neither he,
nor any of his companions even used any synthetics,pharmaceutical or
composite chemicals (al-Akili, 1993).
Clearly, Hippocrates preferred and prescribedherbal remedies first,
andif these did not work, he resorted to alternative methods, mostly
drugs (Becker, 1990). The herbs,according to healers at that time,
assisted in balancing the energy flow within the sick person. Also,
these herbalpreparations and natural whole food vitamin supplements
have a strong ability to play a significant role in the energetic
system of the body. Brennan (1987) postulates further that herbal
preparations and vitamins may significantly affect the human energy in
a positive manner and fasten the healing process.
Herbs and whole foods asroot vegetables are rich with electrical
energy derived from the earth and have more grounding power
(Poole,1999). Because all living things possess a life force, even
such herbs can have significant effects on the human body via their
electrical properties. Pharmaceutical grade drugs contain within their
structure the most unstable and unsteady electrical matrix, together
with unfavorable, confusing and altered info-energy, and consuming
them on a daily basis is the real cause of many of the major illnesses
in this present society. Herbal and food preparations for medicinal
purposes are natural, and many of their families contain researched
medicinal qualities. Therefore, to consume these herbs andfoods when
ill will help balance the blockages in the energy field brought about
by sickness and ailment, as well as physical complaints.
Reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr.
Lucien Leape of Harvard School of Public Health, has calculated that:
180,000 people die in theU.S. each year partly as a result of
iatrogenic injury(injury caused by medicines), the equivalent of 3
jumbo jets crashes every two days.
In another issue, the journal points out that:
Injury from medical treatment in the U.S. dwarfs the annual automobile
accident mortality of 45,000 and accounts for more deathsthan all
other accidents combined.
An average 50% of patients return to their medical doctors simply
because of medically - induced problems. Further, most of the medical
drugs in existence 30 years ago cannot now be used because of their
discovered toxic effects! This is exactly why approximately 15% of
hospital days are devotedto the treatment of drug side effects.
Furthermore,recent surveys from the United Kingdom and America have
shown thatas many as 80% of patients feel that their underlying
complaint, their reason for going to the doctor, was not
satisfactorily resolved when they left the office (Chopra, 1990).
Pharmaceutical Drugs and Electrical Damage
Pharmaceutical grade drugs significantly affect the energy (Brennan,
1987; Margo von Phul, 2000) and traditional healers and energy
scientists have thoroughly documented such reports. To report from one
such health-care professional, Brennan (1987) has observed dark energy
forms in the liver left from drugs taken for various diseases. She
alsoreports chemotherapy to clog the whole energy field, especially
the liver, with greenish-brown mucus-like energy.
To her amazement, she also saw a radiopaque dye that was used to
observe the spine that was injected into the spinal column to diagnose
injury ten yearsafter injection, although it is supposed to clear
thebody in a month or two. She even observed side effects of certain
drugs inher patients as many as ten years after the drug was taken.
The example she gives concerns a drugfor hepatitis that was causing
immune deficiencies five years later. A red dye placed in the spinal
column for exploratory purposes was inhibiting the healing of spinal
nerves ten years later. Apparently, Shamanic healers have also been
reported to observe such energy blockages and disruption in energy
flowin sick patients.
Such kinds of observations are true and have been extensively reported
in scientific research. With proper training, the eyes can be taught
by the mind to physically see beyond normal vision and witness the
energy of thoughts, emotions, and life itself manifestingin every
human being.
A common side effect of all drugs is not talked about - the nutrients
thatare stripped away and depleted by taking medication. These
vitamins, minerals and enzymes are used up in the process of
processingand detoxifying all drugs.Diuretics wash potassium,
magnesium, sodium, zinc and vitamin B2 right out of your body;
antacids steal vitamins A and B1, folic acid, calcium, copper, iron
and phosphorous from your tissues; antibiotics deplete numerous
vitamins - B2, C, D, niacin, folic acid, biotin, and so forth. The
stealing of such minerals and vitamins from the body tissues create
significant electrical damage to the cells as most of the
above-mentioned elements playsignificant roles in the body's
electrical processes, and in turn affect the energy system. Side
effects and diseases caused from medicines will further develop
blockage to our energy system, as we become weaker and lethargic. The
only way to balance and charge this energy around oneself when ill is
to try herbal and wholefood preparations that will provide balance and
health to the system. Moreover, the electrical properties of such
herbals and foods will most definitely strengthen the human energy
system, thereby hastening the healing process. Even further, many
medicines have metals and exposure to many of them can lead
toillnesses. Emoto (2004) found in his experiments that Aluminum, for
example, has a similar vibration frequency to sadness, anger to lead,
uncertainty to Cadmium, and stress to Zinc. Therefore, these metals
can and do cause illnesses - as Alzheimer's is believed to be caused
by excessive Aluminum.
Islam Prefers Natural Medicine over Drugs
The preferred method of medical therapy in Islamic Medicine during the
time of the Prophet (S) and the Infallible (AS), and during the reign
of the most revered Islamic physicians, the like of Ali Ibn Rabban
al-Tabari, (838-870 A.D.), Mohamed Ibn Zakariya al-Razi, (864-930
A.D.), and Ibn Sina, (980-1037 A.D.) was a scheme starting with
nutritional therapy. If this failed, drugs were employed. al-Akili
(1993) writes that in May of 1970, the World Health Organization (WHO)
paid tribute to Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi by stating
that, so important a physician al-Razi was that the well-known writer
George Sarton wrote in his Introduction to the History of Science,
that al-Razi was the greatest physician of the medievalages. In
addition, al-Razi confirmed his preferred method of treatment by
saying:
If a medical doctor can treat a patient through nutrition rather than
medicine, he has done the best thing.
Electrical Power of Herbs and Foods
Herbal preparations carryand store within them the earth's higher
frequency vibrations, andessential systemic memories that reflect
thewholeness of the plants and its history (Schwartz and Russek,
1999). Further, it is highly probable that the Almighty Allah (SWT)
Himself has allowed higher frequencies of energy within these plants
and implanted specific restorative info-energy in them. These plants
know what to do when ingested by humans and animal. A good example
involves a plant that the ancient people used to eat to reduce
cravings for food in times of hunger. The herb literally sends message
to the brain thatit is filled and satiated.
Apparently, Allah (SWT) has given such power to humans and has allowed
such relationship with plants. Shamans are a group of people who are
reported to have been observed to develop suchrelationships. Shamans
talk with plants and animals, with all of nature. They do it in an
altered state of consciousness. Students of Shamanism rapidly discover
that by talking with plants, they can discover how to prepare those
plants for remedies. Shamans have been doing this since ancient times.
They typically know a great deal about plants.
Harner (1997) reports that one shaman is reported to have developed a
practice of discovering and using healing plants based on his learning
directly fromthe plants. Later, he found that the pharmacopoeia he
developed was very closeto the ancient, classic Chinese pharmacopoeia
knowledge of how to prepare and use these plants for different
ailments. Another former Shaman in Germany worked with minerals and
found how they could be used in healing. It turned out that her
discoveries were very close to what has been known in India from
ancient times.
A good example is a tradition from the Prophet (S) that eating 21
raisins reduces allergies. Apparently, the number 21 may also havea
strong meaning, for Allah may have developed this relationship between
Him and the raisins, and that if consumed 21 of them, the raisins
become medicinal. Drinking water in 7 sips has been advised for
stopping hiccups. The number 40 has even superior qualities and
Ayatullah Najm al-Din Kubra (1221) has devoted a whole chapter to this
number inhis book A Treatise on Wayfaring. He says:
We have seen clearly (through direct experience) and known through the
statements (of the sages) that this noble instance from among the
instances pertaining to numbers has a particular significance and a
specialeffectiveness in the development of inner potentialities and
the perfection of enduring qualities and in covering the stages and
traversingthe phases (of wayfaring).
Relevant to previous and forthcoming sections in this book, he quotes
the following tradition by al-Majlisi (1627) in Biharul-Anwar - Volume
14, Page 512:
Verily, if one recites the Chapter of al-Hamd forty times on water and
poursit on someone suffering from fever, God shall curehim.
It is further reported thatwriting 40 times the chapter of al-Inshirah
with saffron on a piece of paper, and the ailing person soaks the
writingsin water and drinks it for 40 days, his kidney stoneswould
break-down into small pieces for elimination. Clearly, (and as we have
noted) the verses of al-Qur'an store much coherent vibrationsand
powerful force fieldsof energy to affect the person in a physiological
manner. Water has a similar strength.
We have noted earlier (and mentioned later) the advantages of reciting
such couplets or Chapters from Qur'an on water or foods. The water not
only has the ability to store the pure and unadulterated info-energy
in its memory but also transfer this vibrant and healing energy to the
sick personand transforms the faults in his or her energy system. The
only difference now is that the number 40 is associated with the
specific healing abilities. Water and food are able to understand such
communications as explained by Emoto (2004). He writes:
Water records information, and then while circulating throughout the
earth distributes information. The water crystals that are formed when
water is shown positive words are simply beautiful. The response to
water of loveand gratitude is nothing less than grandeur.
Thesepositive words give spiritto water.
The power of words, or incantation on water andfood has been
rigorously investigated and Emoto (2004) writes in his book that
besides him, other scientists have also been able to show the effect
ofprayer on water - energy from the spirit of words seem to do the
change (and become a healing source). Even lakes have been observed to
respond to prayer (to harden) and certain words. Science and medicine
has only now appreciated the beneficial aspects of honey and bee
by-products, olive, figs, and so forth. All of these foods have been
mentioned in Qur'an, the honey specifically mentioned as a cure for
people.
Then eat all the fruits andwalk in the ways of your Lord submissively.
There comes out from within it (bee) a fluid of different colors in
which there is a healing for men. Surely, there is a sign in this for
people who reflect.
(al-Qur'an - Chapter 16, Verse 69)
Live foods and fresh fruits have been largely documented to assist in
balancing one's energy (Morse (2000) quoting Alice, (1996).
Practitioners of natural medicine further agree that the effect of
herbal preparations and foods deal with the underlying disease
mechanism, such as an immune deficiency or dysfunction rather than
dealing with the superficial symptoms. Consequently, the effect is
truly curative and not just symptomatic or palliative in nature.
The second feature is that the therapeutic effect is restorative in
nature regardless of direction of the abnormality. This is usually a
common feature of natural herbs and other natural therapeutic
modalities, unlike synthetic pharmacological preparations where
theireffect is usually in one direction and progressivewith increasing
doses beyond the desirable normal range.

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Health |- New SARS-like virus detected in West Asia

Global health officials are closely monitoring a new respiratory virus
related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in
Saudi Arabia and left a Qatari citizen in critical condition in
London.
The germ is a coronavirus, from a family of viruses that cause the
common coldas well as SARS, the severe acute respiratory syndrome that
killed some 800 people, mostly in Asia, in a 2003 epidemic.
In the latest case, British officials alerted the World Health
Organization on Saturday of the new virus in a man who transferred
from Qatar to be treated in London. He had recently travelled to Saudi
Arabia and is now being treated in an intensive care unit after
suffering kidney failure.
WHO said virus samples from the patient are almost identical to those
of a 60-year-old Saudi national who died earlier this year. The agency
isn't currently recommending travel restrictions and said the source
of infection remains unknown. Still,the situation has raisedconcerns
ahead of nextmonth's annual Hajj pilgrimage, which brings millions of
people to Saudi Arabia from around the world.
Health officials don't know yet whether the virus could spread as
rapidly as SARS did or ifit might kill as many people. SARS, which
first jumped to humansfrom civet cats in China,hit more than 30
countries worldwide after spreading from Hong Kong.
"It's still (in the) very early days," said Gregory Hartl, a WHO
spokesman. "At the moment, we have two sporadic cases and there are
still a lot of holes to be filled in."
He added it was unclear how the virus spreads.
Coronaviruses are typically spread in the air but Mr. Hartl said
scientists were considering the possibility that the patients were
infected directly by animals. He said there was no evidence yet of any
human-to-human transmission.
"All possible avenues ofinfection are being explored right now," he said.
No other countries have so far reported any similar cases to WHO, he
said, and so far there is no connection between the cases except for a
history of travel in Saudi Arabia.
Mr. Hartl said the first patient may have had an underlying condition
but it probably didn't make him more susceptible to catching the
virus.
Other experts said it was unclear how dangerous the virus is.
"We don't know if this is going to turn into another SARS or if it
will disappear into nothing," said Michael Osterholm, a flu expert at
the University of Minnesota. He said it was crucial to determine the
ratio of severe to mild cases.

Health |- Avoid stress to keep Alzheimer’s at bay

Many doctor's point to environmental and genetic factors as probable
causes for Alzheimer's Disease
"People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's.
But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy
all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy." These
thoughtsof noted American writer Amy Tan, whose mother was diagnosed
of Alzheimer's, aptly underlines the need to have a positive
attitudeto the disease.
On the occasion of World Alzheimer's Day on Friday, neurologists
maintain that living a fun-filled and fulfilling life with friends and
family and avoiding stress in midlife are thebest bets to prevent
Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The exact reasons for Alzheimer's are yet to
be fully understood and many doctor's point to environmentaland
genetic factors as the probable causes forit.
"Alzheimer's directly impacts the brain tissues, causing dementia or
memory loss. Sometimes, such persons are unable to judge, function and
behave normally. The ailment can be managed if care givers and
patients follow guidelines of neurologists properly," says HOD,
Neurology, Yashoda Hospitals, Jaydeep Ray Choudhary.
Public often tend to mix up dementia with AD. Physicians point outthat
dementia or memory loss can be due to many reasons and Alzheimer's
happens to be one of the reasons that causes dementia.
"In a decade, AD will become a leading ailment that will put a high
burden on the family and the society. Treatment and rehabilitation is
a complex process and guidance is necessary. Medicines are availableto
delay the progression of AD and not to cure it," Dr. Choudhary points
out.
Precautions
Some of the precautionary measures for the ailment include avoiding or
controlling risk factors like hypertension, diabetes,stroke and high
stress in midlife. "AD is very common among persons who are above40
years of age.
So, it is always better that middle aged persons avoid stressful
lifestyle and make sure that they keep their mental and physical
faculties alert by takingup regular activities," HOD, Neurology,
Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS), A. K. Meena said.
AD is characterised by memory loss and patients progressively become
dependant on others for day to day activities like using toilets,
bathing, eating,dressing among other things.

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Hajj - Articles|- Affect of Hajj on the souland life of a Muslim

How does participating in Hajj affect the life of aMuslim?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Performing the rituals ofHajj has many virtues and there is a great
deal of wisdom behind them. The one who is enabled to understand them
and do them is blessed with a great deal of good. Wewill try to list
as many as we can here.
1- Travelling for Hajj to perform the rituals; his journey reminds
him his journey to Allaah andthe Hereafter. When he travels he leaves
behind his loved ones, family, children and homeland, and the journey
to the Hereafter is like that too.
2- The one who goes on this journey takes with him supplies that
will help him reach the holy land, and this reminds him that for the
journey to his Lord, he must have with him provisions that will help
him to arrive safely. Concerning this, Allaah says (interpretation of
the meaning): "And take a provision (with you) for the journey, but
the best provision is At-Taqwa (piety, righteousness)" [al-Baqarah
2:197].
3- Just as travelling is akind of torment, the journey to the
Hereafter is like that too, and many times greater. Ahead of a person
there is the agony of death, death itself, the grave, the gathering,
the reckoning, the weighingin the Balance, and al-Siraat (a bridge
acrossHell, over which all must pass), then Paradise or Hell. The
blessed one is the one whom Allaah saves.
4- When the pilgrim wears the ihraam garments (two pieces of
unsewn white cloth), this reminds him of the shroud in which he will
be wrapped. This motivates him to give upsin. Just as he sheds his
clothes, he should also shed his sins; just as he puts on two clean
white garments, his heart and limbs should also be clean and untainted
with sin.
5- When he says at themeeqaat (the point at which pilgrims enter
ihraam), "Labbayk Allaahumma labbaayk (Here I am at Your service, O
Allaah)", whichmeans that he has responded to his Lord, may He be
exalted, how can he remain in a state of sin without saying to his
Lord, "Labbayk Allaahumma labbaayk (Here I am at Your service, O
Allaah)", meaning, I have responded to Your prohibition of them.
Thisis the time to give up sin.
6- When he gives up the things that are forbidden when in ihraam,
and keeps busy with the talbiyah and dhikr (remembering Allaah), this
shows the state that the Muslim should always be in. Thisis a means of
training and disciplining himself, because he is disciplining himself
by giving up what is basically permitted, but Allaah has forbidden it
to him in this situation. So how can he transgress the sacred limits
that Allaah has set for all times and places?
7- When he enters the sacred House of Allaah, which Allaah has
made aplace of safety for mankind, this reminds him of safety on the
Day of Resurrection, and thatno one can attain it without effort and
striving. The greatest source of safety on the Day of Resurrection is
Tawheed (belief in the Oneness of Allaah) and avoiding shirk
(associating others with Allaah). Concerning this Allaah says
(interpretation of the meaning): "It is those who believe (in the
Oneness of Allaah and worship none but Him Alone) and confuse not
their Belief with Zulm (wrong, i.e. by worshipping others besides
Allaah), for them(only) there is security and they are the guided"
[al-An'aam 6:82].
When he kisses the BlackStone, which is the first ritual that he does,
this trains the visitor to venerate the Sunnah (the way of the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him)), and not to transgress
against the law of Allaahon the basis of his flawed reasoning. He
knows that what Allaah has prescribed for mankind is wise and good,
and he trains himself to submit fully tohis Lord, may He be exalted.
Concerning that,'Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) said, after
kissing the Black Stone: "I know that you are just a stone and you can
neither cause harm nor bring benefit. Were it not that I saw the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) kissing you, I
would not have kissed you." Narrated by al-Bukhaari (1520) and Muslim
(1720).
8- When he circumambulates the Ka'bah, that reminds himof his
father Ibraaheem (Abraham, peace be upon him), and how he built the
Ka'bah as a place of safety for mankind and called them to come on
pilgrimage to this House.Then came our Prophet Muhammad (peace and
blessings of Allaah be upon him) who also called people to come to
this House. Moosa (Moses) and 'Eesa (Jesus - peace be upon them both)
also came on pilgrimage to this House,which is therefore a symbol of
these Prophets. How could it be otherwise when Allaah commanded
Ibraaheem (peace be upon him) to build it and venerate it?
9- When he drinks the water of Zamzam, this reminds him of the
blessing that Allaah has bestowed upon people in this blessed water,
from which millions of people have drunk for many centuries, and it
still has not dried up. He is encouraged to say du'aa' (supplication)
when drinking it, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah
be upon him) said: "The water of Zamzam is for whatever it is drunk
for." Narratedby Ibn Maajah (3062) and Ahmad (14435). It is a hasan
hadeeth which was classed as such by Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have
mercy on him) in Zaad al-Ma'aad (4/320).
10-The saa'i (running) between al-Safa and al-Marwa reminds him ofthe
great hardship undergone by our mother Haajar (Hagar), and how she ran
between al-Safa and al-Marwa looking for someone to save her from the
trouble in which she found herself,and especially for water to give to
her young son Ismaa'eel (Ishmael). This woman bore this test with
patience, and turned to her Lord. In her we have a good example,
because when a man remembers the striving and patience of this woman,
his problems seem less significant, and when a woman remembers one of
her own gender, her hardship becomes easierto bear.
11-Standing in 'Arafah reminds the pilgrim of the great gathering of
mankind on the Day of Gathering. If the pilgrim suffers exhaustion
because of the crowdingtogether of thousands ofpeople, then how about
when all of mankind are gathered, barefoot, naked and uncircumcised?
12-As we said with regard to kissing the Black Stone, so too
whenstoning the Jamaraat (stone pillars representing the Devil), the
Muslim trains himselfto be obedient and to follow the example of the
Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him). Thus he manifests
pure submission to Allaah.
13-When he offers the sacrifice, this reminds him of the important
incident when our father Ibraaheem submitted to Allaah's command to
sacrifice hisonly son Ismaa'eel (Ishmael), and that thereis no room
for compassion which goes against the commands and prohibitions of
Allaah. It also teaches him to respond to the command of Allaah, as
Ismaa'eel said: " 'O my father! Do that which you are commanded, In
sha' Allaah (if Allaah wills), you shall find me of As-Saabiroon (the
patient)'" [al-Saffaat 37:102].
14-When he exits ihraamand that which Allaah had forbidden to him
during ihraam becomes permissible to him again, this trains him to be
patient, and teaches him that with hardship goes ease, and that the
outcome for the one who responds to the command of Allaah is joyand
happiness. This joy can only be felt by the one who tastes the
sweetness of obedience, like the joy that the fasting person feels
when he breaks his fast, or that the one who spends the night in
prayer feels after he has prayed.
15-When he has finishedthe rituals of Hajj and done them as Allaah has
prescribed and as He likes, and has completed his rituals, he has the
hope that his Lord will forgive him all his sins, as the Prophet
(peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) promised when he said:
"Whoever comes to this House and does not utter any obscene speech or
do any evil deed, will go back as his mother bore him." Narrated by
al-Bukhaari (1449) and Muslim (1350). This motivates him to turn over
a new leaf in his life, free from sin.
16-When he goes back to his wife and children, the joy of meeting them
reminds him of the greater joy he will feel when he meets them in the
Paradise of Allaah, may He be exalted. This reminds him that true loss
is loss of oneself andone's family on the Day of Resurrection, as
Allaahsays (interpretation of the meaning): "Say (O Muhammad): The
losers are those who will lose themselves and their families on the
Day of Resurrection. Verily, that will be a manifest loss!" [al-Zumar
39:15].
This is what we were able to mention.
And Allaah knows best.