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Quran That you exceed not the bounds; but observe the balance strictly; and fall not short thereof (55:7-9) Mankind! Your transgression will rebound on your own selves (10:23)
Ahadith "Pray God for well-being. No blessing other than faith is better than well-being". "And store up enough health to draw on during your illness". "Seek medical treatment". In another version of this hadith, he says: "Yes, servants of God! Seek medical treatment". He raised the hopes of patients, making clear that all diseases may be cured. "God has not created a disease without creating a cure for it". "Do not harm yourself or others" "Pray to God for forgiveness and sound well-being. No blessing other than faith is better than well-being"'. T he Prophet (pbuh) says: "Wealth is appropriate to a God-fearing person, but good health is better for the God-fearing than wealth". "He of you who finds himself enjoying good health, secure in his community and has his daily sustenance, is as if he had the whole world at his finger tips". He also urged doctors to try to identify cures, pursuing the necessary scientific research for this purpose. A hadith quotes the Prophet (pbuh) as saying: "Every disease has a cure. If treatment is administered with the right cure, the patient will recover by God's grace". In a different version; "God has not created a disease without creating a cure for it, which may be known to some and unknown to others". The Prophet (pbuh) placed the whole issue
of the treatment of illnesses in its proper perspective. He was once asked
: "Do our supplication, medication and methods of prevention prevent
anything that God has willed?" He replied: "These are also
part of God's will". Islamic
medical scholars made health their starting point, while illness was the
opposite to it. This is a reflection of their understanding of what God
says in the Quran: ... Ali ibn al-Abbas, who lived one thousand years ago, in his book, Kamil as Sina'ah, gave health a very brief definition: "Health means that the body is in a state of equilibrium". " A state of the body in which functions are run in the normal course". Ibn Sina, in A.D. 1093 in his famous book Al-Qanoon, expresses the dynamism of this balance, saying: "The state of equilibrium which a human being enjoys has a certain range with an upper and a lower limit". It is, then, like a balance that moves between two extreme limits. The Islamic and medical scholar Ibn Rushd defined health in his book Al Kulliyat, some 800 years ago, as: " A state in which an organ performs its normal function or undergoes its normal reaction". In Al Moojaz fi tihh, Ibn al-Nafees, 700 years ago said: "Health is a state of the body in which functions are normal, while disease is the opposite state".
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