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Imam Shafi’ee (RA) is recorded to have praised the pursuit of the knowledge of “Tibb” and described it as the most noble field of study after that of halal and haraam (fiqh).

The statement of the Imam is as follows:

لا أعلم علما بعد الحلال والحرام، أنبل من الطب، إلا أن أهل الكتاب قد غلبونا عليه.

I do not know of any field of study, after the knowledge of halal and haraam, which is more noble than (the study of) “tibb”, but alas (the matter is such that) the ahle-kitaab (Christians and Jews) have dominated us in this (Siyar A’lam An-Nubala)

The respected Imam also stated:

العلم علمان، علم فقه للأديان، وعلم طب للأبدان

(Real) knowledge is two: The knowledge of fiqh which is for the deeni requirements, and the knowledge of “tibb” which is for the bodily requirements

What is the tibb and the type of study that is referred to by Imam Shafi’ee (RA)?

Imam Shafi’ee lived during the era when medicine was practiced and studied with the intention to establish the root cause of illness and apply dietary and lifestyle changes and herbal medicinals as the first route of treatment. Only if these methods were not successful were more invasive procedures considered. While surgery was practiced it was not the first option as it is today.

The belief in Allah ﷻ and the overriding authority of the laws of Allah ﷻ significantly influenced the medical practices of his time, from the ethical considerations of treatment methods, to the exposure of the body being strictly limited to necessity, to the holistic care of patients etc, whereas today, modern medicine is completely secular and does not take guidance from shariat. In fact, the opposite is observed where doctors and hospital staff ignore the commands of Allah ﷻ, prescribe haraam substances, carelessly stop patients from fasting and other religious obligations, expose areas of the patient that are not necessary, and perform procedures and investigations very often only to get the maximum out of a patient’s medical aid.

Besides this there are many glaring differences and flagrant violations of the laws of Allah ﷻ when it comes to the study and practice of modern medicine:

Human dissection:

Human dissection, which is haraam, was not a part of the learning of medicine in his time. I doubt the respected Imam would have called today’s practice of dissection of male and female bodies in utter nakedness being done by a group of mixed male and female students as noble.

Nowadays there are those that have given fatwa of permissibility for the purposes of the benefit to humanity, but this is built on a weak foundation, since people are more disease ridden in modern times as compared to when human dissection was not performed. In that time they relied on the dissection of animals and then extrapolated the knowledge to the understanding of the human body and Alhamdulillah disease was treated very well.

The hadeeth of Nabi ﷺ shoud not be taken lightly to the effect: “Breaking the bone of the deceased is like breaking it when he was alive.” Narrated by Abu Dawood (2792).

Exposure of the satr:

Unnecessary nakedness and exposure of the satr is found throughout the modern medicine field, this is prevalent in the books filled with naked pictures of men and women which are necessary study material for both men and women and without any shame or guilt. The minimum which could have been done in order to comply with shariat is have males deal with males and females with females, but this is not even a concern or topic of discussion even amongst seemingly pious muslim doctors who will scorn at the very idea, while in the time of the great Imam, it was not practice for a women to treat a male, they would specialise in the treatment of women, acting as midwives, nurses and practitioners of herbal medicine. Female physicians and midwives primarily focused on gynecology, obstetrics, and pediatrics, fields where their services were most needed and socially acceptable.

Males also would not treat females without a mahram present and they would not unnecessarily expose parts of the body not required. The issue of unnecessary exposure is not being made up as some would think, a study examining unnecessary invasive procedures in the United States between 2008 and 2016 found that such procedures were often performed without medical necessity, leading to undue exposure and potential harm and it found that this was very often profit motivated and being done predominantly by male doctors who seem to be fulfilling their internal lust and desires in this way. The great Imam would not have called this practice noble.

By contrast the practice of medicine in his time and in keeping with the deen of Islam which is a deen of hayaa (modesty) was done with great care NOT to expose the satr and create an environment where women especially could be abused in this way.

Basis of Knowledge

Tibb in the time of the Imam and even in the time of Nabi ﷺ was not based on the atheistic scientific method. It was based on classical books written by pious scholars who had built up a lifetime of empirical knowledge on the benefits and uses of what Allah ﷻ has placed in the earth for the benefit of mankind, viz the medicinal substances located in the plants, minerals and animals of the world. According to some ulamaa the origin of this form of Tibb is from the Ambiyaa alaihimus salaam itself which was transmitted down and practiced by their followers just as we know that Nabi ﷺ encouraged the use of black seed, honey, senna leaves, hijama, qust, ajwa date seeds, recitation of Surah fatiha and other ayaat of Qur’an and many other treatment methods.

Modern medicine attempts to discredit such practices which are not confirmed with the atheistic sceintific method, but in reality the pharmaceutical cartels only seek to profit from this original knowledge by researching the very same substances and extracting “cures” from it and then patenting it in order to claim it as their own. Examples include:

Aspirin

• Plant Source: Willow bark (Salix species)
• Active Compound: Salicin
• Details: Aspirin, or acetylsalicylic acid, is a widely used pain reliever and anti-inflammatory drug. The use of willow bark dates back to ancient civilizations, including the Egyptians and Greeks. The active compound salicin was isolated, leading to the development of aspirin in the late 19th century.

Quinine

• Plant Source: Cinchona tree bark (Cinchona species)
• Active Compound: Quinine
• Details: Quinine is used to treat malaria. Indigenous people in South America used Cinchona bark to treat fevers. European colonists brought the knowledge back, and quinine was isolated in the early 19th century.

Morphine

• Plant Source: Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum)
• Active Compound: Morphine
• Details: Morphine is a powerful analgesic used for severe pain management. The use of opium poppy for pain relief dates back thousands of years. Morphine was first isolated in the early 19th century.

Digoxin

• Plant Source: Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)
• Active Compound: Digoxin
• Details: Digoxin is used to treat heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation and heart failure. The medicinal use of foxglove was popularized in the 18th century by William Withering, who observed its effects on heart conditions.

Atropine

• Plant Source: Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
• Active Compound: Atropine
• Details: Atropine is used to treat bradycardia (slow heart rate) and as an antidote for certain types of poisoning. It was derived from the deadly nightshade plant, which has a long history of use in “Tibb”

Paclitaxel (Taxol)

• Plant Source: Pacific yew tree (Taxus brevifolia)
• Active Compound: Paclitaxel
• Details: Paclitaxel is used in chemotherapy for treating various cancers. It was first isolated from the bark of the Pacific yew tree in the 1960s.

Ephedrine

• Plant Source: Ephedra (Ephedra sinica)
• Active Compound: Ephedrine
• Details: Ephedrine is used as a decongestant and bronchodilator. It has been used in “Tibb” for thousands of years.

Reserpine

• Plant Source: Indian snakeroot (Rauwolfia serpentina)
• Active Compound: Reserpine
• Details: Reserpine is used to treat high blood pressure and psychotic disorders. The plant has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries.

Artemisinin

• Plant Source: Sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua)
• Active Compound: Artemisinin
• Details: Artemisinin is an antimalarial drug. It was discovered by Chinese scientist Tu Youyou in the 1970s, drawing from ancient Chinese medical texts.

The difference though is that in the time of Imam Shafi these herbs, used in their original form did not have the associated side effects that the extracted pharmaceuticals have today. They had in them a balance of qualities or the practitioners knew how to add other medicinals to balance the treatment, just as Nabi ﷺ instructed to eat dates with cucumber so that the coolness of one balances the heat of the other. This is the type of knowledge that Imam Shafi’ee was referring to.

The atheist scientific method, just like the baatil theory of evolution is meant to destroy Imaan in Allah ﷻ , particularly the quality of Allah ﷻ being Shafee (The Healer) and to destroy reverence for the true Ilm, the knowledge that has come to us via the ambiyaa (AS).

Haraam ingredients

This type of education and brainwashing has resulted in a condition in those who have been put through the modern medical schools where the trust and yaqeen and importance of the words of Allah ﷻ and His Rasul ﷺ and the Sahaba Kiraam (RA) is of secondary importance or only taken superficially and seperated from practice like the secular system keeps religion away from so called “interference” in worldly matters. For example:

قال ابن مسعود في شأن المسكر: إنَّ اللهَ لم يجعلْ شفاءَكم فيما حَرَّم عليكم

Ibn Masood (RA) relates in the matter of intoxicants: Most assuredly Allah ﷻ has not placed a cure for you in those things which are haraam upon you

In spite of this you see modern medicine using countless haraam ingredients in medicines and the “muslim” doctors are the ones prescribing such medicines and this is why even haraam ingredients such as pig products in vaccines and pig valves etc can be used without any conscience, and even encouraged by Muslim doctors. The system has brainwashed them just as it does students who are exposed to the atheistic evolution theory attack from Shaytaan.

How many a muslim doctor will prescribe the recitation of Surah Fatiha? How many will advise to give sadaqa? How many will advise to exert in Duaa? Yes, there are a few, and most of them only do so as a last resort, but the vast majority regard the hadeeth of Nabi ﷺ in this regard to be mere fairytales. This is the result of going through the modern medical education system, it corrupts and is not noble at all.

Many incidents of cure are related in the books of taareekh and hadeeth where a person was cured through duaa and sadaqah.

Many doctors even totally reject the effect of sihr and nazr, which are confirmed by the Quran and the ahadeeth to be a real factor in maladies affecting the ummah. Yes, amongst the public there is an over-attribution of illness to these two real causative factors but they are nevertheless real and even the Prophet ﷺ himself was affected in this way and taught us how to be relieved from its effect through the recitation of specific verses of Quran, yet it is not taught in the atheist medical school curriculum and a doctor trained in one will mock or jest at the idea, risking his/her imaan in the process. How could Imam Shafi’ee (RA) ever regard such a brainwashing as “noble”?

Modern universities

The crux of the matter is that the educational institutions where modern medicine is taught, are the exact place where this atheistic brainwashing takes place. It is the den of the devils, the shayateen, whose only aim is to destroy Islam by destroying the morality of our girls and boys who attend these places which have been engineered to do exactly what shaytaan did to Adam (AS) and Hawa. As Allah ﷻ describes clearly in this verse:

يَـٰبَنِىٓ ءَادَمَ لَا يَفْتِنَنَّكُمُ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُ كَمَآ أَخْرَجَ أَبَوَيْكُم مِّنَ ٱلْجَنَّةِ يَنزِعُ عَنْهُمَا لِبَاسَهُمَا لِيُرِيَهُمَا سَوْءَٰتِهِمَآ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ يَرَىٰكُمْ هُوَ وَقَبِيلُهُۥ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا تَرَوْنَهُمْ ۗ إِنَّا جَعَلْنَا ٱلشَّيَـٰطِينَ أَوْلِيَآءَ لِلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

O children of Adam! Do not let Satan deceive you as he tempted your parents out of Paradise and caused their cover to be removed in order to expose their nakedness. Surely he and his soldiers watch you from where you cannot see them. We have made the devils allies of those who disbelieve. (A’raaf: 27)

Much more can be said about the modern field of medicine, such as the corrupt medical insurance system, the hiding of real cures, the promotion of vaccines from an early age that are linked with autism and other illnesses, the use of the vaccine program for the depopulation and genocide agenda (which is a documented fact admitted to) etc. but this article will become too lengthy if i were to delve into each of these in detail.

Sufficed to say that this is not the field of medicine that Imam Shafi’ee was referring to, the Imam was referring to “Tibb”, the medicine that is guided by Quran and Sunnah, based on ancient texts, brimming with hayaa, where the honour of a woman is preserved and the human body respected, which can definitely be combined with modern medical procedures and tests that do not violate the shariat in either its method of study or practice.

We should be careful and wary of those who promote such sayings of the Imam, and then advocate modern medicine as the intent and thereby even encourage our youth and especially girls to go to such places of filth where they are morally destroyed.

The correct approach is to revive the true “Tibb” that the great Imam of Fiqh and upholder of the shariat was referring to. May Allah ﷻ grant us the vision to see this matter clearly.