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Hospitals in Islamic Civilization

Imagine a nation where every hospital is free of cost irrespective to your status, caste, gender, religion, nationality. A multi-speciality hospital providing you a clothes, well furnished wards, delicious food, specialized doctors, that too free of cost. Not just this even giving the patient money and food as a compensation for being out of work during his hospital stay. Isn't it mind-blowing?? This is what hospitals were in the Islamic Civilization. In early medieval where Europe belief that illness is supernatural, uncontrollable, incurable. Muslims took completely different approach because of the saying of prophet Muhammadï·º, “God has sent down the disease and he has appointed cure for every disease, so treat yourself medically”(¹) Mobile Dispensaries The first known Islamic care center was set up in a tent by Rufaydah al-Aslamiyah r.a during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammadï·º. Famously, during the Ghazwah Khandaq, she treated the wounded in a separ...

Islam and casualty

Causality is the principle or relationship between causes and effects. It asserts that every event (effect) has a cause or set of causes that precede it and lead to its occurrence. In essence, causality explains how one event or action leads to the occurrence of another, forming a sequence where the cause directly influences the outcome. For long causality has been used to back various pseudosciences and corrupted ideology. From a secular world-view the existence of the universe itself is a product of cause and effect, while it denies the initial cause or have no answers for what caused the cause to cause. In this article we aim to discuss the only logical explanation of causality with respect to sound intellect and objective laws of reality. Dr. Israr Ahmad on Causality and Its Relationship with Divine Decree Dr. Israr Ahmad ( Rahimahullah ) offers a profound explanation of causality and its connection to Qadr, or Divine Decree, in Islamic theology. He emphasizes that nothing in the ...

The Jaun-Iqbal Contrast: A Reflection on Intellectual and Emotional Paths

Poetry has long been associated with a high degree of intellectual and emotional intelligence (IQ and EQ). However, even among skilled poets, the ways in which these traits manifest and influence their work can differ significantly. This distinction can be seen in the contrasting intellectual and emotional trajectories of two prominent poets of the subcontinent: Jaun Elia and Allama Muhammad Iqbal (rahimahullah). Though both were gifted poets and philosophers, their respective legacies differ vastly in their philosophical outlooks and contributions to society. The Intellectual Divide: Jaun Elia vs. Iqbal Jaun Elia and Allama Iqbal were both celebrated for their linguistic mastery and philosophical depth, but the direction in which their intellects took them was profoundly different. While Iqbal is recognized as a visionary philosopher who sought the revival of Islamic spirituality, intellectualism, and the eventual establishment of an Islamic state, Jaun Elia’s work increasingly veered...

The false prophet disorder

Why do people claim prophethood? The purpose will be to look at prophethood claimants and try to figure out their motives behind it. We will consider two approaches. In the first approach, we will not doubt their intentions while seeking the purpose behind it. Let's unveil what we are investigating in the first place. Before we go ahead, this paper is written with a firm perspective that prophethood is true and prophets do exist. The purpose of this paper is to not deny prophethood but rather fake claimants of the same. For now, we will assume prophets exist, (we will establish prophethood in another paper) yet people who claim to be prophets are lying. They are claiming to be something they are not. I would like to put more emphasis on this statement. Claiming to be something they are not. What does that do to a person? How common is it? Why would one do it? Psychologically this has existed for the longest time. One of the earliest documented cases was reported by French psychia...

Can Humanity be the best religion?

Humanity is the quality of being human. Commonl y also perceived as the quality of kindness, compassion, mercy, and altruism. Due to this, a commonly propagated notion is that Humanity is the best religion. This notion is entertained throughout the world by countless people regardless of their religion. This means when speaking of humanity people are ready to put it above their belief in god itself. The reason the word ‘humanity’ is considered synonymous with kindness and other morally good qualities is that regardless of religion, caste, creed, color, etc it is a universal human trait to be kind and to help fellow humans, with complete consciousness. Then is it better than all religions? Let's entertain that and unveil it further. If the word Humanity itself comes from the qualities of human nature then why does it have a biased meaning? If the reason for associating it with kindness is because it is human nature to be kind then why is it not associated with cruelty? Is cruelty n...

Questions to nationalism - a mini essay

  Is it possible to produce an intellectual argument to justify patriotism/nationalism? What is the premise of putting one's nation before everything else? Is it that you live in that nation? Then why is patriotism limited to the nation? why not the entire earth? is it that your employment is based on that land? but people are employed throughout the earth again. Is skill, talent, or experience that employs you not or is it your nationality? If "nation" is derived from a colony where you belong then thinking on a bigger level our nation should be one, that's the entire earth. Furthermore, how does a nation hold an emotional volume in any heart? A mother feels for a child and vice versa because of the fact that she has birthed the child, because of the instinct of motherhood shared across almost all living beings, and because she has a set of expectations from that child. Same for the father. Every concept we love, we do so because it either fulfills some of our expect...