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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 Muhammadﷺ, “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 Muhammadﷺ. Famously, during the Ghazwah Khandaq, she treated the wounded in a separ...

Problem of Evil, Nature of god and morality | Chapter 2 | al Jawab as Saheeh liman yunkir al Waheeh

The deniers of the logic in the previous chapter have long argued about the problem of evil. To explain it briefly it's merely a concern towards the existence of an almighty God via his moral choices. If God exists and he truly is almighty why does he not end all suffering and evil from the face of earth. The Greek philosopher Epicurus was one of the first people to provide an academic understanding towards it. The term ‘Epicurean Paradox’ hence coined after his name serves an understanding of this, although this is also an original thought in some atheists. Let us have a look at it. If god wishes to not erase evil, he is not all-good and if he cannot erase evil he is not all-powerful. Let us first discuss the natural conclusion of this argument. This argument questions the nature of god not the existence of god. If this argument proves that god is not all-good then that's all it proves, a not all-good or evil god still may exist if we look at it logically. For example th...

Rationality, sound intellect and the existence of 'god' | Chapter 1 | al Jawab as Saheeh liman yunkir al Waheeh

The question if there exists a higher being that has supposedly created all there is, and doubts in it are perfectly valid and encouraged for any person entering the stage of consciousness. It is via doubts and criticisms that one arrives at the truth, and humbles himself towards it. By "humbles" himself we mean that the truth is not derived by approval of a person's preferences, emotions, and whims rather the truth is always objective regardless of how one feels about it. Take for example the sun and it's hot nature, if the entire world were to deny the sun is hot until it is taught in schools that it is actually made up of ice, the sun regardless of anyone's realisation or denial will remain objectively hot. Summers will be equally as hot, and it will burn on equally as high temperatures. In such a case denial or stupidity won't be of any merit and one will have to 'submit' or 'humble' themselves before the truth. This is not a dent on any pe...