Healing Sciatica

Healing Through Prophetic Medicine in Islam

Tibb-e-Nabawi

Healing Diseases

Sciatica

رَبَّنَا هَبْ لَنَا مِنْ أَزْوَاجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّاتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعْيُنٍ وَاجْعَلْنَا لِلْمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا

Prophet's Guidance on curing Sciatica

روى ابن ماجه فى (سننه) من حديث محمد بن سِيرين، عن أنس بن مالك، قال: سمعتُ رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول: دواءُ عِرْقِ النَّسَا ألْيَةُ شاةٍ أعْرَابِيَّةٍ تُذَابُ، ثمَّ تُجزَّأُ ثلاثةَ أجزاءٍ، ثُمَّ يُشْرَبُ على الرِّيقِ فى كلِّ يومٍ جُزْءٌ.

Ibn Majah narrated in his Sunan (collection of Hadith) that Anas bin Malik Radi Allaho Anh said; I heard the Messenger of Allah Sallallaho Alaihe Wasallam saying:


"Curing sciatica is accomplished by melting the fat from the tail of a nomad's ewe, then the fat is divided into three parts and one part per day is drunk on an empty stomach".


Sciatica is an ailment that starts from the hip joint, and then descends to the thigh from the backside of the body. Sometimes, sciatica reaches the ankles and the longer the ailment remains, the lower it descends and the weaker the legs and thighs become.


There are two beneficial understandings in the Hadith mentioned, medical and linguistic.


Linguistically, the Hadith proves that we are allowed to call this ailment as Irq (nerve) Nasa (sciatic nerve), to the contrary of the opinion of some people. They said that the Nasa is the nerve itself and thus the two words together are redundant.


Answering this claim takes two forms. First, the word lrq (nerve) is more general than the word Nasa (sciatic nerve). Hence the term 'Iraq An-Nasa' gives the general and the specific meanings desired. Second, the Nasa is an ailment that attacks the nerve and thus the word Nasa should be included in the name given to the ailment [as it specifies the area where the nerve is causing pain]. It was reported that the name ‘lrq Nasa' is called as such because it makes the people forget (Nasa) any other pain. The sciatic nerve starts from the hips until the bottom of the foot from behind the ankles.


The Messenger of Allah Sallallaho Alaihe Wasallam, as we have noticed in previous Ahadeeth, may use two types of meanings in his expressions. One meaning may be general, for all conditions and people, while the other specific, its meaning and indications are specifically directed at some particular people or situation. The Hadith in this section is the specific type; it is directed at Arabs and the people of Hijaz in particular, including the Bedouins of those areas. The remedy mentioned in the Hadith is the best cure for the people of those areas as ‘Irq An-Nasa' is caused by dryness or thick, septic accumulations. The best treatment for this ailment is using a laxative. The fat on the ewe's tail has two qualities, bringing the septic substances to maturity and softening (the stool in this case); both are required to cure Irq An-Nasa.


In addition, the nomad's ewe has several qualities, such as being small in size, producing lesser excrements and having a soft essence. The nomad's ewe grazes on beneficial wild plants, such as wormwood, lavender cotton and so forth. When the ewe feeds on these wild plants, they will mix with and soften the ewe's flesh, especially the fatty tail. Although the ewe’s milk carries in it the effective ingredients of wild plants, the tail has two qualities that the milk does not have, being a laxative and leading the septic substances to maturity [making them ready to be extracted from the body].


We mentioned before that the regular medicines and remedies of different nations and peoples are based on the type of diet that the people are used to. Indians and Bedouins have a simple diet; therefore they do not use complex medicines. As for the Romans and the Greeks, they use compound medicines. They all agree, however that the best treatment for an ailment is a specific diet. Otherwise the doctors will first prescribe simple and then compound medications, when necessary.


If the diet is simple, simple medications are suitable for the simple ailments. The compound ailments, on the other hand, usually occur due to a complex diet and this is why compound medicines are suitable in those cases. Allah Knows the best.

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The Identity of Dajjal - Lessons From History

The Identity of Dajjal

The  ultimate  battle  between  the  forces  of  Good  and those of Evil requires a world that is highly polarized along ideological lines, and this has already started to take shape. The various  Islamic  movements  throughout  the  world  are  clear proofs that more and more people are realizing the defects and inherent evils of the Dajjalian System, and are coming in contact with the true sources of knowledge, that is, the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). The guardians of the status quo and the defenders of the New World Order, along with   their   agents   and   stooges,   have   already  smelled   the revolution   that   is   taking   shape   in   the   form   of   Islamic Resurgence, and have started to try and suppress the idea whose time has come. The ultimate futility of their efforts is inevitable.

The Western and predominantly Christian countries of the world, as we have discussed above, are virtually being controlled by a very powerful Jewish minority — a recent accomplishment of which was the destruction of the military might of Iraq in the Gulf War. The next item on the Jewish agenda is the creation of Greater Israel, as well as the reconstruction of Solomon’s Temple at the site of Al-Aqsa Mosque. It seems likely that the Jews would try to orchestrate another war between the West, mainly the United States, and the Arab Muslims, most probably on the pretext of dealing with the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

Along with their sinister plan to gain control over the whole world through financial institutions — much of which has already been achieved — the Jews are also waiting for their Promised Messiah who would help them recapture the glory of David and Solomon. The Messiah was, in fact, none other than Prophet Isa (AS), but they opposed and rejected him and tried their   very   best   to   have   him   crucified,   though   he   was miraculously saved by Almighty Allah (SAW).

During the long series of imminent battles in the Middle East, Dajjal the individual would come forward — who is most probably going to be an orthodox and fundamentalist Jew claiming to be the Promised Messiah — and would lead his followers to the de facto creation of Greater Israel (which is supposed to include parts of Egypt, whole of Jordan and Syria, major portions of Iraq, southern Turkey, and northern Hijaz up to the holy city of Medinah). It will be at this crucial juncture of history that Almighty Allah (SWT) will send the real Christ, with the mission of exterminating the Jews and their leader, Dajjal, the false prophet.

Source:Lesson from History (Book) by Dr. Israr Ahmad