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IsseGole:
Salamu calaykum
This is a question; Do you think teaching medicine would be different if we were the dominators of the world? I mean if the world would have continued the period of Andalusia, as every body knows these days we as muslims were the heads of knowldge and civilization in the whole world, and there were universities and scientists in all muslim world while europe was sleeping in the dark ages and diseases.
Well you see my point, Do you think it would have been better or worse? do you think europians delayed the human development or they accelerated it when they overtook what we had? just what do you think?
Thanks for visiting and asnwering in advance!!
Ciise Dheere

Admin:
Good Question?!
First of all, I am sure 100% if we were the dominators of the world as you said! and we are the drivers of this knowledge and civilization train most of the diseases which are known today will no longer exists?!!
You ask me how?!
Because our great religion automatically bans the causes of this diseases in our shari'a as it's stated in our comprehensive Book of Medicine (Holy Kuran)
I will give you an example:
All the STDs will no longer exists as it's rate today!!
All the diseases transmitted OFR (oral faecal route)!!
All the psychological diseases will hardly known today!!
the list goes on!!
The causes of all those diseases are prevented and cured in our Prophetic Medicine!!
but the other question that needs to be answered is:
what our ancient muslims those who lived in andalus have done in medical history?
let me tell you their contributions for example:
They translated most of foreign sources into Arabic ( 7th and 8th centuries)
From (9th through the 13 centuries) was the stage of excellence in which the Islamic physicians were the leaders like (Ibn Al-Nafis, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Kindi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) was known in the West as "the prince of physicians." and more known physician world wide in that golden centuries.
Who discovered the pulmonary circulation?!
Who had the ability to practice medicine and surgery as well?!
who named public health, preventive medicine as part of medicine? and listed the well known seven principles for the preservation of health!!
Who defined fever and claasified into the known types today like continuous, relapsing, and hectic!!
Who treated measles and smallpox?!!
I can't list all the discoveries here but try
To know more about discoveries by the hand of our great muslim physicians check this article
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7531/1486
http://www.iiim.org/islamed3.html
"Today's Western world might look very different without the legacy of Muslim scholars in Baghdad, Cairo, Cordoba, and elsewhere."
thanks
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By: Dr.Mahdi

IsseGole:
Thank you very much dr mahdi;
I was not expecting actually such an answer, it exceeded my expectations, so thank you
I hope students dont forget who they are and where they came from
the truth is that our religion is like a constitution of health, since it protects us from every harm, good for us if we stick to it.
thank you
Ciise Dheere

Ladan:

Soomaalidu waxay tiraahdaa "Gaal dil gartiisana sii"

No one is denying the contributions of Muslim scientists and physicians to medicine but what many Muslims tend to ignore or purposefully forget is most of those Muslim scholars acquired some of those knowledge from Greek civilizations. Islamic civilization brought many things to science but Western civilization flourished more after them.
Would Medicine has been where it is today if Islamic civilization continued? I don't know and I would even go as far as say none of us would know but looking how most world's knowledge is, I would say Medicine and science would've died centuries ago.

Dr. Mahdi,
Just cause Islam bans or prohibits certain things does not equate to full prevention or eradications of diseases. Compare life expectancies of western world and Muslim world and see what you get. Besides Oral-fecal route diseases are almost unheard of Western world and you know why? its not because of Quran but their advancement of Science.

IsseGole:
Hi all;
Dear Ladan, thank you for expressing your opinion, but I simply disagree with you.

--- Quote from: Ladan on March 17, 2007, 06:27:06 PM ---
Soomaalidu waxay tiraahdaa "Gaal dil gartiisana sii"

No one is denying the contributions of Muslim scientists and physicians to medicine but what many Muslims tend to ignore or purposefully forget is most of those Muslim scholars acquired some of those knowledge from Greek civilizations. Islamic civilization brought many things to science but Western civilization flourished more after them.
Would Medicine has been where it is today if Islamic civilization continued? I don't know and I would even go as far as say none of us would know but looking how most world's knowledge is, I would say Medicine and science would've died centuries ago.

Dr. Mahdi,
Just cause Islam bans or prohibits certain things does not equate to full prevention or eradications of diseases. Compare life expectancies of western world and Muslim world and see what you get. Besides Oral-fecal route diseases are almost unheard of Western world and you know why? its not because of Quran but their advancement of Science.



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We are all sure that when Muslim societies some 500 years ago started declining and stopped creating and advancing their own civilization, but instead they were very busy in Adunyo and other silly things. When that happened, it was the beginning of the end for them.
When you say science and medicine would have died centuries ago, I would expect a western person to say such a thing but a somali muslim person, No. Sorry but it seems that you are some what pre-occupied by other ideas. What the Quran banned and prohipited was taking a good part in the control of diseases in the muslim civilizations. I wont go far for examples and evidences as I think it is unnecessary.
life expectancies of the west world and the lack of orofacial diseases there is not evidence of any thing. There is no one who doesn't know what the west did to our countries in the 19th century when they colonized all africa and the third world, ofcourse the west was never fair about any thing, now they use africa as a grave for their wastes, and they rob arab's patrol, they do every thing to make the world unstable, to make us die of hunger, poverty, disease, and ignorance. If they had the intention, they would have done something about it decades ago, but no, they want it this way. They may do some thing right but only for the sake of their own populations, and under the pressure of their societies, but because of us, it never happened.
I would never expect a somalian person and african person to not see it this way, it is bizarre.
The west advanced science and medicine, no body denies it, but I am saying that when we compare it with the bad things they did too, it is even.
This is not some kind of conspiracy theory, but the history teaches us lessons, and if we dont take advantage of it, then we are Magudbayaal.
Please dont accept every thing you are told by the television.
yours sincerely.

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