the discourse of fiqh in islamic health part 1
ok...b4 i actually buy a webspace and get myself in touch wth the world of the ever-so-impossible HTML and Dreamweaver...i'll just have to content with this bloggy space i have-alhamdullilah.
so what am i writng today hmmm let's see....well as the topics suggests, it's going to be health in the islamic perspctive....
it's true that we have lots of discourses of fiqh in islam that pertains to many aspects of muslim life....like we have the Fiqh of worship( Ibaadat ) we have the Fiqh of Marriage( nikah ) we have the Fiqh of Transactions( Muamalat ) and etc etc.....but have we ever heard of the Fiqh of health.....
actually there is such a thing and that it's been stdied b4 by our Muslim ancestors and scholars in the times of the Ashaarites and Mutazilites, but i guess its time for the contemporary Muslim healthcare practitioners step out of the shadows of our renaissance glory and start reviving and looking, scrutinizing intentively the contextual and practical matters pertaining to the practice of medicine in contemporary society.
so essentially, i dug out the texts and here's what i found....
islam place high regard on health as it is an important part of life....w/o it...can cause a lack of capacity to acheive other things and among these important things are the pillars of islam that is Solat, Fasting, Zakah and Hajj.Also the Shariah strives to protect the rights of pple's mind, body, offspring and property among other things. therefore, health is emphasised strongly in Islam... there are many ayahs in the Qur'an to support this as there are numerous hadiths available.
and islam defines health as comprisng of mental/psychological, physical, social and spiritual wellbeing as compared to the WHO's definition of health which entails the first three aspects only. So essentially a balance of these aspects are required for a healthy life and that we cannot superficially define health as the absence of sickness only just as we don;t define life as the absence of death, rite?
the definition of health is further elaborated bearing in mind that within an individual, that health encompasses a lower limit and an upper limit..and that deviances from these can result in imbalance in health. And that there is also this concept of health potential that each muslim individual can achieve and strive for...to make up or help counter for the events in where our health declines, deteriorates or compromised...which lead to the formation of "health protection" and "health promotion" in contemporary society...presumably having gotten it's inspiration from the islamic model of health.
Furthermore, Islam emphasises on 2 aspects of medicine. one being curative medicine and the other being preventive medicine.( take note as these will be dealt with further later)
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so what am i writng today hmmm let's see....well as the topics suggests, it's going to be health in the islamic perspctive....
it's true that we have lots of discourses of fiqh in islam that pertains to many aspects of muslim life....like we have the Fiqh of worship( Ibaadat ) we have the Fiqh of Marriage( nikah ) we have the Fiqh of Transactions( Muamalat ) and etc etc.....but have we ever heard of the Fiqh of health.....
actually there is such a thing and that it's been stdied b4 by our Muslim ancestors and scholars in the times of the Ashaarites and Mutazilites, but i guess its time for the contemporary Muslim healthcare practitioners step out of the shadows of our renaissance glory and start reviving and looking, scrutinizing intentively the contextual and practical matters pertaining to the practice of medicine in contemporary society.
so essentially, i dug out the texts and here's what i found....
islam place high regard on health as it is an important part of life....w/o it...can cause a lack of capacity to acheive other things and among these important things are the pillars of islam that is Solat, Fasting, Zakah and Hajj.Also the Shariah strives to protect the rights of pple's mind, body, offspring and property among other things. therefore, health is emphasised strongly in Islam... there are many ayahs in the Qur'an to support this as there are numerous hadiths available.
and islam defines health as comprisng of mental/psychological, physical, social and spiritual wellbeing as compared to the WHO's definition of health which entails the first three aspects only. So essentially a balance of these aspects are required for a healthy life and that we cannot superficially define health as the absence of sickness only just as we don;t define life as the absence of death, rite?
the definition of health is further elaborated bearing in mind that within an individual, that health encompasses a lower limit and an upper limit..and that deviances from these can result in imbalance in health. And that there is also this concept of health potential that each muslim individual can achieve and strive for...to make up or help counter for the events in where our health declines, deteriorates or compromised...which lead to the formation of "health protection" and "health promotion" in contemporary society...presumably having gotten it's inspiration from the islamic model of health.
Furthermore, Islam emphasises on 2 aspects of medicine. one being curative medicine and the other being preventive medicine.( take note as these will be dealt with further later)
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