Medical Ethics
Year:2009 | Volume:3 | Issue:9|Papers Count:11

Progression into the depths of human nature has always been one of the most important concerns and basic needs of every generation that not only creates human understanding of the self, but also creates understanding of the large world we live in and enables us to keep our inimitable creator in our minds. In terms of steering into God’s merciful message to the people, the holy religion is retrieved from the boundless ocean of God’s science, always as an original source, and its comprehensive and reliable response to the awareness and life needs of its people has captivated the interest of scholars all over the world. Different studies on their holy Quran show that there is great emphasis on the health and wellbeing of God’s believers, and since healthy people are able to reach a sense of completeness, and a healthy society is composed of healthy people, we decided to have a quick look at the Quran and do a brief research related to health and medicine in the light of verses from the holy Quran. This paper consist a few issues, first: Medicine defined in words and terms, the importance of medicine in the Quran and Hadith, and then a few medical verses from the Quran to be used as proof. However, we reiterate this point that because of the unavailability of original sources and the limited places and scientific writings, we are unable to study this topic as much as it deserves. Therefore, it is possible that some materials presented in this paper do not have scientifically justifiable explanations.

Hygiene and cleanliness has always been of great importance in Islamic culture. Hygiene is not only observing the hygienic rules and to avoid personal contamination but also includes all aspects of human life and environmental contaminations. Therefore to avoid contamination which is considered as one of the major targets of environmental hygiene today has been considered as an obligation for a believer of Islam since decades. Though all these activities must be followed with prayer to god for the acts are done in remembrance of god to be accepted as pure worship. In this article, different Quran ayahs (Verses) and narratives relating personal and environmental hygiene are taken into consideration.Methods: Descriptive library survey has been collected and compiled using at hand resources including Quran, Tafseer, reliable books of Hadith, Behar-ol-Anwar, Nahj al-Balaghe, Qesal, Sahife sajadie, Osole Kafi, Majma'-al.Bayan and other existing publications. Results: Quran ayahs and all Hadith narrations regarding personal hygiene are presented separately for mouth & teeth, hair and nail, clothing and environmental hygiene, water, residence, garbage, nutrition and environment. The current discussion can play a very important and effective role in social actions in terms of renewal of religious thoughts, ideological and practical healthcare principles of the rich culture of Islam and can help to increase the level of awareness, healthcare trainings and to promote the health culture leading all cultural efforts.

Since in the pure religion of Islam, great emphasis has been put on regulations about understanding your spouse and marriage in general, however many people both Muslim and Non-Muslim are still not familiar with these regulations. One of the most important aspects of marriage is in regards to sexual relations; familiarity to which can solve many physical and mental problems and ignorance to which can cause many physical and mental disorders. Hence, researchers are trying to prove the scientific miracle of the Quran by noting viewpoint of the Quran and Medicine on marital health and sexual relations. Also in the end, this paper explores issues in regards to sexual relations with a completely scientific viewpoint about why the Quran strictly forbids prostitution, adultery, and sodomy.

Background: The most important pillar of Islam is the teachings of the Holy Quran, and although the rules and regulations of Islam haven’t had detailed emphasis, there are many verses in the Quran about the role of a mother’s breast milk. In this paper, the benefits of breast milk as a type of preventative medicine are discussed.Methods: With reference to resources and various databases such as Ovid, Cochran, Medline all available published articles were studies about the effects of breastfeeding in prevention of diseases.Results: In different articles breast milk was studied from different angles including the composition of milk during different conditions and different times, the rate of secretion based on the need of children, the impact of the duration of breastfeeding on the future of the child and the mother, and also it’s effects o infectious and non-infectious diseases and other issues that research can total them into two categories: the effect of mother’s breast milk on the child and the impact on the child’s mother; all of which have been mentioned in the articles.Conclusion: breast milk is considered as a complete, indisputable and appropriate food for all children no matter their condition, and a suitable method for prevention of common fatal contagious diseases in childhood and non-contagious fatal diseases in adulthood.

Traditional medicine as the basis of the current modern medicine has a history of more than several millenniums or better to say as long as the age of human being and Chinese have had inscriptions relating to traditional medicine since 300 BC. Although modern medicine is highly widespread today, traces of traditional medicine can be found in every aspect of it in a way that the majority of drugs are still produced with herbal origins. Scholars and philosophers played the role of physicians and have been the pioneers of the current medicines in the past, though with appearance of divine religions, the messengers of these religions have also been placed in the position of physicians.Quran which is the most perfect guide for all human being and specially for Muslims has remarked the treatment and health as "Shafa'' (that is to say cure by the power of god) in some cases. In fact cure is considered as a part of shafa and the most important issue to gain shafa is to trust and believe in Islam and Quran firmly. This is the main basis of prophetic or Islamic medicine since there is a very close relationship between the heart and soul of the human being according to the religious viewpoint. To believe in treatment, cure, shafa and also physician is considered as one of the initial principles of treating activities even in the modern medicine; As Hippocrates famously said: physicians must inform the patients of their internal energies for they can get rid of pains. This internal energy is nothing but faith and trust.Thus let us believe in Quran trustfully which is the only cure for all diseases and physicians and drugs are just the tools of this cure. Having strong religious beliefs can lead to a decrease in mortality rate and to an increase in the level of health in society.

Using the obvious meaning of the third verse in Resurrection Sura and interpreting that verse and also the results and comments of leading scientists in the field of Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biological Sciences using Pub Med's database as one of the most comprehensive scientific databases- research in medical sciences and the comparative study on the conceptual meaning of the third verse of the Resurrection Sura and interpreting the above verse with scientific findings- fine science research in the field of Molecular Genetics and Molecular Biology. It seems that the concept of rehabilitation is at the tip of the fingertips of the deceased, which in the third verse, Allah has emphasized Resurrection; from the concept and raw imagination of the formation of this finger and the breathtaking depths show the series of tools in the world of creation and the emergence of this fountain of tools as a divine will and power. In the Resurrection of the fingers of the deceased genetic tools and causes, the chromosome that impacts the formation of these fingers, the astonishing and precise complexities, and the power of God, this will be revived. The preciseness and breathtaking depths of resurrection show the greatness and holiness of our God.

The Quran is a guide book from the God of world we live in for us by Prophet Mohammad (S) to send out the message of Islam. Within each of the diverse verses of the Quran, it has been established that the reality of the divine message is beyond comprehension of humans. Although with the use of scientific tools we can improve our level of understanding, undoubtedly it is not enough to clarify and understand the actual fact and und familiarize ourselves with the secret. One of the strict laws in the Holy Quran is in regards to sexual intercourse during menstruation. So strict that it is specifically mentioned in verse 222 in Sura Baqara to stay away from a woman when she is menstruating. ﴿وَیَسْأَلُونَکَ عَنِ الْمَحِیضِ قُلْ هُوَ أَذًی فَاعْتَزِلُواْ النِّسَاءَ فِی الْمَحِیضِ وَلاَ تَقْرَبُوهُنَّ حَتَّیَ یَطْهُرْنَ فَإِذَا تَطَهَّرْنَ فَأْتُوهُنَّ مِنْ حَیْثُ أَمَرَکُمُ اللّهُ إِنَّ اللّهَ یُحِبُّ التَّوَّابِینَ وَیُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِینَ﴾In addition to the physiological symptoms of menstruation, respecting the Quran and withholding from having sexual intercourse is very important. With scientific information and research done on this topic it is understood that not only does sexual intercourse during menstruation bothers women (and even men), the possibility of infection and disease in the male and female reproductive organs and also psychological problems in women can arise because of the hormonal changes in the body. Therefore, the final command of the Holy Quran, withholding from sexual intercourse during menstruation is something special and very wise and it agrees with the latest scientific findings. However, what we understand from the Holy Quran is only a small part of the whole truth that our wise creator has considered for his creation.

Introduction: prayer is regarded as a curative procedure that a lot of attention has been paid to it by the researchers in the recent years, in terms of its effects and different ways of praying concerning the disease treatments. This article is generally aimed at determining the current approaches of prayer in the Islamic texts, articles and the most updated medical documentations.Methods: In order to make the study, many articles from Pub Med were studied with the keyword of “intercessory prayer”. Other Islamic texts like Quran, Sahife-Sajadie and Mafatih- al-Janan were also studied and different tempers and morals regarding the prayer were considered as well.Findings: One of the remarkable points in our prayer culture is to lay the hand on the exact place of the pain or disease and to pray for it right after. The mechanism for the effect of this method has been ratified in the new prayer-treatment techniques. In addition, the intentions of our prayer notify the patients that the disease and even death is not considered as the ultimate and final end of the human life. Such contemplation will indeed play the role of a support tool for real believer to tolerate the disease.Discussion & Conclusion: The high concentration of medical science intellectuals to the study of the effect of prayer on curing the diseases displays a kind of pain in the body and soul of the human being on one hand, and conveys the opinion of the medical science researchers that “ignoring such opportunity that is to make use of prayer and ethereality for curing the diseases is no more acceptable” on the other hand.

Discussion about the stages of ﴿ثُمَّ أَنشَأْنَاهُ خَلْقاً ءَاخَرَ﴾ sura Momenun and ﴿نَفَخَ فِیهِ مِن رُوحِهِ﴾ sura Sejde that in which stage the birth of the soul in fetal development is well known. The establishment of the birth of the soul for many Gynecologists, specialists of internal medicine and other esteemed colleagues is not completely recognized. By carefully examining the relevant verses of the holy Suras (Momenun and Sejde) it can be inferred that (familiarity with resurrection) which happens in a fully developed embryo is something that is fully controlled by God. And it seems that stating that familiarity with resurrection (birth of the soul) occurs in the first 16 weeks or 4 months is an appropriate time frame in terms of forensic science, fetal maturity, and complete heel bone development.

Nutritious safety and Using safe and enough food is one of the basic rights of every human being which, unfortunately, a lot of people are deprived of nowadays. Regarding this fact that such a crisis will increase in the coming decades; this writing tries to study the viewpoint of the holy Qur’an in this regard. To reach this aim, first a definition of “nutritious safety” was given; the one which is usual in western Valid communities. Then, the author tried to define it though studying the verses of the holy Qur’an which are related to the concepts of feeding and agriculture. The definition which is based on the verses of Qur’an is as follows: “producing kinds of delightful and legitimate food in Islamic society without dependence on Non-moslems so that all people of the society have access to food and be sure to provide it in the future and use it without wasting it”.