"There
is no disease that Allah has sent down, except that He has also sent
down its treatment."The present-day thinkers all agree that previous age
was"age of faith"and the present age is the "age of doubt." Our youth
is the caught in the cross-fire of ultra-conservatism and the
ultra-modernism. To elders conservatism is virtue and to youth it has
become vice. The entire universe is conservative only fundamentally and
it is changing all the time. The philosophy of change is based on the
pursuit for knowledge----to fly on the wings of the knowledge to even
greater heights, the quest for discovery and to probe all those
resources which are here. Human probing brought technological changes
and development which further not only changed the cultural mentality
and a great psychological change in focus towards metaphysical and
spiritual reality. Today most people think that human being is
essentially flesh and bones! Islam does not say this! The Holy Quran
declares that the essential human being is a space less and timeless
being created in the transcendental world. The human essence is not the
material, but spiritual.
In
the Islamic worldview everything-----including the heavens and the
earth and all that is in between--- is seen as a manifestation of the
creative aspect of Allah Almighty to Whom everything living or
non-living, submits. At the heart of this is the concept of Tawhid, the
Unity of God, embodied in the first part of "Shahada", the testimony of
faith. La ilaha illa`Lalah (There is no god but Allah).Everything in
Islamic civilization, including the health sciences, has sprung forth
from this fundamental statement which is an expression of the
transcendence of divine unity. To proclaim that there is no god but
Allah is to testify that there is an essential unifying principle behind
the apparent multiplicity of the universe which, in Islam, is not
restricted to merely the observable and perceptible reality but goes
beyond to the realm of the Unseen.
Human
personality is composed of the different shell circling the very
essence of human being called "Soul". The soul appears as a centre of
light in intense motion. Now this intense light is guarded by five
shells, the bodily or physical shell, the electronic shell, the
psychical shell, the astro-psychical shell and astral shell. Now all
these shells are governed by different realties. The bodily shell, when
it is sick you use herbs or medicines to treat it. If the electronic
shell is sick, electronised medicine and practise like reflexology and
Chinese technique of acupuncture are used for healing. The psychiatrist
use different techniques to help treating the sickness of psychical
shell which applies to the mind only, which in turn is a physical
ailment. The psycho-astral shell is governed by certain symbols or by
certain letters of alphabets. The astral shell is governed by numbers.
Abu
Abdullah Muhammad al-Dhahabi in his "Kitab al Tib" ( Book of Medicine)
put emphasis on holistic medicine-involving physical, moral,
psychological and spiritual aspects of being-is the essence of Islamic
medical tradition which traces its foundation to the revealed Book of
Allah, the Quran , and to the Hadith, the sayings of the Holy Prophet of
Islam.
Scientific
research teaches that the process of healing involves the physical as
well as the spiritual and psychological domains of human existence. The
tradition of spiritual healing in Islam is based on the recognition of
the effect of spiritual health on the physical body. The body itself is
seen as mere receptacle for the spirit, which alone constitutes the
immortal part of human existence. The body is healthy if the spirit is
healthy, and the spirit is healthy if it is not in conflict with the
Divine Writ. The submission of the spirit to the Divine commandment
produces a harmony in the soul and the body which makes all the limbs
and the organs function properly.
Prayer
can cause recovery from the pain of the heart, stomach, and the
intestines. This is because prayer diverts mind from the pain and reduce
its feeling, whereby power to repel pain is strengthened. Doctors try
all means to strengthen this power-sometimes by feeding some kind of
medicine and sometimes by inspiring hope and fear. Now prayer with
concentration combines most of these means of benefit, because it at
once instills fear, self effacing humility, Love of God and remembrance
of last day.
The
great Muslim scientist Ibn-eSina or Avicenna honoured in the west with
the title of "Prince of Physicians", based his system of Medicine on the
equilibrium of the four humors, blood phlegm, yellow bile, and black
bile. These four humors were then related to the four elements such as
fire, air, water and earth of the natural world. Avicenna believed that
the human spirit has been constituted with the power of restoring
balance in the body, and that the task of medicine is merely to aid this
process. The process of regaining health is therefore, greatly
facilitated by the use of practices which produce spiritual healing.
The
spiritual healing is related to the cosmic orders in the universe
through the doctrine of the correspondence between the all levels of
reality, the intelligible hierarchy , the heavenly bodies, the order of
numbers, the parts of the body, the letters of the alphabets which are
the elements of the Sacred Book,etc. The seven cervical and the 12
dorsal vertebrae correspond to the seven planets and the 12 signs of
Zodiac, as well as to the seven days of the week and the 12 months of
the year. The total numbers of the discs of the vertebra, which they
consider to be 28, correspond to the letters of the Arabic alphabets and
the station of the moon.
The
early Sufis or the Islamic spiritual scientist developed the science of
"Taawiz". Taawiz is always based on a verse of Holy Quran or sometime
on accepted prayer. For the sickness of psycho-astral shell, Taawiz are
written in letters of alphabets and for astral shell the numerical value
is calculated according to the "Abjad" system. Abjad is the special
system in Sufi sciences, in which each alphabet has been assigned with a
certain numerical value. After calculating the numerical value of
certain Ayyats, or verse of Holy Quran, than that number is divided into
6, 10, 8, or 5. These numbers are written in the special forms or
formulas. Sometimes Taawiz are written in squares, triangle and
sometimes with different materials. Certain Taawiz are written on
specified days, time and sometime by the position of the houses of the
planets.
The
spiritual medicine of Taawiz is very effective and interesting thing, it
not only treat the physical, mental, psychic or spiritual sickness it
also strengthens its powers for what has not yet happened, it works like
a Tonic. One thing which is very important to remember is that like
other medical sciences, this talismanic science is handed over from a
teacher to a student. Only those able students who are qualified enough
to diagnose the spiritual disease are the spiritual doctors. If an
unable person will try to copy the numerical order or copy the shape of
the Taawiz and give it to anyone it will not work, and it might be
harmful also. This is purely Talismanic and that is the reason that it
has not got any copy rights.
