From time to time I engage with a subject that creates some unrest with a cohort of Muslims who feel like I’m attacking them. As Allah ﷻ is my witness, I only mean to benefit my Muslim brothers and sisters, strengthen our community and prevent harm from entering our practices. At the last Al-Madina Institute’s […]
I noticed that some readers of my recent posts insist on misreading them. Nowhere do I deny the spiritual dimension or that the reality of the human being goes far beyond what the materialist conception wants to assert. I also don’t demand that the soul be measured under a microscope. As I said in my […]
A couple of things to highlight about “Islamic” medicine: 1. The historical record of Islamic medicine doesn’t refer to the practice being rooted in religious teachings. In fact, most physicians in the Islamic civilization were not even Muslim or Arab for that matter. Ibn Sina was a Persian Muslim. Abu Bakr ar-Rāzī was a Persian […]
In a recent paper, George Vithoulkas argues that “homeopathy is not a therapeutic approach suited for a modern ‘developed’ society, that it will never be widely practiced in our contemporary world, and that it will never become truly adopted by medical schools”. The reason for this according to Vithoulkas is that we live in a […]
We live in the age of the online Wild Wild West, where anyone can produce anything about any subject and share it in a way that can reach millions in a very short amount of time and have people assume a level of conviction about it that rivals the most sectarian and militant of believers. […]