Keeping Communities Healthy: The Islamic Paradigm

Abstract

One of the five matters before being overtaken by its opposite as advocated by the Prophet (SAW) was "your health, before you fall sick" (Muslim). This concept of the Prophet's Medicine (Tibb Nabawi) has been much discussed and unfortunately misunderstood, even abused in recent times. This paper attempts to examine the Quranic exhortations on health and healing and its practices as exemplified by authentic traditions of the Prophet (SAW). This would enable us to extract guiding principles about various healthcare issues including holistic care, preventative strategies, training, bioethics, hospital services, clinical research and global health.

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“…Islam is an extensive lifestyle where every human action-for example, education, business, social connections, and science is driven and administered by God (Moritz 2013). The Saudi culture has been described as the most preservationist culture in the world (Nordin 2018). The religion of Islam is followed by 100% of the Saudi population, also, Islam governs all aspects of Saudi life (Nordin 2018).…”

“…The Saudi culture has been described as the most preservationist culture in the world (Nordin 2018). The religion of Islam is followed by 100% of the Saudi population, also, Islam governs all aspects of Saudi life (Nordin 2018). The Qur'an and the Hadith of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) are followed and applied in regular activities (Sulandari et al 2017).…”

“…The most important cultural factors that affect building design in Gulf countries are gender and function, demonstrating how the culture of these countries, significantly influenced by the Islamic religion, affects design (Tawfiq Abu-Gazzeh 1995). Specifically, separation of male and female areas is commonplace and is required to adhere to the Islamic way of life (Nordin 2018). Moreover, in gulf countries, spatial boundaries are of prime importance in planning the use of space; Saudis create physical boundaries using walls, curtains, and other partitions (Tawfiq Abu-Gazzeh 1995).…”

“…It is not unusual to find extended families of three or four generations living in the same house (North and Tripp 2009). The Saudi culture has been described as the most preservationist culture in the world (Nordin 2018), this factor has significantly affected the structure of the Saudi house.…”

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“…So, a non-profit initiative to provide healthy food, healthy socializing activities, clean water and shelter, to prevent the general public from developing any physiological or psychological complications would be preferred over a forprofit system of disease management which reacts only after a disease has been caught and only if the patient has enough in his pocket to pay for the health-care services or its insurance (Weil, 1996). In such a society, a health-care system, which would react to emergencies, for example, may rather be public-funded or operated via waqf instead of privately owned running for-profit enterprise (Nordin, 2019).…”