Gratitude Ann enormous principle of wellbeing is gratitude. Allah says: لَئِن شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ “If you are grateful, I will certainly give you more.”(Surah Ibrahim, 14:7) And Allah leaves that increase open. It may be an increase in the blessing itself, or in our ability to recognise it. Sometimes the circumstances have not changed at…
The Prophet ﷺ said: الْمُؤْمِنُ الْقَوِيُّ خَيْرٌ وَأَحَبُّ إِلَى اللَّهِ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِ الضَّعِيفِ، وَفِي كُلٍّ خَيْرٌ “The strong believer is better and more beloved to Allah than the weak believer, although there is good in both.”(Sahih Muslim) I would not limit “strong” here to somebody who is physically strong. There is strength of faith,…
Let me give you just a snapshot of some of the foods that have a particular place in the Quran and Sunnah. I cannot go into all their nutritional properties because we would be here all day, but there are a few that are worth looking at. Dates Dates are an obvious place to…
Hospitals – bimaristans There is another concept which is not directly tibb al-Nabawi, but I think it follows very naturally from this idea of holistic healing, and that is the bimaristan. Dr Rania Awaad has done a great deal of work recovering the history of these institutions. Bimaristans were hospitals in the Muslim world…
What is tibb al-nabawi? What do we actually mean by tibb al-nabawi, or prophetic medicine? There are detailed classical works devoted to the subject, and it can be approached as a field in its own right. But for the purposes of this discussion, I want to keep it practical. I am using the term…
Healing with the Quran and Sunnah I was looking recently at some of the Hikam, the aphorisms of Ibn Ataillah al-Iskandari, and one of them really stayed with me: من أشرقت بدايته أشرقت نهايته “Whoever has a luminous beginning will have a luminous end.”(Ibn Ataillah al-Iskandari, al-Hikam al-Ata’iyyah) I thought that was very powerful….
Should the menopause be taboo or not? The topic of menopause has been taboo for centuries and particularly within culture, it is not a topic that one likes to discuss publicly. Yet the Quran never shies away from uncomfortable or embarrassing topics, rather it broaches them in a positive way. We certainly need more awareness…