* Chronic Diseases are curable by applying Prophetic Medicine *

Published Books on Prophetic Medicine Due to the importance attached to the knowledge of medicine by the Prophet (ﷺ), Muslims studied medicine, surgery, astronomy, botany, drugs, et cetera, and made significant contribution towards the development of modern medical sciences. There had been quite a good number of Muslim physicians and scientists after the advent of Islam. Among the non-Muslims who laid down the foundations of medicine and pharmacy, Hippocrates, Galen and Dioscorides are worth mentioning. These two great physicians (Hippocrates and Galen) excelled all the others. Apart from the above, Muslim writers, theologians, herbalists, botanists and physicians also wrote quite a good number of manuscripts and books on medicine and pharmacy during the period from 800 CE to 1600 CE. Ibn al-Qayyim quoted from several of these writers. However, for names and other details about the great Muslim physicians, surgeons, botanists and herbalists who excelled in m...

  Three Modalities of Prophetic Medicine  There are three modalities of Prophetic medicine, physical medicine, spiritual medicine and a combination of both physical and spiritual medicines. Apart from several physical medicines of the Prophet (ﷺ), there are also the spiritual aspects of Prophetic medicine, which mainly consist of prayer and supplication to Allah for healing, and recitation from the Holy Qur’an. These play a significant role in healing. This has been proved by some clinical researches carried out in Harvard School of Medicine, USA. Patients in a medicine ward were divided into two groups. For one group, both the physician and patient’s relatives offered prayer for healing, while for the other group none prayed for. It was found that the group for whom the doctor and the relations prayed for left the hospital much earlier than the other group for whom nobody prayed for their recovery. In fact, where modern medicine failed Prophetic med...