doctor

Using history to prove laws of Deen

Q: I would like to ask you a question regarding Islamic law, connected with my PhD research. My research is about a Jewish man who became a Christian in Venice in 1595. From the years 1574-1593 he worked as the 3rd physician at the court of Sultan Murat iii in Istanbul. In the year 1580/ Islamic year 999 he accompanied the Valide Sultan to Medina and Mecca. Was it at that time possible that a Jewish physician visited Mecca, because he was the physician of the Valide Sultan? Or was it at that time for him already obligatory to revert to Islam in order to visit Mecca?

Consulting an experienced physician with regards to health matters

Q: I am a 24 year old unmarried woman living with my parents and siblings. I am having health problems and weight problems. Some of my health problems are schizophrenia and infection. I learned that water fasting is a way of curing these problems as they are deemed to be incurable by mainstream doctors so i have no option but to do it as I can do it and I have done it before and I want to obey the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) because he told us to strive for what benefits us and not to be lazy or incapable.

So my question is should I go ahead and obey the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) and do what will benefit me or obey my parents and continue suffering.

What scares them when I want to do the water fasting is the fact that I will not be eating anything but water for 30-40 days and they are afraid that i will die when I do it. It has been scientifically proven that the human body can survive for forty days on water without food and there are many people all over the world that have done it and are still doing it and they are gaining benefits from it even curing cancer with it. My mental health problem of schizophrenia can be cured permanently with it because there is a man named Dr. Nikolayev who cures his patients with mental disorders with prolonged water fasting. During the water fast, the body thrives off its reserves and this can last for forty days (please you can google more about water fasting and its benefits and water fasting for schizophrenia).

I have explained it to them and I have tried my best to convince them. I even told them that there are health centres where people go for water fasting retreats to cure their diseases like the TrueNorth Health Center in America and another one in Germany and many others all over the world.

Should I go ahead and do it as the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) wants us to do what will benefit us or should I obey my parents and live with this incurable diseases?

Marrying someone who watches TV

Q: If an Aalimah who wears full niqab and does not intermingle with men or watch tv movies etc. gets a proposal from a doctor whos a hafiz, which means he probably does khalwat with women and he watches football, would you even tell the Aalimah to consider him? He is praised for his akhlaaq. He also visits a female dentist.

Should the Aalimah even consider him. She has hope of doing amr bil maroof but fears marriage problems thereafter. Her grandfather (Allah enlighten his qabr) was a Shaikhul Hadeeth.

Aurato aur purdah ke kuch sawalaat

Q:

1. Kia aurat eye specialist ky samny chehra khol sakti hai?

2. Kia bazar mn aurat is tarha jasakti hai k surf us ky hath, paer aur chehra khula ho baqi sab dhaka ho aur iss tarha jany mn koi fitna b na ho?

3. Kia aurat jhan rhti hai iss ky pass ky ghroon wale uss ky rishtadar hoon aur wo iss ky ghar aaty hoon to kia jb wo inn bilkul sath wale ghroon mn jae ya apny pas ky khaeton (khaet yani k village mn rhti hai aur wahan tb amoomn ghir mahram b nhi hoty) mn jae to chehra khula rakh kr ja sakti hai? Kia ye jaiz ho gha? Jaiz aur najaiz hony k mutaliq zaror btaye gha.

4. Kia aurat aesi jagha se ghuzry jaha usse ghair mahram na dekh rhy hon ya wahan ghar mahram na hoon to kia wo wahan chehra chupai baghair ghuzr sakti hai?

5. Kia jo ghir mahram rishtadar hoty hain wo ghar aaei to in se chehra chupana hai? Agar na chupana jaiz hai to bta digiay? Kia ghair mahram rishtadar k samny ghar k ilawa chehra khula rakh sakty hain i.e jb unn ky ghar jaaen, tasty mn wo nazar aa jaen?