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In spite of the fact that the Imam had never given any cause for concern to the Caliphs of his time, their guilt in this matter was so great that they did not leave these pious personalities in peace. If they had no fear of their throne they were afr...

In spite of the fact that the Imam had never given...

Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) lived a short life, only Twenty Eight years and in this short life he had to endure great sufferings by the hands of the Abbasid caliphs. But in spite of all that suffering and confinement under house arrest in Samarrah, man...

Imam Hasan al-Askari (AS) lived a short life, only...

While he was a prisoner in Baghdad there was a severe draught. Rain had not fallen for some time and crops were drying up. People were facing a famine. They did not know what to do. A Christian priest came to the rescue. He lifted his hands in prayer...

While he was a prisoner in Baghdad there was a sev...

Imam Hasan al Askari’s (AS) life from childhood to adulthood was spent in this house where his father Imam Ali Naqi (a.s.) was to remain under house arrest. But despite this close guard on the Imam, he conducted his duties as Imam from inside the hou...

Imam Hasan al Askari’s (AS) life from childhood to...

Born in Madina on the 10th of Rabuil Akhar 232 Hijri ( 6.12.846 AD) Died in Samarrah Iraq on 8th of Rabiul Awwal 260 Hijri (4.1.874) aged 28 years. Period of Imamate 6 years. Samarra (Surre Mun Ra’) was a garrison town about 60 miles north of Baghdad...

Born in Madina on the 10th of Rabuil Akhar 232 Hij...

In order to understand the milieu in which Islamic medicine was born, one has to understand the salient events in the advent of Islam and a few events just preceding the Islamic era. Arabia which was a large area covered mostly by an arid desert that...

In order to understand the milieu in which Islamic...

Islamic Medicine in its true context, can thus be defined as a body of knowledge of Medicine that was inherited by the Muslims in the early phase of Islamic History (40-247 AH/661 -861 AD) from mostly Greek sources, but to which became added medical ...

Islamic Medicine in its true context, can thus be ...

Islamic Medicine continues to be practiced in many of the Islamic countries today. However western traditional modern medicine has replaced the core of the health care systems in most of these countries. The only countries where it has to some degree...

Islamic Medicine continues to be practiced in many...

One of the greatest sciences that had a great impetus on Islamic medicine was the development of pharmacy and phamacognosy. Chemistry or 'Alchemia' had been studied by most Islamic Physicians and scholars. This study was furthered by concomitant deve...

One of the greatest sciences that had a great impe...

Contarary to popular belief, basic Sciences were were highly developed in Islamic Sciences. For instance Oriental historians of Medicine have erroneously emphasised that science of anatomy, during the Islamic era was rudimentary ,and did not progress...

Contarary to popular belief, basic Sciences were w...

The most famous and notable physican of this time and perhaps of the entire early Islamic era is no doubt Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi(born 251 AH/865 AD; died 312 AH/925 AD) called Rhazes by his Latinized name. Born in Rayy in northern Persia not ...

The most famous and notable physican of this time ...

The notable physicians during this period were as follows: Bukhtishu family of Physicians. The oldest amongst these was Jibrail Bukhtishu who was the Chief Physician at the Hospital in Jundishapur. He came from a Christain family and was summoned to ...

The notable physicians during this period were as ...

The era of Islamic Medicine produced some very famous and notable physicians.These physicians were not only responsible to get all the existing information on Medicine of the time together but add to this knowledge by their own astute observations, e...

The era of Islamic Medicine produced some very fam...

The idea of a hospital as an institutional place for the caring of the sick has not been recorded in antiqiuty. There were sanatoria and 'travel lodges' that were attached to temples where the sick were attended to by attendant priests. Most of the t...

The idea of a hospital as an institutional place f...

'Prophetic Medicine' although popular amongst the masses of Muslims because of its doctrinal and theological contents was considered by most Muslim historians and physicians as distinct from scientific and analytical Islamic Medicine. Ibn Khaldun (13...

'Prophetic Medicine' although popular amongst the ...

61 In order that We may bring in your place the likes of you and make you grow into what you know not. 62 And certainly you know the first growth, why do you not then mind? "We have ordained death among you and We are not to be over­come." Mawt, deat...

61 In order that We may bring in your place the li...

71 Have you considered the fire which you strike? 72 Is it you that produce the trees for it, or are We the producers? Shajar means tree. In Islamic culture the tree traditionally symbolizes the tree of life; its branches symbolize all the aspects of...

71 Have you considered the fire which you strike? ...

51 Then shall you, O you who err and call it a lie! In the Qur'an, a day (yawm) does not mean twenty four hours. It is said that the day of your Lord is like a thousand years of what you count. Elsewhere it is described as fifty thousand years. With ...

51 Then shall you, O you who err and call it a lie...

51 Which then of the bounties of your Lord will you deny? In the garden, there are two fountains and there are two springs that flow. They are nourished in an invisible way, just as man's heart is also nourished. Man does not know how love is fed. Wh...

51 Which then of the bounties of your Lord will yo...

21 Or who is it that will give you sustenance if He should withhold His sustenance? Nay! they persist in disdain and aversion. Reflect upon what is above us in the form of birds. Nothing holds them up. The explanations given for this natural phenomen...

21 Or who is it that will give you sustenance if H...

11 So they shall acknowledge their sins, but far will be (forgiveness) from the inmates of the blazing fire. "So they shall acknowledge their sins." L'tarafu, de­rives from `arafa, to know; i`tarafa is to admit, confess or acknowledge. At the time of...

11 So they shall acknowledge their sins, but far w...