Understanding Health Risks; Oral Contraceptive Pill

Most activities are associated with some form of health risk, such as driving a car, walking across a busy street or even just leaving a child unattended for a few minutes. Likewise inactivity (i.e. sedentary lifestyle ) can all have devastating consequences but to out right absolutely try to ban such activities is far from pragmatic and in some instances ludicrous. One must also recognise that a particular activity might be beneficial in one aspect of health and harmful in another…

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30 January 2016

Quacks & Quackery

Absolving Modern Medicines as ‘poisonous’.

Therapeutic Ranges All medicines have a therapeutic range which differs according to age, lean body weight, liver function, kidney function etc. Dosages below this therapeutic range would be too low to cause any (pharmacological) effect while over-dosage above this range would be toxic (i.e. poisonous) causing potential harm. The majority of modern medicines fall into this category & it is not unique to them, rather we see that many of the Prophetic Medicines likewise follow this pattern such as black seed…

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19 December 2015

Islam / Quacks & Quackery

Raw Milk – Brief Overview of the Contention

Why Raw Milk became Problematic Raw milk has been drunk for millenniums however after industrialisation when the farmers became fewer they were required by demand to become commercial large-scale milk production farms. It was observed that the milk in this situation had a tendency to frequently become infected which posed a risk to the general population. This risk of infection was not because of the milk itself but due to the manner of large-scale collection, storage and distribution of the milk.…

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16 December 2015

Islam / Quacks & Quackery

Islam & Medicine P4 – Deniers of Modern Medicine

Having established the wide acceptance of modern medicine at many levels, in the previous part, hence for an individual to make blanket statements about the modern medical profession requires the individual to fulfill certain conditions for such statements to take weight and this matter would not have been hidden from the Muslim scholars regarding the whole profession, which is a matter of public safety, concern and an important affair (fiqh fil-waaqi), thus falling into the collective obligation of the scholars to…

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16 December 2015