Imagine a nation where every hospital is free of cost irrespective to your status, caste, gender, religion, nationality. A multi-speciality hospital providing you a clothes, well furnished wards, delicious food, specialized doctors, that too free of cost. Not just this even giving the patient money and food as a compensation for being out of work during his hospital stay. Isn't it mind-blowing?? This is what hospitals were in the Islamic Civilization. In early medieval where Europe belief that illness is supernatural, uncontrollable, incurable. Muslims took completely different approach because of the saying of prophet Muhammadﷺ, “God has sent down the disease and he has appointed cure for every disease, so treat yourself medically”(¹) Mobile Dispensaries The first known Islamic care center was set up in a tent by Rufaydah al-Aslamiyah r.a during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammadﷺ. Famously, during the Ghazwah Khandaq, she treated the wounded in a separ...
A society which reduces itself to passing judgements on people's clothing & confines itself to a rigid dress code - a violation of which calls for labelling others as irreligious & even evil - is naturally stagnant and, to many, toxic. In a society where people are, almost, always judged and their piety is gauged almost exclusively by their adherence to a particular dress code, indicates that something has gone wrong with the thought process of such a society. The situation would sound even more alarming & strange when we consider that this community currently faces monumental challenges globally, yet chooses to obsess over clothing choices. Any divergence from the norm is condemned as "deviation”. You might wonder about the mental health of such a collective, and you’d be right to ask. What if I told you that this society is none other than the Muslim’s , unfortunately! A community that claims to follow the final revelation/wahi/shruti and sees itself as the custo...