Preventive Medicine in Food and Drink: An Analytic Study of the Islamic approach

Abstract

Little attention has been paid by modern public health towards involving, as well as recognition of religion or culture in disease prevention and control. Religion is a major component of the social life of many communities around the globe. Our goal is to provide access to scientifically sound and culturally acceptable information on health promotion and disease prevention, to all those who need it, using the information from Qur’an and authentic Hadith. However, the research into this area will be important as an avenue for improving the quality of life through Islamic teachings. This study relies mainly on secondary resources of data, and secondary sources of this study were primarily libraries. The bulk of the data for this study comes from many Islamic books, journals and articles that belong to Prophetic Islamic medicine and contemporary medicine. The methods of data analysis that are used in this study are descriptive and analytical. This study uses thematic induction. Generally, the methodology used for this study can be described and defined fundamentally as a qualitative study. The study addresses prophetic traditions that are related to preventive medicine about food and drink, and support these prophetic traditions by contemporary doctors’ opinions, which are attested by the fact, or are proved by experiments those accounts for non-violation of the Sharia, also the study revealed that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) was so concerned about every aspect of human life including that of health. This was yielded from prophetic traditions that infused preventive knowledge, which if humans could have made proper use of it, they would be prevented from many illnesses and healed others. This preventive scientific finding is affirmed by modern science. As a result, the prophecy of the final prophet is clear.