Preventative medicine and hygiene in Islam

ABSTRACT

With the advancement of medical research, understanding of the causative factors of different diseases has become increasingly understandable. Man's progress in health sciences leads him to be more civilized than his predecessors from the so called "dark ages". Without reference to the Holy- books which can be considered within context as well-documented historical books from an older era, it would be difficult to know the status of the condition of our predecessors in order to find out differences in hygienic standards for comparison. Believers in Islam may follow seemingly abstract rules guided by the Qura'n and Hadith without knowing the wisdom behind them and raise certain issues about them to non-Muslims that they interact with. The health protocol offered by the Islamic religion by Divine Inspiration and without scientific research appears to be as comprehensive as or better than the well-known, scientific-based health protocols defined currently. Many scientific facts touched upon in the Qura'n and Hadith can be considered by researchers as subject for more research