الحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله…
I visited a young Muslim doctor regarding a patient who was diagnosed with Hepatitis B five years ago. And some current reports of that patient from a competent hospital said that the patient was negative (Hepatitis B negative).
(I didn’t know he was a Muslim, as I was expecting to visit a Non-Muslim doctor, so I didn’t start with a Salam, rather a good morning. Neither did this brother and another Muslim doctor with him give the Salam to me, even though at least from the outside I look like a Muslim with a beard and cap [Allah knows best what’s in my heart.])
When I presented these reports to the Muslim doctor, he wasn’t ready to accept that Hepatitis B can ever become negative.
(For your information Hepatitis B, medically and scientifically speaking, is like the HIV virus, which according to the doctors, once if enters the body, never becomes negative, i.e. it doesn’t go away.)
He kept repeating, ‘no it’s not possible’ even after me telling him that 5 reports from the last ten years did say that the patient was negative. He wasn’t ready to accept that what he studied in his MBBS text books could ever go wrong.
When I told him (after asking him if he’s a Muslim), “See brother don’t you know that Allah says ‘Allah has power over all things…’ (InnAllaha ‘Ala Kulli Shay-in Qadeer), when I’m telling you that I have medical reports for this patient from competent doctors that this patient is negative now, why are you insistent upon denying it? Don’t you know that it is easy for Allah- regardless of whatever disease it is? I appreciate that you’re speaking from the medical perspective, but I would consider it a defect in your Imaan if you remove Allah’s Power from the picture.”
The brother, said, “How can you tell my Imaan is weak, probably I’m a better Muslim than you?” (He said he felt offended.)
I said, “Yes you may be a better Muslim, but this statement that you kept repeating, ‘It is not possible- It is not possible…’ offended me as a Muslim and it shows your lack of recognition of Allah’s Power. At least in front of Muslims, tell, ‘This disease is incurable or this virus can never leave the body, except if Allah wills’, tell ‘except if Allah wills’. Because nothing is impossible for Allah.
(The brother kept telling about what they studied about it …)
I told him whatever you’ve studied, nothing is difficult for Allah right? (He agreed!)
So I left him with a parting advise- “Be mindful of Allah even when you make general statements as a doctor and never forget that Allah is Powerful above all things.” I apologise if I’ve hurt you, but it’s my duty to advise you.
Imagine if this doctor in his heart would really die, actually believing that Allah can’t cure AIDS or some other disease, what do we tell about their Imaan? Are they still Muslims?
The responsibility is due upon Muslim parents. Do teach your kids Imaan in Allah and His Messenger, before the school and college textbooks teach them their ‘Scientific Religion’ contrary to what is mentioned in The Quran and Sunnah.
Saheehus-Seerah 