Book of Healing - Qur'anic Healing - Qur'anic Medicine and Voice
Qur'anic Medicine and Voice
Tags: Voice, Auditory sense, As-sayhah, Sur, Israfil, cells, speaking book, Internal senses
1. What is the root and basis of voice? How is it created? What is its precise definition? Is it heard when diving into water? If not, why? It is obvious that in the material world, sound waves spread either through air or electric power, but tell us how does a hand or foot hear the command of heart and mind, for on command, the hand grasps and the foot walks? Is there any electric system in man or does the soul itself work like electricity? Further, tell us how does man hear the voice of his conscience or conversation of soul (hadith-i nafsi)? Another important question is whether the voice of angel, jinn and devil is related to the external ear of man or to the internal, or to both? Here the purpose of posing these questions is not to debate with someone, rather to draw full attention towards the importance and nature of voice.
2. Voice is a universe externally and internally. But it is not separate from the existents and creatures. It is the word "kun (Be)" both at first and at last; it is an extremely sweet bounty in the form of the melodies of Paradise, it is the speech of God and the message of the angels in the spirit of heavenly books. Prophethood and messengership of the Prophets and Messengers was also a sacred voice. The worship of true worshippers of God and the giryah-u zari of His lovers also, is nothing but a voice, but an extremely blessed voice. Think for a little while how extensive is the world of voice and what are the treasures of mercy and knowledge in it, so that you may come to know the importance of voice in Qur'anic medicine.
3. Physical medicine as you know, is generally given through the mouth. But it should be remembered that spiritual medicine is not given by mouth, rather it is given through the ear. For, the way of the food and medicine of animal soul is the throat, but that of the foods and medicines of the human soul and intellect, is ear. It is because of this that, if someone is physically deaf from the very beginning, he also remains dumb and ignorant. The reason for this is that the rational soul could not enter into him, except through the mediation of voice. This shows the importance of voice, namely, discourse of knowledge and the auditory sense.
4. Since the way of spiritual food and medicine is the ear, therefore, the Heavenly Doctor has said: "And when the Qur'an is recited, give your ear to it and be silent; that you may receive mercy" (7:204). It is obvious that this wisdom-filled command of God, the Blessed, the Exalted, is equally true for the Muslims of every age and every country, whether they understand the language of the Qur'an or not. It is because of the fact that in the blessed voice of the Qur'an, there is spiritual food and medicine for the Muslims of every level, as it (Qur'an) is the means of healing for all the people of faith (17:82) and "dhikr", both in the sense of exhortation and in the sense of remembrance of God (16:44). Thus a Muslim, through the soul-nourishing voice of the holy Qur'an, can certainly cure his illness of negligence, even though he cannot directly understand the exhortations of its voice. It is the abundant remembrance of God, through which are removed all diseases and defects (62:10).
5. One of the wisdom-filled words of the holy Qur'an is as-sayhah, which is mentioned in thirteen places. as-sayhah means cry, outcry, clamour, which is related to the sur of Israfil, may peace be on him. Thus it is mentioned in the Qur'an that, many wayward and disobedient people are destroyed by this outcry (29:40). When such is the power of the voice of the sur of Israfil, why cannot the voice of the speech of God, namely the Qur'an, destroy all those germs of a mu'min, which come to him from the Satan? This proof makes the reality of Qur'anic healing as bright as the world-illumining sun.
6. The voice of sur of Israfil, may peace be on him, is so terrifying, that except those whom God wills to protect, all those in the heavens and the earth shall be terrified (27:87), swoon and then come into consciousness (39:68) by it. Further, the miracle of it is that, by hearing it, the dead in the graves resurrect and rush forth towards their Lord (36:51) and come to the presence of God under its powerful influence (78:18). This extremely effective and miraculous voice of the sur of Israfil is not only fatal but also reviving. After all, this is from none other than God, the Exalted. Thus, you should be sure that, in reality, such miracles are hidden in the voice of the Qur'an also. As is said in the Qur'an: "If We had caused this Qur'an to descend (even) upon a mountain, you would have verily seen it humbled, rent asunder by the fear of God" (59:21). This is an example of the hidden power of the Qur'an.
7. No sooner does an effective medicine of a skilful doctor reach the body of a patient, it starts to show its full effect. By this it should be understood that, it has started to cure the disease, by permeating the entire body. As the spiritual Doctor, regarding the medicine of the Qur'an says: "Allah has revealed the best Word (namely, the Qur'an) in the form of a book, equivocal and repeated, by which do creep the skins (bodies) of those who fear their Lord; then their skins and hearts do soften to Allah's remembrance" (39:23). The explanation of this Divine teaching is that, in the human body there are more than 50,000,000,000,000 (50 billion) cells which are alive and they also die, and to each of them are attached countless souls. Thus the cause of the creeping of skins of those who fear God, or their trembling because of the voice of the Qur'an or the Divine remembrance is that, each cell of the body and its souls awaken from the sleep of negligence and each particle of the body, which is alive, trembles due to fear and yearning under the influence of Divine remembrance. This shows that in this noble verse, by skin (body), are meant the living cells. And it is in the sense of cells that, along with the heart, the body can also be engaged in the remembrance of God.
8. Our bodies are made of billions of extremely minute living cells. And our skin, bones, muscles and all other organs are made of these very cells. All these small cells which are different in form and magnitude, participate with us in all that we do and they work all together, unitedly. This means that there is not a single part of the human body, including the bones, which is not full of cells. Thus, when a mu'min reads or listens to someone reciting the holy Qur'an, its voice enters the heart and thence the echo of the voice is heard in the cells of the entire body. Now, in the light of the material and spiritual science, we will say that no disease, whether physical or spiritual, can escape the grip of the voice of the Qur'an or dhikr-u `ibadat. But the condition of this is taqwa or piety.
9. Now, it will not be wrong if we say that every disease has a living soul, owing to the fact that the human body is a compendium of innumerable living cells and their countless souls and no particle of the body is devoid of soul. It is these souls of disease, which in the language of science are called bacteria (sing. bacterium). As in the Hadith, addressing the soul of fever, it is said: "O fever! if you believe in God, then do not eat the flesh and do not suck the blood and do not blaze towards the mouth, rather you should go to the one who associates someone else as God, with God, the One". (Da`a'im, II, 140). However, if someone does not believe in this, he cannot observe and experience it.
10. Now keeping in view the examples of material science, it is necessary to pay more and more attention to spiritual science, namely Qur'anic science. For instance, you see that nowadays, every important event is preserved by filming it, so that, when it is needed it may be shown on television, without any increase or decrease. Thus, in the light of the Qur'an, it is my belief that the record of deeds belongs not only to individuals, but also to every nation and every community, see verse (45:28). Thus, from the beginning to the end, the records of deeds of all communities and their revealed Books, are preserved in the form of the film of spirituality and the scattered book (17:13). For instance, how the Torah was revealed, what were the states of its revelation and how did the community of Hazrat Musa, in their national life act upon this heavenly code of life, all this is completely recorded in the collective record of the deeds of the Jews.
11. Now, I would like to say about the holy Qur'an, that it is that perfect, complete and wisdom-filled Book, which is revealed to the holy Prophet, the seal of the Prophets and mercy for the world. Therefore, this last Book of God, in its spirit and spirituality, is not only the record of deeds of the Muslim community, but it also comprises all the individual and collective records of deeds of the previous communities. For it, in its light, is a complete and exact copy of the Guarded Tablet. As God says: "And We have encompassed everything in a book" (78:29). Now think a while, and tell me what can be outside such a book, which is a living and speaking luminous copy of the Guarded Tablet, which contains all the records of deeds of the first and the last ones and which, if you witness dying before death, itself speaks (23:63; 45:29), which externally and internally is the Guarded Qur'an (15:9), and whose voice and teachings comprise all levels of people. Thus, the voice of the holy Qur'an is listened to by everyone according to his belief, love and capacity and in this respect, those friends of God, who have died before death, are the foremost (57:19).
12. We should think carefully about why, in addition to external senses, there are internal senses in man? After all, they should have a purpose. Yes, they have a purpose which definitely is that, through them, we should realise and attain the spirit and light of Islam, and to do so, the Qur'an contains the total guidance and method of healing. As it is said in the Qur'an: "(O Prophet!) establish prayers at the sun's decline till the darkness of the night and (also) the Qur'an of the morning (i.e. morning prayer and recitation of the Qur'an), for through the recitation of the Qur'an in the morning is observed (mashhud) (the spirit and spirituality)" (17:78). All other meanings of mashhud are included in this sense.
Note: The answers to those questions raised in the beginning of this article, God willing, will be given in one of the articles or separately.
7 Jumada II, 1406/17th February, 1986.
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