Malfuzat - Volume VIII — Page 52
Malf uza t - English translation of Urdu Volume 8 52 27 October 1905 (After the Friday Prayer, in Delhi) Benefit from Every System of Medicine Some maulaw i s and some medical students and doctors from a med- ical school came. The topic of medicine came up during the conversa- tion. The Promised Messiah as said: A Muslim should not be averse to Western medicine. 1 ِ اَلْحِكْمَة ُ ضَآلَّة ُ الْمُؤْمِن A word of wisdom is the property of a believer; it was lost and came into the possession of someone else, so seize it immediately wherever it is found. By this, my intent is not that I endorse the medical profes- sion, but I only mean that in accord with the hadith, a person should take that which is beneficial from wherever it is found. Hindi, Japanese, Greek, and English—benefit should be drawn from every system of medicine, and one should fulfil the mean- ing of this couplet: م ریت ف� ا ںی � وگہش زرہ عتمت �ی�امتف وخہش رخےنم زرہ I also derived benefit from countries far away, And took a cluster from every heaped-up harvest. Only then does one become a proficient physician. Physicians have obtained prescriptions from women as well. 1. The complete text of the hadith is: َا فَهُو َ اَحَق ُّ بِهَا ھ ْث ُ مَا وَجَدَ ی كَلِمَة ُ الْحِكْمَة ِ ضَالَّة ُ الْمُؤْمِن ِ فَحَ which means, ‘A word of wisdom is the lost property of the believer; he takes it wherever he finds it. ’ [Publisher]