- Many verses in the Qur’an address healing and promote good health.
- Seeking help with patience and prayers is encouraged in Islam
- Studies have shown that prayers can have healing effects on patients.
As healing is from Allah, doctors and medications are merely instruments of the Healer.
Sending the Qur’an to Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), Allah says that reading the Qur’an and believing in it will also cure all your physical illnesses.
The first part of this article sheds light on how the Holy Qur’an contains rules of guidance which, if followed, promote good health and healing.
Use of Meditation in Prayer and Healing
Meditation includes acts of remembrance and communications with God as ordained to us.
1. “When my servant asks you (O Muhammad) about me, (tell them) I am close to them: I listen to the prayer of each supplicant when he asks Me. Let them listen to My call and believe in Me, that they may walk in the right way” (Qur’an 2:186).
2. “Your Lord says: “Call on Me and I will answer your call” (Qur’an 40:60).
3. “Those who believe and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of God, for in the remembrance of God do hearts find rest” (Qur’an 13:28).
4. “Remember Me, I will remember you; thank Me and reject Me not” (Qur’an 2:152).
5. “Remember thy Lord much and praise Him in the evening and morning” (Qur’an 3:41).
6. “Such as those who remember God standing, sitting and reclining” (Qur’an 3:191).
7. “and men who remember God much and women who remember God, God has prepared for them forgiveness and a vast reward” (Qur’an 33:35).
8. “O you believe! Remember God with much remembrance and glorify Him in the morning and evening” (Qur’an 33:41-42).
Sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
Prophet Muhammad, like all other prophets of God, was engaged in the remembrance of God most of the time. He is known to have said:
1. “There is a polish for everything that removes the rust and the polish for the rust-of-heart is the dhikr (remembrance) of God.”
2. He was asked which people are most virtuous and most highly esteemed by God on the Day of Judgement.
The messenger of God (P) replied: “Those who remember God often.”
3. It is narrated in a hadith Qudsi (direct revelation to Prophet Muhammad) “God Most High says I am as my servant thinks I am. I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me by himself, I make mention of him to Myself. If he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assembly better than his. If he comes closer to Me a hand span, I come closer to him arms-length, if he comes to Me walking, I come to him running.”
Thus meditation/remembrance has been a practice of all Sufi sheikhs. In the words of Sheikh al-Mursi “dhikr (meditation) pleases God, defeats and drives evil forces, increases livelihood, makes the personality more prestigious, cleanses the heart, removes the faults and saves the tongue from lying, gossip, backbiting, and hypocrisy while engaged in the remembrance of God.”
