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stated in a hadîth-i sherîf, ‘Receive medical treatment.’
According to this hadîth-i sherîf, treatment is fard when it is
indispensable against death or when it will prevent one from
omitting an action which is fard or when it is done for curing a
cardiac. The treatment for other diseases is sunna.”
It is written in Tatârhâniyya: “When there is no other remedy,
it is permissible to have a surgical operation in order to save
oneself from death.”
In conclusion, we say that avoiding the causes of illness is not
an obstacle against tawakkul. The Khalîfa ’Umar ‘radiy-Allâhu
’anh’ was on his way to Damascus, when he heard that there was
a plague in Damascus. Some of those who were with him
suggested that they should not enter Damascus. Others protested
that they should not run away from Allâhu ta’âlâ’s destiny. Upon
this the Khalîfa said, “Let us run away from Allah’s destiny to the
destiny which is His, too. Let us not enter the city. Suppose
someone among you has a pasture and a bare rocky area. To
whichever he drives his flock, he will have done it with Allâhu
ta’âlâ’s decree.” Then he summoned ’Abdurrahmân bin ’Awf
‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ and asked, “What is your opinion?” He said,
“I heard Rasûlullah ‘sall-Allâhu ’alaihi wa sallam’ state, ‘Do not
enter a place where there is plague, and never flee from a plagued
place or move to some other place!” Upon this, the Khalîfa
saying, “Alhamdulillah, my statement concurs with the hadîth-isherîf,”
they did not enter Damascus. The reason why it is
prohibited to leave a place where there is plague is because when
the healthy ones leave the place there will be none left to look
after the sick, and thus they will die. Moreover, at a place of
plague the dirty air [which is full of microbes, bacilli, of plague]
infects everybody, so those who escape will not escape the
disease [but they will take the disease with themselves and will
infect others with it]. A hadîth-i-sherîf states: “Fleeing from a
place where there is the disease of a plague is a grave sin, like
running away from the enemy in a combat.” [Muhyiddin-i ’Arabî
‘quddisa sirruh’ says in his book Futûhât-ul-makkiyya, in the
chapter about ‘qadâ and balâ’: “Avoid disasters and dangers as
well as you can. For, it is a habit of Prophets to keep away from
things that are unbearable and unendurable.”]
It is written at the end of the fifth volume of Radd-ul-muhtâr
and in the book of fatwâ entitled Bezzâziyya: “If an earthquake
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