IBTIKAR USIM | JUN 2019

B U L E T I N P E N Y E L I D I K A N D A N I N O VA S I U N I V E R S I T I S A I N S I S L A M M A L AY S I A 2 9 The Integration of Naqli & Aqli Knowledge in Medical Research Associate Professor Dr. Norsham Juliana Nordin, Physiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia The hadith of Prophet Muhammad )وسلم عليه الله صلى( clearly says; “There is no disease that Allah has created, except that He also has created its treatment.” (Sahih Al-Bukhari, book # 71, Hadith 582, narrated by Abu Huraira). Hence, the hadith clearly make its own statement on the importance of medical research as the key role in finding treatments for any health problems. There is no doubt al-Tibb al-Nabawi written by Al-HafizAbu Na’im al-Asbahani describes the Prophetic Medicine is one of the earliest literatures that showed how the teaching of Islam addresses on the importance of finding cure for diseases including mental problems. The genre of this literature may not look identical to the modern medicine textbooks, however all the health issues and treatment based on Hadiths being described in this book outlines the important syllabus inmedicine that continuously being explored up to date. Current studies in the 21st century on mental health, herbs, and nutrition are literally evoked from Prophetic Medicine. During the golden era of Islam, Muslim scholars in the field of medicine not onlymaster one particular branch of medical knowledge instead they excelled a few branches together. Even more impressive most of the eminence scholars memorised the Qur’an and hadith, therefore the evidence-based knowledge that they gain will never lead them astray.