By Zaahied Sallie
In an age when the armaments and pharmaceuticals industries generate the largest revenue, we are compelled to ask: what is wrong with the human species?
Many of us suffer indentured servitude to the pharmaceutical industry.
We may attribute this enslavement to many causes, the first being post-modern profit patented drugs which are market driven by exorbitant advertising spend, political lobbying, and a medical education built upon drug prescription.
Medical school has too much subsidisation of the professors who are being paid by the pharmaceutical company, according to Dr. Garry F. Gordon Medical, M.D., D.O., Co-Founder of ACAM and best-selling author.
By the turn of the 19th Century, medical schools taught many different types of medicine. There were homoeopathic medical schools, naturopathic medical schools and eclectic herbal medical schools. These diverse medical institutions all disappeared by the 1950s with patent petrochemical medical education ushered in as ‘The Way’ by the pundits. Their exit gave rise to a monopoly in healthcare with chemical medicine eliminating natural medicine as a recognised form of practice.
In 2014, the pharmaceutical industry reached the $1 trillion global milestone – and forecasts continued growth with the expectation of sales reaching $1.3 trillion by 2018 according to the 2015 CMR Pharmaceutical R&D Factbook reported by Thompson Reuters. Even more disturbing is the fact that anti-cancer drugs dominate the market as was stated in the same article. Forbes Magazine published in May 2015 that the cancer drug market had just hit $100 billion and could jump 50% in four years.
This domination, therefore, begs another important question. Is cancer on the rise and why?
Dr. Ivars Kalvins, Ph.D., Scientist, Inventor and Director of the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis says that each second man and third women will fall victim to cancer in this generation.
According to World Health Organization (WHO), common risk factors for cancer include:
Astonishingly, long-term drug use, synthetically processed food and white refined sugar, added to about 80% of the US’s 600 000 food products, with a similar estimate in first world countries are not explicitly cited as common risk factors for cancer. Emotional and psychological circumstances were excluded altogether.
Dr. David Kessler, the former FDA Commissioner, says that the junk food industry is creating the greatest healthcare epidemic of our time.
A few years from now the same will most probably be said about genetically modified foods.
The followers of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ are well aware of the Prophetic saying “No human ever filled a container worse than the stomach. Sufficient for any son of Adam are some morsels to keep his back straight. However, if it must be, then one-third for his food, one-third for his drink and one-third for his breath.” Al-Tirmidhi
Contemplating the above Prophetic saying the discerned will realise that the food gathered for consumption during the time of the Prophet ﷺ were mostly wholesome. Still, he ﷺ advocated to eat and drink frugally. Our foods, on the contrary, lack nutritional value and are seldom organic. We should, therefore, be more cognizant of this warning. The Prophet ﷺ also said that many ailments stem from the stomach and fasting starve disease to its death.
Men’s Journal named Steve Maxwell, 64 years of age and still active, as the top 100 trainers in the US. Maxwell is an American fitness coach, physical educator, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor. When recently interviewed on The Deen Show he said that he would fast if diagnosed with cancer and that fasting is probably one of the most powerful cures. He makes mention of the book Toxaemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease published by John H. Tilden in 1926. Maxwell is not a Muslim.
Maxwell’s understanding is confirmed by Prophet Muhammad ﷺ when he said in an authentic narration reported by Abu Nu’aym “Fast and you will become healthy.”
The only container our brethren and sistren needed worry about during the time of the Prophet ﷺ in light of the hadith cited earlier were their bellies. The Muslims of today have the added concern of contending with million little containers filled with petrochemical medicines supposedly to make our lives better.
The discerning and reasonable person will hopefully realise that there should be a better way to achieve health and satiate hunger.
With the advent of Ramadan 2016, Muslims should be contemplating this question all the more. The future of our health depends on it.
Resources:
news-medical.net
Forbes Magazine
The Truth About Cancer
http://fedupmovie.com
The Deen Show: https://youtu.be/UakrV2JvSNA?list=PL5vN6jV4LfS-3esSxx0Ch3QahGtSPBO9j
sunnah.com
Book on Fasting by Abdurraghiem Hasan Sallie
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