Islam's Solution to Humanity's Gravest Challenge - Aids

Islam's Solution to Humanity's
Gravest Challenge - Aids

AIDS is a fatal disease
that weakens the resistance of the body and makes it defenseless against all
kinds of infections such as pneumonia, diarrhoeas, Kaposi's Sarcoma, etc.

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  Anyone who develops
  AIDS will die within a few years and the death is likely to be horrible.
  
  
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  Until today there is
  still NO CURE for it.
  
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  AIDS is spread mainly
  due to indiscriminate sexual activity, homosexuality & drug abuse.
  
  

So escapism or running
away from the facts will not help in finding a solution.... rather it is time
that we reflect upon the following warning given by the Prophet Muhammed
(sallallahu alaihe wa-sallam)

"Whenever sexual
permissiveness spreads among the people until it becomes declared, infections
and killing diseases, as well as illnesses not previously found in their
ancestors will spread among them" Sunan Ibn Majah

Sex
is a naturals inborn, biological urge that must find expression. Allah put it
there to ensure propagation of mankind; as clearly seen from the following verse
in the Qur'aan:
"Your wives are a tilth for you, so go to your tilth (have
sexual relations with you wives), when or how you will, (and ask Allah to bestow
upon you pious offspring." The Noble Qur'aan 2 : 223

And the Prophet
Muhammed (sallallahu alaihe wa-sallam) advised the young generation,
saying:

"O Young People!
Whoever among you can marry, should marry, because it helps you to lower your
gaze and guard your modesty (i.e. keeps you away from adultery), and whoever is
not able to marry, should fast, as fasting is a means of suppressing sexual
desire." Saheeh al-Bukhari and Saheeh Muslim

Note: The above two
sayings of the Prophet Muhammed (sallallahu alaihe wa-sallam) give by their
wisdom, both the cause of the AIDS problem as well as its cure.

Sex outside of marital
bonds is termed as "Zina" (fornication / adultery) and Allah says in the Qur'aan
: "And come not near to Zina (fornication). Verily, it is a Fahisha (i.e. a
great sin) and an evil way." [The Noble Qur'aan 17 : 32]

The ill effects of Zina
(fornication) can clearly be seen in the Western countries where indiscriminate
sexual activity seems to be the rule rather than the exception. The direct
consequences of which being a high rate of divorce, the alarming increase of
'single mothers' and the breakdown of the family, as the most basic unit of the
society.

It is therefore not
difficult to realize the divine wisdom behind the strict punishments for Zina
(fornication / adultery) in Islaam, as Allah says: "Verily, those who like
the crime of Zina (fornication) should be propagated among those who believe,
they will have a painful torment in this world and in the Hereafter. And Allah
knows and you know not." [The Noble Qur'aan 24:193]


In the process of
"so-called modernization", we have moved further and further from the teachings
of Islam. We think we can get away with anything and have ignored the
admonition:

"Verily, the
punishment of your Lord is severe."[The Noble Qur'aan 85:12]

Such was also the case
of the people of the time of Prophet Lut, "And Remember Lut, when he said to
his people - Do you commit the worst sin such as none preceding you have
committed among the mankind and jinn ? Verily, you satisfy your lusts on men
instead of women ! Nay but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds (by
committing great sins)." [The Noble Qur'aan 7 :80-81]


This is because
Homosexuality is against nature (Fitrah), against common sense, against anatomy,
against physiology, against logic, against aesthetics; and yet we find the
Western media portray homosexuality as "Freedom of Choice" as if it is an
acceptable form of social behavior.

Muslims Beware! Do
not let such an attitude develop in your society.

As for those homosexual
men from among the nation of Prophet Lut - the Qur'aan says:


"Verily, they were a
people given to evil and were the Fasiqun (disobedient).
The Noble Qur'aan 21:74


and their punishment
was ....

"And we (Allaah)
rained down on them a rain (of stones). And see what was the end of the Mujrimun
(sinners)." The Noble Qur'aan
7 : 84

Drug
Abuse

All substances which
cause damage to a person's health or those that cause intoxication are totally
forbidden (Haraam) to be used by Muslims. As the following authentic Hadeeth
clearly state:

Every
intoxicant is Khamr and every intoxicant is Haraam (forbidden)
Saheeh Muslim


There are two
things that many people waste: health and free time. Saheeh al-Bukhari

Besides what drives
people to begin using drugs? Escapism, the inability to cope with life or a lack
of emotional support. The only solution can be the strengthening of family ties
and the remembrance of Allah, for it is "in the remembrance of Allah do
hearts find tranquillity." The Noble Qur'aan 13:28


Parents!
Teachers! Social Workers! Concerned Citizens!

Remember ! it is now up
to you to stop this degradation of social values. Islamic morals and manners
have to be revived. Prostitution, Pornographic literature/films and all other
forms of immorality must be done away with completely.


The real danger is
mainly to adolescents and teenagers in high-school, college or university; who
while away from homes experiment with sex ... unaware of the dangers. Then the
only thing that will protect them from AIDS is their faith in Allah and a firm
belief that all forms of illegal sexual expres​sion(outside marital bonds)are
totally forbidden to the believing Muslims.

Those Muslims in the
AIDS awareness program should remember that during the annual 'December'
celebration of the 'World AIDS Day", when the slogan is "SAFE SEX" (i.e. the
compulsory use of the condom); your slogan should be "NO SEX OUTSIDE OF
MARRIAGE"

Research on AIDS,
while promoting the use of condoms, unanimously agrees that the only sure way to
avoid exposure to HIV is ........

1. to abstain from
sexual intercourse entirely
2. to have a mutually faithful relationship with
an uninfected person.[AIDS -Humanity's
Gravest Challenge by Dr. Pushpa Khurana, (1989) p.77]



Amazing to see that
modern research is but an echo of the advice given by our Prophet Muhammed,1400
years ago.

[Read the Hadeeth
again]

Therefore let us learn
from the pain and devastation of AIDS the lesson that the Hudood (limitations)
set up by Allah, the Almighty must be followed strictly and let us also use the
following Hadeeth in our fight against AIDS

"Fear Allaah wherever you may be" Sunan at-Tirmidhi and
Musnad Ahmed bin Hambal

Time
Watch

In the year 1978, The
World Health Organization passed a resolution at Alma Ata, "Health for all by
2000 CE". Efforts begin in the elimination of small pox and successful
control is gained over other contagious diseases and viral infections,
brightening the hope of achieving the goal. In 1981 all the hopes are shattered
by the discovery of a new disease called AIDS.

By December 1995 the
total number of AIDS cases world-wide reached 6.8 million and there seems to be
no hope of finding a cure before 2000 CE. AIDS is currently the world's most
frightening killer disease. The Noble Laureate Dr. Hoshua Lederberg, President
of Rockefeller University, said that AIDS would become the world's third-leading
killer disease that would kill 10 percent of the world's population over the
next 20 years. [Arab News, Jan 29,1990].

In India the worst
affected states are Maharashtra (1286 cases), Tamil Nadu (492), Manipur (104),
Punjab (100), Delhi (100), Pondicherry (100), Kerala (96), MP (65), UP (56),
Karnataka (51), Bengal (44) and Gujarat (25). Overall India has about 2574
registered cases, that means that every one in two patients are from Maharashtra
and Bombay, the pride of Maharashtra has 962 patients