by Dr Aadil Sheikh | Aug 20, 2019
The Arabic word mercy (Rahma), a fundamental attribute of God in the Islamic tradition has its roots in the Arabic and Hebrew word for womb (Rahm). (1) It is said in a Prophetic saying of Muhammad, Peace be upon him, that God’s mercy and compassion for His creation is...
by Dr. Hany El-Banna | Apr 29, 2019
‘O you men! surely We have created you of a male and a female, and made you tribes and families that you may know each other” (Quran 49:13). Practical definitions of Islam If we try to find a practical definition of Islam, we can say that Islam is the religion of the...
by Dr Nadia Khan | Apr 29, 2019
The above aphorism from 19th-century American physician Edward Trudeau encapsulates what the endeavour of medicine is about. The fact that those words are often attributed to Hippocrates is not accidental- physicians throughout the ages have recognised that the...
by Prof. Dr. M. Ihsan Karaman | Apr 29, 2019
As almost everybody knows, alcohol consumption, as one of three primary public health problems of the world, is the third basic reason for preventable deaths and injuries on a global basis. Over three hundred thousand people between the ages 15-29 lose their lives for...
by Dr Salman Waqar | Apr 29, 2019
Unite. Inspire. Serve. This is the vision of the British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA), established on the 22nd of June 2013 at the Markfield Institute near Leicester, where over 100 healthcare professionals from all over Britain gathered to revive efforts to...
