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prophet Muhammad's hadith on fly is confirmed by science
By: Captshittu Date: August 23, 2017, 4:59 pm
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[font=arial]Muhammad’s (saaw) Hadith of the Fly is confirmed by
Science
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The Holy Quran and the traditional sayings of Prophet Mohammad
(PBUH) are the two legs of the Religion of Islam ,
The Holy Quran contains scientific miracles that have been
already confiremed scientifically . These Holy Scientific verses
were revealed more than 1400 years ago , at the time of Prophet
Mohammad there were many other different miracles to make people
believe . Because Quran will be the last reveald Book till life
ends , God has made it overflowing Book with miracles that suit
every age and its kind of civilization . As we live now in the
age of science , we find that there are a lot of scientific
miracles in Quran in addition to the Hadiths (prophet’s
traditional sayings ).
“Medically it is well known now that a fly carries some
pathagens on some parts of its body as mentioned by the Prophet
(before 1400 years. approx. when the humans knew very little of
modern medicine.) Similarly Allah created organisms and other
mechanisms which kill these pathagens e.g. penicillin Fungus
kills pathogenic organisms like Staphalococci and others etc.
Recently experiments have been done under supervision which
indicate that a fly carries the disease (pathagens) plus the
antidote for those organ-isms. Ordinarily when a fly touches a
liquid food it infects the liquid with its pathogens, so it must
be dipped in order to release also the antidote for those
pathogens to act as a counter balance to the pathogens.
The Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) said: “If a fly falls into the
drink of any one of you, he should dunk it all the way in and
then remove it, because on one if its wings is disease and on
the other is its cure.” [Sahîh al-Bukhârî (3320, 5782)]
The Prophet (Muhammad Peace Be Upon Him) alluded to both facts
1,400 years ago when he said, as narrated from Abu Hurayra and
Abu Sa`id al-Khudri by al-Bukhari and in the Sunan:
The greatness of God’s creation in the eyes of the fly
Only in modern times was it discovered that the common fly
carried parasitic pathogens for many diseases including malaria,
typhoid fever, cholera, and others. It was also discovered that
the fly carried parasitic bacteriophagic fungi capable of
fighting the germs of all these diseases.
If a fly falls into one of your containers [of food or drink],
immerse it completely (falyaghmis-hu kullahu) before removing
it, for under one of its wings there is venom and under another
there is its antidote.
It is established that house flies are carriers of dangerous
pathogens of animals and humans. Even the muscaphobic critics of
this hadith are forced to admit that no one at the time of the
Prophet, upon him peace, knew that flies carry such harmful
organisms. Whence the observation that “under one of its wings
there is venom”?
Second, from the perspective of logic, if the fly did not carry
some sort of protection in the form of an antidote or immunity,
it would perish from its own poisonous burden and there would be
no fly left in the world.
Further, the transmission of what the fly carries in or on its
body is not an automatic fact. For example, the microbe
responsible for ulcers and other stomach ailments can live on
houseflies, although it remains to be seen whether flies
transmit the pathogen.
There has long been evidence of bacterial pathogen-suppressing
micro-organisms living in houseflies. An article in Vol. 43 of
the Rockefeller Foundation’s Journal of Experimental Medicine
(1927) p. 1037 stated:
The flies were given some of the cultured microbes for certain
diseases. After some time the germs died and no trace was left
of them while a germ-devouring substance formed in the flies –
bacteriophages. If a saline solution were to be obtained from
these flies it would contain bacteriophages able to suppress
four kinds of disease-inducing germs and to benefit immunity
against four other kinds.
Cited in `Abd Allah al-Qusami, Mushkilat al-Ahadith al-Nabawiyya
wa-Bayanuha (p. 42).
More recently, a Colorado State University website on entomology
states, “Gnotobiotic [=germ-free] insects (Greenberg et al,
1970) were used to provide evidence of the bacterial
pathogen-suppressing ability of the microbiota of Musca
domestica [houseflies] …. most relationships between insects and
their microbiota remain undefined. Studies with gnotobiotic
locusts suggest that the microbiota confers previously
unexpected benefits for the insect host.”
So then, flies are not only pathogenic carriers but also carry
microbiota that can be beneficent. The fly microbiota were
described as “longitudinal yeast cells living as parasites
inside their bellies. These yeast cells, in order to perpetuate
their life cycle, protrude through certain respiratory tubules
of the fly. If the fly is dipped in a liquid, the cells burst
into the fluid and the content of those cells is an antidote for
the pathogens which the fly carries.” Cf. Footnote in the
Translation of the Meanings of Sahih al-Bukhari by Muhammad
Muhsin Khan (7:372, Book 76 Medicine , Chapter 58, Hadith 5782).
These fly microbiota are bacteriophagic or “germ-eating”.
Bacteriophages are viruses of viruses. They attack viruses and
bacteria. They can be selected and bred to kill specific
organisms. The viruses infect a bacterium, replicate and fill
the bacterial cell with new copies of the virus, and then break
through the bacterium’s cell wall, causing it to burst. The
existence of similar bacteria-killing mechanisms in two
bacteriophages suggests that antibiotics for human infections
might be designed on the basis of these cell wall-destroying
proteins. Science 292 (June 2001) p. 2326-2329.
Bacteriophagic medicine was available in the West before the
forties but was discontinued when penicillin and other “miracle
antibiotics” came out. Bacteriophages continued to flourish in
Eastern Europe as an over-the-counter medicine. The “O1-phage”
has been used for diagnosis of all Salmonella types while the
prophylaxis of Shigella dysentery was conducted with the help of
phages. Annales Immunologiae Hungaricae No. 9 (1966) in German.
“Phage therapy” is now making a comeback in the West:
First named in 1917 by researcher Felix d’Herelle at France ‘s
Pasteur Institute, bacteriophages (or just phages for short) are
viruses that prey upon bacteria. They have a simple structure –
a DNA-filled head attached by a shaft to spidery “legs” that are
used to grip onto the surface of a bacterium. Once a phage
latches onto a bacterium, it injects its payload of genetic
material into the bacterium’s innards. The bacterium then begins
to rapidly produce “daughter” copies of the phage — until the
bacterium becomes too full and ruptures, sending hundreds of new
phage particles into the open world.
Doctors used phages as medical treatment for illnesses ranging
from cholera to typhoid fevers. In some cases, a liquid
containing the phage was poured into an open wound. In others,
they were given orally, via aerosol, or injected. In some cases,
the treatments worked well – in others, they did not. When
antibiotics came into the mainstream, phage therapy largely
faded in the west.
However, researchers in eastern Europe, including the former
Soviet Union , continued their studies of the potential healing
properties of phages. And now that strains of bacteria resistant
to standard antibiotics are on the rise, the idea of phage
therapy has been getting more attention in the worldwide medical
community. Several biotechnology companies have been formed in
the U.S. to develop bacteriophage-based treatments – many of
them drawing on the expertise of researchers from eastern
Europe.”
Research on the medical application of bacteriophages is now
considered to be in its most promising stage. A University of
Pittsburgh researcher said in June 2001, “Given the sheer number
and variety of bacteriophages lurking on the planet, the viruses
may represent a sizable untapped reservoir of new therapeutics.”
Science 292 (June 2001) p. 2326-2329.
Possibilities for use of bacteriophages in disease control is
discussed in the article “Smaller Fleas… Ad infinitum:
Therapeutic Bacteriophage Redux” in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America [PNAS] Vol.
93 No. 8 (April 16, 1996), 3167-8.
The fact that the fly carried pathophagic or germ-eating agents
was known to the ancients, who noticed that wasp and scorpion
stings are remedied by rubbing the sore spot with a decapitated
fly as mentioned in al-Antaki’s Tadhkira (1:140), al-`Ayni’s
citation of Abu Muhammad Ibn al-Baytar al-Maliqi’s (d. 646)
al-Jami` li-Mufradat al-Adwiya wal-Aghdhiya in `Umdat al-Qari
(7:304), and al-Sha`rani’s Mukhtasar al-Suwaydi fil-Tibb (p.
98).
Avicenna preferred the use of a live chicken slit in two and
applied to the wound cf. Ibn al-Azraq, Tas-hîl al- Manafi` (1306
ed. p. 171=1315 ed. p. 147). A similar use is current even today
for camel urine according to a University of Calgary website.
In the two world wars the wounds of soldiers exposed to flies
were observed to heal and scar faster than the wounds of
unexposed soldiers. Even today, fly larvae, or maggots, are used
medicinally to clean up festering wounds. They only eat dead
tissue and leave healthy tissue alone.
Is the fly ritually filthy (najis)? No. The Jurists concur that
the fly is pure (al-dhubab tahir) and does not defile a liquid
even if its quantity is small and even if it dies in it except,
according to al-Shafi`i, if one of the aspects of the liquid is
affected (smell, color, taste) cf. al-Baghawi, Sharh al-Sunna
(11:260-261) and al-Qastallani, Irshad al-Sari (5:304-305).
The Prophetic Sunna is an endless manual of healthy living and
practical husbandry for people of all walks of life, especially
the poor. The Prophet, upon him peace, at all times directed his
Umma to avert waste and penury even in unsanitary conditions.
Just as the hadith on camel milk and urine reveals knowledge of
dietetics and natural medicine, so does the hadith of the fly
reveal knowledge of preventive medicine and immunology. In this
respect the command in these hadiths, as in many others, denotes
an advisory Sunna of permissibility, not a literal obligation.
“The command [of immersing the fly] denotes counsel (al-amru
lil-irshad) so as to counter disease with cure.” Al-Qastallani,
Irshad al-Sari (5:304).
Despite the abundance of supporting evidence for the
authenticity of these medicinal narrations (camel and fly) on
the one hand and for their scientific viability on the other,
certain voices continue to reject them on both counts. Principle
skepticism of authentically transmitted narrations that pertain
to facts demonstrated by ancient and modern science, or whose
scientific worth is just now coming into view, is the wont of
stagnant minds and diseased hearts for which there is no cure
save the mercy of our Lord.
Now researchers are developing a new antibiotic made of the
antidode living on the fly’s surface.
God’s greatness in the creation of the hose of the fly
The latest research calls for a new antibody from the fly
antidote
here is a new research titled “The new buzz on antibiotics” that
was done only a weak ago …read this study:
The surface of flies is the last place you would expect to find
antibiotics, yet that is exactly where a team of Australian
researchers is concentrating their efforts
Working on the theory that flies must have remarkable
antimicrobial defences to survive rotting dung, meat and fruit,
the team at the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie
University, set out to identify those antibacterial properties
manifesting at different stages of a fly’s development.
“Our research is a small part of a global research effort for
new antibiotics, but we are looking where we believe no-one has
looked before,” said Ms Joanne Clarke, who presented the group’s
findings at the Australian Society for Microbiology Conference
in Melbourne this week. The project is part of her PhD thesis.
The scientists tested four different species of fly: a house
fly, a sheep blowfly, a vinegar fruit fly and the control, a
Queensland fruit fly which lays its eggs in fresh fruit. These
larvae do not need as much antibacterial compound because they
do not come into contact with as much bacteria.
Flies go through the life stages of larvae and pupae before
becoming adults. In the pupae stage, the fly is encased in a
protective casing and does not feed. “We predicted they would
not produce many antibiotics,” said Ms Clarke.
They did not. However the larvae all showed antibacterial
properties (except that of the Queensland fruit fly control).
As did all the adult fly species, including the Queensland fruit
fly (which at this point requires antibacterial protection
because it has contact with other flies and is mobile).
Such properties were present on the fly surface in all four
species, although antibacterial properties occur in the gut as
well. “You find activity in both places,” said Ms Clarke.
“The reason we concentrated on the surface is because it is a
simpler extraction.”
The antibiotic material is extracted by drowning the flies in
ethanol, then running the mixture through a filter to obtain the
crude extract.
When this was placed in a solution with various bacteria
including E.coli, Golden Staph, Candida (a yeast) and a common
hospital pathogen, antibiotic action was observed every time.
“We are now trying to identify the specific antibacterial
compounds,” said Ms Clarke. Ultimately these will be chemically
synthesised.
Because the compounds are not from bacteria, any genes
conferring resistance to them may not be as easily transferred
into pathogens. It is hoped this new form of antibiotics will
have a longer effective therapeutic life.
Danny Kingsley – ABC Science Online
The fly carries a disease and the cure on both its wings:
Mentioned in Islam and confirmed by Science (Bacteriophages):
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