Tuesday, June 10, 2008

The quarantine~

Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:«Plague is calamity which was sent to the people of Israel.If you hear of the presence of plague in a land,do not enter it,but if it spreads in the land where you are,do not fly from it.» Bukhary and Moslim agreed upon it.It is correct.
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:« Plague is a torment which is sent upon any people according to God's will.It is mercy for the believers who live in the plaguy land patiently believing that it is God's will.They are rewarded by the heaven as the death by plague is a martyrdom for the Moslim.» It is narrated by the standard Ahmed and Sahih Bukhary from Ashia.
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:«Death by plague is martyrdom for the Moslim and who flys from it is punished as same as the deserter.» It is narrated by standared Ahmed from Ashia and Al Syuty said it is a perfect Hadith.
Quarantine is one of the most important methods to resist the spreading of the epidemic diseases. It is apparent, as presented, in the sacred prophetic Hadith that they define the principals of quarantine. It prevents people from entering a plaguy area, as well as it prevents its people from running out of it. The quarantine is a new concept that was known recently for humanbeing and it is still being applied until today.
It is understandable and does not need a minute awareness of the disease why the healthy person is banned from going to the epidemic area. Unless having wide knowledge of the modern medical science, it is hard to understand why it is banned to get out from the epidemic area specially its healthy people. It makes sense when the healthy person, who lives in an epidemic area, to run away to another safe in order to avoid the infection.
The modern medicine proves that the healthy person might be a carrier if he lives in an epidemic area. Although people could be infected by many plagues, not every carrier is a patient. How many carriers are free from the disease symptoms. The incubation is a duration which is between the microbe invasion into the body and appearing the symptoms of the disease. Despite the microbe division and its reproducing is very strong in the incubation, the person does not suffer from any thing through this duration. After awhile may extend or not according to the disease type and its microbe, the dormant disease's symptoms appear in the body. It is known that the incubation of the Hepatitis may prolong for six months and the tuberculosis may be dormant in the body for many years. The carrier, or who gets microbe invasion and the symptoms did not appear yet, endangers others without himself suffering from the disease neither the others do. The ban is decisive and the punishment of the rebellious is as same as the deserter's one.
Reference : "The infection between the medicine and the prophetic Hadith" by Dr.Mohammad Ali Al Bar.

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