Distinction between Medicine and Governance/Banking in Muslim societies

[shardmanny]

Re: Distinction between Medicine and Governance/Banking in Muslim societies

@ravage

Islam is a ‘complete’ way of life, its often said. This is usually the opening line for people who advocate the formulation of government structures, laws, and financial institutions based on Islamic injunctions. Case in point, the hudood and blasphemy law examples.. where change was amendments were resisted on the basis that these were part of that complete way of life.

Complete here isnt metaphorical. Complete means complete to such people. However most fields where the Muslim world lags woefully behind, such as modern medicine, the use of western methodologies, practices and standards is uncontroversial.. barring moral concerns such as those regarding euthanasia and abortion. The practice itself, the procedures themselves, the laws that govern those procedures .. nobody clamors for Islamizing them. Its not as if ‘Islamic medicine’ doesnt exist. Its not as if Muslim society didnt produce physicians just as it produced jurists throughout history, right back to the beginning.

Why then, do our Islamists not clamour for Islamic medicine to replace current MBBS style education… a tortuous abbreviation borrowed from the UK. Why do they not ask that hakeems and naib-hakeems replace RMOs and house officers?

Is it because ‘Islamic medicine’ is demonstrably inferior to modern medicine? If so, that is a very consequentialist approach.. could that also be applied to other aspects.. i.e. could ‘islamic law/islamic finance’ be rejected by individuals and societies on the basis that it produces inferior results?

this shows a total misunderstanding of islam
you are not able to grasp it

stick to your own religion be it schism or humanist or whatever