Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Islam critiqued opposes drinking camel urine!

In answer to the video "The Logic of Muhammad"

This issue is often made into a mountain by the enemies of Islam. The prophet recommended the ingestion of camel's urine that had grazed in particular areas that thus rendered it useful to humans, in combination with milk, not separately. That prescription was a one off incident to a group of people that consequently were cured. It was not something recommended to everyone or for general consumption. It was meant as a treatment and we have no other instances of the prophet using it or telling others to do so. It is well known, as a side note, that camel urine has strong antibiotic properties. Due to this, the critics of Islam have now switched to saying that isolating the beneficial component makes the remedy risk free, as compared to taking the cure in its raw form ie the urine. Yet a modern drug, even though having the component of interest in concentration is still harmful to an extent and has a long list of side effects. Take chemotherapy for example. Ancient people cured diseases using inherited knowledge and raw materials provided by nature. Chemical extraction and synthetic reproduction didn't exist. These ancient remedies, like our modern drugs werent perfect but did the specific job they were known to be useful for, as is clearly the case in this hadith.


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