MICROBE IN MUSLIM SCHOLARS THINKING
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God creates the ultimate goodness for all ailments, but humans can deal with the conditions under which God works in order to create the most favorable conditions for the benefit of man. In this paper we focus on the learning the existence according to the Qur’an and Sunnah with specific reference to the existence of microbe, referring to some Muslim scholars, e.g. Abu Ali Ibn Sina (980-1037), who has contributed to the development of the germ theory of disease, and stated that bodily secretions are contaminated by foul foreign earthly bodies before being infected or after death. He also discovered the contagious nature of tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, and introduced quarantine as a means of limiting the spread of contagious diseases. When the Black Death bubonic plaque reached al-Andalus in the 14th century, Ibn Khatima (1369 AD) hypothesized that infectious diseases are caused by "minute bodies" which enter the human body and cause disease i.e. aware of germs theory; also Al, -Razi in “Kitab Hasbbati wa Judary” showed the differences between measles and small pox. We hope to present the idea that the existence of Islamic thought has existed since the 8th century. And we also take note that Allah created everything in its best form and microbe is one of its creatures. Allah is the Lord and Master of all existence.
