Preventive Medicine in Food and Drink: An Analytic Study of the Prophetic approach

Little attention has been paid by modern public health towards involving, as well as recognition of religion or culture in disease prevention and control. Religion is a major component of the social life of many communities aroundthe globe. Our goal is toprovide access to scientifically sound and culturally acceptable information on health promotion and disease prevention, to all those who need it, using the information from Qur’an and authentic Hadith.However,theresearch into this area will be important asan avenue for improving the quality of life through Islamic teachings. This study relies mainly on secondary resources of data, and secondary sources of this study were primarily libraries. The bulk of the data for this study comes from many Islamic books, journals and articles that belong to Prophetic Islamic medicine and contemporary medicine. The methods of data analysis that are used in this study are descriptive and analytical. This study uses thematic induction. Generally,the methodology used for this study can be describedand defined fundamentally as a qualitative study.Thestudy addresses prophetic traditionsthat are related to preventive medicine aboutfood and drink, and support these prophetic traditions by contemporary doctors’ opinions, which are attested by the fact, or are proved by experiments those accountsfor non-violation of the Sharia, alsothe study revealed that the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) was so concerned about every aspect of human life including that of health. This was yielded from prophetic traditions that infused preventive knowledge, which if humans could have made proper use of it, they would be prevented from many illnesses and healed others. This preventive scientific finding is affirmed by modern science. As a result, the prophecy of the final prophet is clear.

Keywords: Preventive Medicine, Food and Drink,Prophetic approach, Islamic medicine