The foundations of hygiene and health in the Quran

The current paper deals with the foundations of health and hygiene in the Quran. The writer while counting part of the foundations of health and hygiene holds that the holy Quran is not revealed to comprise details of the health and medical issues, but includes principles and foundations pertaining to medical knowledge; for the given principles and foundations are in the course of human guidance. The healthy people are more capable of receiving guidance. The society whose inhabitants are ill is a stagnant and motionless society. But Islam is the religion of motion, dynamism and development. In other word, health is hidden within the religion that can be deduced from many verses and traditions. They include the instructions and imperatives as follows: paying no attention to one’s health is tantamount to one’s gradual death, everyone should enjoin hygiene and cleanliness, body is an instrument for the spirit, keeping moderation in health care issues, the development of medical sciences and the non-dominance of enemies, body remains under the dominance of spirit and....