Prominent Islamic scholars and orthodox medical practitioners have called for increased awareness about prophetic medicine.
They made the call at the 2023 edition of the Annual Imams Conference organised by the Lekki Muslim Ummah (LEMU), an umbrella organisation for all Muslims in the Lekki Peninsula of Lagos, with the theme: “Health is Wealth”.
The Chief Imam of the Lekki Central Mosque, Sheikh Ridwanullah Jamiu, said the theme was aimed at expanding the scope of opportunities for imams, noting that prophetic medicine was one area people didn’t pay attention to.
He said, “We are looking for opportunities for our imams. You can be an imam and at the same time a practitioner in prophetic medicine. It will be beneficial to society. We have many of our scholars who are into prophetic medicine. We thought we should bring them together and let our imams who do not have knowledge of it gain some insights. They may want to tap into it and develop themselves to become practitioners.”
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One of the invited lecturers, Dr Dhikrullah Shafi’i Olohunoyin, of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State, called for the establishment of centres for prophetic medicine where the practitioners could operate in an organised manner.
He said, “My advice, therefore, is that Muslims in various states should collaborate with specialists to build centres for Islamic medicine and ruqyah (exorcism). That’s the best way to go. Individual efforts won’t achieve much, it has to be coordinated.”
Another lecturer, Ustadh Musharaf Aderogba, who is based in Saki, Oyo State, called for greater awareness on prophetic medicine.
