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HIJAMAH
HIJAMAH
SCIENCE:
Cupping is known for its effective healing. According to Science, cupping can reduce inflammation, enhance blood circulation, remove toxins from your body, treating blood pressure and infection of the heart muscle, pain in the neck and stomach, rheumatic pain in the muscles, some diseases of the heart and chest, pain in the joints and much more.
Cupping is enjoined to do in the middle of the month when the humors are increasing and are very active due to the increase in light (and size) of the moon, and not in the beginning (of the month), when the humors have not yet risen, and not in the ending of the month, when the humors have reduced. [1]
ISLAM:
Jabir ibn ‘Abd-Allah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say: “If there is anything good in the medicines with which you treat yourselves, it is in the incision of the cupper, or a drink of honey or cauterization with fire, but I do not like to be cauterized.” [Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Anas ibn Malik was asked about the earnings of the cupper, and he said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was treated with cupping by Abu Taybah. He ordered that he should be given two sa’ of food, and he spoke with his masters so that they reduced what they used to take from his earnings. And he said: “The best medicine with which you treat yourselves is cupping, or it is one of the best of your medicines.” [Narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever is treated with cupping on the seventeenth, nineteenth or twenty first, will be healed from all diseases.” [Narrated by Abu Dawood]. [1]