There are five pillars of Islam that muslim knows That is called Two sentences of sahadah [Testimony of truth]. The first is: Laa illaaha illallah, I bear witness there is no god except Allah. It means that None has the right to be worshipped correctly, but Allah alone that Allah has neither partner nor son. The second is: Ashadu anna Muhammadarrosuulullah, I bear witness that Muhammad is the servant and Messenger of Allah. And he [salallahu alayhi wassalam] was the final messenger. He was born in Makkah in the year 570 A.D. He was known as being truthful, honest, trusworthy, generous and sincere. He was sent to all mankind and jinn, brought the truth and guidance, which was sent by Allah as a mercy to the worlds. As Allah says :
" And We [Allah] have not sent you, [O, Muhammad], except as a mercy to the worlds."
As a result every muslim must believe and confirm what were conveyed by him, because he [salallahu alayhi wassallam] did not talk base on his inclination.
' Nor does he [Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wassallam] speak of [his own] desire. It is only a revealation revealed." [An-Najm: 3-4].
Islam has two fundamentals source of law. They are : Al-Quran and As-Sunnah Nabaweeyah. Whomsoever hold tight both of them, Allah will protect him from misguide. Muhammad salallahu alayhi wassalam said: " I left you two things, which you will never misguide after me. As long as you hold both of them, they are kitabullah and sunnah. And you will never apart until meet me in haudh [in the day of resurrection]." [reported by Imaam Malik and Hakim, saheeh].
Verily, muslims from the first generation [the righteous predecassors] have agreed that sunnah as a second reference in islamic shariah. it is compulsory for muslims to believe all ayaats in Quran and hadeeth saheeh which definitely will not contradict with the fact and reality.
Among many hadeeths that still become controversion in the the realm of muslims is the hadeeth about fly. " Ubaid bin Hunain reported to me that he said : I heard Abu Hurairah [radiallahu anhu] said: The Messenger said :
" If a housefly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it [in the drink], for the one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure of the disease." [saheeh al-bukhari, no 5782].
The scholar of hadeeth in this century, Shaikh Muhammad Naasir-ud-deen Al-Albaani [rahimahullah] born in the year 1332H - 1420H [1914 C.E - 1999 C.E] stated that this hadeeth is saheeh.
In judging this hadeeth muslims split up into two categories.
First : Some who deny it. They are from the realm of Intelectuals, The refusers of sunnah, the orientalists and the ignorants. Their argumentations because fly is a dirty insect which likes to alight on dirty and disgusting things. And if the fly alights on food or drink, it will cause diseases, such as diarrhea, dysentri and other diseases caused by bactery. Their argumentation only based on their ratio. Among medical experts there are also two opinions, some are agree and support it, and some deny it based on their own argumentation.
Second : some who agree and support this hadeeth, they are some muslim scholars and some medical experts. Their argumentation eventhough fly likes to alight on dirty places in its body forms antibody as an antibacterial which kills many of the microbes. The anti bacterial located in one of its wing. Some of us maybe know that poison, such as from snake can be made into antibody and immunity to protect our body from particular diseases. The antibody can be gotten from the disease itsefl by weekened the microbe or virus such as in vaccination serum.
*) The latest result of research done by Department Medical Microbiology, College of science, Qassim University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The researchers are :
- Sami Ibrahim Aj-Taili
- 'Aadil 'Abdur Rahman Al-Misnid
- Khalid Dha'aar Al-'Utaibi
The team was supervised by Dr. Jamaal Haamid [May Allah Protects them all] and course co-coordinator Dr. Saleh As Saleh [ rahimahullah]. The research was presented in " Student research seminar". They used very simple method. Cultivating steriled water which has been submerged by fly in the gelatin media.
There are three species of fly that were used which indicated by species A, B and C, for each species there are two samples. [sample 1] the steriled water where fly was put into it. All of its body was submerged. as a note this research done acepticely [free from microbe] in special room to avoid contamination. After that, the sample water was cultivated in gelatin media and incubated for some days to grow the culture of microbe and can be seen it clearly.
The result the culture of microbe was identified to find out the kind of microbe.
Sample A : Contained of species A
Plate 2: Cultured water sample taken from a flask containing sterilized water and where a fly fell [without submersion]. Growth of pathogenic [disease causing] bacterial colonies of the E coli type were identified after taking samples from the water in the flask for culture.
Plate 1: Cultured water sample from the same flask following the complete dipping of the fly. An entire disappearance of the bacterial growth seen in petri-dish 2 is clear. The new bacteria growing plate 1 was identified as Actinomyces, the one from which useful antibiotics can be extracted. This explains the complete inhibition of growth in plate 2.
Sample B : Contained of species B.
Plate 2 : Cultured water sample taken from a flask containing sterilized water and where a fly fell (without submersion). Growth of pathogenic (disease causing) bacterial colonies of Coynebacterium Dephtheroid type were identified after taking samples from the water in the flask for culture.
Plate 1 : Cultured water sample from the same flask following the complete dipping of the fly. An entire dissappearance of the bacterial growth seen in Petri-dish 2 is clear. The new bacteria growing in plate 1 was identified as Actinomyces, the one from which useful antibiotics [more than 70%] can be extracted. This explains the complete inhibition of growth in plate 2.
Sample C : Contained species C
Plate 2 : Cultured water sample taken from a flask containing sterilized water and where a fly fell [without submersion]. Growth of pathogenic [disease causing] bacterial colonies of the Stahylococcus sp. type. were identified after taking samples from teh water in the flask for culture.
Plate 1 : Cultured water sample from the same flask following the complete dipping of the fly. An entire disappearance of the bacterial growth seen in Petri-dish 2 is clear. The new bacteria growing in plate 1 was identified as Actinomyces, the one from which useful antibiotics can be extracted. This explains the complete inhibition of growth in plate 2.
The same results were obtained with another type of disease-causing bacteria ofSalmonellas sp + Proteus sp type.
*) source of the research and picture: www.islamicknowledge.com
From the research above can be conclude that : There is a difference between fly which was submerged in the drink and did not.
- Islam is in line with modern scientific invention
- There is no contradiction between Al-Quran Al-Kareem and Al-hadeeth As-Saheehah
- It is a prove that islam is truth and Muhammad [salallahu alayhi wassallam] said not based on his inclination, but revealation revealed.
