Did Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him

prescribe camel urine as medicine?

Christian fundamentalist websites are trying to show Islam in bad light by quoting hadiths and
showing how un-scientific they are. One of the website says: "A few teachings found in these
divinely inspired texts include the medical virtues of camel urine: The prophet ordered them to
follow his camels, and drink their milk and urine, so they followed the camels and drank their
milk and urine till their bodies became healthy."
t was the first time I heard the hadith, and it really got me thinking. Sure, we all know antibiotics are made of mold...but camel urine? I decided to research the whole thing and reply to
him. I was quite surprised to find that while the Prophet Muhammad had indeed recommended
camel urine to these guys, man, people have been drinking their own stuff for ages! Heres my
reply, hope I can help some people who are 'drowning' in confusion....I know the feeling....
First lets look at the hadith:
Narrated Abu Qilaba: "Anas said, "Some people of 'Ukl or 'Uraina tribe came to Medina and
its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels
and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they
became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The
news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they
were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was
done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, They were put in 'Al-Harra'
and when they asked for water, no water was given to them." Abu Qilaba said, "Those people
committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah
and His Apostle . (Sahih Bukhari, Ablutions (Wudu'), Volume 1, Book 4, Number 234)"
MY REFUTATION: Do you know whats in your medication? How do you know its any better
than camel urine? Who would ever think that a drop of human discharge could become a
complex living being? Who would have ever thought camel urine MAY cure an illness? I put
together this article about urine-therapy. You will be surprised.
History of Urine-Therapy
The history of drinking urine for therapeutic purposes dates back at least to the Holy Roman
Empire when great urinal troths were erected in the public squares of each city-state for residents
to both contribute to, and benefit from. For centuries European Gypsies have known about the
curative properties of urine, using cow urine to cure Bright's Disease (several acute and chronic
diseases of the kidneys which produce albumin in urine). It has also been reported that the Yogis
and Lamas of Tibet reach extended ages by drinking their own urine.

Through the ages there have been literally thousands of champions of this curious practice: In the
early 1800s, a book titled One Thousand Notable Things describes the use of urine to cure
scurvy, relieve skin itching, cleanse wounds, and many other treatments. An 18th century French
dentist praised urine as a valuable mouthwash. In England during the 1860-70s, the drinking of
one's own urine was a common cure for jaundice. In more modern times, the Alaskan Eskimos
have used urine as an antiseptic to treat wounds.
For hundreds of years, other cultures have used urine to treat a wide variety of health problems.
Practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine (from India) routinely use urine as a remedy. Daily doses of
1 to 2 ounces of warm cows urine is used to treat cirrhosis of the liver. It is also prescribed as a
diuretic, a laxative, and as a treatment for chronic malaria, headaches and fever. Goats urine is
used for the same type of problems, while ox urine is prescribed to relive jaundice, worms, and
diarrhea. Camel urine is used as a stimulant in cardiovascular disease. Human urine, however,
still remains the most popular remedy. Excerpts from Vol. 5, No. 14 August, 1994 Alternatives
For the Health Conscious Individual The standard authority for drugs in Europe until the end of
the eighteenth century was Lamery's Dictionnaire Universelle des Drogues. One of the late
editions, published in 1759, contains a list of remedies under "Homo." It explains: "All parts of
man, his excrescences and excrements, contain oil and the sals volatile, combined with phlegm
and earth..."
Horse Urine as a Western Cure
The popular estrogen product called PREMARIN is given to postmenopausal women. This
PREMARIN is extracted from HORSE URINE. The name stands for PREgnant MARe urIN.
Premarin, has become the third most prescribed drug in the world (just behind Tylenol).
Recent Proof?
Scientists from the United Arab Emirates have proposed using one of the world's hardiest
mammals - the camel - in the campaign to fight and eradicate human diseases. A team led by Dr
Sabah Jassim from the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine has
suggested that camels are highly resistant to many deadly viral diseases and their antibodies
could be used for new drugs.
Camels have a unique physiology which allows them to thrive in some of the world's harshest
environments. But as well as these advantages, they have immune systems that are so robust,
they remain free from many of the viral diseases that affect other mammals, such as foot-andmouth and rinderpest.
The antibodies that camels carry inside them are structurally much simpler than those of humans,
and Dr Sabah Jassim suggests they would be much simpler to replicate artificially than human
antibodies. Writing in the British Institute of Biology's magazine, The Biologist, Dr Jassim says
the small size of camel antibodies would also allow them to penetrate deep into human tissue and
cells that would not be otherwise accessible. - By BBC correspondent David
Bamfordhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1702393.stm

A researcher from a teaching hospital in the Sudan presented a study of 30 patients with ascites -an accumulation of serum in the abdominal cavity that causes distended stomachs -- that found
that they responded slightly better to 150 ml of camel urine a day than to a standard medicine,
the diuretic frusimide. And a Chinese pharmaceutical company reported that in a clinical study,
its urine-derived cancer drug CDA-II cured 61 percent of patients, compared with a 30 percent
cure rate for chemotherapy.
Recent News in the Urine/Medical Issue:
In New York City, alternative health guru Gary Null has devoted several segments of his popular
radio program on WBAI (99.5 FM, 12 noon, Monday through Friday) to extolling the benefits of
the urine cure.
According to Dr. Beatrice Bartnett in her pamphlet, Urine-Therapy: It May Save Your Life:
morning urine is the richest and best urine to drink, partially due to the greater level of
hormonal secretion that takes place in the late night hours when the body is totally relaxed and
repairing itself.
While many people are aware that Gandhi drank his urine, few know that leather-clad rocker Jim
Morrison began the practice of drinking his urine while on an LSD-induced spiritual quest in the
Mojave Desert. One of the more famous modern day cases involves movie star Steve McQueen,
who, it is said, in the last stages of cancer, survived solely on a diet of urine and boiled alligator
skin prescribed by his Mexican doctors.
An enterprising young company has come up with a way to trap medically powerful proteins
from urine. Enzymes of America has designed a special filter that collects important urine
proteins, and these filters have been installed in all of the men's urinals in the 10,000 portable
outhouses owned by the Porta-John company, a subsidiary of Enzymes of America.
Indian yogis reportedly have been drinking their urine as a cure for more than 5,000 years. More
than 600 scientists gathered in Goa, India, for the first World Conference on Auto-Urine Therapy
in February 1996. Some proponents in attendance believe human urine can treat everything from
baldness to cancer and AIDS. The use of urine as a topical rub and drink not only is common in
India, but also in Japan and Germany and a growing number of countries. At least two books,
"The Golden Fountain: The Complete Guide to Urine Therapy," by Coen van der Kroon, and
"Your Own Perfect Medicine," by Martha Christy, provide more info on Urine-Therapy.
The Second World Conference on Urine Therapy, held last month in Gersfeld, Germany. There,
in a tiny resort two hours outside Frankfurt, the Nicholses and 250 other health enthusiasts -several dozen with M.D. after their names -- from more than 40 countries spent four days
debating, discussing and charting the future of one of the world's oldest but least respected
healing arts.
Islams stance-Conclusion

First of all, let us clarify the reason and story behind the prescription. Some people had become
very ill at the time of the prophet, and were suffering from an unknown illness. Their bellies had
swollen and they were not in a fit state. Hence, the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be
upon him) said to them, that they would find a cure in the milk and urine of a camel and so he
sent them out to an area where camels were grazing fresh herbs. These men went to this area and
drank the milk and urine. Sure enough, just like the Prophet said, they were cured and became fit
and healthy.
Yet the Prophet had said in another Prophetic saying that body excretions, such as blood, pus,
urine, etc, was filthy and prohibited in Islamic law. It is Islamically prohibited for a Muslim to
drink their urine. Muslim scholars came to the conclusion that the real meaning of this the
Prophets odd prescription is that if a person needs to consume an impure and impermissible
substance as a cure for an illness, and no other reasonable alternative is available, then it is
permissible
In all other circumstances, camel urine or ANY animal urine is prohibited.
As for human urine, it is forbidden no matter what; the Prophet Muhammad told us that it is
simply waste matter, and is filthy and impure (a Muslim can not pray if he has any on his
clothes).
Please also see ANSWERING CHRISTIANITY website for another answer.

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