The Black Seed and Honey.

The Shaykh : It contains no sugar, but as for honey, praise be to Allah, we use it, but I do not know how to use it. So, I say on this occasion that it is established in the Sunnah . This is an authentic hadith; there is no way to doubt its authenticity. But I say that the black seed is a cure for every disease, and there must be a specific method for using it. If it is misused, if the medicine does not turn into a disease, at least the medicine is not obtained from it. This is the point we need to know. Likewise, regarding honey, do you see if honey is a cure? Do we take a spoonful? Is this spoon a teaspoon or a tablespoon? Then how many times? In the morning, in the evening, and so on. For these matters, I am convinced that we need to know the details, and I am undoubtedly ignorant of them. How eager I am to use honey—may Allah have mercy on you—like this, without a system, or the black seed. Here, what do you call it, Abu Abdullah? The black seed that is ground and mixed with sweetness, what is its name with you?

The questioner : Qizha.

The Shaykh : Qizha, this means it contains sweetness, it contains things that a person might find palatable, but how is it used? By Allah, I do not know.

The questioner : There are many recipes in the book. Do you not have time to read the book? But a simple recipe, and it says to the brothers that the black seed is not food to be taken continuously and eaten, because the hadith mentioned it, and it is a medicine. Therefore, you take it, grind it well, mix it with honey, one small spoonful a day. If you take it with food, before food, with honey, it is taken as a good cure. It lowers blood pressure and regulates the heart. That is, one does not take it for more than three consecutive weeks, then one stops taking the black seed.

The Shaykh : Here, the question arises regarding the specification of three weeks and the specification of one spoonful every day. First, where did this specification come from? Second, is this for all people? Third and finally, is this for all diseases? I do not think it is so.

The questioner : I have books, my master.The Shaykh : Arabic books on this, mentioning the mithqal. The mithqal is three and a half grams, yes. It tells you this is taken, one mithqal to two mithqals of this medicine, meaning it specifies the quantity. And this is experience, not religion, not Shari'ah, nor anything else.

The Shaykh : No problem, no problem, but the experience. I am not to be blamed, I did not get an answer to my question. I mentioned three things. It may be difficult for me to repeat them now. That is, I said where did the specification of three weeks come from, and where did the specification of one spoonful a day, no more, come from? Then what is the standard for this spoonful? Now I say, in addition to what has been said, then is this for every disease? Then is this for every person? We have a useful poem from a scientific perspective warning against smoking or explaining the ruling on smoking. It says in the conclusion of the poem, yes, that is right.
"And the ultimate word in it is that it is from plants, and it is all lawful
Except that which harms the bodies or the mind, that is a different matter.
Allah has informed, then the Chosen One, about the honey of bees that it is a cure.
The Shaykh : Even though it harms the one with a fever, and the prohibition of the harmful is known."
The questioner: Now, on this occasion, what is your opinion? And it seems to me, I do not say you are a specialist, but you have an interest in Arab medicine, what is your opinion that it harms the feverish? Is that correct? This supports... hmm, it is a problem again, so this supports my previous statement that the recipe whose description came in the hadith, we must know its quantities and proportions and to whom it is given. This honey, if it says:
"For it harms the feverish, and the harm of the harmful is from the known."
The questioner: Do you see, so-and-so, the person who is in front of you now, complains of more than one disease. We know from material medicine, it says some medicines may benefit in some diseases but harm in other diseases, is that correct or not?

The questioner: Yes.

The Shaykh : So when you give this recipe to someone like me, you want to know that I have no complaints and no diseases.

The questioner : I will benefit you with a benefit.

The Shaykh : Please go ahead.

The questioner : This honey is not absolutely harmful to the feverish.

The Shaykh : I tell you, O Shaykh, this is a problem. How do we know the feverish person whom honey harms, and the feverish person whom it does not harm?

The questioner : I ... with that.

The Shaykh : You may guide me, but how do ordinary people know this?

The questioner : By experience.

The questioner: Okay

The Shaykh : It is established that any person whose blood pressure is high, meaning there is heat in his body, he has very high blood pressure, does not use honey in the summer because it agitates him. But the one who does not have high blood pressure and does not have heat, then honey has no effect on him at all. Rather, if you give the feverish honey, vinegar, and water, meaning lemonade, meaning it does not take twenty minutes by counting. Yesterday I mentioned it in some of my sessions to my wife, to our children, we are all normal, meaning, twenty minutes, his temperature drops from forty degrees Celsius to normal temperature. But a man came to me, and I learned this by experience because I practice, he said to me, O Abu Muhammad, you prescribed honey and vinegar for me, I take it, and as soon as I took it, I became agitated, meaning I almost died. I said to him, come, I started asking him and found that he has high blood pressure. If the person whose blood pressure is high, we ask him, be careful with honey, meaning the sensation is from it, and in the cold, all of it, and not in the heat. This is what we cannot say as experience. Also, children, if they have heat, try giving them honey and give them a little vinegar with water, as I mentioned in the book, twenty minutes, and no heat remains on him or anything at all, and he sleeps. Children are not like us adults, their hearts are pure, but adults have problems on them. If Abdullah al-Khalid mentioned to me, Abu Khalid said, by Allah, O Abu Muhammad, I cannot tolerate honey in the summer at all, I become agitated and I get a headache. I asked him, and he has blood pressure that cannot be borne, because it raises the pressure to... and lowers the pressure to zero. The black seed, I tried it with people as a medicine, it must be taken, not continuously, and then this affects the man sexually. We said to the brothers, it affects, why? Because it lowers the pressure. The one who has high blood pressure and headaches and problems takes from the black seed, but does not make it his habit. Rather, if he takes it for two or three weeks, and does not make it his food and drink, because it was mentioned in the hadith, this is harmful. All these single medicines, O my master, are mentioned in yellow books, no one looks at them.

The Shaykh : Excuse me, what is mentioned in the hadith?

The questioner : and poison.

The Shaykh : No, you did not mention the hadith.

The questioner : The hadith of what...

The Shaykh : I heard from you the word "mentioned in the hadith" and I did not know what came after it, and this hadith you did not mention.

The questioner : What is it? Is it permissible? I mentioned it now, the black seed as mentioned in the hadith, the hadith I mean is this hadith.

The Shaykh : This hadith, yes.

The questioner : And there are other hadiths similar to it. And then, this black seed has uses in Arab medicine that are amazing. If you put it on a burn, the black seed with honey, come and see, something amazing, its results. Also, the black seed with olive oil, grind it very, very finely, and let it ferment... when needed, apply it to burns, or the black seed oil itself, meaning it has many uses.

The Shaykh : The black seed oil, siraj, meaning?

The questioner : In Egypt, they bring it from Egypt, it is permitted, hmm, in Jordan, and then for cough.

The questioner : There is a powder here...

The questioner : Do you know, O my master, whooping cough? One of my sons, his throat was closing and he wanted to die, a cough at night, we carry him to the hospital, he stays three days in the hospital. When I learned these medical matters, just a spoonful of oil with the black seed, together, we gave it to him, with water, immediately, five minutes, and the boy's throat opened, I sent him and he slept deeply, and I did not know what happened to him by morning. So it has many uses. Do we give the boy every night? No. Do we feed the patient every day? No. It requires, meaning the person must also understand, ask the patient what his conditions and matters are.
Abu Layla : The method of using the black seed with vinegar to lower the temperature, how and how much?

The questioner : There is no black seed with vinegar.
Abu Layla : Excuse me, honey and vinegar?

The questioner : A small spoonful of honey, mixed with a spoonful of water and vinegar, using the high-pressure type, and mix them until the honey dissolves in the vinegar. Add a little water to it so it becomes a lemonade-like drink, and give it to him. Try it and you will see something amazing; even if a man wants to fall ill with allergies or problems, by the permission of Allah, he will not fall ill.
Abu Layla : Is this found in your book?

The questioner : It is all in the book.

Another questioner : Confirming what the brother said... we have a girl with old burns, so they prescribed honey for us. We applied the honey to the burns, and the burn shrank. The burn was old... ten years old... but it did not completely heal, and the burn became like a small circle...

The questioner : If you get a cough, sir, and you want to quickly regain your mind and health, use black seed oil or black seed with honey.

The questioner: Ground.

The questioner : Ground very finely.
Abu Layla: Have you used it, O Shaykh? You use it a lot.The Shaykh : He uses it a lot, this one.

The questioner : What happened to you?

The Shaykh: By Allah, I do not remember.
Abu Layla : It helped, but it was not quick...

The questioner: Three days...

The Shaykh : Okay, you are now talking about an experience. I currently have something that bothers me very much, which is pain in my arm. I consulted a specialist in joints months ago, but despite using the medications they prescribe for me, I do not feel any benefit; rather, it gets worse. Does this mean, in your knowledge of this Arab medicine...