When does medicine become a beneficial cause?
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The student: When does medicine become a beneficial cause?
The Shaykh : There is no doubt.
The student: But the patient does not know that it is established by evidence... much of it.
The Shaykh : How does he know? No, no, because he is confident in the people of medicine and knows that it is beneficial. They cannot release medicines into the market now without conducting experiments on them. They test them extensively on mice, rabbits, and dogs. They conduct experiments, especially for incurable diseases. You do not think that one of them just mixes these pills and gives them to you.
The student: But the one...
The Shaykh : Well done. Actually, medicine must affect a receptive site. If it does not affect a receptive site, it is of no benefit, even the recitation that is established as a cause and in which there is no doubt. Often it is recited over the patient and he does not benefit because the site is not receptive. You find it recited over him and he says, "Why is it that he has not benefited for so long?"
The Shaykh : There is no doubt.
The student: But the patient does not know that it is established by evidence... much of it.
The Shaykh : How does he know? No, no, because he is confident in the people of medicine and knows that it is beneficial. They cannot release medicines into the market now without conducting experiments on them. They test them extensively on mice, rabbits, and dogs. They conduct experiments, especially for incurable diseases. You do not think that one of them just mixes these pills and gives them to you.
The student: But the one...
The Shaykh : Well done. Actually, medicine must affect a receptive site. If it does not affect a receptive site, it is of no benefit, even the recitation that is established as a cause and in which there is no doubt. Often it is recited over the patient and he does not benefit because the site is not receptive. You find it recited over him and he says, "Why is it that he has not benefited for so long?"