Source/Credit: The Times Of Malta, Saturday July 16th 2011
The biggest medical forum on AIDS kicks off tomorrow to a buzz of excitement about potential strategies for curbing a pandemic that has now claimed 30 million lives in its three-decade history.
A four-day conference in Rome will mull dramatic evidence that drugs designed to treat patients with HIV can be used to shield uninfected people from the AIDS virus.
This could be the best news in 15 years, when antiretroviral drugs started to transform the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from a death sentence to a manageable disease.
It opens up dazzling options for rolling back a pandemic for which there is still no cure or vaccine, say some experts.
“Over the past 18 months, there has a been a string of good results from trials, and this has generated a fair bit of optimism,” Jean-Francois Delfraissy, director of the French Agency for AIDS Research (ANRS), said.
Categories: Health, Medicine, Preventive Medicine
There is a scientific aspect of AIDS that we should find its treatment and cure and it is applaudable what the scientific community is doing.
Yet there is the moral and social dimension of HIV and AIDS, as to why so many millions have condemned themselves to this plague:
http://knol.google.com/k/zia-shah/saving-yourself-from-hiv-infection/1qhnnhcumbuyp/93#
Hadhrat Khalifatul Massih IV has also shed light on this subject in his books “Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth” and in “Islam Response to Contemporary Issues”. Also please find some links to read:
http://www.alislam.org/library/books/revelation/part_6_section_6.html
http://www.alislam.org/library/links/00000022.html
AIDS
“It never happens that permissiveness overwhelms a people to the extent that they display their acts of sex shamelessly and they are not uniquely punished by God. Among them, invariably, pestilence is made to spread and such other diseases, the like of which have never been witnessed by their forefathers.” (Ibn-e-Majah, Kitab-ul-Fitan)* see footnote.
You need at least a doctor of medicine and an expert of social behaviour at the same time to talk about such behaviours and their fatal consequence. Muhammad (Peace be upon him) was neither of them, but a Prophet of God who didn’t copy from the Bible and paste in the Quran and foretell the same fate of perverts of Sodom and Gomorrah for the future perverts, but a unique disease never heard or known by earlier people, AIDS! The medical scientists are unanimous that this disease is never recorded in the annals of history.
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*. Hadith alongwith Sunnah is the secondary source of Islamic Sharia consisted of the deeds and sayings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him and his progeny). The Holy Quran emphatically describes the position and status of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as an ideal and best exampler (33:22) and not a mere post man who just delivers the message. The Muslims are enjoined to follow the way of the Holy Prophet (pbuh). Allah says, “And whatever the Messenger gives you, take it; and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain from that.”(59:8). The holy Quran states that his assertions are not based upon his own desires but on the revelations from God. (53:4,5)
In the light of these Quranic injunctions, the deeds and sayings of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) the prophecies mentioned in Hadith are also very important and proves the truthfulness of the person upon whom this Holy Book (Quran) was revealed. There are many prophecies of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) which have been fulfilled during the past centuries. We are mentioning here only one of his prophecies which has been fulfilled in the modern times. http://www.alislam.org/library/articles/prophecies.html