Al-Arbaʿin for Doctors

Purity is inalienable from a healer

Hadith 26

Jurayy al-Nahdi H reported, “The Prophet r said,

“Glorification of Allah is half of the scale, praise of Allah
fills it, and exaltation of Allah fills what is between the heav-
ens and the earth. Fasting is half of patience and purification
is half of faith.”(Tirmidhi 3519)
Purity is a great virtue which needs to be inculcated
amongst the doctors. This purity includes the purity of
clothes which all of us are aware of and take great care of it.
But purity of thoughts and actions is even more important. It
is really sad to hear about the incidents of inappropriate be-
havior of doctors with patients or attendants of opposite gen-
der. The family is already in desperate condition when en-
grossed in management of the patient in the hospital and im-
pure action by some wolves wearing white coats smears the
reputation of a huge majority of saintly doctors. The upright
doctors have a double responsibility of maintaining their up-
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