Ibn Abbas relates the apostle of Allah Said...

Ibn Abbas relates the apostle of Allah Said: "Ali and Fatima and Hassan and Husain are my household members till the doomsday (qiyamat)" When asked 'which are the two luminaries?' the Prophet said: "Hassan and Husain and their father (Ali) is the light of the world and their mother (Fatima) is the full moon for dark nights" Abu Huraira said: that the Apostle of Allah looked at Ali and Fatima and Hassan and Husain and said: "I am at war with him who wages war with you and am at peace with him who is at peace with you." Allah is The Guide For Every Creature Hamid had an inquisitive mind and was fond of learning all about wild life, how they lived and behaved.

He used to obtain different books on animals and keenly study them. This hobby induced him to go out to the woods in order to observe animals in their natural surroundings. One day he accompanied his friend Abdul, Professor of Zoology and expert on animal life, to a nearby lake. They strolled on the shore and came over to see storks, with their long legs, calmly standing in the water to snap up passing fish with their long beaks. Storks thrive on fish.

One of them forlonely stood aside, looking rather sick and unable to fly. Both Hamid and Abdul became curious to know what was wrong with that bird. As they went nearer, the bird tried to flee, but could not do so. It had a broken leg. Lovingly they caught hold of the bird and examined its leg. They were amazed to see that its injured leg had a plaster of dry mud over it. On removing it they found the leg rather swollen. The bone was either fractured or broken.

Hamid was amazed to see this phenomenon and wanted to know more about it. Surely, someone had shown mercy to the bird and had tried to help. "Is there a doctor around here who attends to sick or injured animals?" he asked. "No" replied Abdul. He added, "Before doctors could discover the benefit of plaster, this bird was already aware of it.

It knew instinctively how to make use of mud to hold fractured or broken bone in place." The treatment of broken and fractured bones with lime plaster is well known in medical circles as Plaster of Paris. Professor Henry Mondoor - a wellknown Zoologist Writes in one of his books on animal life that animals have amazing ways of curing their sicknesses. It is from observing such animals that medical experts have made discoveries about curing certain maladies.