This post will
focus more about the doctors that I know by reading their books and hearing
their lectures. Frankly speaking, I used to find some articles or books discussing about
the biographies of Islamic doctors all around the world, but till now I didn’t
find it. So, this is my own initiative and sharing for all of us to know more
about the profile of the doctors, their life and also about their thoughts
through their writing.
1. Firstly, Dr. Mahathir Mohamed, a well-known politician. I knew him during my secondary
school when my father criticised the current Prime Minister at that time and
compared him to Dr. Mahathir Mohamed. Then, when I start reading his
magnificient book, A Doctor in The House, there are some good values that we
must learnt from him.
In his secondary school, his interest are more to the law and political field but unfortunately, he managed to get
scholarship on medicine and then he proceeded with the field. During his
adolescent, he has started to read many English books especially about the
global issues such as book written by Samuel Huntington, Clash of Civilisations.
Undeniably, he is not from a religious family background but his mother keep
teaching him about religion and how to read the Quran. I’m attracted when he found
that during studying science – to be exact, medicine – all that we can learn is
about how the process and phenomenon happens but sciences failed to answer
certain causes of why the phenomena happens and this can be answered only by
religion.
I perceive him as a man with a
clear vision and high perseverance. Half of the book is about his experience
when he joins politics and how he get the chance to meet many great Prime
Minister from other country. Thinking out of the box is one advantage that he
has when he introduced the ‘Dasar Pandang Ke Timur’ or literally translated Look
East Policy. He learnt many things form his journey to Japan when he wanted to
release his stress during his studying with his wife, Dr. Hasmah.
Many of us, especially from the
pro-opposition parties see him as a secular politician and denying all his
contributions to the development of country (even most Egyptian respects him)
without realising that from what background is he from. We must judge any
individual empathically as what Prof Tariq Ramadan said in The Quest For
Meaning in order to deal with the pluralities intellectually.
2. The next figure is Syeikh Dr. Yusri Rusydi Jabr. Maybe
many of us never heard about him but actually he is a well-known Islamic
scholar in Egypt. He is specialist in vascular surgery and after graduated from Cairo
University, he learnt Shari‘ah in al-Azhar University. Now, he teaches and
comments on many kitabs in his mosque and also hadith in al-Azhar mosque. I am not sure about what books that he had wrote but he has wrote a small book
about salawat which includes 99 names of Allah and usually he read about three
of the salawat before starting the class. He is good in memorising and most of
his teachings will touch until the very hearts of his students.
3. Dr. Muhaya is one of the famous doctors and motivators
in Malaysia. I read her book about How to Become a Successful and Good Doctor before I fly to
Egypt and found that she had wrote a simple but a valuable book. Although she
had received some criticisms implicitly when she were asked about Islamic jurisprudence and hukm, but she has a high inquiry to learn Islam and develop
her understanding during her leisure time. I perceive her as a well-managed person
who is not easily wasting time for unbeneficial activity.
4. During my secondary school, I love to read the
science behind the Islamic ritual especially from Dr. Danial Zainal Abidin, one
of Alexandria University’s graduates. At that time, Malaysians are starting to
reconcile the relationship between science and religion though the western world had
wrote bundle of books and paperworks about that topic. Dr. Danial also wrote
some motivational book and gave lectures in certain television channels. He also
received criticism when some scholars claimed that he tried to adhere the Quran
and Hadith in every scientific discoveries (Buccailleism) – as if the Revelation needs to certify the science, not the other way around.
5. Roughly, these are some of the Islamic doctors that
inspired me. Nevertheless, there are enormous doctors out there that maybe better
than this. Dr. Raghib al-Sirjani, a urologist with his deep research in history, Dr. Farhan Hadi and Hlovate with their famous novels and so on. For me, in this
century, a doctor must not just become a doctor. He must has an expertise in at
least one other field of study because there are a lot of doctors nowadays. So,
what is the value of us if we just hold the title of merely doctor?
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