# The Prophetic Medicine

> A source-faithful reading edition of The Prophetic Medicine by Ibn Qay’em El-Jozeyah, translated by ABD EL-QADER the son of ABD EL-AZEEZ (2003 source edition).

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## Cow Meat

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Cow Meat is cold and dry, heavy on the stomach and produces black, bilious blood that is only suitable for hard workers. Eating cow meat excessively for those who are not used to it causes such black bilious illnesses as vitiligo (a skin condition of unknown cause, characterized by patchy loss of pigment), mange, herpes, leprosy, elephantiasis, cancer, obsession, quartran fever and various tumors. The harm that this meat causes will be neutralized when one eats it with spices, garlic, ginger and cinnamon. The meat of male cows is colder than female cows' meat, which is less dry.

The meat of fat calves 1s one of the best, mildest and tastiest types of food. It is warm and wet, and if fully digested, it provides good nutrition.

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Hor se m e at

In the Sahih it is narrated that Asma said, "We slaughtered a horse during the time of the Messenger of Allah a§ and ate it." In addition, the Prophet b:

"Allowed eating horsemeat but disallowed eating (domesticated) donkey meat." [Al-Bokhary and Muslim].

The fact that Allah mentioned horses along with mules and donkeys [in the Qura'an] does not indicate that the ruling about their meat 1s identical. Sometimes Allah mentions several similar things .ogether and sometimes mentions several different things together. What Allah said is:

"For you to ride." (16:8)

This does not indicate that horsemeat is not allowed, just as it does not indicate that one is not allowed to benefit from horses except by riding. Rather, the Ayah only mentioned the best benefit and value that the horse represents, which is its being a means of transportation. Furthermore, the two Ahadeeth we mentioned unequivocally indicate that horsemeat is allowed.