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In the name of Allah, All-Compassionate, All-Merciful

ای نام تو بهترین سرآغاز     بی نام تو نامه کی کنم باز

O whose name is the best introductory, can I write a letter without Your name?

  الحمدلله الذی جعل الحمدمفتاحالذکره وخلق الاشیاء ناطقه بحمده وشکره  الحمدلله من اول الدنیا الی فنائهاومن الآخره الی بقائها   الحمدلله لذی هدانالهذاوماکنالنهتدی لولاان هدانالله   الحمدلله الذی لم یتخذولداولم یکن له شریک فی الملک ولم یکن له ولی من الذل وکبره تکبیرا   الحملله الواحدالاحد الفردالصمد لم یلدولم یولدولم یکن له کفوااحد

والسلام والصلوه علی نبیک المرتضی ورسولک المصطفی وحبیبک وخیرتک من خلقک البشیرالنذیرالسراج المنیروعلی ملائکتک الذین حجبتهم من خلقک واستخلصتهم لنفسک وعلی انبیائک الذین ینبئون عنک بالصدق وعلی رسلک الذین خصصتهم بوحیک وفضلتهم علی العالمین برسالاتک وعلی آله الطیبین الطاهرین المعصومین سیمابقیه الله فی السموات والارضین.

All praise is due to Allah who made praising a key as an openning to His remembrance, and created all things expressing praise and thanks to Him. All praise is due to Allah from the beginning of this world to its destruction and from the hereafter to its eternity. All praise is due to Allah who guided us to this and we should have not guided if He had not guided us. All praise is due to Allah who has taken a son nor does He take a parthner in His kingdom nor is there a master for Him out of insignificance, so greatly magnify Him.
All praise is due to Allah, the One, the Unique, the Single, the Needless, the One who never did beget nor was He begotten and none equals Him.

I ask His forgiveness and ask His protection from every evil and ask His forgiveness for every sin and I return to Him in repentance.

Greeting and pray is due to Your saisfiedprophet and preferred messenger, the brilliant light, and you angels whom You made pur to Yourself and concealed from your creatures, and Your prophets disclosing all truths from You and Your messengers whom You designated by Your revelations and preferred by Your missions, and His pure, innocent family in particular the last remnant of Allah in the heavens and earth.

With the Devine Providence this site will give you an opportunity to gain a profound understanding about Islam. Effort has been made to demonstrate that the Quran is not merely a book of religion but a book of lphysical and spiritual ife, science, knowledge which reveals many secrets for those intrested in finding them as well. Its instructive lessons can tremendously change the routine customs of those who loot and kill as well as suck the blood of others to real altruists. Immoral customs of pre-Islamic era were replaced with Islamic teachings and made many to ne generously concerned of others before taking care of themselves. One third of some 6000 verses is scientictifically oriented when science was not heard of. The Quran has revealed to solve all social and individual problems by obeying God's rules alone. Therefore; a wide spectrum subjects such as men and women relationship, girl infanticide, slavery, being generous, observing each other's rights, respecting others' dignity, and many other issues have been brought to the attention of conscious people in the Quran.

Comparing with the previous Devine scriptures, the Quran is priviledged to satisfy every taste with every expectation. Not only does it provide those intrested in knowing the secrets of the cosmos and its orderly system but it supplies those interested in living honorablly when admitting right things even they are against their own ideas.

For reasons the Quran is not that easy to be understood, simply because the prophet was covenanted to speek to the understanding level of his people. In addition, the Quran was not just for the people of that time, but for generations to come later. Thus it should be very concise but comprehensive to be applicable at any time in future. Moreover, linguists who translate the Quran may be fluent in both languages but they may have not enough knowledge in science to translate scientific points adequately. Besides, some authors believe that the Quran must be translated word for word. As a result, those interested in knowing the whole idea of each verse may find out some discrepancies in it. Actually such inconsistencies are nothing to do with the Quran , but the lack of scientific knowledge of authors. The more our knowledge improves, the more we can achieve Quranic understanding.

Once a philosopher challenged his students to evaluate their thinking and understanding level. He seemingly filled a big jar with golf balls to its brim, and asked them if it is full or not. It is full, they replied. Then he put some gravel in the jar to be full, and asked them again, do you think it is full this time? It is full, they responded. By shaking the jar and putting some fine sand, he repeated his question, if the jar is full now? Surely, it is full by now, they said. Finally, he filled the jar with water and asked them, do you believe that the jar is full now? It must be full right now, they replied. The same is true that on many occasions one cannot see the truth because of lack of attention and knowledge.

Originally the Quran was in Mother Book, of which nobody could understand it. We devided it into particular arrangement, and made it into clear Arabic until it becomes understanable. Therefore, the appearence of the Quran is very pretty to read and understand, though its innermost is very hard to be grasped.

I was born in a religiously oriented family. My father taught me the language of the Quran when I was a little boy. I was practicing Islam, reading the Quran since primary school. I had heard two brief but important statement from the prophet, peace be upon him and his family, but I could understand neither of them before getting involved into medical field. First statement is, “The two unknown blessings are security and health.” The second one is, “The two real knowledge is the knowledge of religions and the knowledge of the human body.”

I dreamed of entering medical field since my early childhood. I looked forward the day to cure people’s wounds and sickness. My desire was based on an extensive burn on my abdomen and chest at my earlier age. The special care of a skilled and compassionate doctor and the grace of God helped me to recover soon. Consequently I realized that how believing in God and being conscious and skill in any profession,specifically medicine, can be useful to others. That is why I asked God earnestly to make me a skillful and compassionate medical doctor to take care of those who need me for their physical and spiritual problems.

55 years ago, I studied hard to be admitted into the field of medicine. Tehran medical school was the largest one at that time. It was very demanded and its applicants were too many. The grace of God helped me to receive the second score in this very competetive test. My father became bankrupt at the second world war. He was bedridden because of gout and while I was the oldest sibling of my family I was the only hope of my family. Studying medicine, I realized that I was able to grasp many religious problems which I could not understand before. I came to know then how intimate are medicine and religion to each other. Then I found out how medicine can impove our moral and physical well-being. Since mind and body are closely related to each other, I noticed that medicine can indirectly improve my mind. I also discovered that how effective a true religion can bring about social as well as individual security for the true faithful. Then I realized why the true faithful are so calm internally with themsels and externally at peace  and kind with others, and true obedient to God.

After having a long standing study and experience in medicine and religion, I realized that the knowledge of the bodies would give us the first hand information about the one who has created such a complicated and sofisticated body. That is why man cannot be his own creator because of his imperfection, and an unintelligent nature cannot be either the creator of intellectual structure. Therefore, an Omnipotent, and Omniscient being must be our creator.

I realized then having such a correct information about our body would enable us to do good things to the benefit of our body. In addition, sound nutrition revealed for the first time ever instructs true believers to eat and drink moderately the food which is lawful and free of toxic materials.

Studying different religions can give us an opportunity to choose the most comprehensive religion, as we have to choose the best food to maintain our health. Under such a perfect religion, man will be able to improve his spirituality to treat others as he would behave with himself. Therefore, the social life in such a community would be very comfortable. Consequently, today widely existing killing everywhere is the result of disbelief.

The Almighty God created human not to kill each other but to love one another. That is why He put just one heart in his chest. If it is full of hate for others and love of money, there would no room left for love of others. he granted two hands to give help for the the poor and the weak and receive helo form the strong, not to make destructive arms by one hand and kill others be the other hand. This the right insight that the right religion will grant every human being to stay a real human.

Finally, I discovered that man's salvation depends on how truthful he is with himself, how truthful he is with others, and how truthful he is with God. That is why I would like to share all of past and present experience in religion and related medicine with you without material expectation but the spiritual one to tell me what you need more. That is because being truthful with oneself and telling the truth make one deserve to ask God to help him with the truth.

O God, make my right word pleasant to the mind of people. And my good work be highly regarded before you. And my impression on good things be followed well. And my adversaries be well convinced with my rationality.

I wish God would accept this insignificant but sincere service and I hope His Mercy and Grace will be upon those who follow His guidance.



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 Hossein Navab, MD