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.FOURTH DISCOURSE. O*N PHY^ s<br />
dcnvn in the Quran what sJ\flll be a Healing aid a Mercy to true<br />
believers^"' For I was 'filled with regret, seeing that he, was a<br />
young man, 'and wealthy, and in easy circumstances, and hada\\<br />
things needful for a 1<br />
life.<br />
pleasant Then I performed the<br />
minor ablution, went to<br />
tfye oratory and acquitted myself of the<br />
knocked at door of the house.<br />
tjfe<br />
customary prayer 2 . One<br />
I looked and saw that it 'was one of his people, who gave good<br />
tidings, saying, '<br />
'<br />
! I Open enquired what had happened, and<br />
he replied, 'This very hour he obtained relief.' Then I knew<br />
that this was through th.e blessing of the Fdtiha of the Scripture,<br />
and that this draught had been issued from the Divine Dis-<br />
pensary. For I have put this to the proof, administering this<br />
draught in many cases, in all of which it proved beneficial, and<br />
resulted in restoration to health." Therefore the physician should<br />
be of good faith, and should venerate the commands and prohibitions<br />
of the 'Holy Law.<br />
On the Science of Medicine the student should procure and<br />
read the "Aphorisms" (Fusiil) of Hippocrates, the "Questions"*<br />
(Masd'il) of Hunayn ibn Ishaq 3<br />
the "Guide" , (Murshid) 01<br />
4<br />
Muhammad ibn Zakariyya of Ray (ar-Razi) and the , Commentary<br />
of Nih' 5<br />
who has made abstracts of these. After he has , carefully<br />
read [these works] with a kind and congenial master, he should<br />
diligently study with a sympathetic teacher the following intermediate<br />
works, to wit, the " Thesaurus "<br />
(Dhakhira) of Thabit ibn<br />
Qurra 6<br />
, the \_Kitdbu' t-TibbVl-~\ Mansuri of Muhammad 'ibn<br />
Zakariyya of Ray 7<br />
; the "Direction" (Hiddya) of Abu Bakr<br />
Ajwi'n(, or the "Sufficiency" (Kifdya) of Ahmad [ibn] Faraj and<br />
the "vAims "<br />
(Aghrdd) of Sayyid Isma'il Jurjani' 8 . Then he<br />