Doctor Ahmad Ramali, Connector of Health and Religion Sciences
Religion meets modern health science causing various polemics. From accusations of using family planning as a propaganda tool to reduce the Muslim population, to the viral phenomenon of anti-vaccine.
Many people reject vaccines with elements of global conspiracy to insert viruses in the body of Muslims. Vaccination is considered to be a parasite and damages the health system from inside a person's body. Coupled with the non-halal content claim because it has not been stamped with the MUI, vaccines are even more hostile.
Religious fanaticism encounters pseudo-science makes people's reasoning chaotic. Health science is defined by the argument in terms of religion, not scientific arguments with all complicated methodologies. The explanation seemed to be tempting, but it was not appropriate to explain the sitting problem. Religion is unwilling to believe in health science.
However, far back in the past, when Indonesia was still nicknamed the Indies, the presence of religion did not only make noise. Religion can not only meet, but also good friends with modern health science. In 1903, in the City of Bonjol, a child named Ahmad Ramali was born. He is a medical school at STOVIA at the age of 15. After graduating, the task of becoming a doctor led him to explore several cities.
Ramali did not only spend time treating patients at the hospital. He traveled to remote areas to visit the community's residence. The healthy lifestyle of the community varies from place to place. This made him aware of implementing a different but equally aimed health intervention.
Treatment alone is not enough. Ramali is not satisfied with the duties of a doctor by treating the patient when he falls ill. He then gave small lectures to community groups about the importance of maintaining health, preventing the onset of illness, so that it did not die quickly.
Gani A. Jaelani, a health historian, in Islam and the Hygiene Issues in the Dutch East Indies Doctor Ahmad Ramali's life. "As a doctor who is educated in the west", Ramali "seeks to provide a scientific explanation of the teachings of Islam and put it in the framework of modern science that always relies on experimentation."
Ramali does not pretend to use religion as a tool to scare people into healthy living . Instead of relying on pseudo-science, Ramali did not play around with a good position in religion with modern health.
Since the idea of bacteriology began to penetrate modern health in the late nineteenth century, Ramali processed the information and married it with Islamic perspective. Something is considered unclean like blood, pus, feces, and urine, must always be shunned. The body will not only be considered dirty in the definition of Islam when exposed to the element, but also dangerous in the view of health science because it is the cause of disease.
Islamic relations with health science are crystallized. Starting from the hadith At-Thahuuru syathru al-iiman (cleanliness was half of faith), Ramali compiled a formula as an endeavor to make the community not forget about hygiene and health in life.
Gani A. Jaelani in his writing gave an explanation about the health recipe made by Ramali. Ten fingers, from two palms when lifting takbir at the beginning of prayer, is a kind of symbol of faith. One hand is a symbol of the pillars of Islam. One other hand symbolizes the pillars of health. So, the appointment of ten fingers is the principle, the life guidance of Muslims both spiritually and materially. Faith and health.
The five principles of Ramali-style health principles include: the hygiene of the house and the yard, hygiene of clothing, body hygiene, food and drink hygiene, and mental hygiene. Western health education uses a dualistic view of body and soul not agreed by Ramali. The five health pillars of the composition, the first four are material, while the latter are spiritual. This synthesis between Islam and modern health science creates a holistic approach.
There is an interesting piece in the story of the doctor Ramali in his writing in Defeating Pest Jaitoe Persatoean 'Ilmoe and Religion Refusing the Pest of Pest (1933). One day, he found a dead person but it was unknown what the disease was. The suspicion was attacked by a pest, but it was uncertain. He then discussed with Haji Agus Salim, who later became the foreign minister of the Soekarno era. Doctor Ramali expressed his desire to dissect the victim's body by injecting a needle into the spleen. The aim is to find out the cause of the disease in order to make a prevention strategy. However, Ramali's activities are hampered. The surgery is considered to be an insult to corpses and is prohibited from religion, of course.
But Ramali is not a fool. He has a lot of sense. He did not fabricate stories to justify his pretensions. Ramali is reluctant to do that. He stems from two brilliant scientific and religious arguments. First, Ramali said: "Soo, it is not oentoek to put what satoe goods into the body of the body, but oentoek directs the water rather than limpanja oentoek examined." Muslims must abandon anything when they die, except the shroud. Ramali analogous to inserting a syringe to remove something, which is the cause of disease in the spleen of the corpse so that there is no left behind. Second, something can be justified for the benefit of living people. Ramali analogizes - according to Gani A. Jaelani, "with the case of being allowed to remove a baby who still lives in the stomach for a long time due to a mother who died by splitting her stomach."
Ramali really enlightened. He also received praise by Haji Agus Salim. Agility to think Ramali, it should be our reference to think today. He combines religion with health science for life dignity. Ramali uses the scientific and Islamic sides as a bridge so that the public can easily believe in the importance of healthy living.
Religion and health science, like other sciences, are indeed value-free. He will be given meaning by the user. In the past, Ramali used his knowledge to raise people's lives. Whereas, today, the war is actually raging between religion and health science.
Indonesian Doctor's Day (October 24) will have to be a momentum to commemorate the life story of doctor () Ahmad Ramali. We can use the program to reconcile the feuds of health and religion that arise not from the habit of scientific thinking, but through intermediaries the rise of poison thought to be called false science. Plus the oversight of excessive trust in matters of conspiracy, including misleading misleading allegations. With that narrow mindset, in the end, we also know, ordinary people become sacrificial, become victims, and become the target of death.
Know God.
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