Is it true that Muslims still drink camel urine as medicine as prescribed by Prophet Muhammed?

Question

I heard that Prophet Muhammed prescribed camel urine for some people as a cure for their illness.

I am not a physician but I expect camel urine to be very harmful due to intoxics in it. I heard that they had the same in Europe by that time but they stopped it long time ago.

What makes me surprised is that I heard some Muslims still believe in that until now. Is this true?

http://www.science4islam.com/

Answer 1

Yes and they don't deny it.
http://www.answering-christianity.com/urine.htm

Answer 2

I dont know if it is still practiced by some Muslims, but Muhammed prescribe camel milk and urine for certain illness at one time.

Answer 3

thank you for your question. it's intersting. sometime what you see is not what you know... read what i have found about this camel urine. In an article by Dr Ahlaam al-‘Awadi, which was published in al-Da’wah magazine (issue no. 1938) an April 15, 2004: "Camel’s urine is efficacious in the treatment of skin diseases such as ringworm, tinea and abscesses, sores that may appear on the body and hair, and dry and wet ulcers. Camel’s urine brings the secondary benefits of making the hair lustrous and thick, and removing dandruff from the scalp. Camel’s milk is also beneficial in treating hepatitis, even if it has reached an advanced stage where medicine is unable to treat it." In a Master’s thesis by an engineer in applied chemistry, Muhammad Awhaaj Muhammad, that was submitted to the faculty of applied chemistry. and approved by the Dean of science and postgraduate studies in the university in November 1998 CE, entitled A Study of the Chemical Composition and Some Medical Uses of the Urine of Arabian Camels, Muhammad Awhaaj says: ""Laboratory tests indicate that camel’s urine contains high levels of potassium, albuminous proteins, and small amounts of uric acid, sodium and creatine." [Quran 88:17] “Do they not look at the camels, how they are created?” and read when Jesus asked people to come drink the water out of his belly: King James Version Gospel according to John, chapter 7 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Answer 4

In Indian Ayur Vedic Medicine drinking your own urine as well as cow's urine is reccomended and is widely practised today.

It would not surprise me if camel urine is drunk by some Muslims.

Its probably no worse than a lot of drugs that are prescribed today and possibly much more effective.

Answer 5

Dunno...but I can't tell you how many times I've seen questions from assumedly non-Muslims on YA asking if drinking human urine was beneficial, so I wouldn't get all uppity if I were you about whether or not Muslims drink camel urine.

Answer 6

Since medicine has advanced enough for us to not drink the thing as it is, am sure 'we' dont.

Camels are great animals tho. Theyre called the ships of the desert.

Premarin is a mixture of estrogens isolated from mare's urine (PREgnant MARes' urINe) made by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Premarin is indicated for the treatment of mild to severe vasomotor symptoms of the menopause, prevention of osteoporosis, and treatment of vaginal and vulvar atrophy. Premarin has been marketed since 1942. Premarin has been one of the most widely used drugs in the United States of America. -Source, wikipedia

Answer 7

I can personally testify, that I have never done such an act and not aware of anyone who has. But supposedly all of us do when we talk OTC medicines that include the chemical known as PREMARIN. I doubt anyone takes pure camel urine (and I find it funny how you left out the milk part) as a medicine.

Answer 8

no they don't
it was prescribed to drink camel milk not urine as a remedy
these things r said by intruders to Islam
with my respects to all muslims here, we don't use this remedy in our treatment, we know that any urine is an excrete product which is full of toxins as urea and uric acid that may harm my patient, we can use urine only on wounds to facilitate their healing withou ulceration and this technique is known to soldiers,travellers but drinking camel urine i doubt it is islamic at all
well look here if u r asking for knowledge u r welcomed

Answer 9

OK, I thought you were just trying to be a dick, but it really does seem like it is true.
http://www.answering-christianity.com/urine.htm
That is an Islamic web site with a ton of stuff justifying it and recommending it. Go figure.

FYI Google medical camel urine and you will find a buch of similar sites.

Answer 10

Imâm al-Shâfi`î considered the Prophetic prescription of camel urine a life-and-death exception that has the same status as the dispensation for eating carrion meat in case of extreme necessity (and any filthy substance for medication other than intoxicants).26 Similarly, the H.anafî School considers the ruling of filth annulled if there is certainty of medicinal benefit, otherwise, camel urine remains najis according to Abû H.anîfa and al-T.ah.âwî. In addition, the `Uraniyyîn h.adîth itself is abrogated in the H.anafî view. Several major Shâfi`îs such as Ibn Khuzayma, Ibn al-Mundhir, Ibn H.ibbân, al-Is.t.akhrî, and al-Rûyânî defected to the position of Mâlik and Ah.mad.27 In the Mâlikî Madhhab prayer is valid even on road-paths soiled with the urine and droppings of edible animals.28 Ibn Rushd - Averroes - in his masterpiece of comparative fiqh titled Bidâyat al-Mujtahid says the rationale of the permissive ruling is that the refuse of edible animals is not repugnant, unlike that of humans and inedible animals.

From:
http://mac.abc.se/~onesr/f/Camel%20Milk.html

As for those that would object to the h.adîths of camel urine, they usually share one or more of the following attributes:


- Ignorance of the Arabic language. They are unable to read the Qur'ân and h.adîth in the original Arabic, much less discuss them.


- Ignorance of Arabic history, ethnography, and literature. They do not know the culture of the people among whom circulated the texts that they purport to discuss.


- Ignorance of Arabic medicine. The have no idea that the medical works of the Islamic world "are the foundation upon which our modern Western medicine is built" (Elizabeth Fee, chief librarian, History of Medicine Division, United States National Library of Medicine).29 They are unable to assess the currency of certain medical practices in pre-Islamic and Islamic civilization and in the Arabo-Perso-Turkic literatures on anatomy, embryology, ophthalmology, botany, nutrition, etc. and could not fathom, for example, that non-intrusive diagnosis and treatment for the majority of non-terminal diseases be far superior in a place such as pre-1990s Kabul than in the U.S.A. and Europe.

- Inability to approach the issues scientifically and reliance on emotion and prejudice. They consider it rational to ask: Have you filled a prescription for animal urine lately? (An appropriate answer to such a question could be: Your mother most probably did after giving birth and did or will again around menopause, in the form of "Premarin" equine urine estrogens.)


- Ignorance of Islamic Law. They have no idea of the legal rulings on either filth or medication in Islâm, nor the methods by which those rulings were extracted.

- Non-Arabic and/or non-Muslim background. Their knowledge of Islam and Arabic culture is mostly bookish, through the prism of orientalism whose mistakes they slavishly reduplicate, mostly in the language of modernism and agnosticism even if they identify themselves as Muslim.

Answer 11

mostly muslims are religious, they follow their religion books, and hadith allow to drink holy urine, so they still drink holy urine.