Treatment of fever

It is affirmed in the two Sahihain after Nafi’a, after Ibn ‘Umar ( Radhiallahu anhu ), that the Prophet   (sallAllahu alayhi wa salam)  said:

“Fever or violent fever is an emanation of Gehenna, soften it with water”

All cases of fever when the temperature rises too high are treated by two methods: Externally, by means of cold or ice compresses, in order to reduce the degree of temperature. Taking plenty of water in the mouth during cases of fever helps all the organs of the body, especially the two kidneys, to carry out their vital functions. [This tradition is shown, also by An Nassai, Ibn Majja and Ahmad]

The definition of fever

It is a strange heat which burns in the heart (the interior or center of the body) and spreads by means of the spirit and the blood in the veins and vessels, throughout the body, and which becomes fiery and harmful to natural functions.

Categories of fever

Fever has two categories: Accidental, which is caused by a tumor, movement, sunstroke, during extreme heat or otherwise. And also sickly, which has three kinds; it only appears in a primary element, then it heats the whole body.

A single day’s fever

And if its attachment is linked to the soul, it is called: one-day fever, because it often disappears in one day, or at most within three days.

Infectious fever

If it attaches to the humors, it is called infectious fever, and is subdivided into four parts: choleric, melancholic, sanguine and lymphatic, and it attaches to the hard and main organs, it is therefore called: The sudden fever which has a large quantity of genres.

The benefits of fever

It could be that the body gets a fever, great benefits that the remedy cannot generally obtain, the fever of a single day or the infection fever can cause the cooking of hard materials which cannot be cooked without it, or eliminate intestinal obstruction that purgative remedies cannot achieve.

As for recent or chronic colds, fever manages to cure most of these cases, miraculously and quickly. It is also useful in cases of facial paralysis, or repetitive tension, and in several diseases it can produce hard excesses. Some of the virtuous physicians have told me that many diseases, fever announces the dissipation, and this is how the patient will be announced by the good condition, hence the fever is more useful than taking the remedy.

(Some temporal diseases like chronic rheumatism, which causes the joints to tense so that they become incapable of movement, or the disease of chronic syphilis in the nerves, all these diseases, when the temperature of the body rises, relieve their hardness, it that is to say, in cases of fever, where we resort in these cases to artificial fever, by injecting the patient with specific materials.)

What is said about the quote: “Fever is an emanation of Gehenna! »

The quote:  “Fever is an emanation from Gehenna! »  designates vigor and propagation, we have yet another similar quotation:  “Intense heat is an emanation from Gehenna”  ; and here there are two explanatory sentences:

– That is to say, it is a simple example taken from Gehenna, to warn people to take precautions in order to avoid it. And Allah the Most High  (azwadial)  has weighed its appearance according to motives which induce it, likewise, the soul, joy, happiness and pleasure are benefits of Paradise, and Allah the Most High has them created in this world to become a guide and a clue, weighing their appearance according to the causes which induce them.

– This comparison of the vigor of the fever to the emanation of the fire of Gehenna is the comparison of the strong heat still to the emanation of the fire of Gehenna, to draw the attention of souls to the strong punishments in the fire of Gehenna. Gehenna, and this strong heat resembles its emanation which reaches those who approach it or its heat.

Importance of fever for the body

Abu Horeyra ( Radhiallahu anhu ) reported saying:

“At the prophet’s house, we talked about fever, a man insulted it, while the Messenger of Allah  (sallAllahu alayhi wa salam)   said: “do not insult it, it expels sins like fire which expels the slag from the iron” » [Reported by Mouslim]

Since fever requires abstinence from taking bad foods, and taking only useful foods and remedies, this is how the body will be purified. Its lees and residues will be dissipated and it will be purified of its bad elements. It does in the body what fire does in iron, by rejecting its waste and purifying its substance. It then resembles the forge which purifies the substance of iron, and medical doctors know its value well.

Abu Hurayra ( Radhiallahu anhu ) said:

“No disease that attacks me is more pleasant for me than fever, knowing that it enters all my organs, and Allah the Glorified grants each organ its share of the reward! »

Extinguish the fever

Attirmidi ( Radhiallahu anhu ) reported from Rafé’a Ben Khadije ( Radhiallahu anhu ) who says:

“If any of you is attacked by fever – which is a portion of fire – must put it out with cold water…”