RE: The Islamic prophet's foreknowledge of the Terfeziaceae's health benefits
July 2, 2021 at 11:11 pm
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2021 at 11:18 pm by Paleophyte.)
(July 2, 2021 at 7:59 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) saying, "Truffle (edible fungus) is a species of Al-Manna and their water cures eye diseases."
Hilarious post hoc translation given that the term "species" wasn't coined until a millenium after this was written. I don't suppose that it mentions that the desert truffle isn't actually a truffle at all?
(July 2, 2021 at 10:58 pm)Klorophyll Wrote:(July 2, 2021 at 10:14 pm)brewer Wrote: Your statement appears to be incorrect.: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2013/620451/
Your/their claim does not validate a prophet or religion.
From your own link :
the same truffles have been also reported to be used in folk medicine in sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East to treat skin and eye diseases, for example, Trichoma [16, 28].
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- G. Hussain and I. M. Al-Ruqaie, “Occurrence, chemical composition and nutritional value of truffles: an overview,” Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 510–514, 1999.
- M. A. Al-Marzooky, “Truffles in eye disease,” in Proceedings of the International Islamic Medicine, pp. 353–357, Kuwait, 1981.
As you can see, both the articles are clearly written by Muslim authors. I don't need to look further to guess that the folk medicine they're referring to existed after the Islamic prophet.
What he's tying to tell you is that the folk medicine existed before your prophet's scribblings. Your prophet didn't write down anything that hadn't already been know for centuries.
