is a living proof of it. Let’s listen to some medical benefits of washing the body parts which are washed during Wudu, in the light of modern scientific research.

Embraced Islam by virtue of the wisdom of Wudu

On page 1 and 2 of his booklet, ‘Wudu and Science’ Ameer Ahl-e-Sunnat ‘Allamah Maulana Abu Bilal Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadiri Razavi Ziyaee دَامَـتْ بَـرَكَـاتُـهُـمُ الْـعَـالِـيَـهْ has written: Someone has stated: I invited a non-Muslim University student to Islam in Belgium. He asked me a question: What scientific wisdom does Wudu have? I fell silent. I took him to an Islamic scholar, but he did not have the information of it either. A person having scientific information told him many benefits of Wudu, but he could not tell him the wisdom of the Masah^[1] of the neck. Anyhow, that non-Muslim young man left. After some time, he came and said that during a lecture his professor said, ‘If some drops of water are sprinkled at the back of the neck and around it daily, a person will stay safe from the diseases which develop due to the damage in the backbone and the spinal cord.’ He further said, ‘After listening to it I have understood the wisdom of the Masah of the neck during Wudu, therefore I want to embrace Islam.’ He then embraced Islam. (Wudu and Science, pp. 1 - 2)

Seminar in Germany

In different countries of the world, depression is spreading rapidly; people are going mad; the number of mental hospitals is rising; a large number of patients are found with psychiatrists. A Pakistani physiotherapist who is a diploma holder from Western Germany says: A seminar was held in Western Germany; the topic of the seminar was, ‘In which ways other than medicines is the cure of depression possible? A doctor in his thesis has revealed a wonderful fact: I made the patients of depression wash their faces daily five times. After some time, their illness reduced. Then I made another group of the same type of patients wash their hands, faces and feet, the illness reduced to a great extent. At the end of his thesis, the same doctor admits: The disease of depression is low amongst Muslims because they wash their