This is according to Mohammad Hossein Ayati, cultural deputy of the Ministry of Medical Education, who made the remarks while paying a visit to the Iranian Quran News Agency on April 29.
Talking to IQNA’s officials, Ayati referred to two main challenges in the Quran and medicine domain, adding: “We need to be more careful when speaking about Islamic medicine, as it refers to employing the latest scientific methods in accordance with Islamic rules.”
“Mere reliance on Quranic rules concerning health care is not enough; we should however try to extract more fundamental principles of life and health from the Book using a suitable methodology.”
“Quranic methodology is one of our main concerns in the ministry and we hope to direct the Quranic researches toward developing an appropriate method to be applied to medical spheres,” he went on to say.
Ayati also referred to the inauguration of Quran and Hadith Center by Tehran’s University of Medical Sciences, adding: “Last year, the university organized the congress of Quran research and medicine in over 20 branches across the country.”
Visiting different sections and desks of the agency, he urged the medical sciences universities to further cooperate in covering the related news, calling for conducting more methodological researches on health-related issues.
Also, senior editor of the health desk at the agency referred to the official launch of the first Quranic drug store by the agency in the near future which received the praise of the ministry’s officials.
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