The Mahdi Times May 2014 Issue | Page 114

Carrots Last but not least on our list are carrots. They should be mentioned as it is narrated that the Holy Prophet (s.a.w) used to eat a carrot every day. Imam Al-Sadiq (a.s) said about them, “Carrots keep a person safe from colon pains, and it is useful for Hemorrhoids and it helps in sexual intercourse." And he also said, “Carrots warm the kidneys and strengthens the male's ability for intercourse." We want to end this article by the Blessed words of our master Imam Ahmed AlHassan (a.s) who informed us about the fact that believing in these remedies mentioned by the Ahlul Bayt (a.s) and using them is just another step on the way of being a true servant of Allah (swt), "Verily dedication/sincerity in turning to Allah alone for help does not take place except if the servant knows that everything comes into existence by Him and that He, the Glorious, is the reality/truth of existence and that all affairs are in His hands (meaning that He controls everything), for there is no power nor strength save Allah, nor existence, nor influence, nor cause, nor effect, except by Allah, the One, the Conqueror. And I do not mean the servant's knowing which is a superficial knowing, free of certitude/conviction which appears in his actions and his speech. For if the servant knew that the true healer is Allah, the Glorious, the Almighty and that there is no medicine, nor doctor, except by Allah, as well as that they do not have [any] effect on them, except if Allah Wills, [if the servant knew that] then let him go to the doctor and use the medicine, for verily his turning to them for help in this situation is turning to Allah for help, for verily this servant does not see [anything] except for Allah. As was narrated from [the Ahlul Bayt] (pbut); ‘I have not seen anything except that I saw Allah before it, and after it, and with it.’. Although the likes of this servant, in most of the cases gives up the medicine and the doctor and seeks help through supplications, or by reading a Surah from the Qur’an and it has been narrated that which means, ‘Verily, [Surat] Al-Fātiĥah is the cure for all ailments except for death.’“