<b>Guidance from the Hadith:</b><br> 1) It is legitimate to seek medical treatment through various cures that Allah Almighty originally placed in some created beings.<br> 2) The liquid of truffles is an effective cure for the eye, based on the Prophetic medicine.<br> A precious benefit:<br> Allah Almighty has originally placed nutrition and cure in the manna plant. Yet, it may undergo something that removes this trait from it. What is the reason behind that?<br> In Zād al-Ma‘ād Fi Hady Khayr al-‘Ibād, the erudite scholar Ibn Al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy upon him) said: “Someone may say: If this is how truffles are, then what about the harms they cause? How did they come to be like this? You should know that Allah Almighty perfected everything He has created. So, anything, when first created, is free from ills and defects and can perfectly serve the purpose for which it has been created. Yet, it may later experience some ills and defects for some reasons. If we study the world and how it began, we will know that all the bad things that happened to its air, plants, animals, and the conditions of its people did actually occur after the initial creation, due to certain reasons. Moreover, the behaviors of people and their disobedience to the messengers kept causing evils in their lives, personal and public, which in turn brought pains, diseases, plagues, famines, droughts, and the total or partial disappearance of blessing from the earth and its fruits, plants, and benefits. If you do not possess adequate knowledge about all these things, you can only heed the verse that says: {Corruption has appeared on land and sea because of what people’s hands have earned...} [Surat ar-Rūm: 41] The more people engage in wrongdoing and immorality, the greater ills and maladies Allah Almighty will cause to their food, fruits, air, water, bodies, appearances, shapes, and morals, as a result of their injustices and transgression. Wheat grains and the like used to be bigger in size than they are today, and they also had a greater blessing therein. Imam Ahmad Narrated that “a bundle was found in the storehouses of Banu Umayyah containing wheat grains whose size was that of date stones and whereon was written: This used to grow in the days of justice.” He related this story, in his Musnad, after narrating a certain Hadith.<br> Allah Almighty has made it a rule that righteous or wicked deeds lead to similar consequences in this world. For example, when Zakah and charity are withheld, rain is withheld too, leading to drought and famines. Likewise, when people wrong the poor and needy, those who weigh or measure act dishonestly, and the strong transgress against the weak, this is a reason for them to have unjust, merciless, and callous rulers. Such rulers are indeed the outcome and reflection of the actions of their subjects. Out of His wisdom and justice, Allah Almighty exhibits for people their actions in suitable molds and forms. Verily, Allah executes His will and none can change His ruling or repel His command.”<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Words in the Hadith:</b><br> Truffles: a plant that has no leaves or stem. It grows in the land without cultivation, and it looks like potatoes.<br> Manna: the food that Allah Almighty sent down to the Children of Israel without any effort on their part; or the favors Allah bestows upon His servants.