New studies reveal scientific miracles in the fly Hadith

By Magdy Abd Al-Shafy

The Holy Quran and the traditional sayings of prophet Mohummed are the two
legs of the Religion of Islam ,
The Holy Quran contains scientific miracles that have been already
confiremed scientifically . These Holy Scientific verses were revealed
more than 1400 years ago , at the time of prophet Mohummed there were many
other different miracles to make people believe . Because Quran will be
the last reveald Book till life ends , God has made it overflowing Book
with miracles that suit every age and its kind of civilization . As we
live now in the age of science , we find that there are a lot of
scientific miracles in Quran in addition to the Hadiths (prophet's
traditional sayings ) Here is a wonderful miracle :
"Medically it is well known now that a fly carries some pathagens on some
parts of its body as mentioned by the Prophet (before 1400 years. approx.
when the humans knew very little of modern medicine.) Similarly Allah
created organisms and other mechanisms which kill these pathagens e.g.
penicillin Fungus kills pathogenic organisms like Staphalococci and others
etc. Recently experiments have been done under supervision which indicate
that a fly carries the disease (pathagens) plus the antidote for those
organ-isms. Ordinarily when a fly touches a liquid food it infects the
liquid with its pathogens, so it must be dipped in order to release also
the antidote for those pathogens to act as a counter balance to the
pathogens.

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The creation of the head of the fly reflesct God's greatness
Prophet Mohummed says "If a fly falls into one of your containers [of food
or drink], immerse it completely (falyaghmis-hu kullahu) before removing
it, for under one of its wings there is venom and under another there is
its antidote. "
The Prophet Muhammad - upon him and his House blessings and peace -
alluded to both facts 1,400 years ago when he said, as narrated from Abu
Hurayra and Abu Sa`id al-Khudri by al-Bukhari and in the Sunan:

The greatness of God's creation in the eyes of the fly

Only in modern times was it discovered that the common fly carried
parasitic pathogens for many diseases including malaria, typhoid fever,
cholera, and others. It was also discovered that the fly carried parasitic
bacteriophagic fungi capable of fighting the germs of all these diseases.
The Prophet Muhammad - upon him and his House blessings and peace -
alluded to both facts 1,400 years ago when he said, as narrated from Abu
Hurayra and Abu Sa`id al-Khudri by al-Bukhari and in the Sunan:
If a fly falls into one of your containers [of food or drink], immerse it
completely (falyaghmis-hu kullahu) before removing it, for under one of
its wings there is venom and under another there is its antidote.
It is established that house flies are carriers of dangerous pathogens of
animals and humans. Even the muscaphobic critics of this hadith are forced
to admit that no one at the time of the Prophet, upon him peace, knew that
flies carry such harmful organisms. Whence the observation that "under one
of its wings there is venom"?

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Second, from the perspective of logic, if the fly did not carry some sort
of protection in the form of an antidote or immunity, it would perish from
its own poisonous burden and there would be no fly left in the world.
Further, the transmission of what the fly carries in or on its body is not
an automatic fact. For example, the microbe responsible for ulcers and
other stomach ailments can live on houseflies, although it remains to be
seen whether flies transmit the pathogen.
There has long been evidence of bacterial pathogen-suppressing micro-
organisms living in houseflies. An article in Vol. 43 of the Rockefeller
Foundation's Journal of Experimental Medicine (1927) p. 1037 stated:
The flies were given some of the cultured microbes for certain diseases.
After some time the germs died and no trace was left of them while a germ-
devouring substance formed in the flies - bacteriophages. If a saline
solution were to be obtained from these flies it would contain
bacteriophages able to suppress four kinds of disease-inducing germs and
to benefit immunity against four other kinds.
Cited in `Abd Allah al-Qusami, Mushkilat al-Ahadith al-Nabawiyya wa-
Bayanuha (p. 42).
More recently, a Colorado State University website on entomology states,
"Gnotobiotic [=germ-free] insects (Greenberg et al, 1970) were used to
provide evidence of the bacterial pathogen-suppressing ability of the
microbiota of Musca domestica [houseflies] .... most relationships between
insects and their microbiota remain undefined. Studies with gnotobiotic
locusts suggest that the microbiota confers previously unexpected benefits
for the insect host."
So then, flies are not only pathogenic carriers but also carry microbiota
that can be beneficent. The fly microbiota were described as "longitudinal
yeast cells living as parasites inside their bellies. These yeast cells,
in order to perpetuate their life cycle, protrude through certain
respiratory tubules of the fly. If the fly is dipped in a liquid, the
cells burst into the fluid and the content of those cells is an antidote
for the pathogens which the fly carries." Cf. Footnote in the Translation
of the Meanings of Sahih al-Bukhari by Muhammad Muhsin Khan (7:372, Book
76 Medicine, Chapter 58, Hadith 5782).
These fly microbiota are bacteriophagic or "germ-eating". Bacteriophages
are viruses of viruses. They attack viruses and bacteria. They can be
selected and bred to kill specific organisms. The viruses infect a
bacterium, replicate and fill the bacterial cell with new copies of the
virus, and then break through the bacterium's cell wall, causing it to
burst. The existence of similar bacteria-killing mechanisms in two
bacteriophages suggests that antibiotics for human infections might be
designed on the basis of these cell wall-destroying proteins. Science 292
(June 2001) p. 2326-2329.
Bacteriophagic medicine was available in the West before the forties but
was discontinued when penicillin and other "miracle antibiotics" came out.
Bacteriophages continued to flourish in Eastern Europe as an over-the-
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counter medicine. The "O1-phage" has been used for diagnosis of all
Salmonella types while the prophylaxis of Shigella dysentery was conducted
with the help of phages. Annales Immunologiae Hungaricae No. 9 (1966) in
German.
"Phage therapy" is now making a comeback in the West:
First named in 1917 by researcher Felix d'Herelle at France 's Pasteur
Institute, bacteriophages (or just phages for short) are viruses that prey
upon bacteria. They have a simple structure - a DNA-filled head attached
by a shaft to spidery "legs" that are used to grip onto the surface of a
bacterium. Once a phage latches onto a bacterium, it injects its payload
of genetic material into the bacterium's innards. The bacterium then
begins to rapidly produce "daughter" copies of the phage -- until the
bacterium becomes too full and ruptures, sending hundreds of new phage
particles into the open world.
Doctors used phages as medical treatment for illnesses ranging from
cholera to typhoid fevers. In some cases, a liquid containing the phage
was poured into an open wound. In others, they were given orally, via
aerosol, or injected. In some cases, the treatments worked well - in
others, they did not. When antibiotics came into the mainstream, phage
therapy largely faded in the west.
However, researchers in eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union
, continued their studies of the potential healing properties of phages.
And now that strains of bacteria resistant to standard antibiotics are on
the rise, the idea of phage therapy has been getting more attention in the
worldwide medical community. Several biotechnology companies have been
formed in the U.S. to develop bacteriophage-based treatments - many of
them drawing on the expertise of researchers from eastern Europe."
Research on the medical application of bacteriophages is now considered to
be in its most promising stage. A University of Pittsburgh researcher said
in June 2001, "Given the sheer number and variety of bacteriophages
lurking on the planet, the viruses may represent a sizable untapped
reservoir of new therapeutics." Science 292 (June 2001) p. 2326-2329.
Possibilities for use of bacteriophages in disease control is discussed in
the article "Smaller Fleas... Ad infinitum: Therapeutic Bacteriophage
Redux" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United
States of America [PNAS] Vol. 93 No. 8 (April 16, 1996), 3167-8.
The fact that the fly carried pathophagic or germ-eating agents was known
to the ancients, who noticed that wasp and scorpion stings are remedied by
rubbing the sore spot with a decapitated fly as mentioned in al-Antaki's
Tadhkira (1:140), al-`Ayni's citation of Abu Muhammad Ibn al-Baytar al-
Maliqi's (d. 646) al-Jami` li-Mufradat al-Adwiya wal-Aghdhiya in `Umdat
al-Qari (7:304), and al-Sha`rani's Mukhtasar al-Suwaydi fil-Tibb (p. 98).
Avicenna preferred the use of a live chicken slit in two and applied to
the wound cf. Ibn al-Azraq, Tas-hîl al- Manafi` (1306 ed. p. 171=1315 ed.
p. 147). A similar use is current even today for camel urine according to
a University of Calgary website.
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In the two world wars the wounds of soldiers exposed to flies were
observed to heal and scar faster than the wounds of unexposed soldiers.
Even today, fly larvae, or maggots, are used medicinally to clean up
festering wounds. They only eat dead tissue and leave healthy tissue
alone.
Is the fly ritually filthy (najis)? No. The Jurists concur that the fly is
pure (al-dhubab tahir) and does not defile a liquid even if its quantity
is small and even if it dies in it except, according to al-Shafi`i, if one
of the aspects of the liquid is affected (smell, color, taste) cf. al-
Baghawi, Sharh al-Sunna (11:260-261) and al-Qastallani, Irshad al-Sari
(5:304-305).
The Prophetic Sunna is an endless manual of healthy living and practical
husbandry for people of all walks of life, especially the poor. The
Prophet, upon him peace, at all times directed his Umma to avert waste and
penury even in unsanitary conditions. Just as the hadith on camel milk and
urine reveals knowledge of dietetics and natural medicine, so does the
hadith of the fly reveal knowledge of preventive medicine and immunology.
In this respect the command in these hadiths, as in many others, denotes
an advisory Sunna of permissibility, not a literal obligation. "The
command [of immersing the fly] denotes counsel (al-amru lil-irshad) so as
to counter disease with cure." Al-Qastallani, Irshad al-Sari (5:304).
Despite the abundance of supporting evidence for the authenticity of these
medicinal narrations (camel and fly) on the one hand and for their
scientific viability on the other, certain voices continue to reject them
on both counts. Principle skepticism of authentically transmitted
narrations that pertain to facts demonstrated by ancient and modern
science, or whose scientific worth is just now coming into view, is the
wont of stagnant minds and diseased hearts for which there is no cure save
the mercy of our Lord.
Now researchers are developing a new antibiotic made of the antidode
living on the fly's surface

God's greatness in the creation of the hose of the fly

The latest research calls for a new antibody from the fly antidote
here is a new research titled "The new buzz on antibiotics" that was done
only a weak ago ...read this study:

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The surface of flies is the last place you would expect to find
antibiotics, yet that is exactly where a team of Australian researchers is
concentrating their efforts
Working on the theory that flies must have remarkable antimicrobial
defences to survive rotting dung, meat and fruit, the team at the
Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, set out to
identify those antibacterial properties manifesting at different stages of
a fly’s development.
"Our research is a small part of a global research effort for new
antibiotics, but we are looking where we believe no-one has looked
before,” said Ms Joanne Clarke, who presented the group’s findings at the
Australian Society for Microbiology Conference in Melbourne this week. The
project is part of her PhD thesis.
The scientists tested four different species of fly: a house fly, a sheep
blowfly, a vinegar fruit fly and the control, a Queensland fruit fly which
lays its eggs in fresh fruit. These larvae do not need as much
antibacterial compound because they do not come into contact with as much
bacteria.
Flies go through the life stages of larvae and pupae before becoming
adults. In the pupae stage, the fly is encased in a protective casing and
does not feed. "We predicted they would not produce many antibiotics,"
said Ms Clarke.
They did not. However the larvae all showed antibacterial properties
(except that of the Queensland fruit fly control).
As did all the adult fly species, including the Queensland fruit fly
(which at this point requires antibacterial protection because it has
contact with other flies and is mobile).

Such properties were present on the fly surface in all four species,
although antibacterial properties occur in the gut as well. "You find
activity in both places," said Ms Clarke.

"The reason we concentrated on the surface is because it is a simpler

extraction.”

The antibiotic material is extracted by drowning the flies in ethanol,

then running the mixture through a filter to obtain the crude extract.
When this was placed in a solution with various bacteria including E.coli,
Golden Staph, Candida (a yeast) and a common hospital pathogen, antibiotic
action was observed every time.

"We are now trying to identify the specific antibacterial compounds," said
Ms Clarke. Ultimately these will be chemically synthesised.

Because the compounds are not from bacteria, any genes conferring
resistance to them may not be as easily transferred into pathogens. It is
hoped this new form of antibiotics will have a longer effective

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therapeutic life.
Danny Kingsley - ABC Science Online
The fly carries a disease and the cure on both its wings: Mentioned in
Islam and confirmed by Science (Bacteriophages):
By Magdy Abd Al-Shafy Abd AL-Gawad
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Refrences
http://www.answering-christianity.com/hadiths_of_the_fly.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s689400.htm
http://www.55a.net/firas/arabic/index.php?page=show_det&id=1048&select_pag
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