on the topic ‘possible cures for depression other than medicines’ was held in Western Germany. One of the doctors revealed an amazing discovery in his speech, saying, ‘I advised the patients of depression to wash their faces five times a day. They acted on my advice and experienced obvious improvement in their condition. I also advised another group of the patients suffering similar diseases to wash their faces, hands and feet five times a day. They also got cured to a great extent.’ In the end of his speech, the same doctor accepted that depression is rarely found among Muslims as they wash the face, the hands and the feet (i.e. during Wudu) several times daily.
صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد
A heart specialist remarked with assurance, ‘If a patient of hypertension makes Wudu and then his blood pressure is checked, his B.P. will be definitely lower.’
A Muslim Psychiatrist stated, ‘Wudu is the best cure for psychiatric patients.’ The western experts advise the psychiatric patients to wash their body parts like Wudu several times a day.
Even the order of washing the body parts during Wudu is beneficial. Washing of hands in the beginning alerts the nervous