The Prophet’s guidance on treating pimples

Ibnu As-Sunni said in his book that one of the Prophet’s wives said, “Once the messanger of Allah SWT came by when I had a pimple on my finger. He said:

(( عندك ذريرة ؟  قلت : نعم قال : ضعيها . و قال قولي : اللهم مصغر الكبير ، و مكبر الصغير ؛ صغر مابي ))

“Do you have a Tharirah (arum)?’ I said, ‘yes.’ He said,place it on the pimple. He than said, ‘Say, O Allah who transforms the big to the small and the small to big, make wha I am suffering from the small.”

[Al-Hakim also narrated the hadist]

            The Tharirah (arum) is an Indian remedy made of arum cane. Anum is hot and dry and helps against stomach and liver tumors and dropsy and also strengthens the heart.

            In the shahihain it i narrated by Aisyah ra, “ I perfumed the messenger of Allah SWT with my hand using Tharirah (arum) during the Farewell Hajj during the state of ihram and otherwise.”

            The pimples is a growth that results from hot harmful, septic subtances that psh toward the skin so as find a way out the body. The pimple need to mature and to thebe opened and extracted, such as by using the Tharirah, which helps extract the septic matter from the pimple, along with giving a good aroma. In additing, the tharirah soothes the hotness of the pimple. This is way the authorof the Al-Qonun said, “There is no better remedy for fire burns that the tharirah, when it is blended with rose essence and vinegar.

From: “Healing with the Medicine of the Prophet”, page 106.

Hilmi Fauzi student of islamic education