A narrative view of communicable diseases: from reality to denial

Conflict and convergence between reasons is as old an issue as the narrations. Imams (pbut) have provided suggestions for resolving this conflict. During the history there were some who did not attend to this issue and presented incorrect interpretations of the Islamic texts. The present study attempts to explain the lack of conflict between the narrations related to communicable diseases and the fact that Islam not only does not deny them but has provided instructions on how to cut the transmission chain. Based on a correct understanding of the narrations in different fields of Fiqh, the religious orders of the Islamic religious experts prove the belief in the existence of this type of disease from the perspective of Islam.

This study is library-based and was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method. In line with the purpose of the study, an attempt was made to draw on narrations and Fiqh principles to resolve the conflict between the narrations related to communicable diseases by explaining the convergence between these apparently conflicting narrations.

Five reasons were presented for proving the fact that communicable diseases aer not rejected as existing and five reasons were also provided to prove the real-life existence of these diseases. Considering the converegence between the apparently conflicting narrations, these two types of reasons are not conflicting and from the perspective of Islam, communicable diseases are believed to exist and Islam has even provided strategies to cut the transmission chain.