NURSING

Nursing means taking care of and looking after the sick, the injured, the young old or the helpless, with love and sympathy. It is difficult to say at what point in history nursing was organised in a scientific way. Yet it is easy to understand that it must be as old as man's feeling for his suffering fellow men. For only sympathy and love could move one human being to feel sorry for someone in distress, to look after him in sickness and try to do someone for him and to restore him to health.

Islam regards nursing very important. Our Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) visited the sick regularly, comforted them and spoke kind words to them. He would go, even to inquire after his ailing enemies. He urgent the Muslims to help those who were sick or suffering. On the battlefield, all Muslim soldiers were always very kind to the sick, old and the injured. They never killed their wounded enemies. Muslim ladies were very active on the battlefield giving water to the soldiers and tending the wounded and the sick.  

Nursing was not at all popular in the beginning. Parents did not allow their daughter to become nurse. This can perhaps be best shown in the story of the girl, who in 1851,became the founder women in history. Her name was Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale was born in the town of Florence in Italy in 1820.