Solat, Kebaikan Dari Perspektif Sains

Title : Solat Kebaikan Dari Perspektif Sains

Author(s) : Fatimah Ibrahim, Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas & Ng Siew Cheok

Pages : 110 pages

Publisher : Universiti Malaya, 2009 (2nd Ed)

Price : RM29.90 (WM), RM31.90 (EM)

Language : Malay

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Every Muslim knows that performing the solat 5 times per day is an obligatory practice for those who has fulfilled certain criterias. In fact solat is the second Pillars of Islam. There are already many books explaining and discussing about solat, its principle, methods, and benefits to ones belief and faith in Allah The Almighty. Performing solat is a way of ones submissions to Allah and proof of obedience. For those who really perform it with full understanding and concentration would feel his/her closeness to The Creator and thus solat provides spiritual salvation and mental calmness. But are there some kind  of physical effects to the body? This is where the book comes in. This book explains the benefits of solat in scientifical aspects in as simple as it can to the general readers. The study, a brainchild of former Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, was conducted by 3 expert scientists and researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Malaya University in Kuala Lumpur.

The book discusses the results of the study in 7 chapters. While the introductory chapter explains about the required movements in solat, the other 6 chapters presented how does solat affects the practitioner's body composition (Chapter 2), heartbeat (Chapter 3), waist pain (Chapter 4), brain (Chapter 5), muscle (Chapter 6), and erectile dysfunction, or ED (Chapter 7). Each result is accompanied by graphs and photos. At the end of the final chapter, there's a list of glossary to help translates certain terms.

As a summary, through this study, it is proven that the movements in solat really provide a lot of benefits to a human body. As the recitations in each movements provides spiritual and mental peacefulness, the movements itself is beneficial to a person's health in general, a light exercise for the muscles and keep the blood circulation going. Make sure to check out the conclusion of the study, you'll find out that performing the solat 5 times per day with correct movement, tamakninah (stay in position for a short amount of time), jemaah (performing solat in congregation), and understand the recitations would give you a better body composition especially in Ramadhan, the fasting month when you fast and perform solat tarawih. You'll also find out that certain positions and movements would put your body at rest, activates your pelvic muscles and improve the condition of a ED patient.

Allah swt has engineered such good things, it's up for us to think about it. After reading about this study, a Muslim should be more attentive to how good he/she performs the solat in all aspects, not just the physical ones. Kudos for the professors and researchers behind this study, keep on expanding the research.