Acid. Tripping with Allah: Islam, Drugs, and Writing by Michael Muhammad Knight. The idea of using drugs in order to achieve some sort of spiritual enlightenment has been around for probably as long as humanity.
Whether looking for answers to great mystical questions or just on a personal quest for enlightenment, the use of external stimulants cut across all lines of race, creed, and colour. However, there’s also a lot of bullshit associated with the whole “take drugs and see god” line of thought. First there’s the whole idea that one man’s sacrament is another man’s criminal offence or sacrilege. Then there are those who will look for any excuse to take drugs and pass it off as looking for god in an attempt to justify their actions. Complicating matters is the fact there seems to be just as many ways to achieve hallucinations without drugs as with. Okay maybe that’s a little over the top, but you get the idea. So what the hell does any of this have to with drugs and Allah?
Underground LSD Palace. Watch?v=a5w0Yo26sc8&feature=youtu. Astonishing Photographs Of Drugs Prove Substances Look Just Like They Feel. Have you ever wondered what ketamine, speed and Prozac really look like?
You may or may not be familiar with the sensory experience of the various legal and illegal substances, but we're pretty sure you've never sat down with a microscope and pored over the celestial images that are hiding inside within. Speed Enter German artist Sarah Schönfeld, who's performed a similar experiment in her project "All You Can Feel. " Whether depicting methamphetamine, heroin or ecstasy, her images present an astonishing side of pseudo-alchemy, the result of sprinkling psychotropics and neurotransmitters onto photographic negatives and subjecting the swatches to the typical photographic process.
What remains are tumbling landscapes, planetary scenes and crystallized universes, dancing about in a manner eerily similar to the feelings you might associate with each respective substance. Ecstasy So what moved the Berlin-based artist to take a deeper look at the mystical world of drugs? Ketamine Heroin Crystal Meth. The Colbert Report on 'Marijuana Makes You Skinny' Research. DRUGS MUSLIMS SHOULD AVOID. By Ibrahim B.
Syed, Ph. D. President Islamic Research Foundation International, Inc. 7102 W. Shefford Lane Louisville, KY 40242-6462, U.S.A. E-mail: IRFI@INAME.COM Website: "O you who believe, intoxicants, and gambling, and the altars of idols, and the games of chance are abominations of the devil; you shall avoid them, that you may succeed. " The Qur'an 5:90 Drugs impair decision-making ability leading to irresponsible behaviour. What Is a Drug? Most people would agree that heroin is a drug. God has mercifully provided us with a myriad variety of delectable drinks; water, milk, fruit and vegetable juices, and nectars and natural teas.
CAFFEINE: Found in coffee, tea, and Cola drinks-also in Chocolate-this drug stimulates wakefulness and awareness. ALCOHOL: Ethyl alcohol is the active ingredient in wine, beer, and liquor. NICOTINE: Found in tobacco, nicotine is a relaxant, and one of the world's most pervasive addictive drugs. COCAINE: Comes from the tropical Coca bush. 1. Taking Khat: Islamic and Scientific Perspectives - Health & Science - counsels. What Comes After Antibiotics? 5 Alternatives to Stop Superbugs. Young and his colleagues at Texas A&M aim to unleash bacteria's age-old nemeses called bacteriophages, or phages for short.
Phages are simply viruses that infect and kill bacteria. They are ubiquitous in nature and in our bodies—astonishingly, Young notes, more than 90 percent of the DNA found in us belongs to phages. All those phages are parasitizing the trillions of resident bacteria within us; those bacterial cells outnumber our "own" by about 10 to one. Phages do not cause human illness, but for any kind of bacterium, there are often dozens of phages that harry it. Figuring out which kinds work best and could be produced economically by drug companies will take some time, but the benefits of "phage therapy" sure look enticing. Many phages target only a few strains or even a single species of bacteria. The clinical use of phages started in the 1920s and '30s, meaning it actually predated the development of antibiotics.