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Ibn Sina Abu Ali al-Husayn (980-1037)

A few days ago, I was in hospital where my little brother was admitted. Now Alhamdulillah my brother is Alright, and I am thankful to Allah Almighty. There in hopital I saw a wall pic of Abu Ali Sinna and his works and I had been looking his pic for a long clock time and now I decided to write on his work and to publish it in my blog. The list of his work is too long but I am giving a short idea of his gainings and what he gave us by the help and blessing of Allah Almighty.

Islam's most renowned philosopher-scientist Ibn e Sina or Latin name Avicenna, and full name Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Addullah ibn Sina "prince of physicians'' Born in Afshana in the district of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, ibn Sina, was the son of a Royal government official. The family soon moved to the city of Bukhara, the capital of the province, known throughout the Islamic world as a center of learning and culture. Ibn Sīnā studied medicine under a physician named Koushyar. Avicenna was a very precocious youth; by the age of 10 he had memorised the Quran and most of the Arabic poetry which he had read. At thirteen, Ibn Sina began a study of medicine that resulted in 'distinguished physicians. There Avicenna began his studies and by the age of 16 had mastered not only natural science and rudimentary metaphysics but also medical theory, having read, by his own account, all the books written on this subject Masha Allah. The sultan of Bukhara appointed Avicenna as one of his physicians, who then had access to the sultan's vast library. By the time Avicenna was 18, he had read all the books. An early work written by Avicenna was an encyclopedia that included all branches of knowledge except mathematics; it ran to 20 volumes . Avicenna is considered the greatest Arab physician today."

He wrote two of history's greatest works, 'KITAB AL SHIFA ''The book of healing'' is a scientific encyclopaedia which covers logic, the natural sciences, psychology, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic and music and The AL - CANOON of Medicine, an encyclopedia based on the teachings of Greek physicians, Medicine, pharmacology, physical exercise: the key to health, psychology, unani medicine . The latter was widely used in the West, where Ibn-Sina, known as Avicenna. He stresses the importance of gaining knowledge, and develops a theory of knowledge based on four faculties: sense perception, retention, imagination and estimation.

His philosophical theory is a comprehensive, detailed and rationalistic account of the nature of God and Being, in which he finds a systematic place for the corporeal world, spirit, insight, and the varieties of logical thought including dialectic, rhetoric and poetry. Alhamdulillah Ibn Sina was a polymath of Persian origin and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, Islamic psychologist, mathematics, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, logician, paleontologist, Maktab teacher, physicist, poet, scientist, philology and zoology, as well as poems and an allegorical work.

When not satisfied with merely a theoretical understanding of medicine, he began to treat the sick, obtaining empirical knowledge in this manner and also effecting remarkable cures. Avicenna had difficulty earning a livelihood after the sultan's death, and at the age of 22 he left Bukhara and wandered westward. At Jurjan, near the Caspian Sea, Avicenna lectured on logic and astronomy and wrote the first part of the Canon, his most significant medical work. He then moved to Ray (near modern Teheran), where he established a busy medical practice. There he is believed to have composed about 30 of his shorter works.

Ibn Sīnā's Canon of Medicine provides a complete system of medicine according to the principles of Galen.
George Sarton, an early author of the history of science, wrote in the Introduction to the History of Science:
One of the most famous exponents of Muslim universalism and an eminent figure in Islamic learning was Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna.His most important medical works are the Qanun (Canon) and a treatise on Cardiac drugs. The Qanun fi-l-Tibb' is an immense encyclopedia of medicine. It contains some of the most illuminating thoughts pertaining to distinction of mediastinitis from pleurisy; contagious nature of phthisis; distribution of diseases by water and soil; careful description of skin troubles; of sexual diseases and perversions; of nervous ailments.

In metaphysics, Ibn Sina makes a distinction between essence and existence; essence considers only the nature of things, and should be considered apart from their mental and physical realization. This distinction applies to all things except God, whom Ibn Sina identifies as the first cause and therefore both essence and existence. He also argued that the soul is incorporeal and cannot be destroyed. The soul, in his view, is an agent with choice in this world between good and evil, which in turn leads to reward or punishment.

He wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many medieval universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650.

Avicenna also made a number of discoveries related to astronomy. For example, he deducted from his observation of Venus crossing the surface of the Sun that Venus must be closer to the Earth than the Sun. He also correctly postulated that light travels at a finite velocity.

Avicenna sought to integrate all aspects of science and religion in a grand unified philosophy. With this philosophy he attempted to reconcile the natural science of the day with religious law, the organisation of state and metaphysics and to answer the question of the ultimate destiny of man.

Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Addullah ibn Sina "prince of physicians'' was died in died at Hamadan, in Northern Persia on December 10, 1037 (aged 56–57). May Allah Almighty keep his soul in peace and rest. Aameen Suma Aameen