Healthy Effects of Mere Listening to Recited Qura’n

In Aug. 1984, at St. Louissa, Missouri State, the following paper was presented during one of the sessions of the North American Islamic Medical Association annual conference:

Three  groups  of  middle-aged  volunteers  were  selected  regardless  of  their  race, religion or understanding of the Arabic language  and were subjected to the following experiments:

The first group of volunteers were subjected to listening well recited verses of the Qura’n, the second group exposed to hearing Non-Qura’nic Arabic texts read in a way similar to rhythmic recitations of the Qur’an, and the third group not subjected to any of these two readings but put in a relaxing environment with minimal light, visual and auditory stimuli except for listening to fine low-voice musical tunes.

Measurements of certain psychological and physiological criteria using computerized technology were performed on these different groups: tension assessment, muscle contractility,   heart   rate, blood pressure   and   so   on.   The   total number of experimentation on these individuals reached 210 experiments. The results were outstanding:

• 97% of those who admitted to be believers and could understand Arabic language who listened to recited Qura’nic texts showed significant evidence of lowered muscle contractility,  pulse rate and blood pressure and marked evidence of tension relieve.

• 66% of all those who listened to recited Qura’nic texts showed relaxing response regardless of their believe or understanding of the meanings.

• 35% of those listening to Arabic non-Qura’nic texts recited in a similar way to Qura’n showed relaxing effects on muscles, heart rate, blood pressure and tense feelings.

• Only 16% of the group put in conventional psycho-therapy environment of minimal sensory stimuli   showed evidence of physiological and psychological relaxing response.

This rectifies dramatically the healing effect of the Qura’n, which becomes very profound when associated with faith and understanding of its meaning [Abdul Samad, 1990].

Whilst on the one hand the Qura’n stressed on the Oneness of Allah and His Powers and High Attributes in logical and rational argumentations as in contrast with the illogical and senseless nature of the polytheistic belief as well as unhealthiness of directing one’s worshipping to many deities, the Qur’an also continued scrutinizing the practices of injustices and oppression.