Books

The Collector of Felicities
Muhammad Mahdi Ibn Abi Dharr Al-Narāqi
1997
Man has a soul and physical body, each of which is subject to its own pleasures and diseases. What harms the body is sickness, and that which gives it pleasure lies in its well-being, health and whatever is in harmony with its nature. The science that deals with the health and the maladies of the body is the science of medicine.