Hakim Muhammad Abdullah Haryanvi
Ustaaz-ul-Hukama
(استاذ الحکماء) Hakeem
Muhammad Abdullah was born in the year 1904 AD in the town of Ruri (روڑی), District Sirsa (سرسہ)
in the United Punjab. Back to back, knowledge of medicine, knowledge of
religion and writing and compilation are the identity of your family. His
father Maulana Muhammad Sulaiman (مولانا محمد سلیمان) was famous as a physician and preacher of
Islam. Maulana Sulaiman was undoubtedly a perfect saint and a supporter of the
Islamic movements of India.
The
number of your works is more than twenty. Hakeem Muhammad Abdullah was a
disciple of Maulana Khairuddin Sarasvi (مولانا خیر الدین سرسوی). He also acquired knowledge from late
Hakeem Ajmal Khan's (حکیم اجمل خان)
teacher Hakeem Abdul Wahab Ansari(حکیم عبد الوھاب انصاری) known as Nabeena Sahib (The
Blind Nobleman) for some time.
In
1923, at the age of nineteen, he wrote his first book "Khawas Phatkari" (Properties of Alum, خواص پھٹکڑی) for the treatment of all diseases with a
cheap drug like alum. He founded a publishing house called “Darul-ul-Kutab
Sulaimani” (دارالکتب سلیمانی) in
a remote area like Ruri after the publishers of Lahore refused to print a book
for a novice.
By
1946, about 60 medical books were published by his pen and became popular, both
general public and specialists. The number of your published and unpublished
books (which remained in India due to partition) is around 140.
In
1934, the “All India Unani and Ayurvedic Medical Conference”(آل انڈیا یونانی و
آیوویدک کانفرنس)
established by “Masih-ul-Mulk Hakeem Ajmal Khan” (حکیم اجمل خان) and comprising of the most prominent Unani
and Ayurvedic practitioners, declared these books as a great addition to Greek
medicine and gave encouragement by awarding a first class certificate and a
gold medal to the distinguished author. He was the first medical writer to
receive this unique honor. After the partition of the sub-continent, he
migrated from his native home and settled in Jahanian district of Khanewal,
Punjab and here 6 books of series of properties were printed under the name of “Maktaba
Sulaimani” (مکتبہ سلیمانی). However,
due to unfavorable economic conditions, he temporarily granted the publishing
rights of the books to Sheikh Muhammad Ashraf Tajir Books Kashmiri Bazaar Lahore
(شیخ محمد اشرف تاجر کتب، کشمیری بازار لاہور).
In
Jahaniyan(جہانیاں، پنجاب),
your office was a reference point. Throughout his life, he maintained his skill
with pen and paper and he was engaged in the promotion of Unani and Ayurvedic medicine.
As
a great orator, his speeches were very pleasant and effective, he had a
personal relationship with most of the religious and academic elites of
Pakistan. His love for books was inherited, his library containing more than
10,000 rare books was one of the unique private libraries in India. He was so
fascinated by books that despite the unfavorable conditions after the
establishment of Pakistan, within a few years, “Sulaimani Library, Jahanian” (سلیمانی لائبریری،
جہانیاں) collected 80,00 books۔
In
the works of Hakeem Muhammad Abdullah, Kunz-ul-Mujarbat (, کنز المجربات A wealth of experience) is one of
the most popular, evergreen and useful general medical book of the 20th
century. Since the publication of its first volume in 1925, it has been sold in
the number of about one million. It is difficult to find a precedent for the
sale of a medical book even close to this. What is in this book? And how
effective and useful are his prescriptions? Needless to say. Without
exaggeration, millions of people have benefited from it since its compilation.
There
is hardly any school in the Indian sub-continent that does not use a
prescription from Kunz-ul-Mujarbat (کنز المجربات). Thousands of people have expressed in
letters and public meetings that thanks to this book, they became interested in
medicine and learned Hikmat as a profession.
In
1968, the Pakistan Medical Board headed by the late “Hakeem Muhammad Hasan
Qureshi” (حکیم محمد حسن قریشی)
visited the entire East and West Pakistan for the registration of Ayurvedic
Practitioners. After the completion of the visit, the members of the Medical
Board came to Jahanian and gave Hakeem Muhammad Abdullah the title of “Ustaz-ul-Hikama”
(استاذ الحکماء, Great Teacher of Medical Practitioners) and said that "all over Pakistan, we
asked the eastern medical practitioners during the interview which medical
books they usually use?" The answer of ninety percent was, "Hakim
Muhammad Abdullah's Kunz-ul-Mujarbat (کنز المجربات)".
Apart
from this, Hakeem Muhammad Abdullah's Kanz-ul-Murakkabat (کنز المرکبات, A Treasure of Compounds), Kanz-ul-Mufradaat (کنز المفردات, The Treasure of Singular), as well as “Asaan Gharelo Ilaj” (series
of easy home remedies آسان گھریلو علاج), “Muft Ilaj” (free
treatment, مفت علاج), “Gharelo Ilaj” (home
treatment, گھریلو علاج), “Phalon se Ilaj”
(Treatment from Fruits, پھلوں سے علاج), “Phoolon se
Ilaj” (Treatment from Flowers, پھولوں سے علاج), etc. are famous
and sought after. Your writings are free from uncommon sense and especially
Arabic and Persian precise and complicated medical terms. Valuable collection
of information, the presentation is very smooth, interesting and charming. This
is the reason that not only medical professionals but also ordinary educated
people and housewives can benefit from your compilations.
Some
of these books have been translated into English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati
languages. Hakeem Muhammad Abdullah's fame in the academic world is due to his
stinginess. You have recorded thousands of rupees of rare, expert and
presidential prescriptions in your books for the benefit of the coming
generations by saying that "The Real Sustainer is God and considering
your knowledge and prescriptions as sustenance is equivalent to shirk."
About
his series of works, Hakeem Sahib writes that "The main purpose of the
books I wrote before the establishment of Pakistan was to serve the
people." But at the same time, he also considered them as a source of
employment, but now the main purpose of writing books is to serve God's
creation and get his pleasure.”
According
to him, the aspect of profit is only so much that no one has to worry about
spending the remaining days of his life.
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