What is Islam's view of contagion (the transmission of disease)?
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In Islam, contagion was denied, but what is meant by that is that diseases do not inherently transmit, rather it is Allah who makes them a cause for infection and transmission. The denial of contagion refutes the pre-Islamic notion that diseases inherently transmit.
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