12-18-2011, 06:36 PM
Bismillah
Praise be to Allah, the All Knowing, the All Aware, blessing be upon His final Messenger Mohammad Ibn Abdullah, his household and companions,
The following noble Ayah manifests insightful deep fact of aged people who are inflicted with Alzheimer's disease, this is a clear description of the disease. In cases of infliction, the old person who is inflicted, originally, of course knows a lot including people, self, knowledge, places, food, etc. But after the infliction, we all seek refuge to Allah from all problematic diseases, knows nothing, confuses everything, looses concentration, looses even control on responding to call of nature in the proper places, astaghferuallah. Reading the Ayah and pondering about how Allah explained the diseases in just few words is really stunning. But what is new, this is the Noble Quran which shall continue to be valid till the Day After.
Quran.nu
"And Allah has created you and then He will cause you to die, and of you there are some who are
<span style="text-decoration:underline">sent back
</span>to senility,
so that they know nothing after having known (much).
Truly! Allah is All-Knowing, All-Powerful." (Quran 16:70)
However, I would translate the underlined red fonted part as turn to instead of sent back, as sent back is literal translation of the original Arabic text. The meaning is turning to senility though. May Allah Grant us useful knowledge.