中世纪伟大波斯塔吉克医哲学家伊本西那(欧洲人称呼阿维森纳)最早发现微生物病毒疾病和提出隔离40天。他的著作《医典》也是西医鼻祖，明代波斯语医药著作《回回药方》是继承伊本西那《医典》的波斯医药延续。
The Muslim scholar of Medicine, 'Ibn Sina (980-1037)' suspected that some diseases were spread by microorganisms,... To prevent human-to-human contamination, he came up with the method of isolating people for 40 days. He called this method al-Arba'iniya ("The Forty").
Traders from Venice heard of his successful method and took this knowledge back to contemporary Italy. They called it "Quarantena" ("the forty" in Italian). This is where the word "quarantine" comes from. The origin of the methods currently being used in much of the world to fight pandemics have their origins in the Islamic world.
Allah says in the Quran: "Who saves one human life, it is as if he has saved all mankind" - (5:32).
Even today Ibn Sina's method saves thousands, perhaps millions, of lives. Ma sha Allah, that is another legacy filled with barakah!
Note: Ibn Sina's full name was Abu Ali Al-Hussein Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina. In the west he is also known by the Latin version of his name: Avicenna.
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