Ahlul Bayt News Agency -ABNA- Head of Imam Khomeini Education and Research Institute as a speaker of the third part of the 8th International Conference of Muslim Medics in Qom delivered his speech for the participants.
Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi said: "Doctors have an important role in the health, longevity and, as a result, in the productivity that people have in their lives; so in the absence of this stratum human health would be in danger.
Mesbah Yazdi by saying that the presence of doctors from around the world in Qom will have great effects and blessings also added: "Caring of physical health along with moral and Spiritual health could be the first output of this meeting."
"Since we are humans and humans are superior to animals and other creatures, it is a must for us to be care of our spiritual health and our need to spiritual doctors is more than physical doctors," he added.
With expressing that sometimes doctors are more influential than religious scholars, he also added: "When a religious scholar invites people to enjoining good and forbidding wrong, may they think he must say that because he is a religious scholar, and because of that it does not have a lot of influence; but if a doctor say such spiritual advices to the people, it would have a greater impact on them."
The 8th International Congress of Muslim Medics opened on July 30th in Mashhad and will run till August 10th.
In this congress 300 Shiite doctors from around the world participated in the scientific meetings, workshops, pilgrimage and cultural programs.
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