Avicenna's Lamb Experiment
Famous Islamic scholar Ibn Sina conducted a simple experiment to investigate the effects of fear and anxiety on human health.
Accordingly, he puts two lambs with similar structures in terms of health and physicality in two different cages. However, he places a wolf in another cage opposite one of them. Lambs whose living conditions are designed similarly continue their normal lives in the first days. However, in the course of time, the lamb that sees the wolf every day begins to be slaughtered without eating or drinking. It gets weaker and weaker. On the other hand, the lamb, which has no contact with the wolf in any way, continues its life in a healthy way. However, the other lamb dies after a while due to the intense stress and fear he experiences every day.
This experiment has shown us that every living thing cannot continue its life in a healthy way while under constant fear and stress. Even if there are no real reasons behind many of them, when such fears and worries are perceived as real, the soul begins to atrophy over time, and psychological and physical disorders begin to appear. Eventually, death becomes inevitable.
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