Great points. Lets have a public discourse on this. I think you misunderstand me.

1. - I believe homeopathy works but I remain a skeptic on many levels. I can’t prove it works & my mind seeks rationality & objective truths & so I crave scientific research in this field.
2. I disagree that being skeptical of homeopathy makes one a lesser Ahmadi. Such judgments are far more dangerous than expressing skepticism. I don’t expect this from you Tahir Bhai. The biggest skeptic I know of homeopathy was my role model the 4th caliph (ra).
3. Problem is some “weak-minded” Ahmadis, to borrow your language, trust homeopathy blindly, when 10 homeopaths would give you 10 different medication for same ailment. Such blind trust, at the expense of ignoring standard care, has proven fatal more than once.
4. This is more of an issue with the practitioners of the field, not the field itself. And the one way to regulate and standardize therapy in this field is clinical trials.
5. Saying homeopathy is from God is a dangerous precedent & ignores the fact that all treatment modalities are from Him. Has jamaat not invested in allopathic hospitals? Why then is criticism of conventional medicine not met with same accusations of blasphemy?

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