Sadik Sadiković

In memoriam

Sadik Sadiković is a famous herbalist and healer from the twentieth century. His book "Narodno zdravlje" is a pearl of herbalism. Sadik Sadiković was born in 1872 in the Bešir mahala in Ljubuški. His father, Mula Ahmet, is the son of Hasan Effendi, a rich spahi, and his mother is Pašana from the Mahić family from Ljubuški. He finished elementary school (mejtef) in his hometown, a madrasa in Travnik, where he stayed for about ten years. After that, he studied in Istanbul for two years. As a young man, he learned "everything there is to know" about the healing properties of the herbs that Ljubuški climate can provide in abundance. To expand his knowledge, he traveled throughout Asia Minor, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. He learned Turkish and Arabic early, and as an Austrian soldier he quickly mastered the German language. It is very likely that the first patients began to arrive to Sadik Sadiković around 1900, with their number gradually increasing until the war in 1914, but not so much as to divert wider public interest. From the newspapers of that period, and later, in the period of greatest popularity, it can be seen that his treatment with herbs began before the beginning of the First World War and that it was noticed even then in the Ljubuška region. Sadiković inherited a considerable fortune from his father, and never in his enviably long career as a traditional healer, did he strive for personal gain. On his property, tobacco, vines and cereals were grown in a more rational way than in others. The agrarian reform of 1919, like many other wealthy Muslims from Ljubuški, robbed him of much of his inherited property, but Sadiković did not change at all. To a patient who would ask how much he had to pay for advice, Sadiković would usually say: "Nothing, unless you want to give something to charities." At his hand were the numbered blocks of "Gajret", "Napredak", "Prosvjeta", "Narodne Uzdanice", "Red Cross" and other societies and associations. Sadiković once said that in 1928 he collected about 100,000 dinars for charities. Sadik ef. Sadikovic died died on April 2, 1940 and was buried at the Vrbica-Žabljak cemetery in Ljubuški. Sadiković left behind sons Šerif and Šefik and daughters Paša, Hatidža, Suma and Šerifa.

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