The Heart Operation IN THE 7TH CENTURY REVELATION

The Heart Operation

IN THE 7TH CENTURY REVELATION

Before going into the revelation of the heart operation of the Prophet (Sallallaho alaihi wasallem) and the details thereof in the traditions, let us have some scientific look of the subject.

The human heart is a propulsive muscular organ of four chambers, double pump that receives blood into two of its upper chambers or atria and pumps the blood out from two of its lower chambers ventricles. From the right ventricle, the blood is pumped through the pulmonary artery toward the lungs where the carbon dioxide is released and the oxygen is picked up. From the lungs, the oxygen-enriched blood is carried by the pulmonary veins to the left atrium. From the left atrium, the blood passes into the left ventricle and is pumped out through the aorta to carry oxygen and nutrients to the tissues through out the body.

The heart is situated between the two lungs and slightly to the left of centre, behind the breastbone. It rests on the diaphragm, the muscular partition between chest and abdominal cavity, which we call ‘JAUF’ of the heart in Arabic.

In a man, the heart weighs 250 to 340 grams and in a woman, it weighs 230 to 280 grams. The normal heart rate is considered to be 72 beats per minutes. At this average rate, the heart contracts 4,320 times in an hour, 103,680 times in a day, 37, 843,000 times in an year, and 2,649, million and 24 thousand times in a life span of 70 years. The heart rate among the athletes may be as low as 45 times per minute.

The heart of a newly born baby may beat up to 150 times a minute but it settles down during the first year to about 100 times a minute.

The circulation of the blood through the lungs was first worked out by an Egyptian Ibn al Nafis (1210 CE.) (Encyclopedia Americana). The findings were recorded after carrying out various postmortem examinations. The Muslim physicians had worked out a new knowledge of determining quite few diseases and heart diseases by the nature of the pulse beat. This knowledge was known as ‘FAN AL NABDH’ and was taught to all physicians. This knowledge was transferred from Arabs to Indo-Pak. subcontinents where it is still retained. The physicians who are registered under Indian Medicine Board practicing Arab medicine (now known as Tib-e-Yunani) and also in Pakistan treat the patients by herbs. A medicine known as ‘Dawa al misk mautadil’ is successfully used in preliminary heart diseases.

However, the Europe was quite late in picking up the heart diseases. Though the postmortem examinations had begun in the 18th century and the structural defects of the heart were found but it was the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow, who in the middle of the 19th century solved most of the problems concerning thrombi and emboli (clots) that travel through the circulatory system and block veins or arteries in the lungs, brains, or other organs.

The era of heart surgery had begun after the World War II and the cardiovascular surgery emerged as a valuable method of treating heart disease. Dwight Harkin and Charles Bailey conducted one of the first heart operations in the late 1940’s. The first human heart transplant was performed by Christian Barnard in South Africa in 1967. (Encyclopedia Americana) The aforesaid Encyclopedia observed: “Prior to that time the heart was considered so delicate and sensitive that death was believed to be inevitable if the heart was injured.” It was that belief that made the non- Muslims and the orientalists deny the heart operation of the Prophet referred to in the Quranic revelation and elaborated in the various traditions. The Quran states:

....Did We not lay open thy chest? (94/1)

The Arabic inscription ‘A Lam’ means did We not. The word ‘lam’ is to negate the speech and changes present tense into the past tense. The word ‘Nashrah’, (Na) is pronoun meaning we, here this pronoun refers to Allah it is Why it is written in capital letter. ‘Sharah’ means laid open, it also means to expound, to describe, ‘Sharah’ is the root word from it is ‘Tashreeh’ meaning dissecting or anatomizing a body. (Lane’s Lexicon) The entire verse means: “O Muhammad! Did We not lay open thy chest.” How his chest was laid open, the details of this revelation are found in various famous and authentic books of traditions.

Allama Seouti in his Dur al Manthur and Khazin in his commentary expounding the aforesaid revelation said that his chest was ripped open (once) in his childhood (when he was of about 4 year’s of age) and referred to the tradition narrated by Anas bin Malik:

Gabriel came to the Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) while he was playing with playmates. He took hold of him and made him to lay (on his back) and ripped open his chest and took out the heart from it and then (he opened the heart) and extracted something that clung in it and said that was the part of Satan in thee. Then was washed it in a-gold basin with the water of zamzam (31), and closed it up, and restored it to its place. The boys came running to his foster mother i.e. nurse, and said verily Muhammad has been murdered. They all rushed towards him and found him changed in complexion. Anas said I myself saw the mark of stitching on his chest. (Muslim, Al Baihaqui).

Ibn Kathir in his book Al Bidaya wa al Nihaya (Vol.II) under the caption fostering of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) reported few traditions in which the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) narrated his own story.

In a narration from Abu Huraira. The Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said: “...when his chest was torn open he did not feel any pain nor saw any blood.” (Imam Ahmad)

In a report from Al Baihaqui Anas bin Malik said: “The chest of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) was laid open below the throat to the cavity (close hollow to the last rib). His heart was taken out, it was washed in a gold basin and then filled with wisdom and faith and was restored to its place.

It is reported that his chest was laid open about four times but the reports on the opening of his chest during his childhood and before his bodily ascent to seven heavens are in successive chain.

Iman Bukhari (Kitab al Tauheed) in a narration about bodily ascent related from Anas bin Malik: “... so those angels did not talk to him till they carried him and placed him beside the well of zamzam. From among them Gabriel under took to cut open from his ‘Nahrehi’ (the upper most part of the chest which is the place of collar i.e. super-sternal notch) to labbetehi (the place where the memento of the locket is placed by the Arab woman i.e. xiphisternum) and took out his heart and then washed it with zamzam water and cleaned his hollow (containing heart) and then a gold basin containing a gold bowl full of belief and wisdom was brought and then closed it. He then ascended with him to the heaven of the world...”

lmam Muslim in a narration from Malik bin Sasa related from the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) “... Then he came to me and took me with him. Then a gold basin containing Zamzam water was brought to me ‘Fa shureha sadri’ and my chest was cut open to such (part). Qatada reported:

“and my chest was cut open to such and such (part)”.

Qatada said: I asked him (the narrator) who was with me that what he meant (by such and such part) he replied: It was opened up to the cavity of the upper abdomen, (then the Hadith continues) ‘Fastukhrija qalabi’ My heart was extracted and it was washed with Zamzam water and it was restored in its place filling it with faith and wisdom...”

WHY THE PROPHET’S CHEST WAS RIPPED OPEN?

The creation of the human is from the semen, which comes out of sexual inclination that changes into a blood clot and then into a lump etc. etc. This sexual inclination is the weak point in human being and the Satan insinuates evil into the heart of man. Or there is some DNA material in the heart which is the source of the sexual penchant and there on that point the devil prompts man to evil. The angel Gabriel extracted it and throwing it away said that it was the part of Satan in thee.

There can be no denial of DNA’S presence in the heart as it is peppered in 60 thousand billion specks in the human body, and God, the Creator and the Maker of the genetic code knows (see The Quran And The Genetics) which part of the body contains those genes which inspire sex, disobedience, love and hatred etc. we know that all these feelings aspire from the heart, that the heart is seat of knowledge as God revealed the Quran on the Prophet’s heart. (See Seat of Intelligence Heart or Mind or Both).

Those who have loved know how the waves of love rage in their hearts. There was a time in my life of about more than a year when I was utterly absorbed in the remembrance of Allah and my heart agitated with ardent divine love. The remembrance of Allah was dear to me from the loveliest thing in the world. It was then I realized that when an ordinary worshipper like me can have that ecstasy, certainly the Prophet’s heart was purified and blessed with overwhelming love of God. His relation with his wives was a matter of obligation. His wives i.e. the mothers of the believers were only the institution of learning of his private life for his people.

However, the angel Gabriel took out that clot of blood from the Prophet’s heart through which the Satan taints to sex.

Imam Razi in his ‘Al Tafsir Al Kabir’ explaining “Did we not lay open your chest’ said: “It is the same as narrated that Gabriel, (peace on him) came to him and ripping open his chest, extracted his heart and washed and purified it from incompliance (of the Lord). Then he filled in it the knowledge and faith and placed it back in his chest...It is not very far that clot of black blood which was washed away from the heart of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) attracts towards disobedience and refrains from dutifulness when it was removed from him he naturally became obedient and remote of all evils and this was a symbol of his being innocent...Allah doth what He will and ordereth what he want.”

Why the revelation under citation stated the chest and why it didn’t mention the heart? The place of inspiring the evil is bosom as God said:

"Who whispereth in the bosoms of mankind.” The laying open of the chest also means the elimination of prompting of evil. How it was attained, the details thereof we have already seen in the previous traditions.

The Arabic word Sadar also means heart. Please see translation of M.Pickthall chapter CXIV. Also, see Elias ‘Modern Dictionary Arabic English. "Sadar: - Fuad, bosom, heart."

“The heart is the place of wisdom and knowledge. The Satan intends it. The Satan comes to the chest, which is the fort for the heart, if he finds a way through it, he attacks and lands his forces in it and straitens the heart by sending forth in it suspicion, worries, sorrows, and avarice then the man neither gets any taste in his prayers nor any sweetness in Islam. If the enemy is routed by reciting “La haul wala quwata illa billah” the narrowing of the heart melts and the peace is attained.”

He was made to undergo another operation before his bodily ascent to seven heavens so that:

1. His blessed heart could sustain that angelic power which was to take him in a journey of millions of light years in few seconds. In space flights of this age the spacemen are put to regress check up to find the forbearance of their hearts.
2. He might be able to withstand the heavenly beings.
3. His heart was sanctified to forbear the sight of God (See ‘The Bodily Ascent of the Prophet. Sallallaho alaihi wasallem’)
4. Imam Qastalani in his ‘Al Muwahib al Ladunniah’ said: When the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) observed himself how his chest was cut open, he became fearless of all actions leading to death and that gave him power of faith, it strengthened his vision and his belief in God...His sanctification of his heart and filling it with faith and wisdom points to the belief of ‘Ahle Sunnah’ (The persons following. The sunni doctrine) that the place of knowledge, thinking and vision is the heart...” (Vol. II p.11)

Moses (alaihi al salam) had requested to attain this dignified rank as he said: "My Lord! Lay open my chest." (20/25) But Allah favoured Muhammad (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) with this great miracle.

It may be recalled that Moses had wished to be the prophet of this ‘Ummah’ (people). As he said: “Make me the prophet of that ‘Ummah’. “He was told, “Their prophet would be from among them.” Then he desired: “Make me one among that people.” (Anas-Abu Noaim) But God had destined for Jesus (alaihi al salam) on his second coming to be one of this ‘Ummah’ of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallaho alaihi wasallem).

For the prophet Moses to wish to be one this Muslim nation and for Jesus, on his second coming to be one of this Muslim nation is the proof of the greatness of Nabi al Anbia Muhammad al Rasul Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) and that God has elevated this Muslim nation among all other people of the previous prophets. This elevation is not with worldly pomp and show but is related with grand rewards in the Hereafter.

DETAILS OF THE HEART OPERATION OF THE 7TH CENTURY REVELATION

The details of the revelation found in the aforesaid traditions about laying open of the chest of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) can be summarized as under:

1. The coming of the angels.
2. Making him to lay on his back.
3. Happening of this incidence in the age of four years and then finally in about 52 years of age.
4. Cutting open his chest from super sternal notch to xiphisterum.
5. Extraction of his heart and then opening of the heart itself.
6. Extraction of some clot of blood from the heart itself.
7. Washing of the heart in a gold basin from Zamzam water. (Zamzam in Arabic means ‘abundant water’. It was opened by angel Gabriel to save Hajira wife of prophet Abraham and his son Ismail who were thirsty to death. Now it is in a shape of well by the side of Kaaba. It is a mineral water and tastes slightly saline).
8. Closing up of the heart and restoring it in its place.
9. Stitching the opening of the chest.
10. Anas observation of the needle marks on his chest and his evidence to that effect.
11. Prophet observation of his own operation and his not feeling of any pain or flow of blood.
12. Running away of the playmates after seeing this incidence and their informing to his foster mother (Halima Sadia radiallah anha) that he was murdered.
13. Coming of the people on the place of incidence and they found him changed in complexion.
14. His quick recovery after every such incidence.

The above facts wonderfully constitute the details of a modern heart operation and 7th century brain could have never conceived this sketch so precisely. It was only the 20th century surgical development that proved all the aforesaid facts of the 7th century revelation. The needle marks on the chest of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) were a natural out come of his heart operations. The evidence of Anas (radiallah anho) who had been for ten years in the service of the Prophet is an undeniable truth, because in that pre-scientific age the conception of operating the human body and then sewing it did never exist.

In our present day, surgery (1989) the age of four years is considered to be quite fit for most of congenital heart operations.

Most of the orientalists, the followers of the Quadiani Pretender and the followers of Gulam Ahmad Pervez had denied the cutting open of the Prophet’s chest. Abdullah Yusuf Ali, a Bohri (Bohris are an offshoot of Shia community) did not write a word about it in his commentary of ‘Alam Nashrah’ 94/1. Whereas all other Muslim commentators never missed to report this great incident.

However, the science disproved the denials of the orientalists and demonstrated the possibility of these operations. Those who deny the miracles believe God to be incompetent of doing all things but when science proves a fact all believe in it. To them man is more competent than God. To such men Hell is their permanent abode.

The painless heart operation of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) in those pre-scientific ages definitely pointed to the maximum progress, which our medical science would achieve in future.

The eminence of this miraculous heart operation of the Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) will ever gleam in respect to the time because it could never have been deemed of in those pre-scientific days, then it was conducted in a short span of time and his immediate recovery thereafter it.

MISCELLANEOUS FACTS IN THE QURAN AND SUNNAH ABOUT HEART

Anas (radiallah anho) narrated, the Apostle of Allah (Sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said: Lo! every thing has a heart, and the heart of the Quran is ‘Surah Yasin’. (Chapter Yasin)

The above statement of the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) in the pre-scientific days could not be valued to its full implication, but our today science has confirmed this statement. Allah did not create a thing without a heart. The heart is the central axis of everything animate or inanimate. In the animate beings, it circulates blood. It is of various shapes. It may be a straight tube as in spiders and annelid worms or a structure with one or more receiving chambers (atria) and a main pumping chamber (ventricle) as in mollusks. In fish, the heart is a folded tube, with three or four enlarged areas that correspond to the chamber in the mammalian heart.

After the development of microscope a cell theory was developed (See The Quran & The Genetics) and it was found that the nucleus is the center, which controls the activity of the cell. In Arabic nucleus means heart. That is to say that the central axis of everything is heart. In the gases and in other inanimate objects nucleus is the central point and the electrons and the protons centre round it.

However, whatever the Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said is an undeniable truth and its utterance in the ignorance age makes it a sign of his prophet-hood. There are great virtues of reciting the chapter Yasin. Imam Seouti has mentioned them in his Dur al Manthur. It may be noted that this chapter begins with the confirmation of the prophet-hood of the Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem)

Nauman bin Bashir narrated: I heard the Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said: Both Al Halal (praiseworthy) and Al Haram (blame worthy) are evident in between them are suspicious things and the most of the people have no knowledge about them. So whoever saves himself from the suspicious things safeguards his religion and honour, and whoever indulges in the suspicious things is like a shepherd who grazes (his animals) near the meadow of some one else and at any moment he is liable to get in it, (i.e. transgress others’ rights). (O! people) Beware! Every king has a meadow of Allah on the earth is His forbidden things. Beware! there is a piece of flesh in the body if it functions properly, the whole body functions correctly, but if it vitiates, the whole body is vitiated and Beware! It is the heart. (Al Bukhari)

God willing I shall deal with that part of the aforesaid tradition which relates to the heart.

The Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) switched an alarm to the people and said that the proper functioning of the entire body depends on the accurate working of the heart i.e. to say if the heart malfunctions, the body gets diseased.

Our 20th century medical science upheld the truth of the aforementioned Prophet’s statement and uncovered a number of diseases taking their origin from the malfunctioning of the heart.

In the book ‘The Heart’ edited by R.Bruce Logue, Robert C.Schlant and N.Kass Wenger a number of diseases have been enlisted which are caused by cardiovascular disorders. (Physical Examination pp. 162 to 180) The aforesaid book has also given pictures showing the deformation of skin, hands legs, eyes, teeth, face and neck including mental retardation due to cardiovascular abnormalities. The book has explained a number of syndromes originating with the malfunctioning of the heart.

Whatever the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said has emerged out of the fountain of the truth of the Creator himself as the Quran said:

Nor doth he speak of (his own) desire. It is naught save an inspiration that is inspired. (53/3-4)

Ali bin Hussain narrated: Safiya daughter of Huyai came to the Prophet (Sallallaho alaihi wasallem) in the mosque. When she returned, the Apostle of Allah, (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) accompanied her. While going, the two men of Ansar passed by them. The Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) called them saying. “She is safiya”. (i.e. his wife) the two said ‘Subhanallah’ (Glory be to Allah). The Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said: “Satan circulates in the human body with the circulation of blood.” (Al Bukhari)

Whatever the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said to the two men in the above tradition was to brush off any suspicion as to his august person. But here in the particular the tradition specifies a scientific fact which could be unveiled in the thirteenth century by Ibn Al Nafis.

The Apostle of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) very evidently referred to circulation of blood of the entire body. Allah has created Jinn from a very subtle matter, which takes its origin from the fire. The Quran said: He created Jinn from the smokeless fire. It is, therefore, Satan and his forces can penetrate into the human body and can take possession of its senses and render him insane are indulge him in corruption. That is why the faithful when offers his penitence, he is forgiven but he is presumed to fight against the satanic desires by the remembrance of God.

However, the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi wasallem) did point out to an undeniable fact pertaining to the medical science, which is basically considered before conducting any and every body operation. Ibn al Nafis and other scientists worked out the details of this circulation.

Telling a truth about human structure the Quran said:

God hath not made for any man two hearts in his ‘Jauf’ meaning cavity of the upper abdomen (33/4)

The Creator of the human cell and the maker of its genetic code know everything about his creations. No man has ever born with two hearts in his upper abdomen. The Quran emphasizing this fact tells us that every man born with one heart only.

SEAT OF INTELLIGENCE HEART OR MIND OR BOTH

The scientists tell us that the pulsating heart is a pump, which pumps the blood to the brain and the other parts of the body and the mind is the seat of intelligence and all workings. The question arises:

COULD THE MAN FIND INTELLIGENT WORKING AMONG THE ANIMATE OBJECTS NOT HAVING THE MUSHROOM OF HUMAN MIND?

To consider the above question, firstly, I shall take up the formation of the human embryo.

Gerldine L.Flanagan in his book “The First Nine Months” (1962-p.25) observes: “When the sperm nucleus reaches the egg nucleus these two lie side by side as their content is combined. In this half an hour and immeasurable number of traits of a new baby are decided within the pinpoint egg.”

We have already seen in our topic ‘The Quran And The Genetics’ that the nucleus in a cell is that astounding unit which governs the formation of the body designed in it. The nucleus is the pinpoint egg contains in it all the intelligent working plans of development of an entire new human in it. Talking of this astonishing process and evolutionist, Sir James Gray in a chapter by him in the book ‘Science Today’ (pp. 25, 26) observes:

“The whole process seems much more like the development of organized structure from a relative simpler system. The molecules of protein and fat in the yoke appear to be marshaled into position to form an orderly and highly complex system somewhat analogous to the process by which a house is built of bricks, wood and glass in accordance with a predetermined plan. ...The machines seems to operate, in other words in a highly purposive way and the term ‘organizer’ has been applied to it. ...There seems to be directive principle at work.”

It may be noted that the word nucleus in Arabic means heart i.e. to say that the organization of human structure in the embryo is governed by the nucleus (heart). God by His Super Intelligence designed and coded nucleus, which is smaller than a period in the end of a sentence.

The science disclosing the work of a nucleus bears out:

The fertilized egg cell contains in its tiny nucleus not only all the genetic instructions for building a human body, but also a complete manual on how to construct the complex protective armamentarium-amnion, umbilical cord, placenta and all-that makes possible the embryo’s existence in the womb.” (Life Magazine April 30, 1965 pp. 70, 72A)

The embryo within the uterus becomes a foreign material and the immunological defenses within the human body would reject such a foreign growth. God, therefore, made a protective housing within the uterus. Mentioning this, the Quran said:

He created you in the wombs of Your mothers in stages one after Another three veils of darkness. Such is Allah your Lord. To Him is sovereignty (of the worlds) There is no God save Him How then ye are turned away. (39/6)

Embryo is protected in the three veils of darkness and they are (a) amnion, (b) muscle layer of the uterus and above all (c) is the cover of belly.

God decreed genetic code in the nucleus, which contains nourishment plan of embryo. Nucleus issues instructions for making of trophoblast cells. Their initial purpose is to destroy the uterine cells, take nourishment from blood, and pass it on to sustain the first embryonic cells. The trophoblast cells within weeks develop into placenta and the embryo obtains nourishment, breathes and gives off wastes through this amazing placenta.

The science tells us that the placenta changes constantly along with the embryo’s changing requirements. It can perform tasks normally reserved for the lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines and endocrine glands, among its other miscellaneous accomplishments. As a substitute lung, the placenta extracts oxygen from the mother’s blood and deposits it in the blood of the embryo. The placenta brings in nutrients of all kinds from the mother’s blood, often predigesting the dissolved food for the embryo enroot. The placenta is efficient that within an hour or two after the mother takes nourishment the embryo gets too. The placenta also manufactures vital hormones for the mother to make up for some of the things it takes away.

Right from the single fertilized egg till the birth of the child there is wonderfully designed intricate process, the work of the Supreme Intelligence of God which overtakes us in sheer astonishment more and more because all this great intelligent plan and process is designed in a tiny nucleus. Does mother’s mind has to do anything with the formation of the embryo? Never. All these diligent instructions about the formation of the embryo do come from nucleus i.e. the heart of the cell.

Within 280 days from conception to birth, the single fertilized egg from tiny cell changes into complex organization of some 200 million cells, having increased the original weight a billion fold.

However, in the formation of embryo, we do find the intelligent working in nucleus other than the mushroom of mind.

The working of nucleus is not limited to human cell but it is extended to all animate objects falling under one cell form of life. The nucleus is the governing unit not only in procreation and growth but in regulates all their genetic code. (See The Quran & The Genetics)

God blessed man with the power of reason and made him to learn by experience, but other animate beings cannot reason or learn by experience. Their knowledge is incorporated in the genetic material of nucleus. For example, the amazing navigational instinct of the birds testifies to God’s creative genius. The writer of the book ‘Marvels And Mysteries of Our Animal World’ denoting this remarkable ability writes:

“Perhaps most challenging mystery is how birds can find their way unerringly over thousands of miles of featureless ocean. During most of the year a species of shearwater wanders over the Pacific, from Japan to California and northward to Aleutian Islands. Yet the birds arrive at nesting ground off the coast of Australia-millions of them darkening the sky-on the same day every year.

How do they do it? ...These birds were not following older birds but a far more ancient guidance system, an instinct acquired in the egg”. (p.237)

Denoting the results of the experiments in the book ‘The Mysterious Senses of Animals’, the author writes:

“These experiments made it clear that blackcaps instinctively recognized individual constellations, ’knew’ that they traveled across the sky during the night and also knew the changes of the constellations with the changing seasons. How do they acquire their extraordinary astronomical capacity? ... The black cap has inherited its knowledge of celestial geography and the course of the stars. Science still has no explanation to offer of how this instinctive knowledge of a subject as complicated as that of the constellations came to be embedded into animal’s germ plasma.” (V.B.Droscher-pp.175, 176.)

Similarly the Artic tern’s yearly migration covers 22,000 miles. The migration of Artic tern, blackcaps or other birds is not the outcome of the thoughtful mind but because of the knowledge coded in nucleus of their tiny cells peperred around their body. God blessed them with a natural instinct in their nuclei and made them to be guided with it independently of reason or experience. A good example of it is the story of the ant narrated by the Quran (Ch: The Ant) warning her fellow ants to take refuge in their habitations lest they might be crushed by Solomon and his armies unknowingly. We know, the ant is well known for collective living and many intelligent works. They have special signaling system to warn each other. All this knowledge is coded in the nuclei peperred in their body by God, the Great Designer. However, Solomon’s understanding of ant’s warning is a miracle. God blessed him with highly developed senses and powers.

Thus going through all the above facts, we find that the directing force does not lie with mind only but it lies with nucleus of each cell. It will be incorrect to say that the seat of knowledge is only mind. All praises to God Who in his creative genius created tiny cells and made its nucleus (heart) the seat of knowledge and gave it a directing force in all matter of animate beings.

That is why the Quran lays stress on heart in all matter of thinking (47/24), guidance, (64/11) harshness (3/159), sinfulness (2/283), revelation (2/88), love and compassion and mercy (57/27).

There can be no denial of the DNA’S presence in the heart as it is peppered in 60 thousand billion specks in human body. God the Creator and the Maker of the genetics code knows which part of the body contains those genes, which inspire knowledge, love, sex, hatred.

So when the Quran says that the seat of knowledge, love and hatred is the heart, we do believe it to be true. The nuclei of the cells in the heart do have the capacity of reception of any knowledge and feelings etc. because we have already seen that the nuclei in the animate beings are very intelligent units and govern their actions from the inception till their annihilation.

Further the mind works in collaboration of heart. The entire body and mind is connected with a central key of heart. As nucleus is the directing force in all organisms, similarly, the human heart is the directing force and the mind works out the details of that direction. It is an acknowledged fact that the malfunctioning of the heart also results in the retardation of mind yet the man can live with a meager knowledge. But if the heart fails not only the mind but the entire body fails.

Therefore, we come to the conclusion that the seat of the knowledge, love, sex and hatred is the heart as told by the Quran. But mind is no less important than heart because it absorbs that knowledge in its cells and works out the details of action on the direction of the heart, both work in coordination. Whatever the Quran tells shall stand as living truth till the Hour.

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