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Were certain Christian monks the source of Prophet Muhammad's (pbuh) knowledge?

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In our last session we discussed the general theories followed by the critics of Islam about the sources of the Qur'an. In this articl... Read More »

William Muir on the alleged sources of the Qur'an

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Christian missionaries have for long been alleging that Islam is merely counterfeit Christianity. And in their bid to ‘prove’ the same they ... Read More »

Response to 'Inside Koran' documentary by Nat. Geo.

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National Geographic made a documentary about the Holy Qur’an and gave it the title ‘Inside Koran’. Following is my brief response to various... Read More »

Rare Recitals of the Qur'an & the Lies of Orientalists

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Does Allah pray? (Meaning of the word 'salah' used for Allah)

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Many Christians using Qur’an 33:56 try to give the impression as if Allah prays to someone. About the verse;<br />
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يَاأَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا صَلُّوا عَلَيْهِ وَسَلِّمُوا تَسْلِيمًا</span><span dir="LTR" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Lotus Linotype"; font-size: 8.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>“Allah and His angels send blessings (<i>yu-salloon</i>) on the Prophet: O ye that believe! Send ye blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.”</b> (Qur’an 33:56)</div>
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It means Allah and His angels pray for Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). They argue that word ‘<i>salah</i>’ means ‘to pray’ so Allah according to this verse prays to someone for the Prophet (PBUH).</div>
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Indeed this is childish and a stupid attempt to find some issue with Islamic idea of Monotheism and Qur’an. So let’s expose the childish lie put as an argument here.</div>
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<b>1. <u>Explanation by E.W. Lane</u>:</b></div>
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As to the meaning of the word in its different usages I can quote many classical Muslim authorities answering the question in extreme detail but one may say, being Muslims, they had the whole issue and all the implications, like the one suggested here, in mind and their bias may have come into play.</div>
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 So let me clarify the issue using the most extensive Arabic-English lexicon compiled by a non-Muslim, Edward William Lane. About the use of the word for Allah he writes;</div>
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And further explaining its meaning in Qur’an 33:56 where the verb is used for both Allah and the angels he says;</div>
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-- Edward William Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon part 4 p.444</div>
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Of particular interest is the fact that although the complete work of Lane is based on classical Muslim authorities at this point what I highlighted above is his own intake. Without citing any work he gives the meaning of ‘magnification’ to the word ‘salah’ and goes onto explain the different implications as it is used for Allah and angels. This proves it’s not the Muslim prejudice but the Arabic language which establishes the meanings current among Muslim scholars.</div>
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This is supported by what Ibn Athir, discussing various views and usages of the word, says:<br />
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 <b>“It is also said that the literal origin of the word is 'to praise' and the particular worship is called <i>'Salah'</i>, because it </b><b>entails the glorification of the Lord.”</b></div>
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(See<i> </i><i>Nihaya fi Ghareeb al-Athar</i> 3/95)</div>
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And this goes according to the principle;</div>
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<b>'Naming a thing for a part of it.' </b>(See <i>Mufradaat fi Gharaib al-Qur’an</i> by Isfahani 1/285) </div>
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As ritual prayers include ‘praising’ thus it is called <i>Salat</i>.</div>
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The nature of the <i>Salat</i> of Allah and angels is different slightly; Allah's sending His blessings on His Prophet means this: Allah is very kind to His Prophet: He <b>praises</b> him, <b>blesses</b> his work, exalts his name, and showers His mercies on him. And when it comes to angels it means: they invoke Allah’s blessings and mercy for him.</div>
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<b>2. <u>One verb with same meanings but slightly different implications</u>:</b></div>
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A word in a passage or a sentence does not always have exactly same implication for all the subjects. For instance a person says: <u>'Mr. A and Mr. B helped me.'</u> It does not necessarily mean that both helped him in exactly the same fashion. It may be that one actually did something for him and the other requested for him.</div>
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<b>3. <u>Meaning of ‘<i>Salah</i>’ when used along with ‘<i>Rehmah</i>’ (Qur’an 2:157)</u>:</b></div>
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Some try to use Quran 2:157 to prove that <i>Salah</i> cannot mean blessings as ‘<i>Salah</i>’ and ‘<i>Rehmah</i>’ are both used there and two words of same meaning are not used in a single sentence. But this is a twisting of the issue only. We do not say ‘<i>salah</i>’ means ‘mercy’ literally, infact ‘<i>salah</i>’ means ‘blessings’ which is a manifestation of mercy.</div>
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The word '<i>Salawat</i>' (صَلَوَاتٌ) and '<i>Rehmah</i>' (رَحْمَةٌ) in Quran 2:157 do not mean the same and '<i>salah</i>' means 'prayer' neither. (صَلَوَاتٌ) '<i>Salawat,</i>' being the plural of '<i>Salah</i>', as earlier said means blessings and magnification while '<i>Rehmah</i>' (رَحْمَةٌ) refers to the attribute of Mercy.</div>
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<b>'<i>Rehmah</i> (i.e. Mercy) is the attribute that requires being generous to the one for whom such feelings arise.</b> (See Mufradaat fi Gharaib al-Quran 1/191)</div>
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So '<i>Salah</i>' (Blessing) of Allah is because of His '<i>Rehma</i>h' (Mercy) and they are not exactly the same. His '<i>Salah</i>' is a manifestation of His '<i>Rehmah</i>'. So the assertion that '<i>salah</i>' in Quran 2:157 means 'prayers' is wrong and misleading.</div>
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<b>4. <u>Meaning of ‘<i>Salah</i>’ or ‘<i>Rehmah</i>’ when used along with ‘<i>Barakah</i>’ (Qur’an 11:73)</u>:</b></div>
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Yet another attempt to complicate the things made by them is discussing the word ‘<i>Barakah</i>’ along with ‘<i>Salah</i>’ and ‘<i>Rehmah</i>’ especially when it is used with either of them like in Quran 11:73 and the Salutations (<i>durood</i>) recited in ritual prayers.</div>
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Now as to the word ‘<i>Barakah</i>’, its meaning is:</div>
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<b>"<i>Barakah</i> in a thing shows the facilitation/ease/goodness endowed by Allah."</b></div>
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This also shows that <i>Barakah</i> is the manifestation of Allah's <i>Rehmah</i> (Mercy). So in Quran 11:73 it means Allah bestows his Mercy and specially <i>Barakah</i>, a manifestation of the same which suits the context that Allah will make their having a son at an old age <u>easy by His Mercy</u> which otherwise seems improbable. And in the salutations (<i>durood</i>) where it is used along with ‘<i>salah</i>’ there we pray to Allah to bestow both the manifestations of his ‘<i>Rehmah</i>’ on the Holy Prophet (PBUH).</div>
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<b>5. <u>A weak narration brought forward also supports our contention</u>:</b></div>
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Then these people try to use a tradition from Ibn Kathir which they translate as:<br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>"The Israelites said to Musa: Does your Lord pray? Musa said: Fear Allah, O Sons of Israel! </i></span></div>
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<i style="color: #134f5c;">Allah said: O Musa! What did your people say? Musa said: O my Lord, You already know? They said: Does your Lord pray? Allah said: Tell them My prayer for My servants is that My Mercy should precede My Anger. If it were not so, I would have destroyed them."</i></div>
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Firstly this tradition is not authentic according to the rules of reporting as mentioned by Albani in <i>Silsala Ahadith Daeefa</i> 3/387 Hadith 1388 thus it is not an evidence for us.</div>
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Secondly the last part of the narration above also belies the notion of taking ‘<i>salah</i>’ in the sense of supplication once used for Allah.</div>
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<b>6. <u>Exposing the liar, Zakariya Brutos</u>:</b></div>
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Similarly some like Zakariya Brutos use a tradition from <i>Kitab Al-Sunnah </i>of Abdullah bin Ahmad, on <a href="http://jihadwatch.org%2F2009%2F01%2Fthe-ongoing-exploits-of-fr-zakaria-botros-god-does-not-pray.html/" mce_href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jihadwatch.org%2F2009%2F01%2Fthe-ongoing-exploits-of-fr-zakaria-botros-god-does-not-pray.html&ei=csFwTN63CIi4vgOzvcFB&usg=AFQjCNEg4zF1J5Gsdr6x98xtHPnxgeOezw&sig2=u3ohRGkmvuv9-08tjt85Mg">his page</a> it is written:<br />
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<i>‘… a very telling hadith recorded in Kitab Al Sunna by Abdullah bin Ahmad, vol.1, p.272: Apparently, when Muhammad reached the 7th heaven during the Isra and Mi'raj, he encountered Gabriel, who immediately said “Shh! Wait, for Allah is praying (Sala).” Muhammad asked: “Does Allah pray?” to which Gabriel said, “Yes, he prays.” Muhammad then asked, “What does he pray?” and Gabriel said “Praise! Praise the Lord!”’</i></div>
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Here Zakariya Brutos is showing his real face by corrupting the text.</div>
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Firstly he is changed the last part of the tradition which actually goes as:</div>
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<b>"He (the Prophet PBUH) asked: 'What is His Salah?'. He (Gabriel) said, He says: 'Perfect, Most High is the Lord of the angels and the Spirit, My Mercy (<i>Rehmah</i>) overwhelms my wrath.'" </b>(Kitab Al-Sunnah by Abdullah bin Ahmad 1/468 Hadith 437)</div>
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These last words show that '<i>Salah'</i> of Allah is because of His 'Overwhelming <i>Rehmah'</i> just as we argued above.</div>
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Do these last words give any notion of the 'prayer/supplication'? How corrupt these people are, they use a part of a tradition that suits them and change the other.</div>
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Now we venture to ask these people who are revered by Christians as ‘Fathers’ (I don’t know what that means), why the whole of the tradition was not translated as it is? Can they show us what words in the actual Arabic text of the narration have been translated as <span mce_="" style="color: rgb(0 , 0 , 255);"><i>“Shh! Wait …”</i></span>?<b> </b></div>
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For putting the record straight let me say this narration is not authentic according to Science of Narration. For details see <i>Silsala Ahadith Daeefa</i> by Albani 3/386 Hadith 1387.</div>
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<b>7. <u>Conclusion</u>:</b></div>
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a- Edward William Lane, himself a non-Muslim confirms the Muslim understanding of the word ‘<i>salah</i>’ when used for different subjects and that of the verse 33:56.</div>
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b- '<i>Rehma</i>h', '<i>Salah</i>' and '<i>Barakah</i>' are related things but not exactly similar. These are subtleties of the Arabic language which may at times not be clearly differentiated in running translations for it anyway gives the general meaning correctly. Allah has used the words according to their actual meanings considering all their subtleties, as I explained 2:157 and 11:73. Translations do not clearly differentiate between their subtle differences as no language can cater for the subtleties of the other.</div>
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c- The narration from Ibn Kathir and Abdullah bin Ahmad they quote, though of dubious authority, belies their own argument.</div>
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d- And most importantly it exposes the liars whom certain Christians recognize as their religious leader. We can only sympathize for those whose supposed-to-be spiritual guides are liars. May Allah have mercy on them! </div>
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<b>Indeed Allah knows the best!</b></div>
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Does Allah pray? (Meaning of the word 'salah' used for Allah)

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Is the heart responsible for understanding?

نشرت بواسطة: Waqar Akbar Cheema 6:00 PM في Alleged Errors and Problems , brain of heart , heart , heart brain communication , Questions/Queries about Qur'an , Quran , Scientific error , understanding 1 تعليق واحد

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an;</span><br><br><strong style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">"As to those who reject Faith it is the same to them whether thou warn them or do</span> <span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">not warn them; they will not believe. Allah hath set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing and on their eyes is a veil great is the penalty they incur."</span></span></strong><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">(Al-Qur’an 2:6-7)</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">In the Arabic text of the verse the word used is '<em>Qalb</em>' which means heart. It also refers to intelligence thus in the above verse it means that Allah has put a seal on their intelligence.</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">It does not actually refer to the organ heart here. This is a matter of literary usage of the word only. Infact we see that in most of the languages the word heart is used to mean intelligence. For instance when it is said; 'I love you from the core of my heart' it is always understood as en expression of one's emotions and feelings. This is true even according to the well known English dictionaries, see</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=36312&dict=CALD" style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(204,51,204)"><font color="#000000"><u>Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary</u></font></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">.</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Quran says in Surah Aa'raf:</span></span></span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)">"And certainly We have created for hell many of the jinn and the men; they have hearts with which they do not understand, and they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear; they are as cattle, nay, they are in worse errors; these are the heedless ones. " </span><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">(Quran 7:179)</span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)">QURAN 22: 46</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">These verses can well taken as simple method of speech but there is verse which talk about 'hearts which are in the breasts' i.e. it talks of the organ. The verse goes as:<br><br></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)">"T</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">ruly it is not their eyes that are blind,</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">but their </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)">hearts which are in their breasts.</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)">"</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">(Surah Hajj 22:46)</span><br><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">The hearts of the non believers are blind in the proverbial sense that they do not </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">understand.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span><br></span><span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Few Non Muslims have picked up these and similar <em>Ayahs</em> in the Holy Quran and say that</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">the Human organ responsible for thinking is the 'Brain', as proved by modern science, then why does the Quran holds the human heart responsible for thinking?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><br></span><br><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">The answer</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">to this question also lies in the modern research work carried out in the field of heart mind interactions.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"> </span><br></span><br></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(51,153,153)"><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Traditionally, the study of communication pathways between the "head" and heart has been approached from a rather one-sided perspective, with scientists focusing primarily on the heart's responses to the brain's commands. However, we have now learned that communication between the heart and brain is actually a dynamic, ongoing, two-way dialogue, with each organ continuously influencing the other's function. Research has shown that the heart communicates to the brain in four major</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">ways: neurologically (through the transmission of nerve impulses), biochemically (via hormones and neurotransmitters), biophysically (through pressure waves) and energetically (through electromagnetic field interactions). Communication along all these conduits significantly affects the brain's activity. Moreover, our research shows that messages the heart sends the brain can also affect performance.</span></span><br></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">These newly discovered facts are already mentioned in the Holy Quran when it encourages us to think saying: “They have heart with which they do not understand”; indicating that hearts have</span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"> <span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">some dynamic relation with thinking.</span><br><br></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>The heart communicates with the brain and body in four ways:</strong><strong> </strong></span></span></span><br> <ul style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153,51,153)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Neurological communication (nervous system) </span></span></strong> <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153,51,153)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Biophysical communication (pulse wave) </span></span></strong> <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153,51,153)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Biochemical communication (hormones) </span></span></strong> <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong><span style="color: rgb(153,51,153)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Energetic communication (electromagnetic fields)</span></span></strong></li></ul> <p style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><br>[ Source : <a href="http://www.heartmath.org/research/science-of-the-heart/soh_20.html">Science of The Heart:Exploring the Role of the Heart in Human Performance</a>]</p> <p style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Many interesting scientific researches are going on in this field. It is becoming a separate subject now. Those people who had gone</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">through heart transplants also experienced strange feelings and started adopting the habits of the person from whom they got the heart.</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><br><br></span><span><span style="color: rgb(51,51,255)"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)">Yasha Kresh</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">, PhD, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medicine, Research Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery say</span>s</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold">:</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><br><br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0,0,0)">"It turns out that the heart has its own 'brain' - an intrinsic nervous system. It's not clear what it does or if it's subservient to the higher brain. But it's clear that it is there, and I believe it has a mission because evolution does not allow things to remain without purpose. We think this internal nervous system helps to fine-tune and integrate the heart's diverse activity."</span><br><br>[ Source : <a href="http://husol.hahnemann.edu/chaosjk1.htm">The Brain and Heart of Chaos, An interview with Dr. Yasha Kresh</a>]</p> <p style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="color: rgb(51,153,153)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">It is amazing that science had proven the importance of the heart in our thinking process, and showed how the heart does indeed have a thinking capability and storing of thoughts and feelings in it, and how it does interact with the brain and control our thinking and perspective, while the Noble Quran 1400 years ago talked about the heart and its ability to understand and store thoughts and "secrets", when people viewed understanding as only controlled solely by the brain.I urge the readers to</span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">read the interesting material on the subject and be amazed with the fact that how is it possible that something that accurate is mentioned in the Holy Quran many centuries back without any modern equipment.</span></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color: rgb(51,153,153)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"><strong>Indeed Allah knows the best!</strong></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51,153,153)"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"></p></span></span> <p>by Muhammad Awais Tahir</p>

Is the heart responsible for understanding?

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Does Allah command evil and indecency?

نشرت بواسطة: Waqar Akbar Cheema 8:05 PM في Allah , Allah commands evil , Allegations , Alleged Errors and Problems , cammand , evil , indecency , Islamic divorce Law , Questions/Queries about Qur'an , Quran , rafath لاتوجد تعليقات

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