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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

Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an; "As to those who reject Faith it is the same to them whether thou warn them or do 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." (Al-Qur’an 2:6-7) In the Arabic text of the verse the word used is 'Qalb' which means heart. It also refers to intelligence thus in the above verse it means that Allah has put a seal on their intelligence. 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 <a href="http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=36312&dict=CALD" style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary</a>. Quran says in Surah Aa'raf: "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. " (Quran 7:179) QURAN 22: 46 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: "Truly it is not their eyes that are blind, but their hearts which are in their breasts." (Surah Hajj 22:46) The hearts of the non believers are blind in the proverbial sense that they do not understand. Few Non Muslims have picked up these and similar Ayahs in the Holy Quran and say that 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? The answer to this question also lies in the modern research work carried out in the field of heart mind interactions. 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 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. 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 some dynamic relation with thinking. The heart communicates with the brain and body in four ways: <ul style="color: rgb(0,0,0)"> <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Neurological communication (nervous system) <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Biophysical communication (pulse wave) <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Biochemical communication (hormones) <li style="color: rgb(0,0,0)">Energetic communication (electromagnetic fields)</li></ul> [ 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>] Many interesting scientific researches are going on in this field. It is becoming a separate subject now. Those people who had gone through heart transplants also experienced strange feelings and started adopting the habits of the person from whom they got the heart. Yasha Kresh, PhD, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Medicine, Research Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery says: "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." [ Source : <a href="http://husol.hahnemann.edu/chaosjk1.htm">The Brain and Heart of Chaos, An interview with Dr. Yasha Kresh</a>] 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 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. Indeed Allah knows the best! by Muhammad Awais Tahir

Is the heart responsible for understanding?

Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an; "As to those who reject Faith it is the same to them whether thou warn them or do not warn... Read More »

Does anyone other than Allah know of the time of rain and as to what is in the womb?

نشرت بواسطة: Waqar Akbar Cheema 1:30 AM في Authenticity of Quran , knowledge of the Unseen , Quran , Quran 31:34 , Rain , Scientific error , what is in womb 3 تعليقات

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There
 are many who seek to prove portions of the Qur’an or Sunnah wrong by 
presenting “logical” evidence as to why certain statements cannot be 
correct. However, they have often failed to understand the context of 
the statements; let alone the actual statements themselves! In order to 
truly understand what a verse from the Qur’an means, it must be 
approached by understanding the reason for its revelation and the actual
 language used in the verse. We cannot act like every verse is 
stand-alone and is meant to be read without any other supporting 
information. This article explores a commonly misunderstood verse that 
talks of Allah’s exclusive knowledge about what is in the womb and 
timing of rain among things and explains how claims about it failing in 
view of modern science are baseless.</div>

Does anyone other than Allah know of the time of rain and as to what is in the womb?

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Why Quran calls Mary, a Sister of Aaron ?

نشرت بواسطة: Waqar Akbar Cheema 5:26 PM في Alleged Errors and Problems , Alleged Errors in the Qur'an , Quran , Scientific error , Sister of Aaron , statue of mary 7 تعليقات

The verse in question is; 
 
"O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!" (Al-Qur’an 19:28) 
 
It does not mean that here Qur’an calls Mary, the real sister of Aaron, the Prophet who was hundreds of years before her. Here she is only being called a female person of the family, from the Noble lineage of Prophet Aaron. 
 
The Qur’anic usage: 
 
 
In order to understand Qur’anic language one must look into other Qur’anic passages. 
 
Qur’ans calls Prophet Shoaib as the brother of the people of Midian. Qur’an says; 
 
“And unto Midian (We sent) their brother, Shu'eyb." (Al-Qur’an 7:85) 
 
And similarly Qur’an calls Prophet Salih, the brother of the people of Thamud. It says; 
 
"And unto Thamud (We sent) their brother Salih." (Al-Qur’an 11:61) 
 
In both these examples it is never meant that the Prophets were the real brothers of the each and every person of that tribe. It’s only way to address them. It means that Shu'aib was a (male) person from the people of Midian and similarly Salih from the people of Thamud. 
 
So in the very same manner when Qur’an describes Mary, the mother of Christ as 'Sister of Aaron', It means that she is being referred to as a (female) person from the people, the lineage of Prophet Aaron. 
This is infact an Arabic idiom, a way to address. In Arabia a person from the tribe Banu Mudhar may be addressed as Ya Akha Mudhar, meaning 'O the brother of Mudhar'. 
 
The Prophetic answer to this question: 
 
Mughira b. Shu'ba reported: When I came to Najran, they (the Christians of Najran) asked me: You read" O sister of Aaron", whereas Moses was born much before Jesus. When I came back to Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) I asked him about that, whereupon he said: “The (people of the old age) used to call names (of their persons) after the names of the Prophets and pious persons who had gone before them.” (Sahih Muslim, Book on General Behaviour, Hadith 3962) 
 
The Holy Prophet (PBUH) meant to say that Mary’s relationship with Prophet Aaron was mentioned because she was of his lineage for among Semites it was common to associate a person with his lineage. 
 
This fits the context as well. The people thought that Mary had done something unworthy of a chaste woman and thus as they rebuked her, they first made a reference to her noble ancestry and then testified that even her own father was no wicked person (verse 28). 
 
Observations from the Bible: 
 
1- One thing we need to consider is that Qur’an does not call Mary ‘Sister of Moses’ but ‘Sister of Aaron’. 
 
2- Aaron (PBUH) we know was the first in line for the Israelite priesthood. 
 
3- New Testament clearly tells us that Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist (PBUH) was from the lineage of Aaron (Luke 1:5). Also it tells that Mary was a cousin of Elizabeth (1:36). Therefore we can easily call them both ‘Sisters of Aaron’ i.e. from the lineage of Aaron. 
 
4- Infact we have evidence of the similar usage from the Bible. In Genesis 13:8 Abraham and Lot are called brothers while certainly they did not come from loins of one individual. It reads; 
 
“And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.” 
 
A certain Christian commentator, Adam Clarke says in his commentary to this verse; 
 
 
‘[It means] we are of the same family, worship the same God in the same way, have the same promises, and look for the same end.’ 
 
Was the same not true in case of Mary and Aaron? Were they both not from the same priestly family and of same faith? 
 
 So the conclusion is that this is only a beautiful way of expression in the Arabic language and to try to twist it some other way speaks only of ones inner wickedness and that’s all! 
 
INDEED ALLAH KNOWS THE BEST!

Why Quran calls Mary, a Sister of Aaron ?

The verse in question is; "O sister of Aaron! Thy father was not a man of evil, nor thy mother a woman unchaste!" (Al-Qur’an 19... Read More »