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New Scientific facts in the Glorious
Quran……. ..Heart has a brain by Dr. Ibrahim B. Syed Islamic Research Foundation International,
Inc. Louisville, KY, USA We read in Surah Ale Imran, 3:190
190. “In the creation of the heavens and the earth,
and the alternation of night and day, there are signs for people with
intelligence”[Quran 3:190] INTRODUCTION Ever since the dawn of mankind, people have been
trying to understand nature and the place of humans in it. In order to understand the purpose of life
many people have turned to religion. Most religions are based on books claimed
by their followers to be divinely
inspired, without any proof. Islam is different because it is based
upon reason and proof. Many Muslims cannot prove that the book
of Islam, the Quran, is the word of God. Muslims must show reasons and evidence to
support this claim: There are scientific and historical
facts found in the Quran which were unknown to the people at the time when the
Quran was revealed in the 7th Century. However, they have only been
discovered recently. The Quran came in a unique style of Arabic
language that cannot be replicated, this is known as the ‘Inimitability of
the Quran.’ There are predictions found in the
Quran and as well as by the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be
upon him) which have come to pass. This
article lays out and explains the scientific facts that are found in the Quran,
centuries before they were discovered. It is important to note that the Quran
is not a book of science, but a book of ‘Ayath” or ‘signs’. These signs are there for
people to recognize Allah’s existence and revelation. In Science it happens sometimes that certain
what is considered as scientifically correct concepts have to be modified or
corrected as new knowledge is accumulated a few years later. In this verse (3: 190), the last words are Ulul
Albab. This term Ulul Albab occurs in the Quran 61 times. This term is not
found in any Arabic or non-Arabic Book. The reward for Ulul Albab is Jannah.
The term Ulul Albab has several meanings: 1. Ulul
Albab are persons who use their brain to think about the creation in the
Universe of Allah. 2. Persons
endowed with insight and understanding. 3. Persons
who can do good assessment 4. Persons
who are mature thinking and capable of making Right Judgement (Wise) 5. Those
who are intelligent and have sound mind to contemplate about true reality of
things, unlike deaf and mute who do not have sound contemplation. 6. Critical
Thinkers 7. People
of understanding who utilize their intellect to find out the path of real
happiness In their lives. We also read in the Qur’an “Wa
Maa Yaddhakkaru Illa Ulul Albaab” ( Baqarah, 2: 269) and (3: 7) “Only intelligent and smart people will draw
the right and appropriate lessons from the Qur’an.” (Surah
Al-Baqarah, 2:
Aayah is 269.) Albaab,
in Arabic language, is plural for the word “Lubb,”
which could be roughly rendered in English as “Brain Power.” So, the clear-cut and inescapable meaning of that
part of the Aayat (or Aayah)
then is: Only those people will learn the right lessons from the Qur’an who
possess “brains” in the first place and are trained and able to use them. Meaning, people of knowledge, learning and
understanding. The basic root word in Arabic language for
understanding (Ya’aqiloon) is “‘Aql.” The amazing Al-Qur’an uses that glorious and
earth-shaking expression – “‘Aql” – in its
pages more frequently than one can imagine.
The Qur’an uses words such as Ta’aqiloon
(“you understand”) and Ya’aqiloon (“they understand”)
and the Qur’an makes use of those
expressions several times. The Quran wants the Muslims to be Thinking
People. Heart
thinks and learns Wisdom In Surah Hajj (Pilgrimage) 22: 46, Allah says:
The English translation is: 46. Do they not travel through the land, so
that their hearts (can think/can reason/can learn wisdom/can understand or comprehend)
and their ears may thus learn to hear? Truly it is not their eyes that are
blind, but their Hearts which are in their breasts.
In many places in the Quran, one comes across “A-Falaa T’a’aqiloon”. or “Don’t you
understand?” In
this Ayah we need to focus on the words “Qulbun Ya’aqiloon”. The vast
majority of the Muslim scholars have translated it as “Hearts understand”. Although Ya’aqiloon has several
meanings: that is the Heart can Think, Heart can Reason, Heart can learn
wisdom, Heart can understand or comprehend, the Muslims scholars until today
translated it as Hearts understand.
Scientists discovered that the heart thinks, learns wisdom, and contains
neurological canters that save data. Heart contains 40,000 nerve cells that
form a “real brain”!! Qur’an revealed
this fact more than 1400 years ago. The Heart: Not Just Brawn but
Brains, Too About 100,000 times a day the heart repeats this monotonous
task of survival. But what many think is a mindless pump turns out to have a
mind of its own. According to the Institute of HeartMath—a
nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to helping people live
healthier, happier lives—there are networks of nerve cells (neurons) around the
heart that function in much the same way as parts of the brain. Back in the 1960s, research conducted by John and Beatrice
Lacey—pioneers in the field of psychophysiology—showed that the heart has its
own reasoning that is not determined by directives from the brain. Subsequent
investigations revealed an actual pathway and mechanism allowing the heart to
send messages that inhibit or facilitate electrical activity in the brain. The new field of neurocardiology evolving
from this research led to the development of the concept of the “heart brain”
in 1991. The “heart brain” is equipped with some 40,000 neurons(Brain Cells). These neurons can deliver pain signals and other sensations to the autonomic parts of the brain (which are largely unconscious), as well as messages to brain centers involved in conscious thought and emotion. Contact with the “executive” part of the brain can influence perception, decision making, and emotional responses. (http://www.rewireme.com/explorations/your-heart-and-stomach-may-be-smarter-than-you-think/) One
vital organ: Heart is more than a pump Emerging field
of neurocardiology shows it may affect how we experience emotions and make
decisions. The phrases are
familiar: Listen to your heart. Have a heart. Or perhaps one that will be used
Monday for Valentine's Day: I love you with all my heart. Until recently,
the brain was considered the sole conductor of the body's symphony. But studies
in the new field of neurocardiology are showing what people have intuitively
believed, that the heart may play a significant role in the way we experience
emotions and make decisions. The acknowledgement of the constant communication
between the heart and the brain is giving birth to new inter-disciplinary
fields and proving invaluable in the treatment of neurological and cardiac
diseases. "The heart has many functions that we are
probably not aware of. We are finding new attributes of the heart. New roles
for the heart." Neurocardiology
has just gained strength in the past 10 years and is still not practiced as a
clinical specialty. There are only a handful of neurocardiologists in the
United States. The collaboration between cardiologists and neurologists is
becoming more prevalent. Dr. David S. Goldstein, founder and director
of the clinical neurocardiology section of the National Institutes of Health,
found remarkable relationships between the heart and the brain in his study of
Parkinson's disease, a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects
movement. Surprisingly, he says, Parkinson's
patients lose nerves in the heart. The heart
possesses its own nervous system, with a network of 40,000 neurons. It releases
hormones that enable it to not only self-regulate but also to send messages to
the brain that may have an effect on the whole body. Scientists have known about
the heart's neurological connections since the beginning of the last century,
but that information has come back to the forefront recently, as more
physicians delve into the study of heart-brain interactions to solve medical
enigmas. The heart gets
signals from your brain, other hormones that are secreted by your brain — but
it also has its own operating system inside the heart itself. Understanding
the heart's functions might prove instrumental in treating stroke patients, and
depression. The heart produces myriad hormones, including oxytocin, the
so-called love hormone. Through the autonomic nervous system, the heart
constantly communicates with areas in the brain associated with emotions, such
as the thalamus, the hypothalamus and amygdala, which all respond to emotional
input from the heart. |
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