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Chapter 14

Conditions of the Heart (Qalb) and Its Secrets

1. Question: What does Qalb (Heart) mean and what is it?

Answer: It means "Driven Force" towards Soul or Ego, or good or evil. It is a conical-shaped piece of flesh in the body. Outwardly its task is the pumping of blood and inwardly it is the computer of the whole body. If it is purified, the whole body is improved, and if it is corrupted then the whole body is perverted.

2. Question: What special position has the existence of the Heart taken in man and in the world?

Answer: There is a need for mirrors in a house and the need for televisions in the country to help mankind see things. Likewise in man's body, the Heart, with its special mirror, can possibly serve man in better determining the nature and the methods of utilization of all things.

3. Question: What properties does man's heart have?

Answer: The heart possesses billions of cells. Every few rows of the cells are allocated for the perception of specific states. For example, the perception of lust, and the inspection of truths and perversions and other diseases are a part of the signs of the heart's cells. The Holy Quran talks about them in several places.

"They have Hearts wherewith they understand not" etc.
(Quran 7:179) [the Knowledge of the Heart]

"Indeed, it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the Hearts, which are within the bosoms, that grow blind..."
(Quran 22:46) [Sight of the Heart]

"In their Hearts is a disease" etc.
(Quran 2:10)

4. Question: How could all these properties be contained in the Heart, whereas it seems to be a piece of flesh?

Answer: The tongue is a piece of flesh, as well, but each part of it is specified to feel particular tastes. For example, the tip of the tongue is fixed for sweetness, its sides for sourness, its end for bitterness, and it has other partitions as well. Likewise, the Heart has its separate Nuclei for the perception of things.

The same way, the brain is one piece but, through the Grace of Almighty God, each part of it is arranged for conservation and perception of specific matters of our five senses.

5. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who knows that a piece of textile, a handkerchief, or a scarf is composed of millions of cotton or woolen fibers. Unfortunately, however, he has not perceived that man's body also consists of trillions of cells of distinctive specifications, quality, and mysteries. Each cell, especially those of the Heart and Brain, has exclusive qualities and secrets.

6. Question: How would the nature of the Heart be illustrated in man's body?

Answer: Man's Heart serves as a transmitter and receiver from person to person and from servant to Glorious God.

7. Question: where are the locations of Soul and Ego in the heart?

Answer: The station of Soul and its center of junction in the body are based on two poles.

First: The Brain

Second: The Heart

Likewise, the location for the Ego has been fixed on the lowest part of the Heart.

8. Question: How could the relationship between the Heart and the Brain in the body be exemplified?

Answer: The specific cells of the Heart can be compared to the telephone equipment in each office, and the Brain as the network connecting them all. This means that if a cell of distinctive property appears to be more inflamed, then, Satan, by magic, dials the particular number of that cell. When that particular number is dialed, then the corresponding matters of that cell will automatically appear in the Brain's archive.

9. Question: Would you please explain it a bit more?

Answer: For example, someone has excessive affection for a person or an object. Therefore, one or more cells in the corresponding Cells of Affection are filled with that person's look, or talk, etc. Satan reads something of the magic into these cells. As soon as the necessary level is reached, then the corresponding affectionate occurrences will automatically open up in the Brain's cells. Satan studies those occurrences, and will presently link and relate magic scenes one after the other in the person's imagination. This way, Satan keeps man busy.

10. Question: Who is man?

Answer: Man is the being who recognizes the brain as having particular departments for the conservation of the five senses along with maintaining other levels of determination, distinction of ideas, and attention to things, whereas, it seems to be made of a doughy mass of soft white and gray matter, pieces glued onto one another. Man is not astonished by this composition of cells sticking to one other, but each part undertakes a different and particular task. Correspondingly, Heart's cells have exclusive properties, though the Heart appears to consist of a single piece of flesh.