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Sunday 15 June 2014

Two hearts [Quranic Gem]

In the Qur'an, in Surah 33, ayah number, Allah says:

مَا جَعَلَ اللَّهُ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ قَلْبَيْنِ فِي جَوْفِهِ

"Allah has not made for a man two hearts in his interior."

This ayah  could be interpreted in two ways. We can learn two amazing lessons from this ayah. 

1) First lesson is, that a man cannot be a believer or disbeliever at the same time. He can not be a righteous person and a hypocrite at once, because Allah has only given him one heart, which either contains faith or disbelief.

2) The second amazing thing we learn, is something we already know, yet the way Allah used the language, so subtly in this ayah, illustrates the precise and accurate nature of the Qur'an. 

Allah uses the word "Rajul' here which means 'man.' This portrays that women are excluded. If Allah said "Allah has not made for *humans* two hearts in their interior" then that would include women too, but the fact that Allah uses 'man' specifically shows that women are not being talked about in this particular part of the verse. What's more interesting is the rest of the ayah, after this, talks about women!

So, hearts are mentioned here. Now where are our hearts situated? In the chest. In the Qur'an, Allah often talks about hearts being in the chest, but here he doesn't say chest, but 'Jawfih' - which means any part of the body. So what Allah is saying, is that he has not placed in MAN two hearts in ANY PART OF HIS BODY. 

But what about women?

Well, what can happen to a woman? She can get pregnant right,  and if she does, then she *can* have two hearts unlike a man! But if she has two hearts, they're not in her chest, but where? In her heart. Look at the precision, accuracy and amazing nature of the Qur'an and of each placement of a word. <3





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