20 Types of Hearts in Quran Series (Part 1)

 

📌 20 Types of Hearts in Quran Series (Part 1) 📌

Heart (Qalb) is the most important organ in our body, it commands a position of King over our body.

 قَلْبٌ  (qalb) basically means to keep turning something up and down, or to keep changing a thing.

Since man’s heart too is never the same and keeps changing, it is called قَلْبٌ  (qalb), and since intellect and insight also look at things from all angles (or turn them over and inspect them) and then form a conclusion, they are also termed  قَلْبٌ  (qalb).

Ibn Hashaam has mentioned four of the meanings of قَلْبٌ  (qalb):

📍 Heart.

📍 Intellect.

📍 The synopsis of everything

📍 The best part of anything.

Quran has used the word qalb to mean both intellect and emotion

Allah Almighty has made the heart the addressee for intellect, understanding, thought, and emotions

Number of times the word Qalb is used is as follows

📍  قلب  (Qalb) : 168 times

📍صدر (sadr) : 46 times

📍 فؤاد (Fouad) : 16 times

 

In one famous Hadith Prophet Mohammed Pbuh has stated that

ا لَا وَإِنَّ فِي الْجَسَدِ مُضْغَةً إِذَا صَلَحَتْ صَلَحَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ، وَإِذَا فَسَدَتْ فَسَدَ الْجَسَدُ كُلُّهُ، أَلَا وَهِيَ الْقَلْبُ(صحیح البخاری۔ کتاب الایمان

رسول اکرمﷺ نے ارشاد فرمایا سن لو جسم میں گوشت کا ایک لوتھڑا ہے وہ درست رہتا ہے تو سارا جسم درست رہتا ہے اور جب فاسد ہوجاتا ہے تو سارا جسم فاسد ہوجاتا ہے سن لو وہ قلب ہے

Beware! There is a piece of flesh in the body if it becomes good (reformed) the whole body becomes good but if it gets spoilt the whole body gets spoilt and that is the heart. (Bukhari)

We will go through different types of Heart as mentioned in Quran in this series.