Is faith in the heart? If so, what sort of situation appears in heart transplantation?

A Brief Description of the Question: 

Is faith in the heart? If so, what sort of situation appears in heart transplantation?

The Answer: 

Faith is in the heart. But what is mentioned here is not the heart in its biological sense.

Islam’s message also reveals the existence of the inner sense mechanisms which gain man perfection in addition to eyes, ears what we briefly call the sense organs.

What makes man superior to the other living beings is not his material body but his spiritual side.

The center of this spiritual structure is the heart. The heart is like a mirror which could receive the rays of revelation coming from Allah.
The each sin committed is like a black spot on heart-mirror. As man keeps sinning, his heart starts to blacken. In the end, the heart grows completely blackened. Such a person starts to think of himself mere accumulation of flesh. Since he is alone with his evil-commanding self and its desires, he deems the life fulfilled by satisfying himself with these desires.

Since the heart is the center of any kind of spiritualities, Allah (SWT) will hold people responsible according to what they have in their hearts.

“…Allah hath set a seal upon them for their disbelief, so that they believe not save little.” (An-Nisaa, 155)  “…if We will, We can smite them for their sins and print upon their hearts so that they hear not?” (Al-Araf, 100)  “They are content that they should be with the useless and their hearts are sealed, so that they apprehend not.” (At-Tawba, 87)  “…Thus print We on the hearts of the transgressors.” (Yunus, 74)   “Such are they whose hearts and ears and eyes Allah hath sealed. And such are the heedless.” (An-Nahl, 108)

Those who keep sinning would have blackened hearts. As the verses above states, their hearts become sealed. As the Qur’an suggest, one who has such a heart is dead. He is blind and deaf. As the Qur’an puts it, “indeed it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the hearts.” (Hacc, 46)

Faith blossoms in the heart. Thanks to the faith in the heart man gains perfection who thinks, contemplates, and gains an insight of things. He is always with Allah (SWT). That is he always feels love for Allah (SWT) in his heart and. His heart is always full of love for Allah (SWT) and fear to lose Him.

It is understood from these explanations that the heart transplanted in medicine and the one faith is placed are separate.
There are a number of expressions that the word “heart” passes:

(2-7) “Allah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts…” (This verse implies the indifference to the truths and heart’s and heart’s sensing side lowers in a way not to grasp the truths because of sins.

(2-10) “In their hearts is a disease…” ( It is implied that the actual function of the heart is partially impaired.)

(2-74) “…your hearts were hardened and became as rocks, or worse than rocks, for hardness…” (Deterioration of the heart with sins in a way not to receive Divine inspiration and understand truths is implied.)

22-46) “…it is the hearts, which are within the bosoms, that grow blind…”

Heart has two windows which open to the outer world. These two windows are hearing and seeing.

Just as eyes and ears have their functions, so too heart functions which are expressed with seeing and hearing. Hearts’ growing blind in bosoms means the disappearence of these functions of heart.

Thus we could say this: Faith is in heart but the biological heart has nothing to do with this. Therefore it is out of question that faith is transplanted too in heart transplantations.

Gerçeğe Doğru (Towards the Truth), C:4, Zafer Publications

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