ZAMBOANGA CITY (MindaNews / 07 April) — After writing about “Social Heart”, also called “Social Conscience” the other day, I had time to read it published online via MindaNews. It got me thinking a…
ZAMBOANGA CITY — After writing about “Social Heart”, also called “Social Conscience” the other day, I had time to read it published online via MindaNews. It got me thinking about my own Islamic heritage on the matter. It turns out the social heart concept in part is an illumination of the individual human heart.
In negative terms – The Quran contains several verses that describe negative heart conditions resulting from various attitudes and behaviors. For example, in Chapter 2: Al- Baqarah, verse 7, it mentions “hearts” due to a choice to deny the spoken truth, and verse 10 talks about “diseased hearts” resulting from hypocrisy. In verse 74, “hardened hearts” are mentioned for refusing to refrain from evil deeds.
In positive terms – Verse 74 talks about “humble hearts” that submit and defer themselves in awe to God. Verse 97 talks about revelations brought by the Archangel Jibril AS directed to human hearts. In Chapter 3: Ali Imran, Verse 103 relates how God unites the hearts of those who were enemies before, and by Divine Grace, they became brethren. In Verse 126, calls on easing of the hearts because real help and victory only came from God alone.
In the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad , he once pointed out the importance of the matter of the heart in both individual and societal undertakings, saying, “verily, in the body is a piece of flesh which, if sound, the entire body is sound, and if corrupt, the entire body is corrupt. Truly, it is the heart.
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