Intersoul Highway

Treatment 1: Qur'an

Reading, reciting, and pondering over the meanings of verses in the Qur'an is a sure-fire way to cleanse the heart.  As has been recently discovered in science, the heart is a center of perception which itself sends over 40,000 neurons to the brain.  It has also been discovered that the heart can and will behave indepedent of the brain. This essentially coincides with the Islamic belief that the heart is the center of human consiousness.  

The soul is contained within the heart.

The words, meanings, and sounds of the Qur'an directly affect the heart and soul.  Notice sometimes people (Muslims and non-Muslims alike) will hear the Qur'an recited and be moved without understanding anything they have heard.  This is because the heart knows things that the mind has yet to learn. With repeated exposure to the Qur'an it will help.

[Externally] someone is moved emotionally.
[Internally] they are moved spiritually.

posted by Hassan @ Thursday, October 19, 2006