Hadith 31

he going away of the senses and their deaths, then how can you deny that the heart understand the things and it is awake, its senses having been gathered to it, and what is that which makes it recognise, after the death of the senses, and it (heart) can neither hear nor see? But the reality is that you cannot deny there being for it, the recognition, and its senses being alive, gathered, when you accept that he looks at the woman after the going away of his senses until he copulates with her and attains its pleasure from it. Therefore, it is befitting for one to understand where the heart is described with what I-asws have described with it, from its recognition of the things, and the senses are gone, that he recognises that the heart is a manager of the senses and its owner and its ruler, and the decider upon it. It is so, whatever the human being may be ignorant of a thing, he is not ignorant of the fact that the hand is not able upon (function of) the eye if it is uprooted, nor upon the (function) of the tongue if it is cut off, and it is that it isn’t able upon anything from the (functions of) the senses that it should do anything with anything from the body without the permission of the heart and its evidence and its management, because Allah-azwj Blessed and Exalted Made the heart to be a manager of the body. By it, he hears, and by it he sees, and it is the judge and the commander upon him. The body cannot go forward if it delays it, nor can he delay if it precedes, and by it the senses hear and see. It orders, they obey, and if it forbids, they refrain. And by it descend the happiness and the grief, and by it descends the pain. If something from the senses is spoilt, it (heart) would remain upon its state, but if the heart spoils, they all go away until he can neither hear nor see’. He said, ‘I had thought that you-asws will not finish from these questions, and you-asws come with something I am not able upon refuting it’. I-asws said: ‘And I-asws shall give you its verification, what I-asws informed you with and what you had seen in your dream, in this sitting of yours, now’. He said, ‘Do so, for I am confused in these questions’. I-asws said: ‘Tell me-asws, do you discuss with yourself regarding a business, or a manufacture, or a building, or a determination of anything, and you go ahead with it when its determination orders you in your thoughts? ’ (He said), ‘Yes’. I-asws said: ‘So, does your heart participate in that thought, anything from your senses? ’ He said, ‘No’. I-asws said: ‘So, don’t you know that, that which informed your heart has with, is true? ’ He said, ‘It is the certainty, but increase for me what would drive the doubt away from me and the suspicious would decline from my heart’’. [48]