The Heart Operation
IN THE 7TH CENTURY
REVELATION
Before going into the
revelation of the heart
operation of the Prophet
(Sallallaho alaihi wasallem) and
the details thereof in the
traditions, let us have some
scientific look of the subject.
The human heart is a
propulsive muscular organ of
four chambers, double pump that
receives blood into two of its
upper chambers or atria and
pumps the blood out from two of
its lower chambers ventricles.
From the right ventricle, the
blood is pumped through the
pulmonary artery toward the
lungs where the carbon dioxide
is released and the oxygen is
picked up. From the lungs, the
oxygen-enriched blood is carried
by the pulmonary veins to the
left atrium. From the left atrium,
the blood passes into the left
ventricle and is pumped out
through the aorta to carry
oxygen and nutrients to the
tissues through out the body.
The heart is situated
between the two lungs and
slightly to the left of centre,
behind the breastbone. It rests
on the diaphragm, the muscular
partition between chest and
abdominal cavity, which we call
‘JAUF’ of the heart in Arabic.
In a man, the heart weighs
250 to 340 grams and in a
woman, it weighs 230 to 280
grams. The normal heart rate is
considered to be 72 beats per
minutes. At this average rate,
the heart contracts 4,320 times
in an hour, 103,680 times in a
day, 37, 843,000 times in an
year, and 2,649, million and 24
thousand times in a life span of
70 years. The heart rate among
the athletes may be as low as
45 times per minute.
The heart of a newly born
baby may beat up to 150 times
a minute but it settles down
during the first year to about
100 times a minute.
The circulation of the blood
through the lungs was first
worked out by an Egyptian Ibn al
Nafis (1210 CE.) (Encyclopedia
Americana). The findings were
recorded after carrying out
various postmortem
examinations. The Muslim
physicians had worked out a new
knowledge of determining quite
few diseases and heart diseases
by the nature of the pulse beat.
This knowledge was known as
‘FAN AL NABDH’ and was taught
to all physicians. This knowledge
was transferred from Arabs to
Indo-Pak. subcontinents where it
is still retained. The physicians
who are registered under Indian
Medicine Board practicing Arab
medicine (now known as Tib-e-
Yunani) and also in Pakistan
treat the patients by herbs. A
medicine known as ‘Dawa al misk
mautadil’ is successfully used in
preliminary heart diseases.
However, the Europe was
quite late in picking up the heart
diseases.
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Though the
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begun in the 18th century and
the structural defects of the
heart were found but it was the
German pathologist Rudolf
Virchow, who in the middle of the
19th century solved most of the
problems concerning thrombi and
emboli (clots) that travel
through the circulatory system
and block veins or arteries in
the lungs, brains, or other
organs.
The era of heart surgery
had begun after the World War II
and the cardiovascular surgery
emerged as a valuable method of
treating heart disease. Dwight
Harkin and Charles Bailey
conducted one of the first heart
operations in the late 1940’s.
The first human heart transplant
was performed by Christian
Barnard in South Africa in 1967.
(Encyclopedia Americana) The
aforesaid Encyclopedia observed:
“Prior to that time the heart
was considered so delicate and
sensitive that death was
believed to be inevitable if the
heart was injured.” It was that
belief that made the non-
Muslims and the orientalists deny
the heart operation of the
Prophet referred to in the
Quranic revelation and
elaborated in the various
traditions. The Quran states:
....Did We not lay open thy
chest? (94/1)
The Arabic inscription ‘A
Lam’ means did We not. The word
‘lam’ is to negate the speech
and changes present tense into
the past tense. The word
‘Nashrah’, (Na) is pronoun
meaning we, here this pronoun
refers to Allah it is Why it is
written in capital letter. ‘Sharah’
means laid open, it also means to
expound, to describe, ‘Sharah’ is
the root word from it is
‘Tashreeh’ meaning dissecting or
anatomizing a body. (Lane’s
Lexicon) The entire verse means:
“O Muhammad! Did We not lay
open thy chest.” How his chest
was laid open, the details of this
revelation are found in various
famous and authentic books of
traditions.
Allama Seouti in his Dur al
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commentary expounding the
aforesaid revelation said that his
chest was ripped open (once) in
his childhood (when he was of
about 4 year’s of age) and
referred to the tradition
narrated by Anas bin Malik:
Gabriel came to the Apostle
of Allah (sallallaho alaihi wasallem)
while he was playing with
playmates. He took hold of him
and made him to lay (on his
back) and ripped open his chest
and took out the heart from it
and then (he opened the heart)
and extracted something that
clung in it and said that was the
part of Satan in thee. Then was
washed it in a-gold basin with
the water of zamzam (31), and
closed it up, and restored it to
its place. The boys came running
to his foster mother i.e. nurse,
and said verily Muhammad has
been murdered. They all rushed
towards him and found him
changed in complexion. Anas said
I myself saw the mark of
stitching on his chest. (Muslim, Al
Baihaqui).
Ibn Kathir in his book Al
Bidaya wa al Nihaya (Vol.II) under
the caption fostering of the
Prophet (sallallaho alaihi
wasallem) reported few
traditions in which the Prophet
(sallallaho alaihi wasallem)
narrated his own story.
In a narration from Abu
Huraira. The Apostle of Allah
(sallallaho alaihi wasallem) said:
“...when his chest was torn open
he did not feel any pain nor saw
any blood.” (Imam Ahmad)
In a report from Al Baihaqui
Anas bin Malik said: “The chest of
the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi
wasallem) was laid open below
the throat to the cavity (close
hollow to the last rib). His heart
was taken out, it was washed in
a gold basin and then filled with
wisdom and faith and was
restored to its place.
It is reported that his chest
was laid open about four times
but the reports on the opening
of his chest during his childhood
and before his bodily ascent to
seven heavens are in successive
chain.
Iman Bukhari (Kitab al
Tauheed) in a narration about
bodily ascent related from Anas
bin Malik: “... so those angels did
not talk to him till they carried
him and placed him beside the
well of zamzam. From among
them Gabriel under took to cut
open from his ‘Nahrehi’ (the
upper most part of the chest
which is the place of collar i.e.
super-sternal notch) to
labbetehi (the place where the
memento of the locket is placed
by the Arab woman i.e.
xiphisternum) and took out his
heart and then washed it with
zamzam water and cleaned his
hollow (containing heart) and
then a gold basin containing a
gold bowl full of belief and
wisdom was brought and then
closed it. He then ascended with
him to the heaven of the
world...”
lmam Muslim in a narration
from Malik bin Sasa related from
the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi
wasallem) “... Then he came to
me and took me with him. Then a
gold basin containing Zamzam
water was brought to me ‘Fa
shureha sadri’ and my chest was
cut open to such (part). Qatada
reported:
“and my chest was cut
open to such and such (part)”.
Qatada said: I asked him
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that what he meant (by such
and such part) he replied: It was
opened up to the cavity of the
upper abdomen, (then the Hadith
continues) ‘Fastukhrija qalabi’ My
heart was extracted and it was
washed with Zamzam water and
it was restored in its place filling
it with faith and wisdom...”
WHY THE PROPHET’S CHEST
WAS RIPPED OPEN?
The creation of the human
is from the semen, which comes
out of sexual inclination that
changes into a blood clot and
then into a lump etc. etc. This
sexual inclination is the weak
point in human being and the
Satan insinuates evil into the
heart of man. Or there is some
DNA material in the heart which
is the source of the sexual
penchant and there on that
point the devil prompts man to
evil. The angel Gabriel extracted
it and throwing it away said that
it was the part of Satan in thee.
There can be no denial of
DNA’S presence in the heart as it
is peppered in 60 thousand billion
specks in the human body, and
God, the Creator and the Maker
of the genetic code knows (see
The Quran And The Genetics)
which part of the body contains
those genes which inspire sex,
disobedience, love and hatred
etc. we know that all these
feelings aspire from the heart,
that the heart is seat of
knowledge as God revealed the
Quran on the Prophet’s heart.
(See Seat of Intelligence Heart
or Mind or Both).
Those who have loved know
how the waves of love rage in
their hearts. There was a time in
my life of about more than a
year when I was utterly
absorbed in the remembrance of
Allah and my heart agitated with
ardent divine love. The
remembrance of Allah was dear
to me from the loveliest thing in
the world. It was then I realized
that when an ordinary
worshipper like me can have
that ecstasy, certainly the
Prophet’s heart was purified and
blessed with overwhelming love
of God. His relation with his wives
was a matter of obligation. His
wives i.e. the mothers of the
believers were only the
institution of learning of his
private life for his people.
However, the angel Gabriel
took out that clot of blood from
the Prophet’s heart through
which the Satan taints to sex.
Imam Razi in his ‘Al Tafsir Al
Kabir’ explaining “Did we not lay
open your chest’ said: “It is the
same as narrated that Gabriel,
(peace on him) came to him and
ripping open his chest, extracted
his heart and washed and
purified it from incompliance (of
the Lord). Then he filled in it the
knowledge and faith and placed
it back in his chest...It is not very
far that clot of black blood which
was washed away from the
heart of the Prophet (sallallaho
alaihi wasallem) attracts towards
disobedience and refrains from
dutifulness when it was removed
from him he naturally became
obedient and remote of all evils
and this was a symbol of his
being innocent...Allah doth what
He will and ordereth what he
want.”
Why the revelation under
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why it didn’t mention the heart?
The place of inspiring the evil is
bosom as God said: “Who
whispereth in the bosoms of
mankind.” The laying open of the
chest also means the elimination
of prompting of evil. How it was
attained, the details thereof we
have already seen in the
previous traditions.
The Arabic word Sadar also
means heart. Please see
translation of M.Pickthall chapter
CXIV. Also, see Elias ‘Modern
Dictionary Arabic English. “Sadar:
- Fuad, bosom, heart.”
“The heart is the place of
wisdom and knowledge. The
Satan intends it. The Satan
comes to the chest, which is the
fort for the heart, if he finds a
way through it, he attacks and
lands his forces in it and
straitens the heart by sending
forth in it suspicion, worries,
sorrows, and avarice then the
man neither gets any taste in
his prayers nor any sweetness in
Islam. If the enemy is routed by
reciting “La haul wala quwata illa
billah” the narrowing of the
heart melts and the peace is
attained.”
He was made to undergo
another operation before his
bodily ascent to seven heavens
so that:
1)
His blessed heart could
sustain that angelic power which
was to take him in a journey of
millions of light years in few
seconds. In space flights of this
age the spacemen are put to
regress check up to find the
forbearance of their hearts.
2)
He might be able to
withstand the heavenly beings.
3)
His heart was sanctified to
forbear the sight of God (See
‘The Bodily Ascent of the
Prophet. Sallallaho alaihi
wasallem’)
4)
Imam Qastalani in his ‘Al
Muwahib al Ladunniah’ said: When
the Prophet (sallallaho alaihi
wasallem) observed himself how
his chest was cut open, he
became fearless of all actions
leading to death and that gave
him power of faith, it
strengthened his vision and his
belief in God...His sanctification of
his heart and filling it with faith
and wisdom points to the belief
of ‘Ahle Sunnah’ (The persons
following. The sunni doctrine)
that the place of knowledge,
thinking and vision is the
heart...” (Vol. II p.11)
Moses (alaihi al salam) had
requested to attain this dignified
rank as he said: “My Lord! Lay
open my chest.” (20/25) But Allah
favoured Muhammad (sallallaho
alaihi wasallem) with this great
miracle.
It may be recalled that
Moses had wished to be the
prophet of this ‘Ummah’ (people).
As he said: “Make me the
prophet of that ‘Ummah’. “He
was told, “Their prophet would
be from among them.” Then he
desired: “Make me one among
that people.” (Anas-Abu Noaim)
But God had destined for Jesus
(alaihi al salam) on his second
coming to be one of this ‘Ummah’
of the Prophet Muhammad
(sallallaho alaihi wasallem).
For the prophet Moses to
wish to be one this Muslim nation
and for Jesus, on his second
coming to be one of this Muslim
nation is the proof of the
greatness of Nabi al Anbia
Muhammad al Rasul Allah
(sallallaho alaihi wasallem) and
that God has elevated this
Muslim nation among all other
people of the previous prophets.
This elevation is not with worldly
pomp and show but is related
with grand rewards in the
Hereafter.
DETAILS OF THE HEART
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REVELATION
The details of the
revelation found in the aforesaid
traditions about laying open of
the chest of the Prophet
(sallallaho alaihi wasallem) can be
summarized as under:
1)
The coming of the angels.
2)
Making him to lay on his
back.
3)
Happening of this incidence
in the age of four years and
then finally in about 52 years of
age.
4)
Cutting open his chest from
super sternal notch to
xiphisterum.
5)
Extraction of his heart and
then opening of the heart itself.
6)
Extraction of some clot of
blood from the heart itself.
7)
Washing of the heart in a
gold basin from Zamzam water.
(Zamzam in Arabic means
‘abundant water’. It was opened
by angel Gabriel to save Hajira
wife of prophet Abraham and his
son Ismail who were thirsty to
death. Now it is in a shape of
well by the side of Kaaba. It is a
mineral water and tastes slightly
saline).
8)
Closing up of the heart and
restoring it in its place.
9)
Stitching the opening of the
chest.
10)
Anas observation of the
needle marks on his chest and
his evidence to that effect.
11)
Prophet observation of his
own operation and his not
feeling of any pain or flow of
blood.
12)
Running away of the
playmates after seeing this
incidence and their informing to
his foster mother (Halima Sadia
radiallah anha) that he was
murdered.
13)
Coming of the people on the
place of incidence and they
found him changed in complexion.
14)
His quick recovery after
every such incidence.
The above facts wonderfully
constitute the details of a
modern heart operation and 7th
century brain could have never
conceived this sketch so
precisely. It was only the 20th
century surgical development
that proved all the aforesaid
facts of the 7th century
revelation. The needle marks on
the chest of the Prophet
(sallallaho alaihi wasallem) were a
natural out come of his heart
operations. The evidence of Anas
(radiallah anho) who had been
for ten years in the service of
the Prophet is an undeniable
truth, because in that pre-
scientific age the conception of
operating the human body and
then sewing it did never exist.
In our present day, surgery
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considered to be quite fit for
most of congenital heart
operations.
Most of the orientalists, the
followers of the Quadiani
Pretender and the followers of
Gulam Ahmad Pervez had denied
the cutting open of the
Prophet’s chest. Abdullah Yusuf
Ali, a Bohri (Bohris are an
offshoot of Shia community) did
not write a word about it in his
commentary of ‘Alam Nashrah’
94/1. Whereas all other Muslim
commentators never missed to
report this great incident.
However, the science
disproved the denials of the
orientalists and demonstrated
the possibility of these
operations. Those who deny the
miracles believe God to be
incompetent of doing all things
but when science proves a fact
all believe in it. To them man is
more competent than God. To
such men Hell is their permanent
abode.
The painless heart
operation of the Prophet
(sallallaho alaihi wasallem) in
those pre-scientific ages
definitely pointed to the
maximum progress, which our
medical science would achieve in
future.
The eminence of this
miraculous heart operation of
the Apostle of Allah (sallallaho
alaihi wasallem) will ever gleam in
respect to the time because it
could never have been deemed
of in those pre-scientific days,
then it was conducted in a short
span of time and his immediate
recovery thereafter it.
All praises to Allah the Unique,
the Bountiful, The Merciful and
the Omniscient
who sent down the Quran on his
Prophet and Apostle
Muhammad Mustafa (Sallallaho
alaihi wasallem) (peace be upon
him)
and made it the bearer of all
knowledge
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Source:
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