INTELLECT RESIDES IN THE HEART, NOT IN THE BRAIN

It is a common practice that people point to the head whenever they tell you that you don’t have sense!

This practice explains that the majority believe that the intellect resides in the brain but this believe is indeed an erroneous misconception!

Apart from the pumping of blood that the heart ultimately delivers to the minutest cell, it is also a centre of consciousness and decision making.

The heart is sometimes used synonymously as soul and the soul is sometimes referred to as the mind. however the creed of Ahlu-Sunnah-Wal-Jama’ah establishes that the intellect resides in the heart and not in the brain. and this is the correct creed of all beliefs as the evidences of this is cited in the Glorious book of the Creator, the Quran.

أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ فَتَكُونَ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ يَعْقِلُونَ بِهَا أَوْ آذَانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۖ فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَعْمَى الْأَبْصَارُ وَلَـٰكِن تَعْمَى الْقُلُوبُ الَّتِي فِي الصُّدُورِ

have they not travelled through the land, and have they hearts wherewith to understand and ears wherewith to hear? verily, it is not the eyes that grow blind but it is the hearts which are in the breast that grow blind.

Muslim also reported that the prophet said:

“the piety is here”: he pointed to his chest because it is the place of decision making and not to his head that contained the brain. 

hence the Muslim belief is that the intellect resides in the heart and not in the brain.

henceforth, you point to the heart and not to the brain whenever you are referring to the intellect.

And Allah knows best.