The divine world is seen with the heart's eye, while the material world is seen with the head's eye. The way going to Allah passes through the heart. Heart is the representational existent in which all the conscious and unconscious spiritual events happen. It's existence is figurative.

True nature of spirit doesn't be known. So much knowledge hasn't been given about spirit by the Creator. It seems that as if the ways going to obtain the knowledges about spirit by the humans have been closed. The spiritual phenomena are very complex events effecting us down to our smallest cells, minor capillary vessels and most unimportant muscles of our body. It is continuing to be an unknowable subject the true nature of spirit, while the psychic events being induced by spirit can be known by using empirical methods. Why?

Because, the knowledges belonging to the divine world can not be obtained by using the knowledge obtaining methods of the material world... The method of "experiment", which is the modern sciences' knowledge obtaining method, works only on the material world. But it doesn't work on the spiritual world being timeless and spaceless.

# How much belief, so much beneficence

The knowledges belonging to the spiritual world obtain only by self methods of this world. In fact, these knowledges don't be obtained, but are bestowed upon persons by way of the intuition and inspiration, by God. The password of this favor is "the belief". Everybody is informed about the spiritual world in the ratio of his belief.

"Belief" isn't such a visual and tactual thing. The degree of the belief of a human is in the ratio of obeying his God, by abandoning from his ego's desire and greediness. As long as the human obeys the will of Allah, in time, he begins to see everytihing with the divine light of Allah. Then, the knowledges belonging to the divine world begin to flow into this person's heart. As long as the human subjects to this divine system, wihich was endowed to us as a living system by Allahu taala, in other saying, as long as he goes away from his ego's demands and desires, he observes and learns so much thing from the realities of the divine world.

My very dear readers,

It is necessary to understand the heart very well, for arriving at the spiritual world.

The heart is a place where all the conscious and unconscious spiritual events happen in it.

All the feelings through the five senses; all the desires being the lusts of the flesh; all the judgments, discoveries being the products of intelligence; all the ideas, thoughts, concepts, opinions, intentions being the products of mind; all the emotions and excitements; angers, furies, fears, anxieties, arrogances, grudges, hatreds, envies, passions being the reactions of ego; the belief and inspiration being the divine proposals; blasphemy, discord and misgiving being the satanic suggestions; reminiscences being the yields of memory... All these happen in heart.

Sometimes, "heart" and "spirit" are used in the same meaning for the reason that the heart is a place where all the spiritual events appear in. In fact, these are different things.

# Heart is variable

Heart is very variable. It is as changeable as the moon.

Sometimes, sex hormones increase in body, lustful passions invade all the heart

Sometimes, he calms down, a calmness covers the heart, the feelings of mercy cover in it.

Somatimes, he loves a girl. He begins to think about his darling day-and-night. And this love has left no vacancy at his heart except his beloved.

And sometimes, some passions occupy the heart. Heart pulsates with the dreams of being the owner of the wealth, honour, position and dignity.

But, my dear readers, certainly the most satisfied moment of the heart is the moment in which person remembers his God and obeys to Him.

# Heart is the focus point of the ego

My dear readers, I had said that "Heart is very changeable". For this reason, one must be owner of his heart very well.

The heart is a place where all the spiritual events happen. In a way, the heart is the focus point of our ego and personality. Because the heart is an arranger and an organizer of all the events and activities in our body. Our whole organs are under the command of our heart. Our heart is the manager and director of our whole acts.

The behaviours of the human take shape according to the feelings and ideas in his heart. If which feelings and ideas are there in the heart in a certain time, the behaviours in accord with these feelings and ideas emerge from all the organs of body, in that time. The nearness of Allah also begins at the heart.

# Heart is a window opening to the divine world

As the heart is a place where all the spiritual events emerge, at the same time, it is a window opening to the divine world.

While the phenomena in the material world are observed and perceived with the head's eye, the phenomena in the divine world only can be observed and perceived with the heart's eye, from the window of the heart. For this reason, persons trying to perceive the divine phenomena with the head's eye, while their heart's eyes are blind, can not see anytihing, and they suppose absent them. Whenever heart's eyes of a man begin to see, then only then, he also begins to notices the spiritual realities.

A heart without belief is a dead heart. It does not see the divine realities. Whenever the belief's light begins to shine at heart, which had been mentioned from it in the former articles, then only then the heart also comes to life again, and begins to notice the divine relatities bit by bit. As long as this belief's light increases, the flowing of the knowledges belonging to the spiritual world to the heart also accelerates. For that reason, being informed about the divine world is in the ratio of the belief of person.

My dear readers,

The thing, killing the heart, blackening the heart's window, and preventing to be seen the divine realities by human is, actually, the endless desire and graspingness of ego. In a windy weather, the pieces of dust floating through the air make dirty the glasses of our windows and we can't see the outside clearly. Like this, the greediness and desires of ego make dirty the glasses of the heart's window and prevents to be seen the divine world. How the heart remembers its god, Allah, while it is completely full with the demands and desires of ego, and the imaginations belonging to them.

# One must firstly clean the ways going to Allah

My very dear readers, the way going to Allah passes through the heart. When the heart has been full with the world's greeds, with the passions, and with the endless wishes and desires of ego, this way closes and Allahu taala become doesn't be remembered. For this reason, if a person wants to be near to his God, firstly he must remove this world's love and the world's passions from his heart. This becomes possible by means of "the repent for sins", "the zikr" (to remember Allah, always), "riyazaat" (to avoid Islamic forbiddens) and "mujahada" (to worship). Turning back again to Allahu taala by repenting, provides to see once again the realities of the divine world by cleaning the heart's window.

The repentance is the first step for the heart's invigoration. The repentance is remorse. Sincerely being felt remorse by person by being noticed his sins is enough for the repentance. An other thing isn't necessary for this. Almighty Allah knows all the thing occurred in the heart, He is aware of all thing.

Dr. Ismail Ulukus