Human Body
Ear -
Ear -
Root: ء ذ ن: Ibn Faris [died 1005]
stated its signification:
متقارِبان
في المعنى، متباعدان في اللفظ، أحدهما
أُذُنُ
كلِّ ذي أُذُن،
والآخَر العِلْم
That it has two convergent meanings but
separate in word; firstly it signifies ears of creatures, and secondly
knowledge gained by listening - auditory faculty.
This Root is also used to refer to pronouncement -
proclamation; and permission. Pronouncement is targeted towards public.
Their body organ for receiving pronouncement is described by the word:
ears. Other Roots related to the concept "Ear" are:
س م ع
Listening;
ص
و ت
Sound; "ج و ب" answering - responding;
Root: ص م م : deaf; and:
و ق ر load in ears - acoustic impedance; |
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Ear is the organ for faculty of listening
and acquiring knowledge;
Ear has its own memory - Grand Qur’ān;
Ears can be purposely turned deaf as if
heavy load is deposited therein - acoustic impedance;
Ears convey knowledge if hearts are not
distracted in trifle matters.
Deaf can be taught if he about-faces not.
Let us Listen Qur’ān lest we loose the
sense of balance and fall in the Pit.
Allah the Exalted has inserted faculties of learning and
acquiring knowledge which Man lacks on birth:
The
ascending order of placement of words representing faculties-senses [not
organs] might be of interest for scholars and researchers who are
interested in examining questions like the encoding, store, retrieval
information, development of discrimination abilities, perceptual and
conceptual category formation, problem solving, recognition and recall
memory, language comprehension, and reasoning about the physical and
social worlds, etc.
The first faculty is mentioned by
definite Verbal Noun:
followed
by a plural Noun:
.
The use of this pair of a verbal noun and plural noun signifying two
distinct sensory faculties is quite reflective and meaningful. A verbal
noun signifies state or an act without time reference. Man is in a state
of
hearing sounds, voices all the time, whether or not he is
wilfully interested in percipient listening of something. Therefore,
sounds arriving in brain may remain just as "hearing" of pleasant or
annoying noises; or may cause conceptual perception:
knowledge
when these are "listened".
However, the brain does hear and analyze the incoming sound during sleep
without person's conscious-voluntary effort.
The perception and meaning signified by Verbal Noun:
as either "hearing
sound-noise" or "listening
as thought" depicts the first is just
automatic-machine operated function while other is an operation done by
someone of free will.
At nine weeks, the embryo's ballooning brain allows it to
bend its body, hiccup, and react to loud sounds. At week ten, it moves
its arms, "breathes" amniotic fluid in and out, opens its jaw, and
stretches. Before the first trimester is over, it yawns, sucks, and
swallows, as well as feels and smells.
By the end of the second
trimester, it can hear;
toward the end of pregnancy, it
can see. [Fetal
Psychology]. In the same order words are mentioned in Qur’ān.
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Ear has its own memory - Grand Qur’ān
The existence of sensory memory was
demonstrated in 1960 in an experiment by American psychologist
George Sperling. Bringing in and retention of information by the
senses is what is known as sensory memory. Ears have Echoic memory.
This experiment only confirmed the
characteristic of Ears mentioned in Qur’ān long before:
[فعل مضارع منصوب بأن مضمرة] Verb: Imperfect; third
person; singular; feminine; Mood: Subjunctive; [ ضميرمتصل
فى محل نصب مفعول به مقدم]
Fronted Object Pronoun: Third person;
singular; feminine, in accusative state, with prolongation sign;
مصدر وَعْىٌ
Verbal Noun.
Adjectival Phrase:
Noun: Indefinite; plural;
masculine; nominative.
(1)9:61(2)69:12=2
{اسم فاعل}
Active participle; indefinite; plural; feminine;
nominative; مصدر
وَعْىٌ
Verbal Noun.
Both the verb and active participle are from Root "و
ع ى". The basic perception infolded is to "keep or retain". Noun
means is a receptacle for retaining things. An
ear acts as receptacle for retaining, it has its own memory, retaining
place.
Ears can be purposely turned deaf as if
heavy load is deposited therein;
The semantic field Hearing -
Listening is embedded in Root: س م ع. It
signifies: ((هو
إيناسُ الشيء بالأُذُن acquaintance about a
thing with the help of ears; sensing and perceiving faculty of ears:
Not anything of the shape of an ear is an ear since it cannot facilitate
the listening. Idols/statues apparently have ears but:
Verbal information is saved in the memory only when we consciously and
attentively listen and comprehend the message. It enables
analysis-perception and safe storage. It happens only if the listener
has such intention and desire. Therefore,
listening is but translating and interpreting the articulated
sounds-verbal narration whereby one can answer accordingly. Otherwise
it is mere "hearing sound-noise" or a momentary storage in the memory of
Ears only to get lost in few seconds
The sculpted statues, whom some people worship, do have
an organ resembling an ear. However, the genuine ear has
three parts; the Outer Ear, the Middle Ear and the inner Ear. The
auricle (pinna) is the visible portion of outer ear. It collects sound
waves and channels them into the ear canal (external auditory meatus)
where the sound is amplified. The sound waves then travel toward a
flexible membrane, oval membrane at the end of the ear canal called the
eardrum (tympanic membrane). Sound waves cause the eardrum to vibrate.

The vibrations from the eardrum set the ossicles into
motion, which are three tiny and smallest bones in human body. They
further amplify the sound. The sound waves enter the inner ear and then
to cochlea, a snail shaped organ. It has fluid. Sound waves make the
fluid travel like ocean waves. These waves cause the hair cells in the
cochlea to bend, The hair cells change the movement into electrical
pulses, The electrical impulses are transmitted to the hearing/auditory
nerve and up to the brain, where they are interpreted as sound and
compared with earlier stored sound data.
The sound record is separately maintained and kept saved
since all the three organs and faculties related to gaining knowledge
are answerable to their Creator:
One of the most surprising things is the speed at which the 20,000
micro-hairs in the channels in the ear react. The middle channel
vibrates at 256 times a second. The channel immediately above it
vibrates at 512 times a second, and the channel above that, at 1,024
times. The micro-hairs efficiency in analyzing such fast vibrations
allows us to distinguish with great sensitivity the sounds reaching the
ears. This constitutes one of the most sensitive and rapid reactions in
the body.
Even during sleep the ear functions with incredible efficiency.
Because the brain can interpret and select signals passed to it by the
ear, a man can sleep soundly through noisy traffic and the blaring of a
neighbour's television set and then awaken promptly at the gentle urging
of a chime alarm clock. (Stevens S.S. [Professor of Psychophysics,
Harvard University] & Warshofsky, Fred [science writer], "Life
Science Library, Time-Life Books: Alexandria VA, Revised Edition, p.38)
The Grand Qur’ān mentions information about this
phenomenon in the Episode of some young Believers/Muslims who had run
away from their locality and taken refuge in the Cave.
The object of the transitive verb:
is omitted which was made to emerge. [The soundproofing object
seems something invisible, perhaps a vacuum around them] However, the
perception is quite vivid by the indication of the affected area upon
which it emerged, i.e. "over the Ears of them".
Our faculty to pick up
and understand the
sounds
(Root:
ص و ت) and words emitted from the mouth of a person is dependent
upon detecting sound waves.
Sound is a series of
vibrations moving as waves through air or other gases, liquids, or
solids. Detection of these vibrations, or sound waves, is called
hearing. After being collected by the auricles, sound waves pass through
the outer auditory canal to the eardrum, causing it to vibrate. The
vibrations of the eardrum are then transmitted through the ossicles, the
chain of bones in the middle ear. As the vibrations pass from the
relatively large area of the eardrum through the chain of bones, which
have a smaller area, their force is concentrated. This concentration
amplifies, or increases, the sound.
It is thus evident
that some sort of barrier (say vacuum) had been created around their
ears which suspended their hearing faculty.
The physical state
of those young men is depicted/imaged in these picturesque words:
The nature of their sleep also finds
mention:
Allah the Exalted is always mindful of the wellbeing
of people. Medical experts might appreciate the consequence if their
sides were not kept turning during long period of their remaining in
such deep sleep.
Listening could become meaningful only when the stated
thing has been interpreted and stored in the memory. About the Ears,
Grand Qur’ān has also given this information:
:
The second object of preceding verb is from Root:
و
ق ر
: it leads to the perception of load - weight within a thing; it
signifies load within ears.
Sounds reaching the tympanic membrane are in part
reflected and in part absorbed. Only absorbed sound sets the membrane in
motion. The tendency of the ear to oppose the passage of sound is called
acoustic impedance. The magnitude of the impedance depends on the mass
and stiffness of the membrane and the ossicular chain and on the
frictional resistance they offer.
Hearing loss is due to a condition called otosclerosis or otospongiosis,
in which an abnormal amount of
spongy bone is deposited between the stapes
and the oval window. As a result,
the stapes becomes immobilized and can no longer transmit sensations to
the inner ear.
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Know it, when You
the Messenger
[Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam]
read out the Qur’ān,
We did render (a vacuum) as invisible partition
between you and between them who believe not in the
Hereafter; [17:45]
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And reflect who could be a greater evil monger-a distorter-creator
of imbalances, over stepping than him who; on being reminded with
the Aa'ya'at: Verbal passages of the Book of His Sustainer Lord,
purposely refrained-stayed away from them;
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We have seen the descriptions in the
Grand Qur’ān dince 1400 years back about the Ears
exactly corresponding to our knowledge in the 21st century. Should we
not respond to this call:
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Know the certain fact: Our Majesty have simplified-rendered the Qur’ān easy,
open and facilitative for reading, comprehension and saving in memory to
recall, take lesson and to relate.
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However, we should not expect that
all will respond, because Grand Qur’ān tells us:
It is a simple
sentence understandable by everyone. But for people,
like learned
Paul Broca,
an anatomist
celebrated for his discovery of the speech production
centre of the brain,
and for acousticians and speech experts, these four
words embed much more information which is neither
portrayed in any translation nor is explained in
exegeses. The verb:
in common parlance and understanding
denotes answering, either affirmatively or
negatively. It stems from Root:
ج و ب which signifies to cut
a portion from the whole of
something;; to make hole or tore something;
perforate, pierce, carve or to excavate. And Form-X
of verbs adds reflexive causative meanings of self
assigning a task.
What happens when we wish to answer a question or what is done by Google
and computer when we post a question to it? We cut relevant portion from
our memory and Google and Computer cuts it from its memory to display it
on screen.
When we cut relevant part from memory which we intend to express as
answer, it is also firstly displayed on an invisible screen which is our
rib cage. and a system in it instantly becomes operative to transform it
into sound by vocal cords to make it reach our mouth from where we emit
it syllable by syllable for the auditory faculty of questioner.
In the same sentence the answering capability is restricted only to
those who listen.
Verbal information is saved in the memory only when
we consciously and attentively listen and comprehend the message. It
enables analysis-perception and safe storage. It happens only if the
listener has such intention and desire. Therefore, listening is but
translating and interpreting the articulated sounds-verbal narration
whereby one can answer accordingly. Otherwise it is mere "hearing
sound-noise" or a momentary storage in the memory of Ears only to get
lost in few seconds. When he had stored nothing about the stated point,
the question of cutting does not arise whereby he cannot answer
affirmatively or negatively.
It is thus evident what
seemed a simple statement it is in fact a picturesque portrayal of a
scientific phenomenon.
We have further noted the mention
of "hearts" that plays a role in such listening which yields
understanding, comprehension and knowledge. Lack of desire in hearts and
their volitional inattentiveness results in playful hearing:
Resultantly, the sounds of speech which their ears
had collected and retained for few seconds disintegrated from the
Echoic memory. Therefore, only those can enable their selves to
respond and answer the question who consciously listen.
The tympanic membrane of the Ears of a man in such
state will not absorb the sound waves directed by his outer Ears and
instead will reflect. Resultantly the membrane will not set in
motion/vibration to transmit it onwards for ultimate analysis and
storage in the memory. Such man’s depiction:
Deaf can be taught if he
about-faces not.
The safety of intellectual property of Divine Discourse is
ensured as permanent evidence of second part of its Thesis
Statement "مُحَمَّدٚ
رَّسُولُ ٱللَّهِ" "Muhammad (Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam)
is the Messenger of Allah the Exalted" in every-present. Therefore, the
relevant question is whether our brainstem is functional and alive to
get warned about the eminent and perpetual harm by carefully listening
him. What and how should we listen?
- Moreover, recall when
Our Majesty
diverted a group of individuals of pious nature belonging to Species Jinn to come to
you the Messenger
[Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam]
so that they attentively listen the Qur’ān.
Root:
ص ر ف;
ن ف ر |
- Thereby, when they had reached for
it they said, "Keep yourself in state of quiet
both inwardly and outwardly."
Root:
ن ص ت;
ح ض ر |
- Thereat, when recitation was
completed, they turned back to their nation/people to beware them.
[46:29]
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This is how a truly living person listens.
Our sense
of balance is also associated with our Ears.
It is also essential to our sense of balance: the organ of balance (the
vestibular system) is found inside the inner ear. It is made up of three
semicircular canals and two otolith organs, known as the utricle and the
saccule. The semicircular canals and the otolith organs are filled with
fluid. Each of the three semicircular canals is responsible for a
specific direction of head movement: One of the canals responds to the
head.

Those who have lost sense of balance seldom react to
forewarnings of the life of Hereafter
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Know it, they said, "Is it plausible
that when we would have become bones and decayed, disintegrated as crumbled particles, would we be revived as
anew creation?" [17:49]
Root:
ج د د
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This non listening and nodding will become all time
remorse and they would admit:
We should ponder and reflect to be sure it is not we who
are saying lest we are in their company. Let us stop listening junk
noises and listen ever-present exalted Messenger Muhammad
Sal'lallaa'hoalaih'wa'salam
while carefully reading Qur’ān.
