Have you run into physicians who know health risks of smoking best yet they do smoke themselves or the ones that never exercise. This contradictory behavior is not limited to any one profession. Perhaps, the most surprising cases are when a member of the clergy is caught red-handed, as seen surfacing in the press every now and then.
The following commercial about distracted driving on Youtube is a perfect example which, I believe, demonstrates the difference between knowing something with your mind and understanding it through your heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9swS1Vl6Ok&t=0s
if it does not open search on Youtube for "Wait for it... this could save your life", 3.50 minute long.
As we can see and hear the young drivers talk, they all know that texting, for example, is something that they shouldn't do while driving yet they do regardless. They don't take it to heart until their emotions are awakened by hearing JC's personal account. This is when the learning experience is registered in their heart through emotions.
In other words, when a rational concept appeals to our emotions to the degree that it becomes part of our nature then we can call it the ultimate level of understanding or in my view understanding through heart. I am not sure though, if whatever we understand through our heart would be necessarily right or perfect but it evidently causes profound changes in our personality, in our behaviour and perhaps it changes who we actually are.
Back to the video example, once the kids are touched by what has happened to JC they start to change. In essence, it is their heart that changes and accordingly they become a different person, a safer driver that is mindful of risks of distracted driving for ever. This means we are what our heart is and our heart is what it understands.
That said, they could have been the kind of person who would not be moved by JC's life story and would not change their mind either ( probably there are a few interviewee whom are excluded from the commercial). We can therefore, see the fact that our heart should be able or better say be capable of understanding otherwise we won't be affected as if the words are falling on a deaf ear even when we are exposed to God's words through another human's voice.
I think we should humbly and honestly ask God to open our hearts to the true voices we hear by our ears and most importantly to the divine revelations everyone can potentially perceive at their heart.
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إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَذِكْرَىٰ لِمَن كَانَ لَهُ قَلْبٌ أَوْ أَلْقَى السَّمْعَ وَهُوَ شَهِيدٌ - 50:37
"Indeed in that is a reminder for whoever has a heart or who listens while he is present [in mind]."
الَّذِينَ يُجَادِلُونَ فِي آيَاتِ اللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ سُلْطَانٍ أَتَاهُمْ ۖ كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِندَ اللَّهِ وَعِندَ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَطْبَعُ اللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ قَلْبِ مُتَكَبِّرٍ جَبَّارٍ - 40:35
"Those who dispute concerning the signs of Allah without an authority having come to them - great is hatred [of them] in the sight of Allah and in the sight of those who have believed. Thus does Allah seal over every heart [belonging to] an arrogant tyrant."
قُلْ مَن كَانَ عَدُوًّا لِّجِبْرِيلَ فَإِنَّهُ نَزَّلَهُ عَلَىٰ قَلْبِكَ بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَهُدًى وَبُشْرَىٰ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ - 2:97
"Say, "Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel - it is [none but] he who has brought the Qur'an down upon your heart, [O Muhammad], by permission of Allah, confirming that which was before it and as guidance and good tidings for the believers."
صدق الله العلي العظيم
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