Abstract:

The heart is an organ that is at the center of a person's spiritual life as well as his material life. Sharing the same place with the material heart, the spiritual heart is a luminous and rabbinic latifah. In the science of Sufism, the heart has a quality that understands, comprehends, and is the source of knowledge and thought. In this respect, the Sufis express their job as "purification of the soul, refinement of the heart" and describe the science of Sufism as "ilm al-kulub" and "marifat al-kulub". The heart, as a word, means changing and transforming every moment, and it can assume different states and colors according to the influences and stimuli to which it is exposed. As the heart is purified, it can reach a quality that will guide people. On the other hand, the contamination of the spiritual heart is seen as a dangerous situation for the spiritual life of a person. This study aims to examine how the heart can get spiritually transformed with reference to the wisdom found in Ibn Ataullah al-Iskadari's Hikam, a work that has been read in many parts of the Islamic world for centuries. The wisdom concerning the heart in the work contains important information in terms of revealing the stages through which the heart will be transformed.

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