Each and every human being has two hearts.

 One is a physical lump of flesh the size of a fist;  the other is the spiritual heart of immeasurable size and depth, more immense than the universe!

If you are asking about aches in the physical heart, the remembrance of Allah is one good medicine, as it imparts strength  to our bodies and regularity and helps the bodily systems that affect the heart to maintain better equilibrium.

If your question pertains to the spiritual heart, the heart that encompasses the whole universe, the remembrance of Allah is the medicine and nourishment for that heart as well.    But to even become aware of the existence and functions of that heart certain teachings must be absorbed and certain practices maintained.  It is these teaching and practices that make our remembrance effective.

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There are five stations of the spiritual heart but these stations are virtually unattainable to people because they never place a guard at the first station.    Satan is free to enter  at will and  make his mischievous,  evil proclamations. When we let him enter he immediately starts to discourage us from our spiritual efforts  by announcing that in reality there is no “train,”  no “spiritual station,”  no "destination.”   He claims, that even this first station is no station at all but only a place where we are wasting our time waiting to go somewhere when in fact there is nowhere to go.    By making  such false  proclamations he  hopes to influence  us to abandon  the hope of attaining spiritual  enlightenment -  to leave even that first station and occupy ourselves as his servants in his realm.    If we heed his tricksy words and abandon our journey he will keep us in constant misery and distress like prisoners in a very tiny cell. 

  But if you post a guard at the first station of your heart to prevent Satan and his soldiers from entering, you will be safe from the invasion of bad thoughts and evil intentions that would pull you down into endless trouble.

Who is that guard?    That guard is  “dhikr,” the remembrance of Allah.    Who remembers their  Lord has a Divine Light  in their heart  that prevents Satan and his soldiers  from entering.    The more  you are able to  remember  and to meditate,  keeping  a close  observer’s eye on your heart,  the more successful you will be in keeping out your  mortal enemy.

What is it that keeps us from meditation and self observation? 

  When we dwell on the desires of our lower selves we become preoccupied and distracted from our vigilance.    Satan accomplishes his break-in via  our own desires

But how can we escape from the preoccupation with our ego’s desire when those desires are such an intrinsic part of our being?

You must know that the ego’s desires are of two kinds, legitimate and illegitimate.   The physical being is attracted to food, drink and sexual life.  You cannot prevent yourself from desiring those things as long as you are alive.   We are human beings, not angels.

We must understand that Allah Almighty  grants us from  those things only as much as is good for us  - just as much as will make us better able to concentrate on our “guard duty”.

Neither a starving man nor an overfed glutton make the best guard.   The starving man will leave his post in search of food, and the overfed glutton will fall asleep at his post.   Thus if a person does not permit themself the legitimate fulfilment of physical need, especially sex , the lower self will rebel violently and attack  with a gigantic and frenzied explosion which forces them to fulfil their needs immediately, regardless of whether that fulfilment is legitimate or not.   The only result of such abstemiousness will be wantonness.  It will lead a person to lose sight of the distinction between permitted and prohibited actions.

fulfill your legitimate needs legitimately

            For this reason our Grandsheikh orders every murid to grant their ego its legitimate rights and to listen  to some of its demand;  - ie to eat and drink good wholesome and tasteful permitted food, and marry in accordance with Divine injunction.

 If you deny yourselves these permitted pleasures you are inviting “heart disease,” and you will suffer from many blows, sometimes to the heart, to the head,  to the stomach or the sexual organs, etc.  –

It is imperative for murids to protect themselves from the attack of the lower self before it goes wild, and becomes like a starving person who gobbles down any dirty thing …..

To prevent such excesses new Muslims should make intention to marry.  It is not good for a Muslim to remain single – especially for followers of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order.  To be unmarried quickly cuts off our hearts from satisfaction.  Suppressed sexual desire is the biggest trouble maker for the heart, robbing it of peace and contentment.  When the mind dwells on sexual thoughts Divine Lights are extinguished and a shroud of darkness is cast over our hearts, happiness flees and contentment is killed by the mad onslaught of physical preoccupations.

This is the worst disease of hearts and you must have a guide to teach you how to prevent such an onslaught.  A person in distress from ‘heartache’ must seek a Guide with the same urgency that a heart attack victim calls for a doctor.

(English style re-edited  from original in Mercy Ocean’s  - Divine Sources)