The Human Soul: the real essence
of man
Can we define soul, probably
difficult, but can be confined as per every individual thoughts is concerned.
There are countless pre-existing souls, in the Quran, it is called 'the
tranquillized soul' (al-nafs al-mutnata'inna). They are immortal,
immaterial and can only be felt with deep concentration. They have existence
and waiting for their divine turns to wear the body allotted by divine. Human
body is just a material cover same as a machinery inside a beautiful car or as
air exists inside a hollow doll, but soul exists temporary and as the material
body grows old it starts striving to stretch itself with slow move to elapse. However,
it is same as one changes his shoes or clothes or upper wears when they get outdated
and the final end is dead material body. For instance, as human being refuses
to use toren shoes or clothes or upper wears same is the case with soul
therefore with severe damage in body it tries to quit and to leave the damage
body. Inside the material body, it is really difficult for the ordinary to
reconnect with the divine, but the 'divine
prophetic spirit', which
belongs to the prophets and the saints, by means of which, the soul, receives
the revelation of the invisible and attains to knowledge of God. The
Al-Ghazalian tradition states that, 'he who knows himself knows his lord';
hence, the soul has a Divine origin, it knows God because it is Godlike.
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