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Subject: The Quran on Soul
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saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:25am
'Man saith: What! After I am dead, shall I in the end be brought forth alive? Doth not man bear in mind that We made him first when he was nought?' (19: 66-67) * +

saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:26am
It is We Who have decreed that death should be among you. Yet are We not thereby hindered from replacing you with others your likes, or from producing you in a form which ye know not! Ye have known the first creation: will you not reflect? (56: 60-2) * +

saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:29am
I find these verses interesting; the Quran argues the phenomenon of the re-emergence of the ego an*logy of his first emergence. There has been a long discourse among the Muslim philosophers in regards the first emergence of man as embodied in the last verse; in their arguments, however, they focused on the purely metaphysical aspect of the matter at hand. * +

saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:32am
It was Rumi who regarded the question of immortality as one of biological evolution; a view natural and perfectly consistent with the spirit of the Quran, argues Dr. Allama Iqbal. * +

saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:34am
I shall quote Rumi: Talking about the soul, let me quote your favourite, Rumi: First man appeared in the class of inorganic things, Next he passed therefrom into that of plants; For years he lived as one of the plants, Remembering nought of his inorganic state so different. * +

saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:34am
And when he passed from the vegetative to the animal state, He had no remembrance of his state as a plant, Except the inclination he felt to the world of plants, Especially at the time of spring and sweet flowers; Like the inclination of infants towards their mothers, Which knew not the cause of their inclination to the breast; * +

saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:35am
Again the great Creator, as you know, Drew man out of the animal into the human state; Thus man passed from one order of nature to another, Till he became wise and knowing and strong as he is now; * +

saxobeat 12.12.11 - 12:35am
Of his first souls he has now no remembrance, And he will be again changed from his present soul. * +

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