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Creation of the Human Soul:
Beliefs of Islam and They Ask You About the Spirit · Ahmed Alhasan
Creation of the Human Soul:
{Who perfected everything that He created, and began the creation of man from wet clay} Quran Chapter “The Prostration”, 32:7.
The wet clay of Adam was raised from the earth to the first heaven (the World of al-Thar).[4] Then the spirit of faith was transmitted into the wet clay, and the first human soul was formed. After that, the Holy Spirit was transmitted into it and the angels were commanded to prostrate to him: {“And when I have proportioned him and breathed some of My Spirit into him, then fall down to him in prostration”} Quran Chapter “The Rocky Tract” 15:29 and Chapter “The Letter Saad” 38:72.
In this way, the first human soul was formed from the raised wet clay of Adam and the spirit that had been transmitted into it. Then another soul was extracted from that first human soul and through God Almighty’s ability, it was split from the first soul and became the second human soul, or the soul of Eve pbuh, the wife of Adam pbuh. The Almighty said: {O Mankind, fear your Lord who created you from one soul and created from it its mate and dispersed from both of them many men and women. And fear God, through whom you ask one another, and the [severing of] ties. Indeed, God is ever an observer over you} Quran Chapter “The Women” 4:1.[5]
The Almighty said: {It is He who created you from one soul and created from it its mate, that he might live with her, and when he covers her she bears a light burden and continues therein. And when it becomes heavy, they both invoke God their Lord, “If you should give us good, we will surely be among the grateful”} Quran Chapter “The Heights” 7:189.
Then the souls of the offspring were brought out of the souls of Adam and his offspring, and God tested them in that world [of al-Thar]. This was the first test, which preceded the test in this physical world: {And when your Lord took from the children of Adam-from their backs-their descendants, and made them swear on their souls, [saying to them], "Am I not your Lord?” They said, “Yes, we have testified.” Lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, “Indeed, we were of this unaware”} Quran Chapter “The Heights” 7:172.
Thus, all the souls of the children of Adam are composed of both the raised wet clay and a manifestation of the spirit of faith and the Holy Spirit, or say an image of the spirit of faith and the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is in every human’s nature to reach the highest ranks, and to be with the people of the highest realm, and to know God. Moreover, they have the device with which they rise; the image of the spirit of faith and the Holy Spirit. As such, through the image placed within them, they are supposed to know and reach the truth. But unfortunately, instead of benefiting from this image being reflected in their own mirror, some children of Adam obliterate it and debase themselves, until nothing remains except the animal body that they share with cattle, apes, and pigs. The Almighty said: {Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are but like cattle. Rather, they are even more astray in their path} Quran Chapter “The Criterion” 25:44.
The Almighty said: {Say, "Shall I inform you of a penalty from God that is worse than that? It is that of those whom God has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs and slaves of tyranny. Those are worse in rank and further astray from the sound path"} Quran Chapter “The Table Spread” 5:60.
Footnotes
- ↩Raising here means returning, by one or more steps, in the direction of the starting point or source. This means that, if we picture the human being-and the rest of creation as well-as a manifestation of divinity in the nothingness that can exist, we will have a particular rank whenever we move away (in terms of knowledge) from the source of the manifestation, and it will have less light and more darkness (which is the nothingness that permeates it). Let us assume that the world of matter, in which our bodies exist, is composed of 10% light and 90% darkness (nothingness), and that each step that light takes toward absolute darkness (absolute nothingness, absence of knowledge and awareness) represents a whole number. Raising a material object (for example, the wet clay of Adam pbuh) by one step would be to move it to the parallel world whose percentage of light is 11% and percentage of darkness (nothingness) is 89%. In other words, this world is ahead of ours. It must be the case that the worlds are divided in an ideal manner, because their creator is absolute. As such, they must be as close as possible to being absolute, because they represent the first thing to come from Him (Muhammad = all of the worlds). To make this easier to understand mathematically, what it means is that the divisor is the smallest thing imaginable. You can imagine that there is a number as close as possible to zero, but you cannot truly know this decimal number. For example, if you say it is 0.0001, then 0.00001 is even smaller, and so on. In this way, you will reach a number that you can affirm exists, and you will know some of its attributes, but never actually know it. If you place this number in the denominator of any fraction, the result will be the closest thing possible to infinity, because the denominator is the closest thing possible to zero. This means that if we were able to see a person being raised before our eyes, we would see him gradually disappear. In other words, we would see a body, then an apparition and after that, he would disappear. However, he never actually disappeared. What happened was that he moved toward the light, to a world parallel to ours and more developed in rank. Alternatively, we can say that he returned one or more steps toward the starting point or source, depending on the circumstances of the raising of that material body. In any case, the sum of light and darkness, or existence and nonexistence, outside of the source of light or existence, is zero, which means nothing really exists outside of the source. For example, let us picture a light source, with the light from it moving in a particular direction. With each step that the light advances forward, some of it condenses to form a sheet of matter that some of the light passes through. In this way, light forms a number of screens in front of the light source, with some of the light passing through them. The number of these screens is as close as possible to infinity. Between the screens is a vacuum filled with antiparticles (antimatter) equal to the sum of the matter of the screens and the energy of the light. This means that the sum of matter and energy outside the light source is equal to zero. In other words, nothing really exists outside of the light source.
- ↩At a higher level, what is meant by the first spirit is Muhammad’s pbuhap spirit. From it, the level of the spirit below it was created, which is the spirit of Ali and Fatimah pbut.