Inspiring quotes from the Meccan Revelations (... more)
[ The word “nafs” in the people’s terminology has two meanings .]
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Know that since the predominant view in people’s terminology of the soul is that it is the effect of one of the descriptions of the servant, we have confined ourselves to speaking about it, especially in this section, for they may apply the soul to the human being, and we will refer in this section, God willing, to the soul, but by what is the cause of this effect, then know that the word The soul, in the terminology of the people, has two aspects, from the world of the isthmus to the universal soul, because the isthmus is not an isthmus unless it has two faces, for whoever is an isthmus between them, and there is no existent except God. He made the appearance of things at the causes, so the existence of the cause is not possible except through the cause. For every entity that exists at a cause has a face to its cause and a side. To God, it is an isthmus between the cause and God. The first of the isthmuses in the entities is the existence of the universal soul, for it was created