Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Acts17apologetics reflection on Quran 5:116; Does Allah have a soul (like Jesus)?

In answer to the video "The Death of Allah (R.I.P.)"

Nafs and ruh are 2 different but interrelated entities. Nafs is the receptacle that allows physical life to be combined with the spiritual entity with which every human being is endowed with, the ruh. It is man's principal nature. Man has thus both a principal and a secondary nature. His secondary nature returns to dust and his essence is related to Allah. This is why the Quran attributes the spirit to Allah and the body to the earth 38:71-72. A similar notion can be found in the Hebrew Bible in
Ecc12:7"The body reverts to the dust that it was before, and the ru'ah returns to God who gave it".
It is thus only the nafs that breaks down and dies, the receptacle allowing the biological and spiritual to be interwoven 3:185,21:35. The soul, the ruh does not die. 

The Quran in 3:185,21:35 doesnt speak of soul but nafs and the verse doesnt need to spell out that those that are meant are the creatures, more particularily the humans as denoted with the "you" who will be brought back. This is what a religion based on solid explicit tenets is supposed to do, we do not seek ambiguous verses and try to derive isolated meanings upon which to build an entire belief system. Whenever confronted to those kind of verses, we consider the context, the words used and cross reference them with other similar verses. More importantly, whatever the conclusion we come up with, the interpretation may never contradict the explicit, firm, decisive verses.

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