PSYCHOLOGY ?
: study of human behaviour, cognitive and ,mental process
: soul that running the human life, deteremine our behaviour
Among the fundamental elements of the worldwide Islam are :
: belief in Allah, divine revealation and an afterlife-reward and punishment
: belief in the ghayb ( the unseen, only known through divine revealation )
: man is the most important element in the created universe, not in himself but as a khalifah (vicagerent of Allah )
MAN'S DUAL NATURE
1. Composed of a physical form (body) ,pertaining to the physical universe : made of clay/mud ,decomposes after death. Physically man is like all physical beings subjected to the laws of nature.
2. Contains a spiritual substance (ruh) ,which is from the Divine world.
THE HUMAN SOUL
1. The essence of man.
2. It is a spiritual substance, created by Allah , but immortal, not physical /tangible.
3. The way to know it is through the intellect and by means of observing the activitie that originate in it.
4. It is conscious of itself.
5. Locus of intelligibles.
DIFFERENT MODES/STATES (AHWAL) OF SOUL :
SOUL - al-ruh (soul) : executive function, mode of governing the body, managment of the body
al-nafs ( self/spirit )
al-aql ( intellect) : mode of intellection
al-qalb ( heart ) : made of receiving divine intuition ; inspiration/ilham/ wahya
POWER OF SOUL
- posses faculties and power which become manifest in relation to bodies.
- soul classified :
= plant soul
= animal soul
= human/ rational soul
- makes man unique from others creatures.
FITRAH : new born baby with fitrah
1) already know something
2) know nothing
without soul body is nothing!!!1
ReplyDeleteThe question of the reality of the soul and its distinction from the body is among the most important problems of philosophy, for with it is bound up the doctrine of a future life. Various theories as to the nature of the soul have claimed to be reconcilable with the tenet of immortality, but it is a sure instinct that leads us to suspect every attack on the substantiality or spirituality of the soul as an assault on the belief in existence after death. The soul may be defined as the ultimate internal principle by which we think, feel, and will, and by which our bodies are animated. The term "mind" usually denotes this principle as the subject of our conscious states, while "soul" denotes the source of our vegetative activities as well. That our vital activities proceed from a principle capable of subsisting in itself, is the thesis of the substantiality of the soul: that this principle is not itself composite, extended, corporeal, or essentially and intrinsically dependent on the body, is the doctrine of spirituality. If there be a life after death, clearly the agent or subject of our vital activities must be capable of an existence separate from the body. The belief in an animating principle in some sense distinct from the body is an almost inevitable inference from the observed facts of life. Even uncivilized peoples arrive at the concept of the soul almost without reflection, certainly without any severe mental effort. The mysteries of birth and death, the lapse of conscious life during sleep and in swooning, even the commonest operations of imagination and memory, which abstract a man from his bodily presence even while awake—all such facts invincibly suggest the existence of something besides the visible organism, internal to it, but to a large extent independent of it, and leading a life of its own. In the rude psychology of the primitive nations, the soul is often represented as actually migrating to and fro during dreams and trances, and after death haunting the neighbourhood of its body. Nearly always it is figured as something extremely volatile, a perfume or a breath. Often, as among the Fijians, it is represented as a miniature replica of the body, so small as to be invisible. The Samoans have a name for the soul which means "that which comes and goes". Many peoples, such as the Dyaks and Sumatrans, bind various parts of the body with cords during sickness to prevent the escape of the soul. In short, all the evidence goes to show that Dualism, however uncritical and inconsistent, is the instinctive creed of "primitive man" (see ANIMISM)...i wana also wait to meet the soul!!!!!!! soul is a part of a god.and it to meet it.dedicated to S.SOOD
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