Your Worst Enemy Is Your Soul (Ego) This concerns one point of the verse, “The (human) soul is certainly prone to evil (12:53),” and the Saying the meaning of which is, “Your worst enemy is your soul.” One who loves himself if his evil-commanding soul has not been purified-will love no...
Will Spirits Of Death Ones Feel Pain On Doomsday? This article covers the answer to the question: “Will Spirits Of Death Ones Feel Pain On Doomsday?“ They will be grieved according to their degrees. They will be grieved in the same way that they are grieved at the overwhelming, wrathful...
What Is The Spirit, And How Does It Affect Us? This article covers the answer to the questions: “What Is The Spirit, And How Does It Affect Us?“ There are many worlds, among them those of plants, animals, people, and jinn. Our visible, material world addresses itself to our senses...
Ways To Train Our Own Spirit This article covers the ways to train our own spirit. The ways one can make one’s spirit more active and less confined within time and space. To make the realm to its activity more spacious for the spirit, one has the innate capacity to...
The Sufis And The Spirit This article is all about The Sufis And The Spirit. The Sufis have defined the spirit as a manifestation or shadow of Divine life, and an immaterial substance; God Almighty has not enabled anybody to have perfect knowledge about its exact identity. While philosophers tend...
The Spirit Is A Living Entity And It Is Eternal The spirit is undoubtedly eternal, and the proofs of the existence of angels and other spirit beings mentioned in the First Aim are proofs of the eternity of the spirit. This matter is so obvious that it is unnecessary to...
The Scholars Of Sufism About The Spirit This article covers the considerations of the scholars of Sufism about the Spirit. The scholars of Sufism regard the considerations of philosophers and some theologians about the spirit to be a futile exercise. However, we see the traces of the doctrine of the...
Spirit Toward The Present Time This article covers the thought of philosophers on spirit toward the present time. Ancient philosophies have been re-evaluated and criticized in recent centuries. Free thinking has gained ascendancy. Even Divinely revealed religious texts have received their share of criticism. Love of truth and zeal for...
Spirit in Ionia Thales (624–546 BCE), one of the earliest philosophers of Ionia, thought the spirit to be some fluid substance that brought about life in the body. According to Anaximander (610–546 BCE), who succeeded Thales as the second master of the Milesian school, spirit was some boundless substance that...
Socrates About Spirits This article covers the view of Socrates about spirits. The matter of spirit entered a new phase with Socrates, who proved to be a turning point in ancient Greek philosophy. Socrates freed the spirit from the narrow frame of matter and physicality and adopted a much wider approach to...
Plato About Spirits This article covers the view of Plato about spirits. Although it was Anaxagoras who, being a spiritualist philosopher, discussed the physical and metaphysical dimensions of human existence under the titles of the spirit, intellect, and carnal soul for the first time in the history of philosophy, Socrates...
Philo About Spirit This article covers the view of Philo about spirits. Alexandria‘s repertoire of the spirit, like that of the Greeks, is very rich. While the early philosophers of the Alexandrian school usually tended toward Stoic pantheism and peripatetic thought, over time they turned to Platonism under the influence...
The Eternity Of The Spirit Is the Spirit Eternal? If it is, does it Serve to Establish the Hereafter? The spirit is undoubtedly eternal, and the proofs of the existence of angels and other spirit beings mentioned in the First Aim are proofs of the eternity of the spirit. This...
The Spirit Receives Moral And Intellectual Education The Spirit Which Receives Moral And Intellectual Education The body undergoes an uninterrupted change during its whole lifetime. This change is toward physical growth and development until a certain period, becoming stronger and more perfect. However, this growth stops at a certain point...
The Spirit Feels, Believes, or Disbelieves This article covers some characteristics of the spirit. The spirit feels, believes, or disbelieves. Man is a being who has innumerable, complex feelings. He loves or hates, rejoices or becomes grieved, feels happy or sad, hopes or becomes desperate, cherishes ambitions and imagines, feels...
Spirit Is A Conscious, Powerful Thing The spirit is a conscious, powerful thing, which is apt to learn and which thinks senses and reasons, and continually develops, usually in parallel with the physical development of the body, mentally and spiritually, through learning, reflection, belief, and worship. We see with our...
Imam Al-Ghazzali About Spirit This article covers the thoughts of Imam al-Ghazzali about spirit. As with many other subjects, Imam al-Ghazzali fundamentally shook the opinions of both ancient philosophers and renowned Muslim philosophers such as al-Kindi, al-Farabi, and Ibn Sina, and the Mu’tazilite thinkers, all of whom may be regarded...
Ibn Sina About Spirit (Avicenna) This article covers the thoughts of Ibn Sina about spirit. Being one of the most famous Muslim philosophers and scientists, Abu ‘Ali ibn Sina influenced almost all thinkers and Sufis who came after him. With his great genius, extraordinary love of science, resolution, and endeavor, he understood...
Henri Bergson About Spirits This article covers the thoughts of Henri Bergson about spirits. Bergson‘s philosophy is based on indeterminism. That is, according to determinism, the state of things at any given moment is the necessary result of its state just prior to that moment. What this signifies is that...
Fakhrud-Din ar-Razi About Spirit This article covers the ideas of Fakhrud-Din ar-Razi about spirit. Fakhrud-Din ar-Razi, one of the great interpreters of the Qur’an, holds the same opinions about the spirit as other Sunni scholars. However, when he goes into detail, he can be seen to have different, individual views....