What Kind Of Beings Are Jinn? The Nature of Jinn Jinn are conscious beings charged with Divine obligations. The word jinn literally means something hidden or veiled from sight. As mentioned earlier (The Fountain No. 15), jinns are a species or kind of beings that cannot be seen with the...
The Spirit And The Conscience The spirit and conscience are strong arguments for the existence of One God. Despite enormous advances in the sciences, man is unable to explain life. Life is the gift of the Ever-Living One, Who breathes a spirit into each embryo. We know little concerning the...
Death And The Spirit After Death This article covers Death And The Spirit After Death. All human beings have an intrinsic feeling of eternity, and so feel imprisoned in the narrow confines of the material world and yearn for eternity. Whoever can hear our conscious nature will hear it pronouncing...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
Approaches From The Muslim World To The Existence Of Spirit This article covers The Muslim World and The Existence of the Spirit. We do not have exact knowledge about how God informed the previous Prophets of the identity of the spirit. However, the Qur’an contains a specific declaration concerning it:...
Aristotle About Spirits This article covers the view of Aristotle about spirits. Aristotle is the most renowned figure of ancient philosophy after Plato and Socrates. He continued and still continues, to be connected to the Peripatetic School, which he founded based on deductive and inductive thought. Unlike his master Plato,...
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....
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...
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...
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...