everneo said:
... our souls pre-exist before birth !
On this occasion, I would like to clarify a significant misunderstanding...
“Were human spirits created somewhere in the past and then are they sent down to earth one by one?” Does the “Deen (Religion)” give that information?
Certainly not!
Human spirits were not created in the past, and they are not being sent down to the earth into physical bodies periodically, one after another. On the contrary, each spirit is constructed by the brain of each individual on the 120th day in mother's womb with an angelic influence that manifests as the power of “ALLAH” from within the essence of an embryo.
The Chapter of Heights (Sura A'raaf) in the Koran gives us the following information in the sign 172:
“And when your Lord brought forth from the Children of Adam, from their loins, their seed, and made them testify of themselves, saying:
-Am I not your Lord? (A-lastu bi-Rabbikum?)
They said: Yes, verily. We testify. That was lest you should say at the Day of Judgment: Lo! of this we were unaware!”
By reason of failing to discern the essential fact that is cited in this sign, some twisted translations and completely unrelated renderings have been suggested for it; and having been adorned with many fallacious stories, those misinterpretations have finally reached to our day as a common baseless acceptance...
Briefly mentioning today’s mistaken and groundless common acceptance: “ALLAH created the spirits of all possible people to be born in this world collectively in a different location and asked them there, “—Am I not your Lord?” And people's spirits gave answer there as it were, saying, “—Yes, you are our Lord!..”
What's more, it is assumed that those spirits descend one after another from there to earth and enter into physical bodies during their growth in mothers' wombs, afterwards; and they also go back from there to that realm later again.
Furthermore, in the opinion of some inconsiderate and narrow minded people with a lack of deep and comprehensive information, those spirits come back to the world from there over again in order to reach perfection. And, they call that a “reincarnation” implying a return to this world by reentering into a different physical body.
An additional story is also invented under the name “
bezmi elest” in association with such a misunderstanding. Supposedly, those who met and felt affectionate with each other there, also met here in this world; those who used to love each other there also loved each other here; and those who disliked each other there disliked each other here as well!..
Now, let us first sum up the reality about that matter and then offer our evidence respectively.
Allahualem, here is the meaning that the mentioned sign implies:
According to the rule (
hukm) that “ALLAH created human on the Islamic nature,” every individual is born after the genetic information transferred from father with a program of “Islamic constitution” (
fitrat), while someone was in a form of sperm yet at that time; and it then passes through the following stages...
The statement “from their loins, their seed, (
zurriyyah)” indicates and emphasizes the availability of that information of “Islamic disposition” (
fitrat) transferred genetically through sperm. That is, human beings have been endowed with a natural faculty of being aware of their Lord, while yet in a form of sperm —when their seed was brought from their loins.
In point of fact, the embryo endowed with that genetic information, begins constructing its afterlife realm body known as “SPIRIT” on the 120th day in mother's womb, in form of frequencies produced by brain, through the agency of an angelic influence upcoming dimensionally from within its own core, its essence... And the “spirit” stores all the information produced in the form of waves as the outcome of all mental functions. Therefore, the theory that a spirit consciously came from a different location and entered into a physical body is completely invalid.
If we seriously consider the above verses of the Koran, which is tried to be imposed as an indication of existence of a “separate world of spirits” created prior to the earthly lifetimes at a different location, we realize that nothing but “the seeds from the loins of Children of Adam” is mentioned of there. The seeds and “loins” are issues of our physical world dimension we are currently in, not of the spiritual realm. Water of loins is semen and is in consideration in the world of sperm.
You might also find more information confirming our explanations in the 4th volume, page 2324 of the Koran Interpretation written in Turkish by Hamdi Yazir of Elmali. You may see also a contemporary Interpretation of the Glorious Koran by Mr. Suleyman Ates.
Imam Ghazali tells the following in his book “
Rawdhatu-t Taalebiin” about this matter:
“... Because, the spirit of our Master RasulAllah had not been created and did not exist before he was given birth by his mother!”
Since a spirits is not something entering a body from outside, its reentrance into other bodies over and over again repeatedly after its detachment from one through death, is also impossible.
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