This is because my aim is to write for the common people...

This is because my aim is to write for the common people, and not for the learned and scholars. I therefore left the translation of the article about Spirit for an expert and skilled translator that I hope will in future translate the complete work of his holiness.

📌But in order to fill up the vacancy of the matter, in the following Translator's Note, our dear readers will have the results of my own studies in the field of the Spirit, and the views of some of the Persian Great scholars and philosophers, like FARABI and AVICENNA. (1) Our soul is an inmaterial entity, distinguishable from, and superior to our body. It is the animating principle, and actuating cause of life, manifested in thinking, willing, and knowing.

The Soul is a [ 591 ] substance of the spiritual world, which takes no form, and cannot be pointed out. It has no motion or repose. It can perceive that which is lost, and conceive that which is expected. The Soul goes to sightseeing in the kingdom of heavens. We do not know much about it, as the knowledge that has been vouchsafed to us is only a little. The wisdom may reach the Soul, but imagination never.

(2) THE SOUL IS IMMORTAL AND SEPARABLE FROM THE BODY There are so many reasons by which we prove that Man's Soul is immortal and separable from his body. Some of the reasons that are given to prove the proposition by Persian Scholars Like FARA"BI and AVICENNA; SHAIKH ESHRA"GH, and other philosophers are as follows:ِ Aِ No one can forget his own very self, which is his soul; but every one does forget his body, and most of his organs.

There are some organs in our body, that we may never know them in the whole life; but we know the self all the times, and we can never forget that we are, and we exist, in any condition! This fact proves that the Soul and the Body are two different and two separate entities. Bِ Our material body has some function that matter and material is not able to accomplish them. Our intellect, and understanding, for instance, are not the function of Matter.

How can a stone or a piece of gold or any other material understand, think, and distinguish and finally decide!? Therefore it follows that the Soul is something other than the body. Cِ The body changes all the time. No one is like his childhood. The body changes all the time but the self never changes! Yes! You old man are that boy who.... There are millions of billions of cells in our body.

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