Islamiat Assignment
ASSIGNMENT
“Islamiat”
Topic: Articles On Research About Souls
Submitted to: Ma’am Saleha Fatima
Submitted by: Syed Muhammad Akbar DDP-FA14-BCS-055 Section-D
1) Greek philosophers Plato and Plotoinus believed that soul pre-exists the body and at death it separates from the body to attain its full and perfect state.
Many including Plato, Descartes, and George Berkeley hold the view that the soul is immortal, Bhagavad-Gita says that the soul is immortal and it changes bodies like human beings change their clothes.
The body encases the soul, and the soul encases the spirit.
At death the body dies, but the soul and the spirit live on.
The soul does not die but when it separates from the body at the death of the body, the soul gets a taste of death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia defines soul as the "Source of thought activity." Paul Davis says "The mind is not located inside the brain, or any other part of the body; or indeed anywhere in space at all. Mind is not a physical substance, but a tenuous, elusive, ethereal sort of substance, the stuff that thoughts and dreams are made of, free and independent of ordinary ponderous matter." The above concept of soul appears to be necessary because soul is neither visible nor its physical presence be detected in any direct way.
Ibrahim B. Syed, Ph. D., “The Nature of Soul: Islamic and Scientific Views”, http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_51_100/nature_of_soul.htm
2) Matt, a lawyer by profession, was convinced that humans are mere material beings.
Like so many others in our culture, he was firmly committed to the creed of the late scientist Carl Sagan - "The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be." In addition, he had embraced the mantra of a Madonna song - "I am a material girl living in a material world." From his perspective, human beings are merely material brains and
“Islamiat”
Topic: Articles On Research About Souls
Submitted to: Ma’am Saleha Fatima
Submitted by: Syed Muhammad Akbar DDP-FA14-BCS-055 Section-D
1) Greek philosophers Plato and Plotoinus believed that soul pre-exists the body and at death it separates from the body to attain its full and perfect state.
Many including Plato, Descartes, and George Berkeley hold the view that the soul is immortal, Bhagavad-Gita says that the soul is immortal and it changes bodies like human beings change their clothes.
The body encases the soul, and the soul encases the spirit.
At death the body dies, but the soul and the spirit live on.
The soul does not die but when it separates from the body at the death of the body, the soul gets a taste of death.
The Catholic Encyclopedia defines soul as the "Source of thought activity." Paul Davis says "The mind is not located inside the brain, or any other part of the body; or indeed anywhere in space at all. Mind is not a physical substance, but a tenuous, elusive, ethereal sort of substance, the stuff that thoughts and dreams are made of, free and independent of ordinary ponderous matter." The above concept of soul appears to be necessary because soul is neither visible nor its physical presence be detected in any direct way.
Ibrahim B. Syed, Ph. D., “The Nature of Soul: Islamic and Scientific Views”, http://www.irfi.org/articles/articles_51_100/nature_of_soul.htm
2) Matt, a lawyer by profession, was convinced that humans are mere material beings.
Like so many others in our culture, he was firmly committed to the creed of the late scientist Carl Sagan - "The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be." In addition, he had embraced the mantra of a Madonna song - "I am a material girl living in a material world." From his perspective, human beings are merely material brains and