A Modern Insight into the Soul or Spirit
By S.
Arshad, New Age Islam
9 October
2021
Modern Science
Says That the Soul Feels Attached To the Body Even After the Death of A Man
Main
Points:
1. The soul of
the deceased lingers around the body till it’s buried or cremated.
2. Modern
science says that this fact can be used to revive a man within four minutes of
his clinical death.
3. Hinduism
also believes that the soul feels attached to the body of the departed.
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Soul or
spirit is the driving force of all the living beings in the universe. The
divine scriptures, the Torah, the Bible and the Holy Quran do not elaborate much
on the soul or spirit. Once when Jews came to the holy prophet of Islam pbuh
and asked him about spirit, the verse revealed said that it was an amr of God
and He has given little knowledge of it to man.
However,
Upanishads delve deep in the nature of soul or spirit. According to the
Upanishads, the soul is all pervasive and the Supreme Soul (Brahman) is present
in not in man but in all the living and non-living beings. It is also immanent
in the entire universe. In the Quran, God says that He blew into man from His
own soul. Thus the Quran also corroborates the view of the Upanishads but does
not deal with the subject in detail leaving much to be thought and discussed.
But modern
scientific discoveries and researches on soul or spirit seem to bring science
and religion closer. Scientists now say that even after a man is declared clinically
dead by the doctors (his pulse and breathing stops), the man is not in fact
totally dead. His brain cells remain alive till four minutes of his clinical
death. The eminent Indian doctor in his book The Last 4 Minutes has mentioned
this scientific fact. Therefore, there remains the possibility of his being
revived within the four minutes after his clinical death. The soul or spirit does not leave the body of
the ‘deceased’ immediately after his clinical death but hovers above or around
him until the dead body is buried or cremated.
That the
spirit of the deceased does not leave the body immediately after the clinical
death of the deceased has been corroborated by the NDEs (Near Death
Experiences) of the people who came to life after a few seconds of minutes of
their death. They said that their soul hovered above their body and they could
see their relatives wailing or calling the doctors.
This shows
that the spirit become so much attached to its body that it does not easily
want to leave it immediately. It only leaves the body permanently after the
body is buried or destroyed through cremation.
This is the
reason, Islam asks Muslims to bury the dead as soon as possible. It is also
said that people lamenting and crying over the body of the dead cause pain to
the departing soul. It may be because the soul is present near the body and
feels pain by the lamentations. Swami Bhaskaranand in his book The Essentials
of Hinduism also says that after the death of a man, his soul or spirit shows
attachment to the body and so Hindus are advised to cremate the dead body as
soon as possible so that the soul can finally depart in peace.
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S.
Arshad is a columnist with NewAgeIslam.com.
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/spiritual-meditations/soul-spirit-insight/d/125539
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