Re: Does the soul have a physical meaning in Islam?
psyah you give very confusing replies. First you say that the spirit and the body are by definition exclusive and that the spirit/soul consists of characteristics someone has in the spiritual world.
then you link that with the flowing of blood around the hindbrain in the embryo, after 40/50/120 days. presumably the flowing of blood indicates a physical nature in the soul that is much more of a dependant relationship than the focusing of attention on a particular object analogy would indicate.
if it is the spiritual characteristics of a person, then those can be traced to specific parts of the brain. Infact spiritual characteristics, for example behaviour towards parents, can be altered by messing about with particular parts of the brain. which again indicates a physical nature of the soul.