Re: Does the soul have a physical meaning in Islam?
so it s physical naa??
plz tell us in detail of it cuz i dont know
wats the science behind it??
Peace Sister
Another name for soul is the spirit. Physical and Spiritual are domains which are by definition exclusive from one another. The soul is what characterises the person in the spiritual domain and the body is what does so in the physical. The mind or consciousness is what bridges these two domains.
Having said all this it is quite possible for the soul and the body to occupy the same space. In fact our souls are bound to our bodies. This may make it seem like the soul is physical, but not really. To provide an analogy think of the end of pin and focus on it. Your attention occupies the space of the end of the pin, in fact you can have millions of entities capable of focussing their attention on the same pin end all at the same time. Millions of attentive minds occupy that space, but in physical terms they do not. In the same or similar sense our bodies are occupied by our souls, but if we try to find the soul in the body we will not be able to do it.