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Re: Islam's Answer to Mind-Body Problem
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wht mind-body prob?
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ergh.
Descartes proposed that the mind is a substanceless entity that is separate from the body which is composed of substance.
He didn't know exactly how the connection was made, but he proposed that it was through the pineal gland (or was it the pituitary?)
Anyway, the mind is what thinks and feels and analyzes, etc. The body is what burps, moves, etc.
What is the nature of the connection according to Islam? I suppose the mind would be replaced by soul in Islam, although I don't know whether the soul is a thinking entity.
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arghhh, I dont understand a bit your saying 
will read it again tomorrow morning. I m to tired now and sleepy aswell
Take care s.d. and Allah Hafiz
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Wouldn't this thread be better off in the religion forum as your looking for a religious view of a philosophical topic?
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no. it stays here. Its islamic philosophy.
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you speak of Muslim or Islamic view of the soul? im afraid i know little of either :--)
I guess it depends on which school you follow. A lot of philosophy pertaining to the soul for example, I would guess, would be based in sufiism. I dont think sufis approached it through a scientific method, their conception of soul doesnt really care if its a man inside your head or your shadow, but how it could be elevated to higher planes..
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Every night God frees the host of spirits;
Frees them every night from fleshly prison.
Then the soul is neither slave nor master;
Nothing knows the bondsman of his bondage:
Nothing knows the lord of all his lordship.
Gone from such a night, is eating sorrow;
Gone, the thoughts that question good or evil.
Then without distraction, or division.
In this One the spirit sinks and slumbers."
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-Rumi
Theres might be quite a bit of scientific work on this too, however I know nothing in that dept.
In Islam, 'mind' and 'soul' do not equate. Our souls combine the decision making ability of the mind alongwith the almost independent to our-physical person attribution of spirituality/corruption to it, For example heres the Quranic verse Rumi's couplet seems to be based on which also seems to indicate that we can be alive with functioning brains and be soul-less:
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Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that die not during their sleep; then He withholds those on whom He has passed the decree of death and sends the others back till an appointed term; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect.
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