from the writings of the Promised Messiah(as)

( Translated from Chashma -i- Ma’rifat of Hadhrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Sahib, pp.158_168 Ruhani Khazain, Vol.23)

Unlike the Vedas, the Qur’an says that the souls are not uncreated but that they come into existence along with the body. This is the truth about the birth of souls which is born out by established facts and which we cannot but accept. When we say that the soul comes into existence out of nothing, we do not mean to say that before it was created it was nothing. What we mean to say is that before the soul came into being, there was no pre-existing matter out of which man could extract the soul with his own efforts. It is only the power and wisdom of God which brings the soul into existence out of some matter. It was for this reason that when the Holy Prophets (saw ) was asked What is the soul, he was commanded by God to respond: And the unbelievers ask thee as to the reality of the soul and the manner of its creation; say the soul is created by the command of my Lord . (i.e  it is a mystery of divine power) and you have no knowledge concerning the soul save a little, (i.e your knowledge of the soul is confined only to the birth of the soul: as we observe that insects, etc., come into being under our observation from some matter) (C h 17 : V 86)

The law of God pertaining to the creation of the human soul is that the human mould is gradually developed, from the union of two seminal fluids. Then, as by the mixture of certain medicines, a certain quality is generated in their mixture which the elements did not individually possess, in the same way a special quality is created in the mould that is compounded by the blood and sperm drops and it takes on the colour of a type of phosphorus. When the breeze of the Divine manifestation blows upon it under the command: ‘Be!’ it suddenly flares up and spreads its effect into all parts of the mould. Thereby the embryo comes alive. It is then that a life is breathed into the body and that bright essence when kindled by the command of God is called the soul. This command is described as the Word of God because the faculty of the pregnant mother, which creates all the limbs of the embryo by the command of God and weaves its framework like the web of the spider, has no concern with the soul which is created by a special Divine manifestation.

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