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Does
the Soul Exist?
By
Syed Kamran Mirza
Syed_mirza@hotmail.com
[Author’s Note: This article has been prepared
out of my sincere quest to answer the ancient question of
"soul". I have utilized my many years of gathering
knowledge and own observations around me in the matter of
deaths and survivals. I did not use very complex scientific
puzzles and used very simple theory in order to make it very
plausible for the general readers. However, I have used all
possible explanations to justify my claim. My intention is
not to hurt anybody’s feelings about soul, nor to hurt
anybody’s religious sentiment. I do admit sincerely that
all humans (me included) would like to believe that each of
us posses a soul which is different then the others.
Scientific revolution has shaken that ancient belief. Soul
theory is diminishing day by day by the advancement of
biological science today. Readers please read this article
with your open minds and judge yourself why I am asserting
this.]
Life
is a miracle to all mankind.
For millions of years mankind asked following
questions: what is life? Why do we die and where shall we go
after death? Ancient people could not answer these questions
of mysterious life. Human
being did not like to believe that there is no life after
death. Hence ancient clever people invented the very simple
answer. They first invented soul, the most important ingredient every religion. And
then they invented God,
angels and life after death. God created man, animals,
earth, sky, stars, Sun, Moon everything one can see in this
universe. About
the human making—they gave the simplest solution. God made
humans with wet mud/sounding
clay (just like the Hindu sculptor make Durga’s statute) and gave life
(soul) in it by blowing his big holy mouth. This was the first
and famous “grandma
story” every child was infected with this virus during
his/her childhood. Surprisingly, they did not tell how God
made animals! That’s it! This is called religious creation theory
Many
clever people were born to become prophets and thereby
exploited simple people. For some centuries—this simplistic
tablet worked quite good to the gullible people. This
is simply blind faith!
Readers
please consider what Islam says about the soul:
From our childhood, our religious teachers/seniors/Huzurs
have taught us one thing very clear that Allah created each of
us with a definite/fixed program. That is to say, Allah
creates each human being with certain program, purpose, fate,
and destination — which are predetermined by Him (Allah) and
no power on earth and heaven except Allah can change that
program, period. Hayaat
(longevity), Mowutt (death), and Rizik (fate)
are well fixed (in louhe Mahfuz) by Allah at the time
of creation of that soul.
A true believer do believe that — all the souls of
human beings have been created by Allah at the same day and
souls are locked up or stored in a cell (Louhe Mahfuz)
in the heaven. It
is by only Allah’s wish, a particular soul is sent to
this mortal earth with a fixed program.
In addition, every Muslims should believe that his or
her entire life is overseen/control by Allah. If a Muslim does
not believe this fact — then he is not a Muslim.
Now
readers please judge yourself what Allah says in Qur’an:
Quran:
( 35:11) …And
no female conceives, or lays down (her load), but with His
Knowledge. Nor is a man long-lived
granted length of days, nor is a part cut off from his life,
but is in a Decree (ordained). All this is easy to God.
Quran: (56:60)- We
have decreed (ordained) your time of death fixed, and I am not
incapable of doing that…
[Note:
If we are to believe these two Quanic dictums, I do not see
how the average longevity of humans is increasing today. I
will elaborate this later in my essay.]
There are several Sahi Hadiths
which clearly states following:
[Sahi Muslim:
Narrated by: Abdullah Bin Mashwood (sws), and Hujaifa Bin
Achid (ra) from the saying of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)]:
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said-every human remains as
semen inside the mother’s womb for 40 days. After 40 days
semen becomes blood-clot and mother is conceived. Then
immediately after mother is conceived, Allah appoints one Farestha (Angel) right near the women’s genital
(Vagina) to oversee the continuous development of the whole
scenario of birth. That particular Farestha records and
informs every bit of development and progress of the
embryo-to-baby’s birth.
This robotic Angel even tells Allah the movement-paths
such as embryo is moved from vagina to uterus, settled there,
growing alright etc. etc.
And, After 120 days, when baby is full grown, Allah
orders that particular selected soul (from the louh-e-Mahfuz)
to be taken their to the womb and fix the soul to the fetus
only when life starts. After
putting that soul this robotic Farestha (Angel) ask Allah to
give His decree, as to, what would be the longevity/fate/rizik
and also ask Allah’s permission to fix the destiny of the
future baby whether this human being will be a Mumeen Banda
or Bandi (true believer) or Nafr (Kafir) etc.
etc.
The above-mentioned Hadith is a Sahi
hadith, and Mumeen Mussalman believes it up to their bone.
Afghan Talibans, all Mullahs/Karri/ Maoulanas truly
believe this Hadith by their heart.
According to this Hadith — every soul’s
destiny/fate is categorically and precisely determined by
Merciful Allah as per His wish.
The new-born baby may be wished by Allah’s choice —
a true believer (Mumeen), a thief, a serial killer, a
prostitute, a thug/bandit, a cheater, black marketer, drug
addicts etc. etc. are all merciful Allah’s choice.
Sahi
Bukhari: 13:115:
“A
well-dressed soul may be naked hereafter for not praying in
time…”
Sahi Muslim-20:4651:
”The souls
of the martyrs live in the bodies of green birds who have
their nests in the chandeliers hung from the throne of Allah;
they eat the fruits of paradise; they would request Allah to
return their souls to their bodies so that they may be slain
in the path of Allah again…”
Sahi Muslim-40:6867:
“Two
angels take the soul of dead person into sky to Allah; if the
soul is a believer’s then it has a beautiful fragrance; if
the soul is of a non-believer then it has a foul smell…”
Bottomline:
As per Islamic dogmas, we can solely come to the conclusion
that the soul is under the total
control of Allah, and humans have no clue to play
around with soul by any means! So much for Islamic insanity
about soul!
Now
let us examine what science can tell about soul :
As of now, science could not find or identify anything
inside the human body which can be named as soul.
No scientists ever believed in creation
theory of religionists, nor any sensible freethinking
human being ever swallowed it. Then
came the greatest human ever walked on the surface of this
earth. His name was Charles
Darwin. The greatest scientist Charles Darwin gave the
most acceptable and revolutionary theory called ‘evolution
theory’ and he explained the origin of life, how simple
organic and inorganic materials might have formed primordial
organism and how humans and other animals were evolved by
millions of years of evolutionary process from the single
cells. Today, 98% of world biologists and other scientists
believe in evolution theory, because
Darwin
’s evolution theory is the most acceptable theory to
explain life. Besides,
entire biological phenomena are only compatible with
Darwin
’s
evolution theory, and not compatible at all with the
creation theory.
But
today, I shall not explain the mystery of life by scientific
theory or evolution theory only. I shall try to explain
mystery of life by my own rational theory out of my own
observations of life. I shall use some science, philosophy,
rational logic and most of all day to day circumstantial
happenings around us. I am not expecting that everybody will
agree with me; but I will urge the readers who will not be
agreeing with me to explain this mystery of life with adequate
or better logic than mine.
Life
and death:
Definition
of life:
Life is a property of
material organization. Or.
Life is a result of self organization of matter (physical and
chemical reaction) driven by the requirements to maximize
entropy and reduce the gradient of temperature difference
between Sun and earth. Molecules of matter arranged in
particular manner react with each other to produce energy—which
is called life. In the body the energy is produced by the
material/chemical interaction of total molecular elements or
system. From single cells through the process of
millions of years of evolution several systems (e.g. Nervous,
Circulatory, Digestive, Respiratory, Urinary, Reproductive
etc.) were developed. The
total output of these vital systems together is called life.
Definition
of Death:
The material organization looses its property due to
mal-function or stoppage of one or more of the power houses
(e.g. Brain, heart, lungs, liver, and kidney). But state of
matter (other power houses) remains the same, though it looses
the interactive organization. That
is, body actually looses the total output of these vital
systems.
A
few practical examples/scenarios to explain death and life:
Brain
dead: What
is brain-dead mean? A person is alive with all the
organs/tissues very well living and functioning normally
except the brain which is dead. Take this case of comatose
patient of
Florida
. This beautiful young lady is the best example of brain-dead
person. She is not dead
but she is brain-dead, i.e., her brain the master
control does not function. All her body organs are normal
functioning, her eyes are moving, she can see the objects, she
can consume food and digest it and her body tissues are
getting nourishment from test tube feeding. She was kept alive
(but brain-dead) by the help of tube feeding for more than 10
years now. She is not dead yet, and her soul (?) is still not
leaving her body! If the test tube is removed—she will die
within a week or 10 days. Her soul will say good bye only
then! Why? Her body needs food (fuel) for survival and
without food nothing (not even soul) can keep her alive even
for a minute. Now if somebody needs organ transplantation,
this lady’s organ is the very good source, isn’t it?
Questions:
Where is her soul? Why soul can not keep her alive? Why soul
can not keep her brain working and keep systems functioning?
When her feeding tube is removed why her soul is not able to
keep her alive? Is
it possible that her soul is not leaving the body because
feeding tube is still attached? Or,
is the soul just waiting for some one to remove the feeding
tube so that soul can say good bye to her and go to Allah only
to get hell or Islamic lustrous heaven? What is the logical
answer?
Take
a case of motor car:
What is the car all about and how it runs 100/200 miles
speed? A car is pretty much like a human/animal. It has a body
and it has a belly where all those vital organ-systems
(various parts) reside. It runs because it’s every systems
work with a proper synchronization producing total energy,
or total output.
It gets fuel from
outside and burn them into energy by which it moves and run.
It can stop by either shortage of (a) fuel, or (b) due to
mal-function of one system. Without fuel—car is dead even
though it has all the organs intact and normal. Just
like a human body, no food, no life. And
no life and no so called soul.
Or,
there is tank full of fuel, yet the car is not running
(dead), because one of its organ systems does not function.
Say, car alternator
(master control) is not working and all other organs are
totally normal and functioning. Will that car run? Certainly
not! This
is just like that comatose
lady of
Florida
(brain the human alternator which carries energy
everywhere in the body is not functioning). Now, if you want
to use those normal parts of that car to another car
(transplantation) those organs/parts will function normally in
the second car, just like that comatose lady’s organs. Or,
if you replace the bad alternator with a new one—the same
car will run again 100/200 mile speed. Isn’t it true? Same is the case with that
Florida
comatose lady. If you could change her non-functioning brain
with a new one—she will live again (her soul will stop
departing her) as perfectly normal human being, no doubt about
it. WHO KNOWS, SOME DAY SCIENTISTS MAY
BE ABLE TO GIVE A NEW BRAIN (alternator) TO A COMATOSE
PATIENT!
Brain
dead woman in
California
:
In
1993 a
California
woman declared brain dead, was found to be in her fifth month
of pregnancy. She was maintained on life support systems for
three months until the baby could be delivered by caesarian
section. The baby did very well and the mother was
disconnected from life support at the end of the delivery.
(From
Clark
: "Sex and the Origin of Death", p-114).
Questions:
Who
(God or the
doctors) controlled the life of this brain-dead woman in
California
? What would happen to that baby if the doctor did not connect
the mother with life support? If there was no life support
available today—how would that baby born alive?
If
it is true that God
is Merciful, Omnipotent and Omniscient, why would God send
souls to the following wasted human babies?
a) Conjoin
babies
b)
Still-born
baby
c)
Baby
with no legs or hands
d)
Baby
with multiple legs and hands
e)
Baby
looks like a monster
f)
Baby
that will survive only a few hours.
g)
Baby
that is going to be a seriously mentally retarded.
Sudden
Heart failure (temporary cardiac arrest) patient:
Many (temporary) heart-failure patients are cured by Simple cardiac resuscitation techniques, or by heart
stimulant drugs, or by electric shock therapy. In these types
of fit patient heart-beat stops temporarily. Patients
do not have any pulse because heart stops and that
patient is same as a dead patient, no difference. Only
difference is, before the death of total cell masses in the vital organ systems—doctors
can revive this dead patient back to life by using modern
techniques I described above. But if delayed and proper
treatment was not given—total cell mass of most vital organs
will happened and patient is dead, hence the patient can not
be revived by any available means.
Just 50 years back, there was
no such technique to revive this patient and millions of souls
probably told the body good bye
very readily and routinely. Today by timely applying these new scientific
treatments doctors are able to save over 60% percent of
heart-failure patients.
Or,
did you not hear snake-bite patient came to life after several
days; or, dead man came to alive inside the grave after some
days? Readers (from
Bangladesh
)
must have heard the folklore story of ‘Lakindhar
and Behoola’ where Lakindhar was bitten by
poisonous snake and his body was floated in the river placing
over a raft! According to folklore story---Lakindhar came to
life after several days. It could be unbelievable but this
type of recovery does happen even today!
How
about the famous novel (“Kadombini”)
written
by Benglai Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore. Did not
Kadombini come to life (after intense rain-storm) over her
Hindu grave ready to be burning to ashes? Writer’s last
sentence was like this: “Kadombini
Moria proman karilo,
shea more nai”—(meaning Kadombibni proved by her death
that she actually did not die!).
Questions:
Why soul stop-short of leaving the body, or can not leave the
body voluntarily because of timely and adequate cardiac
resuscitation? Was it possible that soul was out of the body
of the “Kadombini” for a few hours or moments and intense
rain waters prevented the soul from leaving her body? Is it
possible that clever doctor’s techniques forbade the exit of
soul from the body of a sudden cardiac arrest patient, so the
soul is bound or be compelled to re-enter the body—only to
stay with that body for another 20 years? Snake-bitten patient
can be revived after several days of total fit almost dead
with no pulse. Why soul can not exit the body in this case? Is
it the soul comes back again (unwillingly) after successful
treatment (by resuscitation or electric shock therapy etc.)?
Or,
resuscitation actually causes electric spark which help
heart-muscle to start beating again? Which one is true and
logical?
Test
tube baby:
Even 30 years back people did not even dream to get a
baby made inside a test tube. Now it is almost a daily
business and as easy as planting seeds to get a big tree to
grow. Today world have more than 50,000 normal test tube
babies and their numbers are increasing everyday. In the
process of test tube baby, scientists deliberately manipulate
the union of egg and
sperm inside the test tube to form the Zygote the starting
stage of a future baby which is then placed inside the
mother’s womb. Now, this is
purely a human manipulation and Allah has nothing to do with
it. In future, scientists will be able produce baby right
inside the larger test tube by creating the same atmosphere of
mother’s womb. Who gives soul in this particular baby? Why Allah should send a soul for
the sake of that scientist who has performed an anti-God act?
Cloning
baby: Scientists are equipped with enough knowledge
and skills to make a human in the lab by the cloning
technique. We know the miraculous story of “Dolly” the
sheep made by cloning. Who sent soul to that cloning sheep?
When kaffir scientists will soon start making human baby by
cloning, who will send soul for those un-licensed human baby?
Is Allah the servant of scientists? Why
Allah has to send a soul to any cloning baby? And
without soul sent by Allah how in the world any scientists can
create a living baby (without a soul)? So
where is the soul?
Today Kaffir scientists are able to produce SPERM
cells and Egg cells right
from the stem cells. Now scientists hope that they will be
able to make human baby right in the laboratory, that is, they
don’t need any male or female to reproduce baby. Kafir
Scientists also hope that soon they can make human baby from nothing more than two laboratory-grown stem cells. Prudent
questions are who is going to supply soul for those unruly
kaffir scientists? Is the merciful Allah going to approve soul
( from the Louhe-Mehfuz) for these kaffir scientists?
Bastard
child:
All most all religions in general and Islam in
particular says that, Allah or God sends soul on earth to born
as baby into some lady’s womb. That soul is picked
(selected) by Allah himself and sends to this mortal earth
with some fixed purpose and destiny. Believers do believe that
without the wish of Allah no soul can come to this mortal
earth. Allah hates most the bastard child, no doubt about
it. Question is who
sends the soul of bastard child? Why Allah should send a soul
to that bastard child that he hates most?
Organ
transplantation:
Just 40 some years back transplantation of human organ was
unthinkable. I still remember when in 1968 (?) world’s first
heart transplantation was performed by a Kaffir doctor of
South Africa (Christian Bernard ) all the Christian mullahs
including Pope were making hue and cry (Muslim mullah did not
even have any clue about this) against it and all religionist
were in great panic about this anti-God activity of that
kaffir doctor. Today,
organ transplantation in humans is almost like changing a part
of a motor engine. Hundreds of thousands of terminal patients
are getting various organ transplantations and getting their
life longer and longer day by day. Just 30 years back and for
thousands of years previously—humans used to die due to
heart ailments without any known treatment. Even by-pass surgeries of
coronary arteries are keeping hundreds of thousands of
humans alive today. It
is plain and simple—had there been no heart transplantation
or heart by-pass surgery—all these humans (who are alive
today and walking on the surface of earth) would
have been long dead
and perished. Nobody can
deny that!
Questions:
Is it possible that souls are taking extra vacation period in
the earth from Allah, because Kaffir (enemy
of Allah)
scientists invented heart transplantation technique and by
pass surgery technique? Why those souls are not saying good
bye to those heart transplantation patients, who otherwise (if
there was no method existed for transplantation) would die for
sure? For million of years soul from heart patients never
stopped saying good bye to those unfortunate heart
patients. Why souls are so weak today and can not leave the
human body so easily? Does any erudite
Mullah have any answer for this?
Longevity:
Human
average longevity has increased tremendously world-wide.
Nobody can deny that today! Surprisingly, this average
longevity increase is directly proportional to the economic
and social status of the particular country or nation. Plain
and simple—richer country getting highest average longevity,
on the other hand, the poorer country getting lowest average
longevity. Richer country like
America
,
Japan
, Sweden etc. have the average longevity around 80 years and
increasing. On the contrary, poorer nations like
Bangladesh
,
Nepal
,
Ethiopia
, Somalia etc. have an average longevity around 42 years. Just
1000 years back—human average longevity was only 30 years. Most souls used to say good bye from this mortal
earth very quickly due to uncontrollable diseases, epidemics,
wars, famines and natural calamities.
Questions:
Why was it like that? Do
we have any good reason to believe that—1000 years back,
Allah used to send people with shorter life span? Why human
soul used to depart human body so readily and so quickly?
Is the Merciful
Allah doing partiality by sending people with longer life in
the rich country like America, Japan or Sweden (infidel lands)
and sending people with shorter life in Bangladesh, Pakistan
or in Nepal?
Sex
Changes:
In the humans—both male and female do
get natural sex changes. It is happening all over the world.
Many mothers become male and many brothers become female and
their names also do get changes.
Questions:
How a soul can change it’s sex? Is it possible that
Allah erroneously sent a wrong-sexed soul to a baby? How
Allah can do such horrendous mistake?
Bottomline
Truth:
Had
there been soul (exist) inside the every humans sent by
Allah and totally controlled by Allah, there could be: (a)
no organ transplantation, (b) no test tube baby, (c) no heart
surgery, (d) no revival of heart patient by cardiac
resuscitation, (e) no longevity changes, (f) no bastard child,
(g) no cloning baby, (h) no sex changes, (i) no sperm cells
making from the stem cell and bla bla bla…..Simply because
Allah (SBT) would NOT let humans (kaffirs)
to exploit and play with Allah’s mystery of creation. This
would be an utter insult to the Allah’s divine authority!
He would simply put an iron-ban on the
supply of souls coming down from the Allah’s Louhe-Mehfuz
the store house of souls.
All the above things and more and more
scientific miracles will keep on happening—because THERE
IS NO SUCH THING CALLED SOUL AND PERHAPS, ALLAH HAS NO CONTROL
ON HUMANS, PERIOD.
Some
Afterthought:
Readers I am humbly requesting you to think about all
the logical scenarios that I have described above. Which kind
of argument do you accept? Is it the so called soul of grandma
story keeping life alive? Or, is it the total out put energy
of the vital systems keeps a body alive? Which is more logical and acceptable to you?
Could brain acts
as the soul?
Surprisingly, all theologians think that animal and plants
do not have any soul! Only humans have soul. Islamic dictum
even claimed that plants and vines have no life. But
today’s knowledge clearly established the fact that plants
and animals do have life and feelings just like humans. In
fact, humans also an animal only that—humans are higher form
of animal. Just as plants and animals do not need souls to be alive, humans perhaps
also do not need soul to be alive. Humans
and animals are just biological machines that is all there is
to it. Thinking,
awareness, after-death experience, remembrances, personality
etc are all human brain functions
and nothing more.
One
problem which needs to be mentioned in this essay
which the Islamic dictum is dealing witnessing scenarios of
body parts of Muslims during the Day of Judgment. In the
judgment day—body parts will witness to Allah (SBT) against
the Muslim soul. Now, suppose a Muslim got his heart (from an
Munafekh), two hands (from a serial killer), and stomach (from
a wine and pork eating Christian) transplanted. After the
death of this Muslim—all his transplanted organs will ruin
his piety of his entire life! He will definitely go to hell! What
can be done to it?
Scientists (kaffirs) are predicting that
human will live 1-2 hundred years by the end of this 21st
century, in the following centuries on words—human longevity
will increase to 5-6 hundreds years or more. There will be human
organ stores (just like Motor parts store) existing in
various big cities from where diseased humans can purchase
needed organs (body parts) and prolong their life span.
Don’t you believe me? Fifty years back did anybody believed
that humans will change their (discard the diseased vital
organ and replace it with normal) diseased heart, liver,
stomach, intestine, kidneys etc?
How
about those Muslim mullahs,
did they
ever imagine this?
If science was around for as long as the religions are
around, human lives would have enjoyed much more pleasures and
happiness in this earth today. Unfortunately, religions are
always pulling the legs of science backward to the darkness
again. Discovery
of DNA and Genes have revolutionized our life. Many more
bio-medical miracles bound to occur in the future, which will
be very hard even to imagine by humans today. Most
importantly, all these incoming bio-medical miracles will
happen as per the principles of
Darwin
’s evolution theory,
and definitely not
by the principles of Allah’s
creation theory. Hope nobody can dispute that!
My
apology:
Honorable
readers you are my judge! I have tried to tell all truth and
nothing but the truth. I am very sorry if my essay has caused
pains to anybody’s sentiment, because my essay has
categorically proved that there is no such thing called soul.
I myself also would like to believe that there is a soul
inside everybody! Believe me I would be the happiest human
being in that case. Unfortunately, scientific advancement has
prevented that chance of believing in soul theory. All the
miracles of modern biological science do not allow me to prove
otherwise! Thanks for reading my essay.
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