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Submitted By: Zeeshan Ali Ranjha Roll No: BENF 17E 125 Class:BS English Session:2017 - 2021 SS Topic: Spirit and Flash and Related Concepts
Submitted By: Zeeshan Ali Ranjha Roll No: BENF 17E 125 Class:BS English Session:2017 - 2021 SS Topic: Spirit and Flash and Related Concepts
Is NAFS a soul?
Nafs in Context
Notwithstanding, the term nafs refers to the
human soul in most of the cases mentioned in
the Qur'ān (see II:48, 123, 233, 286; III:25; V:30,
32; VI:98, 158, 164; VII:42, 189; X:30, 54;
XIII:33; XXXIII:42; XVI:111, XVII:15; L:16, 21;
LXV:7; LXXIV:38; LXXXI:7; LXXXII:19; XCI:7,
What is Jihad al nafs?
Jihad al-nafs is against all evil, anger, lust,
insatiable imagination and any other bad
morality in humans.
How is the soul related to the body?
The soul acts as a link between the material
body and the spiritual self, and therefore
shares some characteristics of both. The soul
can be attracted either towards the spiritual or
towards the material realm, being thus the
"battlefield" of good and evil.