The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 401
The Soul 401 were to be born again and were to exert their thinking and reflection to the utmost they would not be able to achieve that degree of vastness of knowledge and high insights even if they expired in the effort. [Surmah Chashm Āryā, Rūḥānī Khaza'in, vol. 2, p. 234]. Qualities of the Soul. The Holy Qur'an has made detailed mention of the many qualities, wonderful powers and capacities of souls of which we set out a few by way of illustration: 1. The faculty of eagerness to acquire knowledge and insight. 2. The faculty of acquiring knowledge. 3. The faculty of safeguarding knowledge that has been acquired. 4. The faculty of the love of God. 5. The faculty of deriving delight from a meeting with the Divine. 6. The faculty of seeing visions. 7. The faculty of influencing and being influenced. 8. The faculty of establishing relationship with bodies. 9. The faculty of acquiring divine qualities. 10. The faculty of receiving revelation. 11. The faculty of expansive and constricted moods. 12. The faculty of acquiring unlimited comprehension. 13. The faculty of taking on the colour of the manifestation of the Divine. 14. The faculty of reason whereby to distinguish between beauty and imperfection. 15. The faculty of receiving impressions and being influenced by them in contrast with the bodies to which