The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 402
402. Essence of Islām II they are related. 16. The faculty of acknowledging the existence of the. True Creator. 17. The faculty of manifesting new qualities in combination with bodies and their special shapes. 18. The faculty of mutual attraction which might be designated magnetic power. 19. The faculty of immortality. 20. The faculty of maintaining a special relationship with the particles of the departed body which is manifested to those who have experience of visions. . There are many other faculties of souls which are set out in detail in the Holy Qur'an in a delightful and excellent manner. [Surmah Chashm Āryā, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 2, pp. 245-247]. The Doctrine of Transmigration is False. There is no other doctrine as false as the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, inasmuch as its basis is false, its falsehood is established by observation; a sense of human purity condemns it; and it is the duty of every godly person to condemn it on account of its repudiation of Divine power. . Its basis is false as it is stated in the Satyārath Prakash that the soul falls like dew on some vegetable which is eaten by a woman and thus finds its way to the womb. . But this involves that a soul falls in two pieces upon the earth of which, by some chance, the husband eats one and the wife eats the other; because, it is well settled that a child derives spiritual faculties and qualities from both parents and not only from one of them. Therefore, it is necessary that both should have partaken of the vegetable