The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 405
The Soul 405 [Islāmī Uşūl ki Philosophy, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 10, pp. 322-323]. There is conclusive evidence that the male and female sperm have the capacity to generate the soul without its falling from heaven like the dew. When the two sperms unite the capacity is strengthened and grows till when the framework of the embryo is ready the soul is activated from the framework by the power of God Almighty. This is the creation of something from non-existence, because the soul is not anything material and yet it is generated from the same matter which grows into a framework after the union of the two sperms in the womb. It is not necessary that the soul should fall like dew on some vegetable and should be generated in this manner. The matter from which the soul is generated can be formed out of a piece of meat or fish, or from clay from the depths of the earth from which frogs and insects are generated. Undoubtedly it is a Divine mystery that He creates from the body something which has nothing of the body in it. It is clear that the soul does not fall from heaven but is a new creation which is produced from the compound sperms by the Power of God as Almighty. Allāh says in the Holy Qur'ān: تم انشانَهُ خَلْقًا أَخَرَ فَتَبَرَكَ اللهُ أَحْسَنُ الْخَالِقِينَ 172. That is to say, when the human framework is ready in the womb God completes it with a new creation, meaning the soul is created out of the matter from which the framework was prepared. [Chashma-e-Ma'rifat, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 23, pp. 123-124] 172 Al-Mu'minun 23:15 [Publisher]