Life Supreme — Page 77
80 00. LIFE SUPREME 12. IMMORTAL LIFE "And thou, O soul at peacer Return to thy Lord well pleased with. Him and He well pleased with thee. So enter thou among my chosen servants, and enter thou My Garden. " (89:28-31). There is no doubt about it that man's real and permanent entity is not his physical body but rather an ethereal entity which pervades the former; and the heart of the latter is the soul. . The Quran throws more light on the nature of the soul and the. Hereater than any other scriptures. Nevertheless, man's understanding of this subject will always remain extremely limited. Allah says in the Holy Quran: "And they ask thee concerning the soul. Say, 'The soul is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little'. " (17:86) "And no soul knows what joy of the eyes is kept hidden for them, as a reward for their good works. ". The Holy Prophet has said: (32:18) "The blessings of paradise are things which the eye has not seen, the ear not heard, nor has the mind ever conceived. ". We shall learn, in the pages to follow, knowledge given by Islam about the soul and the existence of realms of life which vibrate on frequencies higher than that of this material universe and which can not be seen or fully realised by the physical senses. In addition to information given by Islam, some knowledge and realisation of this subject may be acquird through (1) intuition, (2) psychic experience, and (3) spiritual experience. . INTUITION. This is a power of the mind which is able to realise a truth without the aid of reasoning or analysis. A flash of intuition reveals to a person the solution of a problem or secret of an invention which years of research and study failed to disclose. The flash may come when awake or asleep as the mind is awake twenty four hours of the day even though the body may be in restful repose.