The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 389
The Soul 389. The Soul is the Creation of God. The whole basis of salvation is the personal love of. God Almighty, which is the name of the love generated by God Almighty in the very nature of the human soul. If the soul is not the creation of Permeshwar how can it have natural love for him? When and by what means did. Permeshwar place his love with his own hand in the nature of the soul? But that is not possible, for natural love means the love which is inherent in the nature of the soul and is not added afterwards. This is indicated in the. Holy Qur'an, where it is said: 165 الستُ بِرَبِّكُمْ قَالُوا بَلَى :. I enquired from the human souls, "Am I not your Lord?" and they responded: "Yes, indeed. ". This means that the human soul bears inherent testimony that God is its Creator. Thus the soul naturally loves its. Creator as it has been created by Him. . This is also indicated in another verse where Allāh the. Exalted says: 166 فطرت الله التي فَطَرَ النّاسَ عَلَيْهَا. It is part of human nature for the soul to yearn for the. One and Only God Who has no partner and not to content without communion with Him. In other words,. God has invested the human soul with the yearning that it can find no comfort or serenity except in its meeting with God. . Thus if the human soul is invested with this desire it must 165. Al-A'raf, 7:173 [Publisher] 166 Al-Rūm, 30:31 [Publisher]