The Essence of Islam – Volume II — Page 438
438. Essence of Islām II sion, the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allāh be on him) did not see only the souls of the other Prophets, but saw the bodies of all of them, and Jesus had not a body different from the others. [Brāhin-e-Aḥmadiyya, Part V, Rūḥānī Khazā'in, vol. 21, p. 387, footnote]. We have also exposed the error of the Christians in that they think that heaven will only be a spiritual experience. . We have proved that the nature of man is such that his spiritual faculties need a body for their perfect and complete functioning. For instance, it is our observation that an injury inflicted upon a certain part of the brain destroys memory, and that an injury inflicted upon another part destroys the faculty of thinking, and that a disturbance occasioned to the nervous system affects several spiritual faculties. Such being the case that a minor disturbance of the body occasions a disturbance in the functioning of the soul, how can we expect that after a total separation from the body the soul would be able to maintain its integrity? Therefore, Islām teaches that everyone is bestowed a body in the grave which is needed for the perception of delight and torment. We cannot say from what material that body is prepared except that this mortal body becomes naught and no one observes that it is revived in the grave. Very often it is cremated or is preserved in a museum or is kept outside a grave for long periods. If it were a fact that it is revived, that would have been witnessed, yet it is proved from the. Holy Qur'ān that a dead person is revived and we have, therefore, to accept that he is revived with another body which we are not able to see. Very probably that body is made out of the fine qualities of this body and along with it human faculties are revived. As that body is much finer than this body, the door of visions is opened widely to it