Life Supreme — Page 84
LIFE SUPREME 87. Dr. Robert Crookhall mentions in his book 'Intimations of. Immortality: "Dr. R. B. Hout also saw the soul-body of his aunt when it was being permanently released at death. ". Mrs. Snell, who was a nurse, has stated: "One evening she (her friend) was taken by convulsions and died in my arms before the doctor had time to arrive. . . that was the first death at which I had ever assisted. Her heart had hardly ceased to beat when I distinctly saw something like a vapour disengage itself from her, arise from her body, and stop at a short distance from the corpse where it condensed into a form absolutely identical with that of my friend. Later when I became a nurse, an occupation which I followed for twenty years, I assisted at numerous deaths, and immediately after death I always observed the condensation of the etheric form above the body, always identical with the living body, and after condensing it would vanish from my eyes. ". The Promised Messiah-the Holy Founder of the Ahmadiyya. Movement often had the experience of seeing and even conversing with departed souls. He has written in his monumental work 'The. Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam': 'I have personal experience in this matter. Many a time, when fully awake, I have seen visions in which I have seen those who were dead. I have seen many an evil doer and a wicked person with a body quite dark and smoky. I have personal acquaintance with these matters and I assert it strongly that, as Almighty God has said, everybody is granted a body either transparent or dark. '. Our real self is not the house of flesh and bone in which we temporarily reside. Unlike the human body which is mortal, our real body is immortal. . DEPARTED SOULS REMEMBER THIS LIFE. The soul is a conscious entity and the Holy Quran tell us in many places that in the new life after death it will remember details of its life in this world. The unbelievers and the wicked will ask that they may be sent back to this world to be given a second chance to win the pleasure of God. Had they no memory of this world then they would not have called upon God to send them back: "Until when death comes to one of them, he says entreating, 'My