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PT. 18 AL-MU'MINÜN 16. Then after that "you surely must die 2521 17. "Then on the Day of Resurrection will you be raised up. 2522 CH. 23 ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ بَعْدَ ذلِكَ لَمَيِّتُونَ ثُمَّ إِنَّكُمْ يَوْمَ الْقِيمَةِ تُبْعَثُونَ ) وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا فَوْقَكُمْ سَبْعَ طَرَاقَ وَمَا And We have created above. 18 you seven stages of heaven, and "39:31. 39:32. 78:13. understand what soul is. According to the Quran the body itself is the mother of the soul. As mentioned above the soul does not come from anywhere outside the body but is a light that lies hidden in the seed itself and grows with the growth of the body. This last stage of embryonic development corresponds to the sixth and highest stage of spiritual development referred to in v. 10 above. At this stage a heavenly light descends upon the heart of a believer and Divine love consumes his whole being, illuminating and animating it. At this stage prayer and remembrance of God becomes, as it were, part and parcel of his being without which he cannot live. He receives a new spiritual life and becomes wholly lost in God. Such is the beautiful parallelism described by the Quran which exists between the physical and spiritual development of man. When one comes to have a complete comprehension and realization of it he spontaneously exclaims, "Blessed be Allah, the Best of creators. " Thus God created man and perfected him in six stages and six stages also has He ordained for his spiritual development. For a fuller and more exhaustive treatment of this subject see Barāhīn-e-Aḥmadiyyah vol. 5, by Ahmad, the Promised Messiah, Holy Founder of the Aḥmadiyya Movement. 2521. Commentary: After man has attained full development, there sets in a process of decay which ends in death. It is an immutable law of nature that all life must end in decay, dissolution and death. God alone is Ever-Living. 2522. Commentary: After death man again will be restored to life in order that he might continue to make spiritual progress in the life to come. If there had been no life after death, man's creation would have been in vain, and all spiritual progress he might have made in this life would have been to no purpose. But man's life serves a grand and noble aim. He has not been created in vain (75:37-41). On the contrary he has been created for spiritual progress that knows no end. The progress he makes in the present life constitutes only a preparatory stage. Here he is like a child in the mother's womb. After death he is born into a new and fuller life which is the beginning of a never-ending progress. 2199