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Introduction any other creatures; this is not
In the Holy Quran, God says: describable in words. In
“Indeed, we have dignified nature, man has a material
the children of Adam, dimension similar to the ones
carried them on land and in solids, vegetables, and
sea, granted them good and animals; he also has a
lawful provisions, and kingdom and a divine
privileged them far above dimension similar to God.
many of Our creatures”. Thus, man is a mixture of
(Quran, 17: 70) nature and meta-nature,
meaning that the material and
Also, on the issues of the
humans’ physical and spiritual the spirit are unified.
In other words, the body
nature says that: and the soul are integrated
“Who perfected everything with each other and, of
which He created and course, the social surroundings
began the creation of man contribute to form and evolve
from clay. Then He made the spiritual and moral
his descendants from an characteristics. (Motahhari, 2013)
extract of a humble fluid, The soul has its own
then He fashioned them spiritual phases to grow and
and had a spirit of His Own similar to a vegetable seed
˹creation˺ breathed into that takes a trip from being
them”. (Quran, 32: 7-9)
planted in the soil, growing
In an Islamic worldview, and sprouting, turning into a
man pertains much deeper stem and a trunk, developing
and more secretive entity than branches and leaves, having
