The last answer for the objection of the Aakal and Makool

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3. The issue of the changes in the matter of the body during lifeClarification

We will have to give some explanation before answering this question:

1. We know that the human parts change many times from the childhood to death in later age. Though the neurons do not increase or decrease but change according to the parts and as time passes this transforms into the complete change. In short, after seven years no part of the body remains the same.

But we should remember the fact that at the time of the change the previous cells and parts transfer all their attributes totally to the new ones. This is the reason that as time passes the human attributes and appearance like color, face, and other things remain the same and this is because of the changes transferred to the new cells (Reflect).

The bodies of the person at the time of death that turn to dust are those that accumulate in the whole life. They are then the narrator of the whole human life.

2. It is true that the soul gives the foundation to the human personality but we should be remembering that soul too develops with the body and both affect each other. So just as two bodies are not normally replicas of each other two souls too are not similar in every sense. No soul can attain perfect unison without the body in which it has develop and matured. So on the Day of Judgment the previous body should return so that the soul can be attached to it and be active in a wide sense and be aware of the result of the deeds done.

3.  Each particle of the human body reflect the entire physical attribute or if we nurture each cell of the body till it becomes a complete man then this new person will have all the personal characteristic of the body from which the cell has been taken. (reflect)

Was he anything but a single on the first day? One cell of the sperm had all his characteristics and was divided into two and then four and then into all the cells that constitute the human body. Each cell of the human body is a branch of the original cell and if it is nurtured in the same way then will resemble it totally and have all its attributes.

4. What we learn from the Qura’nic verses about the physical resurrection is the last form of human body that has turned into dust and is in the graves will come to life by the command of God and be ready to be accounted. There are many verses of the Qura’n that discuss and deal this issue.

5. It is impossible for one human body to merge into another. In other words the first body cannot transform totally into the second body but the first body can be a part of the second because the second had to exist so that it could absorb the first through analysis and adapt it. So any body can be a part of a second but cannot be totally transformed into the second. (Reflect)

In view of the four points we now move ahead to the doubt of Aakal and Makool:

Qura’n very clearly states that the last form of the human body will return on the Day of Reckoning.

Even if they become a part of another man’s body they will still return to their original body to be raised.

You may say then the second body will be incomplete because of the part it has lost so it is better if we say that the second body will be weak and incomplete because the part of the first body will not be there but dispersed throughout the body (because the food that man eats is distributed throughout the body) So a person weighing 70 Kgs

may lose half (other than one kg.) of his weight and his body may become as small as that when he was born.

This new situation does not create any new problem because this small body has all the attributes that had existed in the large one and if it develops then it will change into the large one.

Was not the new born baby small and was it not a tiny existence during the pregnancy? It grew later and became a full fledged human being. His personality did not change nor was a new person created.

The only remaining question here is what will become of those particular parts that have become part of two or more than two bodies one such body is obedient while the other is rebellious?

The answer to this question is not very difficult because as we have said earlier the reward and punishment is for the soul. So when a person is given anesthesia and deprived of awareness the surgeon opens the body while the soul is not perturbed.

In other words the body which is just an instrument does not experience the reward and punishment or pleasure and pain but it is for the human soul to experience the pleasure and the pain.

 In view of the above statement it is clear that according to the literal meaning of the verse the physical resurrection will be that of the body and no problem arises from the issue of the eater and eaten.

They sometimes declare the body to be just a medium and say that since the human personality is connected with the soul, it can adopt any body and will complete that person only.

 They sometimes take the help of the body in purgatory and believe the resurrection to occur with those spiritual bodies and some times say the body of anything and its existence is not with its matter but with its form and the thing exists till the time the form exists. The question of being eternal depends on the soul of a human being. The body and the personality will be found wherever the soul exists.

None of the above explanations is compatible with the resurrection described by the Qura’n in the previous verses. Actually the attachment of some philosophers with this issue and their failure to solve the problem of the eater and the eaten became the cause of the attention being paid to this issue and this does not behoove a true Muslim of an Alim.

 

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