.....the Islamic, or Judeo-Christian
concept of soul:
The soul is held to be the spiritual
nature of human beings, regarded as immortal, separable from the body
at death, and susceptible to happiness or
misery in a future state. . A widespread concept in religion is that
of immortality, which usually postulates the
existence of a soul that lives apart from the body after death. Dualistic
concepts posit a God-given soul distinct from,
and antagonistic to, an inferior, earth-bound body. The soul is regarded
as the essential or real part of a human
placed into the body at conception and leaving the body at death. It
is the possession of a soul that separates man
from animals and plants. The soul is the spiritual part of man that
originates with God and returns to the realm of
spirit upon death of the material body. (source)
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