Ahmed's Review: The Souls Journey

They the placenta will collect the babies’ soul prior to traveling on to the place it will be reincarnated.

The heart ended up as a divine seed, ready to be re-planted/re-used in the creation of another being. The human brain: is the home of the tonalli, the force of love and heat. This stayed on earth to be kept by your family as ashes in a box with a tuft of your hair, and was associated with the highest heavens of the cosmos. The human liver: being full of blood, is the home of the ihiyotl, courage, the soul and the engine of passions, but also the force of cold. This was dispersed after death in winds, spirits and illnesses, and was associated with the underworld. After death, every human being had a service, tasked by the gods, in the cosmic process. The departed did these services to help keep humanity alive.

Throughout Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s autobiography, Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne experiences the struggles of Japanese-Americans during the World War II. After the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans were forced to be sent to an incarceration camp often through isolated deserts and swamps. They were sent to the camp because they looked like the enemy. Their bravery and fighting for what they believed in were their version of social justice because Japanese-Americans wanted an equal opportunity just like the Caucasians. The book on what Japanese-Americans went through at that time resembles with this modern day Trump’s immigration law on Muslims. The Japanese-Americans and Muslims both face discrimination, separation from their family, and institutionalized injustice.

Chraibi’s book Muhammad: A Novel is a fantastic, powerful read because it is just that: a novel. It is a fictional story, but written by an author who had an unusual, mystical calling himself to write the book. By using original aspects from the traditional biographies of Muhammad and then adding his own personal, esoteric twist on these characteristics, Chraibi creates a work of literature that is truly compelling and shows Muhammad’s journey to becoming a prophet in a mystical light. Two central distinctions, namely Muhammad’s relations with Khadija and Bahira, add the spice in this novel that really help the reader grasp what is mystical about both this literature and most importantly, Muhammad himself.

The Question of Destiny The biblical worldview believes that there is life after death. A time will come where the physical body will separate from the spiritual body and eternal life will be present. This belief is opposite of what is deceived by humanists.

By Micheal Patrick MacDonald. (Ballentine Books under The Random House Publishing Corporation, 1999, 266pp. $14.00)

Known as the transfer of the soul or spirit it was an ancient technique that members of Titular Order possessed knowledge of. t was said when a worthy servant of the Goddess was seriously injured or sick they were granted the use of a cloned body to use till their current body was healed. During this ritual, it was known they are not bound by the laws that apply to all Si'Lorens meaning they were free to experience things they were normally forbidden from as their real bodies were still pure. While their temporary bodies consist of either a Male or Female Si'Loren who had died and their DNA was donated for situations as this.

The most prominent leaders in world history have mental illnesses that split them apart from other people. Against popular belief, mental illnesses may be beneficial towards leaders.The book: A First-Rate Madness by Nassir Ghaemi describes how leadership and mental illnesses may go hand in hand. The author describes this through famous leaders such as: General William Tecumseh Sherman, Ted turner, Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy. The book demonstrates how the mental illnesses within a person makes for a better leader. The author does this by taking italian psychiatrist Cesare lombroso’s view of insanity= genius.

It goes on to the afterlife as soon as we take our last breaths. Part of believing in this theory however is faith. Because no one can see a soul and it has no physical shape, it can be difficult to trust that it is actually there. In my opinion, our body is just a holding place for our soul while we are here on earth. Rachel’s and Rachel’s bring up a solid point in Ch.

In his novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie portrays the protagonist, Haroun, as a hero who learns many lessons such as how freedom of speech can be a good or bad thing. These lessons bring Haroun closer to the people he loves like Rashid and Blabbermouth. Once Haroun finds out the truth about freedom of speech, he uses his knowledge by helping others around him. In the novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salman Rushdie writes that speaking can be a good or bad thing, and in order to create a perfect balance, you have to have a combination of communication with a little silence; although freedom of speech is a right, to some it is a privilege.

The lives of Muhammad by Kecia Ali is a modern book that describes the way the life of the prophet has been told by past authors. It looks at the manner in which he lived his life and some of the decisions that he made. However, many other authors who have written about the life of Prophet Muhammad but Kecia Ali bring out the unspoken perspective that many people hardly notice. She shies away from describing the truth spoken by anti-Muslims and Muslims alike. On the contrary, she analyses both factions of the narrations and tells the story of Muhammad in a new light.

If the soul migrates from one body to another at one person's death and another's birth, then we would still have no explanation for the soul's knowledge of the forms. For wouldn't the previous life have been spent in the natural world, just as this life is? As has already been argued,

soul comes from God and the body is made out of clay. A Sufi believes that the

The distinction between body and soul is crucial and often bypassed. The Vatican teaches that body and soul is one (Sachs, 51). While this sounds contradicting, it is not. Body and soul make up what a human being is, it is essential for us to be considered alive. Father McFarland stated on September 21, 2015 in “Fully Human Person”, that the soul is God’s breath into the body. We pair the two terms together- body and soul- because one without soul the body does not have a being. John R. Sach’s suspects that the average Christian thinks of the soul as the real self, a self that is non-bodily immaterial and therefore immortal; and the body is a dwelling place for the soul that is temporary.

Reading book entitled “The Valley came Alive: Life of the Last Messenger” by Ibn Katheer was such a great experience. It reminds me to my early childhood when my late father story me about Prophet Muhammad’s life before going to bed. It is also bringing me back to my memory on primary and secondary school, when ‘Ustaz’ and ‘Ustazah’ never stop teaching me about Prophet Muhammad. This book inspired me a lot about exactly the life of Prophet Muhammad, he details out all the information, the solid facts that cannot be denied. The first chapter of this story definitely talk about the biography of Prophet Muhammad. Every ending has the beginning, isn’t it? So does the story begin with great questions about whom? Why? and how? keeps playing in