DRAFT
Q30:8 ... اَوَلَمۡ يَتَفَكَّرُوۡا فِىۡۤ اَنۡفُسِهِمۡ (Have they not thought about their own nafs? ...)
Nafs is a thing, removed daily; permanently removed upon death (Q6:60-62, Q6:93, Q39:42)
free will / free won't / mind / voluntary as opposed to involuntary actions
water is a polar solvent critical to maintaining human life
polarity of water means it is positively (hydrogen end) and negatively (oxygen end) charged
effect of dehydration such as inability to compute, unintelligible speech, memory loss
Insaan is made from dust (turab) &/or is in water held in light estimation (Q32:8, Q77:20) water ejected (Q86:6)
Progeny on the back (Q7:172-174)
NGF in sperm (https://signsandscience.blogspot.com/2020/04/their-descendants-from-their-backs.html)
Tazkiya-e-Nafs (Q53:32; Q91:9)
The nafs has been levelled with the body, so it is not visible (Q91:7) just like the Thamud were levelled with the Earth, no longer upon the Earth (Q91:14)
(growth of the nafs) only Allah can grow the nafs ( أَلَمْ تَرَ إِلَى الَّذِينَ يُزَكُّونَ أَنْفُسَهُمْ بَلِ اللَّهُ يُزَكِّي مَنْ يَشَاءُ وَلَا يُظْلَمُونَ فَتِيلًا 4:49))
Allah يُزَكِّي whom He wills (Q24:21)
Mind and Nervous System
Mind is the function of the brain just as respiration is the function of the lungs
The brain is the organ of the mind just as the lungs are the organs for respiration (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3115284/#:~:text=Where%20is%20the%20Mind%20Located,are%20the%20organs%20for%20respiration)
The link between nervous system and mental health
bursts of dysregulation (short:normal; longer, extended periods: depression and anxiety)
Warning to not to make changes in the nafs in Surah ar-Rad
13:3 mountains and rivers; everything in pairs
13:4 watered with one water, but fruits are different according to plant type, and some fruits are better than others to eat
13:11 warning: if you make (chemically deteriorating) changes in the nafs, Allah will change your condition to a worse condition, and when Allah decides harm for a people (Qom), nobody can ward it off
13:12 He it is Who shows you lightning, inspiring fear and hope, and raises the heavy clouds
13:13 thunder does tasbeeh with Hamd (praise) of Him; and angels from fear of Him; and He (Allah) throws thunderbolts, and strikes with it whom He Wills; and they dispute about Allah. He is Mighty in Wrath.
13:14 prayer in truth is to Him; any others they call upon is (like) reaching for water to put to their mouths, but it won't reach them: the prayer of rejectors is astray.
13:15 and to Allah prostrates whoever is in the skies and the earth, willingly or by compulsion, and their shadows, in the mornings and evenings.
13:16 Allah is the Rabb (Lord Sustainer), and Allah is the Khaliq (Creator) (long ayat explaining the concept)
13:17 the striking example of separation of beneficial water (water that comes from the sky) and the useless foam of torrent: the striking example of separation of alhaqq and albaatil; similar to the example of smelting* ores in fire to make stuff: the useless foam separates, while the beneficial thing remains (the purification process), with which ornaments and crockery are made
Natural Language
Moral vs Physical:
- Adam experienced a physical zulm on his nafs by eating something forbidden.
- The Jews were forbidden certain foods because of their rebellion جَزَيۡنٰهُمۡ بِبَـغۡيِهِمۡ (Q6:146)
- Our rebellion is against our own Nafs (يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّمَا بَغْيُكُمْ عَلَىٰ أَنْفُسِكُمْ (Q10:23))
- Root word search ب غ ي https://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=bgy#(6:146:26)
- Root word search ع د و https://corpus.quran.com/qurandictionary.jsp?q=Edw#(2:173:18)
- Forbidden food ayaat
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If at-Tariq is a pulsar, a neutron star, a pulsating radio source, highly magnetised, dense and compressed, is the nafs also a radio source? (Q86:1-7)
The brain works like a radio receiver (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140122133713.htm)
