Critique of Soha’s Perspective on Human Soul with an Emphasis on Fariqain Commentators’ Views

The Qur’an is a holy and Divine book, the fight against which has been carried out since the beginning of the revelation and is still going on. Today, in order to weaken Muslims’ beliefs, suspicions are raised against this holy book on the part of enemies. In the book, Critique of the Qur’an, by Dr. Soha, doubts are expressed in various fields, including the type of human personality in the Qur’an, and the author attempts to introduce human beings in the Qur’an as distorted, deviant, and devoid of a transcendental spirit. According to Soha, human has attributes such as inquisitiveness, creativity, discovery of science, legislation, authority, justice seeking, etc., which have not been considered in the Qur’an. Citing verses of the Qur’an with the concept of soul being left unexplained in the Qur’an, Soha finds no rational or scientific evidence for the existence of something immaterial and considers it the invention of the Greek philosophers, which the Qur’an has used. The author of the book also refers to the incompatibility of the soul with physiological and psychological evidence. In response to Soha’s suspicions, the present article, making use of a descriptive-analytical method with a critical tendency and the library method, and citing rational reason, the Qur’anic verses and the ideas of Fariqain commentators, proves the soul and human’s spiritual issues and concludes that Soha is being contradictory in his/ her writing. Science, justice seeking, creativity, legislation, etc. are among the categories that have roots in human’s nature and subconscious mind, and the Qur’an has addressed all of them. Expressing these spiritual characteristics while not believing in the existence of a soul in human indicates that Soha has a kind of contradiction in his/her viewpoint.