The source of the moral conditions of man is called the nafs-i-lawwaina or the serf accusing spirit (conscience) in the terminology of the Holy Quran. [...] The soul does not come from any place in the heaveas and seek connection with the body in the womb of the mother but it is a light that lies concealed in the seed and grows with the growth of the body. [...] ' I even admit that tenderness of heart may reach such a degree as to induce a man to give up the use of musk or honey as the procuing of the one involves the destruction and dispersion of the poor bees and that of the other the killing of the deer and its separation from its young olea. [...] The only line of distinction that can be drawn between the movements of a mad man or a. child on the one hand and the actions of a man of reason on the otherf is that the former are on:y natural impulses while the latter are the result of an 'exercise of the reasoing faculty. [...] As the perfection of internal creation takes place in moral excellence and not in the innate paSsions of man the former is the proper23 signification of the work Khalq and not the latter.
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