What is the difference between the soul and the spirit?
1) I see that this question has been asked in the following category: “Religions » Religions A – Z » Islam » Sunnism” Actually, this is a question which could be asked in many religions outside from this specific context. Moreover, this very question can only be asked once, so the same question asked in Shiaism, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism or old Egyptian religion would be a duplicate. If you don’t want to risk to have your question recategorized, it would be better to make it more specific in the formulation and not rely on the category for defining it. So you could rather ask: “What is the difference between the soul and spirit in Sunni Islam?” I shall answer this last question. 2) “For all practical purposes, the body as body can be ignored, since as body it is dead, no different from a corpse. It is the body as living through the soul that is at issue, and that living body cannot be considered apart from the soul. Bodily pain and pleasure are experienced as real by the soul, si
The Spiritual Being , The Soul and the Human Being (the body) together become/are “The Self”. The Spiritual Being (The Spirit) uses the Human Being (The Body) as a vessel, for the sole purpose of completing a mission. The Soul acts as a kind of invisible nuclear reactor, it becomes active when the Spiritual Being decides that a new life (a new mission) should commence and shuts down when a mission is ended (death). At the end of a mission (death) the Spiritual Being doesn’t really care what happens to “The Body” – it is like e.g. The Human Being purchasing an article of clothing, which it discards after a year (it served its purpose)and is then replaced with a new item of clothing. The Human Being doesn’t care what happens to the article of clothing it discarded.
