🚨 Beautiful reminder, but let’s clarify: Roger Penrose’s work on cyclic cosmology is fascinating science, yet this post twists it into “soul = eternal matter” clickbait. Nobel physicists don’t claim your soul lives forever because atoms recycle. That’s poetic license for engagement.
In Islam, the Ruh (soul) is infinitely more sacred and delicate. Allah says: “They ask you about the soul. Say, ‘The soul is of the affair of my Lord. And you have not been given of knowledge except a little.’” (Qur’an 17:85)
The soul isn’t recycled matter or energy. It is a divine breath from the Creator Himself, a subtle, luminous essence beyond physics. Fragile like morning dew, yet eternal by Allah’s will. It doesn’t “survive” death like atoms; it returns to its Lord, accountable, pure, and yearning for the Divine.
This materialistic view cheapens the soul’s majesty. Your Ruh is not bound by black holes or aeons, it was created to know Allah, to love, to ascend. Guard it with salah, dhikr, and good deeds, for it is your true self.
What does the sanctity of the soul mean to you? 🤍
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