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- The stage of mudhqa which is his soul and self.
(fleshy tissue); (Ibid. Vol. 2: 162)
What is fundamental and
- The stage of bones;
exists in all stages is self and
- The stage of flesh. soul, and the immortality of
the soul is due to its
By passing through these incorporeality and it remains
stages of creation, man enduring and immortal until
becomes the owner of the Day of Resurrection.
physical dimension and (Ibid, 2010: 21)
substance, (Tabatabai, 1997, One of the proofs of the
Vol. 12: 223; Ibid, Vol. 16: existence of an incorporeal
383-384; Ibid, Vol. 20: self is the issue of knowledge
194&548) after the gradual and awareness. The soul is a
material creation, he has self-aware and other-aware
another creation that is being.
contrary to the previous On the other hand, science
creation and is incorporeal and knowledge are also
(Ibid, Vol. 15: 23) and this is incorporeal. The achievement
the spiritual dimension and and presence of the
substance. incorporeal thing is also not
Thus, when God created possible for the material
man, he made him composed thing, because matter is the
of two parts and having two object of absence and
substances; physical substance, division.
which is his physical So the self is incorporeal;
substance, and abstract substance,
Therefore, Allameh Tabatabai
