The Doctrine of Transmigration Is False — Essence of Islam Vol. 2

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In this discourse from Essence of Islam (Volume 2), Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (AS), the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, expounds upon The Doctrine of Transmigration Is False, presenting profound spiritual insights and scriptural verities.

Book Series: Essence of Islam (Volume 2)
Author: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (AS)
Section: Part 15: The Soul
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they are related. 16. The faculty of acknowledging the existence of the True Creator. 17. The faculty of manifesting new qualities in combination with bodies and their special shapes. 18. The faculty of mutual attraction which might be designated magnetic power. 19. The faculty of immortality.
20. The faculty of maintaining a special relationship with the particles of the departed body which is manifested to those who have experience of visions. There are many other faculties of souls which are set out in detail in the Holy Qur’an in a delightful and excellent manner.
[Surmah Chashm Arya, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 2, pp. 245-247]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 402]

There is no other doctrine as false as the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, inasmuch as its basis is false, its falsehood is established by observation; a sense of human purity condemns it; and it is the duty of every godly person to condemn it on account of its repudiation of Divine power. Its basis is false as it is stated in the Satyarath Prakash that the soul falls like dew on some vegetable which is eaten by a woman and thus finds its way to the womb. But this involves that a soul falls in two pieces upon the earth of which, by some chance, the husband eats one and the wife eats the other; because, it is well settled that a child derives spiritual faculties and qualities from both parents and not only from one of them. Therefore, it is necessary that both should have partaken of the vegetable much as he who exercises his godhood with the help of others would cease to be God sooner than later. The affirmation that the system of transmigration of souls, which has been in operation according to the Aryas for millions of years, results from the sins committed in a previous existence is proved to be crude, absurd and false in the light of natural sciences. It is obvious that there is a Divine system of the birth of souls which remains constant. For instance, millions of insects appear in the rainy season and flies abound in the summer. Then are we to assume that sinfulness abounds in these seasons so that large numbers of human beings are transmuted into flies and insects on account of the multiplicity of their sins? There are thousands of other reasons by virtue of which this doctrine must be held to be false.
[Nasim-e-Da‘wat, Ruhani Khaza’in, vol. 19, pp. 441-444, footnote]
[Essence of Islam, Vol. 2, p. 402]

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