substances: are they divided into those that occupy space and those that do not, or are they all spatially located? This is directly connected to the discourse on the rational human soul.

We therefore say: Muslims surpass most people in their knowledge of the existence of angels and jinn, as affirmed by the Quran, the sunnah, and the unanimous consensus of the community. In the same way, the earliest generations and the leading scholars of the ummah recognized the reality of the soul—the human spirit that departs from the body at death—on the strength of the Quran, the sunnah, and the consensus of the predecessors and the imams, even though many among the People of the Scripture claim that it is nothing more than an accident arising from