This, then, is pure Christianity—the claim of a divine and a human nature. Al-Nābighah al-Jaʿdī said:
“From a drop whose measure the Determiner ordained,
He brings forth from it both man and the breath of souls.”
Here, “souls” (al-nasam) means spirits.

All scholars concur that Allah is the Creator of the jinn and the Fashioner of the nasamah—that is, the Creator of the spirit. Faith, likewise, is created: it is a statement uttered by the tongue, a conviction held in the heart, and deeds performed by the limbs—each of them an action of human beings. Allah instilled these dispositions in His servants, and the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) named them “faith.”

Abū Muḥammad said: A Jahmī once asked me about people’s speech regarding