DAGGER OF THE SOUL
We all have been created from a single soul. So my soul is part of whole one soul. Although you recognize your soul as an individual entity and it is, but soul never losses contact with its total wholeness.
A soul can be modified, developed, destroyed, hurt or heal.
Soul has its own attribute and it works on a non physical but equally valid and existent another soul world based on moral attributes. It’s a moral level, here you can change and exchange moral values and these moral attributes are the earning of that soul. In Quran mentioned as kasb ( كسب)
A peculiar thing about this moral level is that you earn a moral reward but it is reflected in whole of the soul and if you hurt a soul you scatter this hurt over whole of the soul of humanity. And if you heal a soul you heal whole of the humanity. Thing to note is that if you hurt another person soul that hurt or wound also appears in your own soul. On the physical level the wound remains on other person body but not so at the level of soul. So hurt any soul and you hurt your own soul.
People often forget about this level and they hurt each other may it be physical or nonphysical i.e. verbally.
Words are important. What you say is important. Sharp words spoken act like a dagger and it penetrates deep into other person soul. You drive this dagger of words into other soul daily, it doesn’t matter what your intention is, the dagger , the words will cut through just like a knife will cut whether it was by mistake or by intention.
The more you hurt by this dagger of words the more your own soul is cut and wounded.
When the people will be raised at the level of soul these wounds, cut will be bleeding and they will be painful and they will realize how much they have afflicted pain to others while they were in physical world by their words.
At the level of soul healing is slow so there pain will be more lasting.
Hence if you don’t want to suffer in the soul world, don’t speak sharp words, hate speech, humiliating sentences and remember Moses when he was sent toward pharaoh and asked to say soft words.
فَقُولَا لَهُ قَوْلًا لَّيِّنًا
| “But speak to him mildly; |
What to do if you already have said such words ? The answer is simple : heal. Yes heal the other soul which you hurt by saying soft words, saying sorry and repent toward Allah.
Note that in Arabic it is said qul ( قل)meaning say and this qul (قل ) resemble qatal ( قتل) in letters except that letter ta ( ت) is missing in qul ( قل). So most of you say ( قل) hurts because it is missing one letter, one short of qatal (قتل ). If you can say all the letters in one word you can kill other person by saying that word. Fortunately humanity has not have such a word, as yet.
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