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What is the Soul? Is it one of the attributes of Allah? And what is the meaning of His saying, the Almighty: "Indeed, no one despairs of the Spirit of Allah except the disbelieving people"?

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If the question is about "rawh Allah" (رَوْح الله) with an open "ra" (R), it is an attribute of Allah Almighty, meaning mercy and relief. It has been mentioned in the Holy Quran and Sunnah with this meaning, such as the verse: {And do not despair of the rawh of Allah} (12:87), and the hadith: "The wind is from the rawh of Allah." As for "ar-ruh" (الرُّوح) with a closed "ra" (R), it is a creature among Allah's creatures, attributed to Him as an attribution of ownership and honor, and not as an attribute of His, such as the verse: {And thus We have revealed to you a ruh [spirit] of Our command} (42:52).

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