Qur’an 17:85: “And they ask you about the spirit. Say, ‘the spirit is of the affair of my lord,’ ...”
I received an email from a friend asking me the following question: “Does Allah have a spirit or not? I can’t really find anything about this, though, except for one line somewhere that stated the ‘spirits’ are created by Allah, and he is above such a thing. Can you clear this up for me?”
After receiving this question, I searched the Qur’an for the word “spirit.” First of all, I found the original question the infidel Jews asked Mohammed in Qur’an 17:85: “And they ask you about the spirit. Say, ‘The spirit is of the affair of my lord,...’”
When Mohammed was asked that question, he was in the company of a man by the name of Abd Allah. When a company of Jewish men came by, some of them told the others to ask Mohammed about the spirit. However, some of them said not to ask him. Mohammed stood up, and Abd Allah stood behind him. Abd Allah thought Mohammed was receiving revelation. Mohammed said, “And they ask you about the spirit. Say, ‘the spirit is of the affair of my lord, and you do not receive from knowledge, except a little.’” So the Jewish infidels said to one another, “Did we n ...
