The divine books
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the divine books · الكتب الالهية · their books · الكتب الالاهية · شواهد الكتب الالاهية · كتبهم
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Scripture taken as a body, invoked as a second and distinct register of proof for the soul's incorporeality after the philosophical arguments have been made.
As for the testimonies of the divine books that the soul is not a body:
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Revealed scriptures, named as the only source from which men learned of the jinn.
And if a group deny the creation of the jinn and do not believe in the divine books, the proofs of the intellects and the arguments of analogy overcome them.
Mankind came to know them only from the divine books and from what they have conceived of their hidden traces,
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Revealed scriptures other than the quoted Qurʼānic verses, invoked as corroboration.
it is a strong doctrine and a noble position, deserving reflection, for it accords closely with what has come down in the divine books concerning the states of life and death.
and his leaving the answer was only to confirm what stood in their books — that is, what they had said — not because it is impossible to delve into it on account of the impossibility of knowing it;