Spirit
8 sayings
Spirits are pre-mobilized groups [from their conception in the pre-material world, and by virtue of their nature (ed.)] in that they are mutually attracted to other spirits that they are in harmony with, and they mutually repel those that they clash with.
Kanz al-`Ummal, 24660; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 888 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Shaqiq b. Salama narrated that a man once came to Imam Ali (AS) and was talking to him. In the course of the conversation, he told Imam Ali (AS) that he loved him. Imam replied, 'That is not true.' The man asked, 'Why, O Commander of the Faithful?' He replied, 'Because I do not find my heart loving you, and the Prophet (SAWA) said, 'Verily spirits meet each other in the air and sense each other, and those that are in harmony with each other are mutually attracted, and those that clash repel each other.'
Kanz al-`Ummal, no. 25560; Mizan ul Hikmah page No. 888 link
Verily the spirits neither merge with the body nor are they independent of it. Rather they are like a thin veil surrounding the body
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 61, p. 40, no. 11; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 887 link
The spirit is a subtle form that envelopes a dense shell [i.e. the body].
Bihar al-Anwar, p. 34, no. 7; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 887 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
Love is when hearts harbour mutual affection due to the harmony between their spirits
Ghurar al-Hikam, no. 2057; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 888 link
Imam Amir-ul-Mu'mineen Ali [a] said
The body experiences six different states: health, sickness, death, life, sleep and wakefulness, and so does the spirit. Its life is its knowledge and its death ignorance; its sickness is doubt whereas its health is certainty; its sleep is its negligence and its wakefulness is its consciousness
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 61, p. 40, no. 10; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 888 link
when asked by his companion Abu Basir whether the spirit remains with the body during sleep or leaves it, replied, 'No, O Abu Basir, verily if the spirit were to leave the body it would never again return to it. It is actually like the sun that is fixed in its place in the centre of the sky, yet its rays extend out to the earth.
Jami`a al-Akhbar, p. 488, no. 1360; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 889 link
When man sleeps, the animal spirit within him remains with his body, and that which leaves it is the rational spirit
Bihar al-Anwar, v. 61, p. 43, no. 19; Mizan ul Hikmah, page No. 889 link
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