Investigating the Truth of the Soul in Islamic Narratives

Knowing man as the noblest creature of God depends on knowing his existential truth, which can be achieved through various epistemological means such as reason tradition, intuition, experience, and so on. "Valid tradition" is narrated by the infallible Imams who have scientific command of the whole world of existence, including mankind; therefore, it has always been the best way of acquiring knowledge. This paper deals with the narrative data derived from library-based information collected through the analytical and descriptive method, and investigates the narrations about the truth of the soul. The paper mentions eight categories of hadiths ranging from narratives that are supposedly for the spirituality of the soul to the narratives that are consistent only with the immaterial soul. The result of this paper is the expression of the harmony between reason and tradition in the two dimensions of humanity and the immaterialness of his/her spiritual dimension.