https://hermetic.com/moorish/7koran#chapter-xxxviii

  1. The blessing, O man, of thy external part is health, vigor, and proportion. The greatest of these is health. What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul.
  2. That thou has a soul is of all knowledge, the most certain of all truths the most plain unto thee. Be meek, be grateful for it. Seek not to know it perfectly. It is inscrutable.
  3. Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these the soul. They are its actions, but they are not its essence.
  4. Raise it [soul] not too high, that thou be not despised. Do not be like those who fall by climbing. Neither debase it to the sense of brutes, nor be thou like to the horse and the mule, in whom there is no understanding.
  5. Search it [soul] by its faculties, know it by its virtues. They are more in number than the hairs of thy head. The stars of heaven are not to be counted with them.

Chapter 38 The Soul of Man starts on the right hand side.

Chapter 38 The Soul of Man starts on the right hand side.

  1. Know that as thy heart, so also thy soul is one (unique[?], or heart, soul = one[?]).
  2. Does not the sun harden the clay? Does it not also soften the wax? As it is one sun that worketh both, even so it is one soul willeth contraries.
  3. As the moon retains her nature, though darkness speaks itself before her face as a curtain; so the soul remains perfect even in the heart (bosom) of a fool. [?]
  4. She [soul] is immortal; she [soul] is unchangeable; she is alike in all Health calleth her forth to show her loveliness, and application annointeth her with the oil of wisdom.
  5. Although she [soul] shall live after thee, think not she was born before thee. She was created with thy flesh, and formed with thy brain [?].

Soul has feminine characteristics. Latin based languages masculine/feminine?

Soul has feminine characteristics. Latin based languages masculine/feminine?

  1. Justice could not give her [soul] to thee exalted by virtues, nor mercy deliver her to thee deformed by vices, These must thine and thou must answer for them.
  2. Suppose not death can shield thee from examination; think not corruption can hide thee from inquiry. He who formed thee knowest not.