O mankind! there hath come to you a direction from your Lord and a healing for the (diseases) in your hearts,- and for those who believe, a guidance and a Mercy. || Then to eat of all the produce (of the earth), and find with skill the spacious paths of its Lord: there issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours, wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought.|| We send down (stage by stage) in the Qur'an that which is a healing and a mercy to those who believe: to the unjust it causes nothing but loss after loss.||And when I am ill, it is He Who cures me; || Had We sent this as a Qur'an (in the language) other than Arabic, they would have said: "Why are not its verses explained in detail? What! (a Book) not in Arabic and (a Messenger an Arab?" Say: "It is a Guide and a Healing to those who believe; and for those who believe not, there is a deafness in their ears, and it is blindness in their (eyes): They are (as it were) being called from a place far distant!"
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Chapter 2 (The Spirit and The Soul)


The Soul According to Ibn-Rushd

Ibn-Rushd defines the soul as: ''The foremost perfection of a normal mechanical body" which is the same as Aristotle's and the previous philosophers. The foremost perfection is distinguished from the last perfections which are the deeds and emotions that follow the foremost one and springs from it. The meaning of perfection differs according to the various parts of the soul- the vegetarian, the sensitive, the imaginary, and the articulating. These forces, however, differ in their deeds as well as their topics and issues.


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