HAZRAT AYATULLAH-AL-OZMÄ MAKÄREM has a long discussion about Man's Soul in his great Example Commentary, a summary of which I have quoted and translated in the above passage. The whole commentary needs a great amount of knowledge to understand, and a high skill to translate.

      On the other hand, my style in this translation and all the books that I have written and published, has been to write the most complex matters that I may understand, in the simplest possible language. This is because my aim is to write for the common people, and not for the learned and scholars. I therefore left the translation of the article about Spirit for an expert and skilled translator that I hope will in future translate the complete work of his holiness. But in order to fill up the vacancy of the matter, in the following Translator's Note, our dear readers will have the results of my own studies in the field of the Spirit, and the views of some of the Persian Great scholars and philosophers, like FARABI and AVICENNA.

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      Our soul is an inmaterial entity, distinguishable from, and superior to our body. It is the animating principle, and actuating cause of life, manifested in thinking, willing, and knowing. The Soul is a substance of the spiritual world, which takes no form, and cannot be pointed out. It has no motion or repose. It can perceive that which is lost, and conceive that which is expected. The Soul goes to sightseeing in the kingdom of heavens. We do not know much about it, as the knowledge that has been vouchsafed to us is only a little. The wisdom may reach the Soul, but imagination never.