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What is your opinion on the concept of "Reincarnation" or transmigration of souls, which some consider self-evident and in no need of proof, and which means that souls are eternal and live repetitive cycles of life after memory erasure, entering periods of rest, and new creation, while citing verses such as: "And if you say, 'Indeed, you are resurrected after death,' those who disbelieve will surely say, 'This is not but obvious magic'" (Hud: 7), and "Indeed, those who believed and did righteous deeds - for them will be the Gardens of Paradise as a lodging, wherein they will abide eternally, never desiring therefrom any departure" (Al-Kahf: 107-108), and "But We granted enjoyment to these and their forefathers until [their] lifespan was prolonged for them"?

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The belief in the transmigration or reincarnation of souls is absolutely false, and there is no sound proof for it, whether from scripture, reason, sensory experience, or empirical observation. It is a fanciful idea for which there is no evidence. What the questioner mentioned—that souls are eternal like Allah's eternity, and that Allah did not create them—is pure blasphemy, an ancient saying of some heretics and philosophers, which Muslim scholars have refuted and disproved. The questioner's use of Quranic verses bears no relation to the subject, and Allah's saying suffices: "And they ask you, [O Muhammad], concerning the soul. Say, 'The soul is of the affair of my Lord. And you have not been given of knowledge except a little.'" (Al-Isra: 85). We advise the questioner to repent, seek forgiveness, and acquire knowledge from its rightful sources, as per the Hadith: "Knowledge is only acquired through learning."

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