Fourth source:

The Divine laws of nature resemble the spirit, for they also belong to the world of the Divine Will and Command. However, they operate upon categories that do not have a perceptive existence. When we analyze these laws, we see that they would have been the spirits of the categories themselves if they had been given external existence. As they are permanent and unchanging, their unity is not affected by any alteration or transformation. The seeds of a dead fig tree still contain the permanent, spirit-like law relating to its formation.

Since weak and ordinary commanding laws are connected to permanence and continuance, the human spirit must be connected to permanence and immortality—and eternity. According to: The spirit is of My Lord's Command (17:85), the spirit is a conscious and living law from the world of Divine Command and has been endowed with external existence by Eternal Power. Since unconscious laws issuing from the Divine Attribute of Will and the World of Divine Command are permanent, the spirit is even worthier of such permanence, for it comes from the same source and has the additional attributes of life and possessing an external reality. Being conscious means that it is more sublime and powerful than other laws; having life means that it is more permanent and valuable than them.

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