There was a doctor called duncan macdougall who made observations on people dying from what are generally regarded as "natural causes" and he found some weird changes in overall body mass before, during, after, and a few minutes after death.
He didn't appear to receive much positive reaction or assistance from the post-renaissance establishment and was basically egged, however - his detractors didn't themselves appear to clarify the actual facts via more scientifically accurate observations - lending credence to the idea that the secularist reliigion has lost it's appetite for truth and just science and has resorted to irrational defensiveness and kufr.
The carefulness of the new york times reporter/editor choosing the headline also shows the apparent need to be careful of provoking the sensitive sensibilities of the materialist secularist priestly class.
We saw a similar method of rebuttal with regard to stan meyers and andrew wakefield - like something out of total recall.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunc...ugall_(doctor)
There are clear indications in ahadith/seerah as to the varied mass/weight of spirits:
Zaid said, "Ibn-Maktum came to the Prophet while he was dictating to me that very Verse. On that Ibn Um Maktum said, "O Allah's Apostle! If I had power, I would surely take part in Jihad." He was a blind man. So Allah sent down revelation to His Apostle while his thigh was on mine and it became so heavy for me that I feared that my thigh would be broken. Then that state of the Prophet was over after Allah revealed "...except those who are disabled (by injury or are blind or lame etc.) (4.95)
Sahih al-Bukhari
https://islam.stackexchange.com/ques...rse-495-or-was
Once a learned person from among the Jews said to Hazrat Umar R.A.: “In the Quran you people read a certain verse, if that verse had been revealed to us, we would have celebrated that day annually.”
Umar R.A. inquired: “which verse is that?”
He replied: “Al Yowma akmaltu lakum Deenakum.” (The verse under discussion)
Umar R.A. said “Verily I remember the day and the place where this verse was revealed (and apart from the revelation of this verse, which was on a Friday) it was already a double celebration for us. Firstly it was Friday-a day of celebration for all Muslims and secondly, it was the day of Arafat – a day of celebration for the pilgrims.
Umar R.A. further stated that this verse was revealed on a Friday after Asar on the day of Arafat while Rasulullah (Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam) was seated on his she-camel.
It is further stated in the Hadith that no further verses were revealed after this one with regard to Halaal and Haraam.
When this verse was revealed the Messenger of Allah :saws: was seated on his she-camel. The camel was forced to sit down because of the great weight descending upon it on account of the revelation. This is what normally happened.
Ayesha R.A. states that, when Rasulullah (Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam) was seated on a camel, the camel used to lower its neck being unable to lift it or move a step until revelation had ended.
Abdullah Ibn Umar R.A. relates from Rasulullah (Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam) that when revelation descended upon him he feared that he would lose his life. (Durre Mansoor)
(Tafseer Durre Mansoor -AsSyuti)
Hazrat Zaid Ibn Thabit R.A. states that when the verse 95 in Surah 4 was being revealed I was sitting next to Rasulullah (Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam). Rasulullah (Sallallaho Alaihi Wassallam) then became like one in a state of semi consciousness, and he put his high upon mine, the weight of which was so great that I felt that my leg would break.
(Tafseer Durre Mansoor -AsSyuti)
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In a Hadith 'Aisha (RA) says; ‘Verily I saw the Prophet being inspired Divinely on a very cold day and noticed the Sweat dropping from his forehead.’
(Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 2)
According to another narration; ‘The Prophet's face was red and he kept on breathing heavily for a while and then he was relieved …’
(Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 4602)
1- Allah says in the Qur'an;
“We are going to send down to you a weighty discourse.”
(Qur'an 73:5)
In Sahih Bukhari we have the statement of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) describing the phenomenon of revelation;
"Sometimes it is like the ringing of a bell, this form of Inspiration is the hardest of all and then this state passes ' off after I have retained what is inspired.”
(Sahih Bukhari, Hadith 2)
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