Clones - no souls?

Assalamu alaikum,

I suppose no one will be able to actually answer this question (or maybe someone can?), but, I was wondering about clones.  Despite the fact that most religious people think cloning a bad idea, some seem determined to go ahead and carry out these experiments, the latest an afghan hound puppy.

It is my understanding that Allah causes a persons soul to enter their body in the womb (around 140 days gestation?).  My question is: would a cloned human being have a soul?  If so, how?  If not, pretty scary to think soul-less people may soon be walking around.

Please do not make this thread an endless argument for or against cloning .  Kindly start your own thread for that!  I am only interested in the aspect of the soul.  It really frightens me to think scientists may create cloned humans and I don't see how they could have a soul.  Such an evil thing...

Peace, ummziba.

Many religious philosophies teach, for example, that human life is unique and special and should be created, determined and controlled only by their deities. Many religions believe in the existence of, and in the individuality of, a human soul. Many Christians, for example, will be concerned about whether it will be possible to clone the human soul, along with the human. If it is possible to clone the soul, what will this mean? Can a clone without a soul be destroyed and not offend moral or religious beliefs? Cloning will be divined by many as humans assuming the powers, the providence, and the jurisdiction of their deities or other spiritual powers of their supernatural universe.

As'Salaamu Alaikum Ya Muslimeen!

I agree with Lehua, that the duplication using the donated DNA of a human would perhaps generate the soul of course by God's command. I believe that since the soul embodies the human body I believe that the soul exist within the human body's particulars and if the cells are extracted from the human body to make clones I believe the extraction of those cells contain "reminents of a spiritual being." I believe just those reminents alone can perhaps generate a soul.  As Allah says in the Qur'an that he has created human kind when it was nothing! so it is perhaps logical to say that even minute organism within the human body themselves contain fragments of the soul. But however I do not like to look at the soul as fragments but merely an explanation of how divine the particular organism of the body are.

It is however my belief that every transient being has a soul even the planets have a soul. I doubt that my belief is alien to Islam as we see in the Qur'an that all of life (outside the human category) submits to Allah. To submit requires the ability to do through action. If the Qur'an explains that all of life including the universe (as the Qur'an calls primitive gases smoke) to "come together" and it obeys I believe that this requires a a transient being to commence in this action. It's arrogant to think that only humans have souls. because from vegatation to animals to us we all are linked through the nafs.

Salaam,

Isfarfil, you said everything has a soul, I think so too in some way. You would eat a cloned animal (like a sheep for ex.)? We are eating some vegetation man put together (of course by Allah (swt) commands). We hear a man planted some tomatoes ('cause there is a seed), and Allah gave us this to be greatful to him. And no ever we heard a man "planting" a human

Only God knows, what will happen.

Peace