Robyn E Lebron How the Islamic faculties of the human mind relate to the Vedic and the Biblical concepts? There is no difference between them if we note that the Islamic vegetative soul corresponds with the sensory faculty, the animal soul with the ego, and the Islamic rational soul and Aql grouped together correspond to the intellect **Readers interested in knowing more about Islamic thought about the soul are invited to refer to Avicenna’s scholarly thought on the subject (McGinnis 2010, Chapters 4-5) Figure 4-10 shows Islamic thought on the structure of being human Principles of which we humans are constituted are no different from those that constitute the cosmos, except that humans are configured in a relatively subtler or less concrete fashion Section 3: Realization of the Infinite and the Infinitesimal From the Named to the Nameless “For goodness and wisdom and whatever may be attributed to God are all admixtures to God’s naked essence: for all admixtures cause alienation from essence.” Meister Eckhart (68) Entering into a named relationship with the nameless, although it offers a starting point on the journey to the discovery of the nameless, is not without its pitfalls Human relationships are accompanied 114