Is There a Soul in the Cosmos?

Razi was struck by the large amount of suffering in the world. He could not believe that universe had been willed into existence by God, he writes. Razi says we need to posit another active principle which is foolish and ignorant. The eternal soul at some point foolishly conceives of a desire to entangle itself with matter,. This incidentally explains why the creation of the universe can happen at an arbitrary moment within eternal time.