By the way,
I'm actually glad you're having this conversation with me and not with a Muslim who doesn't understand the Quran deeply/esoterically/symbolically, But I digress. So to answer your question. The Quran talks about the soul or the nafs and describe three stages of the souls transformation (12:53) (72:2) (89:27) The hadith literature present a quasi-notions of an astral body(soul) leaves the body in its ascent of the heavens. "isra and mi'raj". Simply i dont know and honestly, i dont care if the "astral horse" was faster or slower then the jinns. It doesn't matter if you believe it or not, because it's unfalsifiable.
The psychological aspect explained by a sufi qushayri in a four-dimensional structure of human consciousness is drowned from the Quranic reference to (akhafa) which seems to suggest secret or hidden cultivated the notion of Latifa(subtle) in the human body.
https://books.google.com/books?id=w_qOz641rV0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=mi'raj+Religion+and+the+Subtle+Body+in+Asia+and+the+West:+Between+Mind+and+Body&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjXztT94LncAhXEc98KHWiZDGYQ6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=mi'raj Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body&f=false
"God does not create the world directly but the necessary Being emanates a pure intelligence which is the First Cause. This First Cause knows the Creator as necessary and itself as possible. From this time multiplicity introduces itself into the Order of creation. This intelligence is the active intellect, the illuminator of souls. From sphere to sphere (through the ten spheres) the radiance persues itself towards the pure intelligences as far as the level of matter"-Ibn Sina
" The world is co-eternal with God, but in the logical order, the judgement that God exists in Himself is anterior to the judgement that things exist in his knowledge. He knows them as He knows Himself but they are not eternal and He is eternal."
-Ibn Sina
- Abdu’l-Karim al-Jili