If you say: "It is incumbent by way of justice that He should requite for that deed in that body, and punish him in that shirt [body] in which he committed the evil, and it is not permissible that He punishes him in a body in which he did not commit the sin?!"

The answer: Indeed, reward and punishment reach the soul, not the body. And the proof for the correctness of that is that the body, when the soul separates from it, does not feel pain even if you burn it, nor does it enjoy a pleasure, even if it is delightful; so it does not sense punishment, nor does it enjoy reward.

Since it is so, and the soul is the one being punished and rewarded, it does not matter in which body it is, as long as the pain reaches it; and this is a clear explanation.

The Exalted said: "Every time their skins are roasted through, We will replace them with other skins so they may taste the punishment"¹.