Chapter Eight

On the Indication of Transmigration

The first point we begin with from the rational [perspective], so we say:

Indeed, the human is moving in the state of life, standing and sitting; but when he dies, we see him as an inanimate object. Therefore, it is necessary by the division of necessity that the soul which exits from him has a resting place in which it settles, and it is not permissible for it to be in a [merely] moving body.

And the proof for that is that we see that fire must have a body, simple or compound. And likewise fire, if it does not find a compound body, it attaches to the body of the air, and returns to its element from which it began.

And the proof that fire is attached to the body of the air is that it does not stabilize except in a body, [as in] what we see in the flint (Zinad), the striker (Salat), and the burning [material].